Taking a long weekend of comics from last Saturday to today. Saturday had more than a few comics that stood out for me, which is surprising since that is the day cartoonists usually place their weakest, in their opinion, gags. In Candorville Lemont laments the state of newspapers’ respect for comics which turns out to […]
Sergio Aragonés at Weekly World News; David Ostow on TV; Grant Geissman, EC Comics historian; Behind the Scenes of Early Animation; Thumbs Up AND Thumbs Down on Firing Michael Leunig; and George Herriman Specialty Krazy Kay Original Art!Sergio Aragonés’ Weekly Comic for a Major NewspaperFrom 2005 to 2007 “MAD cartoonist Sergio Aragonés did full-page cartoons […]
A couple weeks ago we noted Deon Parson announcing his Rosebuds going into print syndication. Well after not hearing anything last week this week we got notice that six of Deon’s local CNHI Indiana/Illinois newspapers picked up the comic strip for their weekend editions. The Goshen (Ind.) News; The Anderson (Ind.) Herald Bulletin; The Kokomo […]
Just a quick reminder from Madam & Eve that not everyone is starting to anticipate winter. We’ve just hit apple-picking season up here and winter can’t be far behind, but for those on the opposite side of the Equator, it’s nearly spring.I’ll be pleased when the pollen ends up here, and, oddly enough, happy if […]
Happy 90th Birthday to Warren Sattler. Being born on September 7, 1934 entitles him entry to our Senior Strippers club.Warren was a comic strip cartoonist from 1960 working with Crockett Johnson on the reinvigorated Barnaby through the end of the 20th Century with King Features and Gil Thorp and Grubby. The comic strips Warren worked/assisted […]
So alphabetically Loose Parts follows Looks Good on Paper and yesterday they had an eruptive juxtaposition. Joining in the Mutts 30th anniversary celebration is the only not-Patrick McDonnell cartoonist, that I know of, to draw a Mutts comic strip – Jim Keefe. At his Patreon account Keefe tells how it happened that he partnered with […]
This year’s Galway Cartoon Festival, in Ireland, will feature an American cartoonist – Dave Coverly, creator of Speedbump. Dave submitted cartoons last year for their festival exhibit and was happy to get an invitation to be a featured guest at this year’s festival.While this may be Dave’s first time at the Galway Cartoon Festival, he […]
Yesterday saw the release of Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story and tomorrow will be the 30th anniversary of the Mutts comic strip. The Daily Cartoonist is splitting the difference and celebrating both today. First the book. From the award-winning syndicated comic strip Mutts, the long-awaited “Guard Dog” story is now collected and presented in […]
Sez Keefer: The Orange Dotard’s trip to Arlington National Cemetery and the foolishness that ensued reminded me on this classic strip by Cat cartoonist B. Kliban. I had to pay homage. Keith Knight is having fun with a cartoon classic. Check out Keith Knight’s Substack where he posts the above (th)ink cartoon and the original. […]
How better to welcome everyone back from Labor Day than with this Tom Toro panel?I drove 275 miles each way Saturday to visit my mother for her 100th, though her birthday was actually Sunday. As it happened, the 550-mile round-trip wasn’t so bad and I assume most drivers had left on Friday and returned yesterday, […]
Olivia Jaimes returned to the Nancy comic strip today after taking a sabbatical. While gone Olivia got (bribed? coerced?) other people to create Nancy comics in her absence. Following are the credits for the Summer of 2024. Olivia Jaimes April 9, 2018* – June 22, 2024 (*Sundays May 6, 2018 – June 16, 2024) Leigh […]
Mike Lynch (with Art Bouthillier, Randy Glasbergen, Ted Goff, George Jartos, Bart Roozendaal, and George Trosley), Ed Steckley, Warner Bros cartoons, Flash Gordon comic book, AI, and (sorry) Scott Adams.The Aspiring Cartoonist: The Craft and Business of Gag CartooningMike Lynch has a very fine habit of pulling old cartooning magazines out of his closet and […]
Douglas Rodger saluted American workers with this Labor Day cartoon in the San Francisco News a century ago, but, in Chicago, my grandmother was involved in a different sort of labor, and I am rising to a point of personal privilege today.In those days, fathers were banished to the waiting room, and so in a […]
Ruben Bolling, Georgia Dunn, Keith Knight, and dozens of more cartoonists; plus Dogs of C-Kennel, Lola, Shifts, Crabgrass, and the missing Vintage Apartment 3-G. Ruben Bolling, who has drawn and written his intricate, incisive, shape-shifting weekly cartoon “Tom the Dancing Bug” for more than three decades, works best under the pressure of a deadline. “Years […]
Ben (MWAM) raises the issue of comic sands, albeit imperfectly. Assuming he dug holes deep enough so only the boys’ shoulders and heads were out, and only wide enough to fit them exactly, they could indeed be stuck.However, comic strips often feature people buried lying down who are then unable to get out from under […]