Sid Friedfertig has posted a treasury of rare Superman comic strips that ran between 1959 and 1966. As he explains, Superman first appeared as a daily comic strip in 1939 and ran through 1966 but most of the strips from about 1944 have not been reprinted. DC Comics and nostalgia publications have reprinted the first […]
Terri Libenson’s The Pajama Diaries is now found in book form. This is the first collection of the strip that debuted in 1996. Entitled The Pajama Diaries: Deja To-Do!, the book is a collection of Terri’s favorite daily and Sunday strips.
If you’re a Scary Gary fan, you may know that Mark Buford has a book coming out. The book is entitled, “A Good Severed Head Is Hard to Find.” What you may not know is that right now Mark is taking pre-orders and Mark will be signing every copy that’s pre-ordered before September 1. Every. […]
Apparently not to be outdone by Lynn Johnston’s video I posted this morning about her memories of Charles Schulz (or ‘cuz writing profanity filled comics is less time consuming than coming up with something witty), Stephan Pastis has taken the time to post his own video remembering Lio creator Mark Tatulli.
Via Mike Lynch
Jon Carroll writing for the San Francisco Chronicle writes his fond memories of the great Pogo strip.Pogo had it all: love, fear, friendship, ambivalence, pails of water, morality, plus a love of high-flown language and, not incidentally, wonderful draftsmanship. Kelly was a master of getting a lot of stuff in one small panel. … One […]
Last week I posted a letter to the editor by a certain offended reader of the Baltimore Sun who decried the profanity in Pearls Before Swine. Just to be clear, we’re not talking real swear words – we’re talking characters like @#$@. Then on Sunday, Scott Hilburn drops the big #%@!* in his strip. Yesterday […]
It appears the drama in Renton, WA is over and the individual (or in this case individuals) for posting cartoonish videos mocking the police department has been identified and punished. From the Seattle PI: The 87-page report condemns the sergeant and the the officers, including a deputy chief, who knew about the video. … The […]
Following up to the letter to the editor I posted last week expressing disgust with “profanity” in Pearls Before Swine, here’s this one by The Argyle Sweater’s Scott Hilburn posted on the GoComics blog that is just as flagrant. It’s just a matter of time before we start hearing our young children yelling obscenities like, […]
An long but interesting read by Daniel Best about the $1 million purchase of a near complete Archie original art collection drawn by Bob Montana by Diamond Distributor’s Steve Geppi.When art deals go wrong they generally go wrong due to the money involved. Virtually anyone who collects art can tell stories of paying too much […]
The Herald-Sun in Durham, NC has posted news that they are replacing Shoe with The Born Loser and brining back the Family Circus (replacing Bizarro). The editor cites saving money as one of the reasons for making the change.
Video: Team Cul de Sac’s sorting roomChris Sparks, the organizer behind The Team Cul de Sac project to raise money for Parkson’s Disease, has posted video of all the cartoon original submissions. It looks like a great collection and the scope of which the Cul de Sac cast can be inserted into other cartoons and […]
I’d love to attend this:From Batman and Beetle Bailey to Archie and Wonder Woman, the comic book world is rich with a colorful cast of superheroes, villains and other cult creatures. And as a new action-packed, joke-filled exhibition at the UConn Stamford Art Gallery reveals, many of Connecticut’s own artists brought them to life. “Faster […]
A couple more facts that have come to light in the ongoing investigation by the Renton WA police department to uncover the identity of “Mrfuddlesticks” who has been posting cartoon videos online mocking the police department.A few things that we do know: A judge has stayed the earlier search warrants being used to get information […]
Interesting work by songwriter Jascha Hoffman and director Benjamin Harrison who went into the archives and pulled out Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and put together a music video.Winsor McCay was a pioneering animator in his day. It seems somewhat proper that his art is still being used.