The BBC covers the Peanuts exhibit going on over in the UK at Somerset House by having its writer reflect on the deeper meanings of Charles Schulz’s work.From the story:Schulz drew Peanuts during some turbulent decades in America, marked by the Korean War (1950-3); the Vietnam War (America entered in 1965 and the war ended in […]
I referenced Daniel Patrick Moynihan the other day, who is mostly famous for saying that you are entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts.Moynihan died in 2003, so he only got to see the initial Newt Gingrich portion of the fact-free revolution, and thus could argue that there are facts and […]
On a Sunday afternoon in September, Olivia Jaimes was hiding in a storage closet at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in Columbus, Ohio. She’d been in there for two hours, watching episodes of The Good Place on her laptop and dressed like a chic fugitive — sunglasses, hair beneath a hoodie, face obscured by a scarf. […]
above: last year’s Comic Strip Stanley Award to Gary ClarkThe Australian Cartoonists’ Association is holding its annual Stanley Awards and Cartoonists Conference this weekend in Canberra (or maybe its going on right now, isn’t Australia, like, three or four days ahead of the U.S.?)The Stanley Awards are Australia’s equivalent of the United States’ National […]
I wasn’t planning to run any more Veteran’s Day rain strips, but this L’il Donnie ought not to go unremarked.There have been several strips on the topic, but, as I predicted the other day, even the ones that are above average already feel stale. The outrage was Saturday and, while I noted the barriers to […]
Alcon Entertainment has announced that Mark Dindal will direct new animated “Garfield” feature film produced by John Cohen and Steven Wegner.From the story:Dindal, 58, is best known as the director of animated features like Cats Don’t Dance, The Emperor’s New Groove, and Chicken Little. “Comic strip characters have always had a special appeal to me,” he said in a […]
Comic book and comic strip writer and editor Stan Lee has passed away.STAN LEE (Stanley Martin Lieber) December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018 Stan Lee had been in the comics business since 1941, but it was in 1961 that he began his rise to fame. With Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, and others Stan […]
above: a Bill Mauldin non-Veterans Day strip Between 1969 and 2000, Charles Schulz dedicated 19 Peanuts strips to Veterans Day, making him perhaps the most decorated creator to commemorate the United States holiday on all of GoComics.The GoComics blog presents those 19 Peanuts/Veterans Day strips and some history. But they seems to have missed a couple – […]
The Columbus Dispatch has given notice, at the bottom of a column touting its e-edition extras, that the hard copy will no longer carry the daily Peanuts comic strip. Reason? – $$$$.Another change will affect one comic. We are dropping the daily Peanuts cartoon this month. We will keep the Sunday Peanuts strip for now, […]
Jeremy Banx offers the only Armistice-Remembrance-Veterans Day cartoon you’ll ever need, reminding us that the only thing that can stop 2 or 3 million bad guys with guns is 3 or 4 million good guys with guns.Which may or may not be true, but if we can’t even agree on what the day is called […]
David Rowe does have the advantage of a half-day time difference, but I was surprised to find him one of so few to respond instantly to Trump’s decision to skip the 100th Anniversary of the End of WWI because of what is reported to have been a light rain.And it’s a nice merge of the […]
One of the world’s most recognizable cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse, is celebrating his 90th birthday on November 18. The date is taken from the 1928 premiere of the animated short film “Steamboat Willie” in which Mickey Mouse made his theatrical debut.Nation Multimedia (Thailand) presents 10 fascinating facts and fun trivia about Mickey Mouse.Among them:Mickey’s first […]
Patrick McDonnell as Schulz Museum’s Second Saturday Cartoonist – or not On November 10 the Schulz Museum was all set to welcomeaward-winning cartoonist Patrick McDonnell, creator of the comic strip Mutts, to talk about his favorite mutts, from real-life dogs to Snoopy. McDonnell will sign books after his talk, including his newest collection of Mutts […]
Maybe you can see things more clearly from a slight distance, but Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder once more boils it all down to the essential point, aided, I would note, by the fact that his detailed style makes it possible to capture Bill Murray’s best hangdog expression.Simply citing the movie would have been a […]
The audio interview with new Alley Oop creators Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon at Tall Tale Radio includes a number of reveals – one is that their new Alley Oop comic strips will begin Monday January 7, 2019. above: Jonathan Lemon’s model sheet for Alley Oop via the New York Times As Andrews McMeel has […]