This coming weekend Gasoline Alley will celebrate its 100th anniversary, having first appeared November 24, 1918 in the Saturday edition of The Chicago Sunday Tribune.The writer-artist behind the ongoing strip today is Jim Scancarelli of Charlotte, N.C. He is just the fourth cartoonist to [sign] the comic. The North Michigan Christian Voice talks to Jim Scancarelli […]
A guest columnist at the Journal-Advocate of Sterling, Colorado, attempts to guilt Gary Larson into bringing “The Far Side” backFrom the column:For many in my generation, we relied upon Gary Larson to give us a daily inoculation against cynicism. Larson was cutting edge, but never mean spirited, and his ability to find the perfect phrase […]
Ed Hall is right, and so was I.The problem is climate change, but people are still seizing on the one remark in which Trump — for maybe the first time in his life — got something right.Still, as Hall notes, good forest management can’t overcome climate change, even if the nitwit who recommends it were […]
When did Mickey celebrate his third birthday? October 24, 1931. When did Mickey celebrate his fifth birthday? October 1, 1933. When was Mickey’s lucky seventh birthday…September 28th, 1935. When was Mickey’s 40th birthday in 1968? September 27th, 1968. As an installment of Jim’s Animation Anecdotes, animation and comics historian Jim Korkis, at Cartoon Research, sorts out […]
You may recall when Al Gore claimed that he invented the Internet and everyone giggled. It became a punchline, and Gore was branded a liar.Except that he hadn’t made the claim and, besides, he genuinely had been a significant sponsor of legislation to advance its development.And Vice President Dan Quayle, on a classroom visit, was […]
90 years ago Mickey Mouse became very popular due to his freewheeling attitude in the early cartoons. After a couple decades Mickey Mouse was tamed as he became the 1950s company image, and his popularity declined. Five years ago his early character was revived with a new series of shorts.You may have heard of these […]
I don’t expect a coherent theme to emerge today, so we’ll start with a Tank McNamara of great social significance and then see what’s next.I remember when, back well before the Internet or anything like it, the Sporting News would show up on the doorstep with its analysis of the most recent World Series game, […]
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews American cartoonist Scott Adams, who captured the dysfunction of the modern workplace in his long-running comic strip “Dilbert.” Adams has also written several works of satire, commentary and business analysis, including “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life” and […]
Jim “Sherman’s Lagoon” Toomey and University of Georgia Professor Samantha Joye have partnered to produce a kids’ film series on the importance of healthy oceans.From the story: “The Adventures of Zack and Molly” follows the story of a young man who is more interested in the small world of his smartphone than the larger world around […]
But first this …When I drop subtle hints that newspaper editors are cloth-eared, humorless dweebs who ought not to be in charge of selecting comics, here’s how it comes down elsewhere in the paper.Back in the days when papers had budgets, editors would have conventions where they’d make stupid collective decisions, like the time they […]
GoComics is offering free GoComics Premium membership as a trial. Everyone knows that one of the keys to a happy, successful life is to Read Comics Every Day. That’s just common sense, right? And the easiest way to do that, of course, is to become a Premium member of GoComics.com. That’s why we’re offering a free, […]
You’ve probably been pronouncing “Seuss” wrong. Sorry, but Seuss is not pronounced “Soose.” Instead, Dr. Seuss and his family, who emigrated to the US from Bavaria, pronounce the name “Zoice.” Seuss collected hats, won a Pulitzer Prize, coined the word ‘nerd’, and more.Marilyn La Jeunesse and Insider present the above and 19 other “surprising things […]
David Reddick’s Intelligent Life will stop syndicating for print later this year.No official word from David or King Features Syndicate, but Jeremy Boyer, on an upcoming comics change in The (Auburn, N.Y.) Citizen, writesReaders of The Citizen will begin to see Macanudo appear in the Dec. 23 edition. It will be replacing Intelligent Life, which […]
The flow of inspiration from the Trump firehose has been such that I just want to flush it out now, hit Friday Funnies tomorrow, and hope for new things by Saturday.But, before that, Tom the Dancing Bug deserves praise for being able to bundle so much fraud and stupidity into a single, inventive, multi-panel cartoon, […]
The following are some comic strip related books released or scheduled to be released in November (though a few were released earlier in October to comic book stores before book stores got them). Links lead (mostly) to the books’ Amazon pages. King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate paperback edition Walt […]