The King Features Weekly Service (KFWS) comic strip Amber Waves by Dave Phipps is joining the Comics Kingdom lineup. While they haven’t got the strips running there yet they do have a holding page. Experience a day in the life of a boy named Gerald, his parents, his best friend Owen, and all the pigs, […]
I’ve noted in the past that for empty-nested, retired folks, holidays are when the banks are closed and there’s no mail delivery, but I’ll happily let Arlo & Janis (AMS) make the point again.The United States has two levels of federal holidays: Those we actually observe — New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor […]
Tom Batiuk, Dan Davis, and Chuck Ayers; Lincoln Peirce; Paul Gilligan; Mason Mastroianni and the John Hart Studio; John Buscema; Stan Drake and Alex Raymond; Darrin Bell; and more.We noted a couple weeks ago that Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis had borrowed a few previous panels by Chuck Ayers and inserted them in a Crankshaft […]
Friday’s Baldo (AMS) hit as I was starting to recover from being flat on my back with covid, so it was still painful to laugh but, then again, it was painful to be amused, because I hadn’t even bothered calling my doctor. When I had covid a year or so ago, I couldn’t get in; […]
Barry Blitt, Dennis Draughon, Tim Oliphant, Drew Litton, Cathy Wilcox, Jules Feiffer, Ernie Bushmiller, Quino. Randall Enos, and dozens of Cartoonists For Kamala.Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Barry Blitt tired of Trump One might expect that Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Barry Blitt would be on the euphoric side with a coming U.S. election pitting his seemingly favourite target, […]
Creative spelling, as seen in this Moderately Confused (AMS), is an editor’s nightmare, but one that fortunately has morphed out of control in tune with the technical revolution. I used to run honor role listings in the paper, and, for a while, I’d come across some ridiculous version of a common name and call the […]
With Brenda Starr, Girl Reporter; 19th Century Haitian caricatures; PS: The Preventive Maintenance Monthy magazine; and The U.S. Army Air Force and Warner Bros and Private SnafuCommercial Article 16 – Dale Messick and Brenda Starr: Breaking Barriers and Hitting DeadlinesSteven Heller interviews James Sholly about the latest issue of Commercial Article, which “explores design figures […]
Always enjoy Robb Armstrong featuring Klondike Ike in JumpStart. For some reason I identify with Frank Cobb, maybe because I’m the only one in comics fandom who has a liking for the David Lettick version of Little Orphan Annie. The most recent short, three strip, Klondike Ike sequence starts here.Sticking with comic strips about comic […]
Being the anniversary month of when Peanuts (and Snoopy) first appeared in 1950 there is a plethora of news items about the comic strip and its characters, and that is not counting the multitude of stories about local corn mazes. On Oct. 2, 1950, “Peanuts” made its comic strip debut. Featured in seven newspapers, the four […]
Hard on the heels of our discussion of the topic, xkcd weighs in on the matter of college commas.To be finicky, there probably is a University of Chicago comma, but it may manifest itself in its absence. They have plenty of rules about commas, but since I don’t care enough to become a member and […]
Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar in San Diego; Wayno in Pittsburgh; Steve Bell in London; Bill Watterson in Amazon; High and Middle School Cartoonists in Wisconsin; Hilary B. Price in Massachusetts. While TDC’s Mike Peterson is giving us “live” reports from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists/ Association of Canadian Cartoonists convention (Day 1, Day […]
Frank and Ernest creator Robert Lee (Bob) Thaves was born on Oct. 5, 1924, one hundred years ago today. As Bob’s National Cartoonists Society mini-autobiographical card above notes he became a published cartoonist while still a student. The Los Angeles Times obituary says the cartooning affliction began in high school: As a boy, he knew […]
Tomorrow, October 6, 2024, has Matthew K. Manning and Howie (H.C.) Noel start a short stint on Dick Tracy. Everyone grows up with the goal of fulfilling a childhood dream, and for DuBoistown native Howie Noel, that dream has come true as Sunday marks the debut of a three-week run of an official Dick Tracy […]
The Gang’s All Here!, Breaking Cat News, Mafalda, The K Chronicles, Half Full/Nat, Dennis the Menace², and Non Sequitur. 12-year-old cartoonist draws for South Sioux City newspaper SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (KCAU) — Alvaro Galindo Jr. has been drawing for over two years now for the South Sioux City newspaper Mundo Latino, starting when he […]
Nous sommes ici, at the AAEC and ACC Convention in Montreal, and I’m gradually re-learning to shift from English to French and back again as well as recalling that once you find the place you’re looking for and then find a place to park, you have forgotten how to get where you were going. Fortunately, […]