Fantasy artist Greg Hildebrandt has passed away.Gregory J. (Greg) Hildebrandt January 23, 1939 – October 31, 2024 Greg’s wife Jean Scrocco posted to social media about her husband’s passing: The light has gone out in my life. At 12:36 pm this afternoon the love of my life, my best friend and soulmate passed away. Greg […]
NJ Advance Media has announced its intention of ending the print editions of The (Newark) Star-Ledger (the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey according to Wikipedia) and sister papers The Times of Trenton and The South Jersey Times. The newspapers will continue as daily online newspapers: The Star-Ledger will cease publishing a print newspaper and […]
Dogs and Halloween aren’t always a good combination, but today’s Bliss (Tribune) brought back a memory of a ridgeback who enjoyed dressing up. Some of my dogs have tolerated it, some haven’t, but he thought it was fun, so one time I put him in a Canadiens jersey, balanced a hockey helmet on his head […]
Comics Kingdom (CK) has issued submission guidelines for cartoonists attempting to get placed on the CK digital platform – a great step toward being distributed to print newspapers by King Features Syndicate.King Features Editorial Director Tea Fougner introduces the submissions guidelines with a few do’s and don’ts. Friends, we are so excited to introduce our […]
So when Garry Trudeau mentioned that “the last time a Doonesbury strip featured four near-identical drawings of the White House was in 1988” my OCD kicked and I had to find it.But first let me agree with the Joseph Nebus reply to the Trudeau comment: The four panel White House strips early on became iconic, […]
The Unwarranted hatred for Comic Sans; The Comics Courier, a tabloid comics criticism newspaper; a Bob Foster obituary; the Kansas City studio of Walt Disney; and an Amber Waves Comics Kingdom news item.New Comic Amber Waves Brings Heartfelt Tales of Childhood to Life This crisp fall week welcomes a new strip available on Comics Kingdom […]
Below are the title panels of the Sunday Dennis the Menace comic strips for October. One is not like the others. “That’s different!” was my reaction to seeing today’s Dennis the Menace, and the difference continued beyond the title panel with the absence of those muted pastels of the past few years. Then toward the […]
Chef and cartoonist Phil “Bunk” Griffin has passed away. Philip M. (Bunk) Griffin June 17, 1940 – October 16, 2024 From the family obituary: A lifelong resident of [Saranac Lake], he was by professional cook, having worked in The Dew Drop Inn, Tyson’s, The Mar-Mac, and finished out his career at the Adirondack Medical Center, […]
This Buckets (AMS) is as close to the Washpo/LATimes thing as I’m getting today. As I wrote yesterday, I’m impressed that the Post has allowed so much pushback from staff, so it’s pretty clear that nobody in the front office feels they speak for the CEO.OTOH, I’m somewhat confounded by all the calls not to […]
V. T. Hamlin’s Alley Oop; Bob Chambers’ Halifax; Pogo’s letterers Walt Kelly, George Ward, and Henry Shikuma; and a couple cartoonist self-portrait galleries.Sunday Adventures in History with Alley Oop Alley Oop portrays the exploits of a time-traveling caveman (yes, you read that correctly). The comic, which has been running since 1932, was created by V.T. […]
Billy Ireland & Jenny Robb, Marshall Ramsey, Ernie Bushmiller, Ward Sutton & Stan Kelly, Paul Gilligan, and Mort Walker, Bill Hoest, & Bil Keane. Chillicothe, Columbus, and the World — A boy who grew up in Chillicothe and then worked for the Columbus Dispatch to became a world-famous cartoonist was part of the focus of […]
It is late October in The Year of Our Lord 1968, a Presidential Election year. The election is two weeks away and Walt Kelly, as is his wont, has decided to satirize American politics. Kelly’s subject is third party outlier George Wallace, most famous for his performance of blocking a schoolhouse door in 1963 to […]
Auctions featuring original comic and cartoon art and comic books.Occasionally a comic book collection of immense value goes public. Such is the case up Mike Peterson way. From Seven Days last month: Following the death in April of Vermont comic book retailer and collector Christine Farrell, her legendary collection is about to go up for […]
Featuring Bianca Xunise, Chip Beck, Alan Hardman, Eli Valley, Patrick McDonnell, Herblock, Larry Todd, Matt Wuerker, Ann Telnaes, Michael Ramirez, Pedro Molina, Vladimir Kazanevsky and Rachita Taneja. Bianca Xunise is the Ignatz Award-winning author of comics including GothThrob, Imaginary Boyfriends, Keep Out, and Say Her Name. She is one of the authors of the daily […]
Ninety years ago yesterday one of the greatest 1930s adventure strips debuted in the New York Daily NewsIt would be the following day when we would learn the full title of Milton Caniff‘s new comic strip. Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff would catapult the cartoonist to fame and fortune. Peter Bosch at 13th […]