As of January 1, 2021 most everything from 1925 entered public domain status. While that Duke University links focuses on some lesser works, we will turn our attention to more important literature that is now available after the Walt Disney Extension.Among the more well-known comics that started in 1925, and whose first year is now […]
This is an installment of 2020 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2020 – The Dearly DepartedThese U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2020.© Sam Wyche & J. D. CroweSAMUEL DAVID (SAM) WYCHEJanuary 5, […]
Political and magazine cartoonist Ken Mahood has passed away.Kenneth B. (Ken) MahoodFebruary 4, 1930 – December 30, 2020The Daily Mail is reporting the death of Ken Mahood: He passed away peacefully in St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Wednesday. Moving tributes were paid yesterday to the brilliant and charismatic former Mail cartoonist Ken Mahood, who […]
The newest Visual Arts Journal features Michael Tisserand interviewing Ray Billingsley. Read the entire interview here. Comics DC interviews cartoonist (and homegirl) Liza Donnelly. What work are you most proud of?Getting into The New Yorker, particularly at age 24. I am also very proud of the book that I wrote, Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest […]
Over 1200 pages long with more than 1200 new entries, this is a bibliography of articles and books on all aspects of comic and cartoon art including comic books, comic strips, cartoons, animation, editorial cartoons, newly updated as of the end of 2018. The electronic book, a non DRM PDF, includes tens of thousands of […]
The New Yorker‘s assistant cartoon editor Colin Stokes checked Instagram to see which cartoons from the magazine during the year 2020 got the most “likes” and shares the 26 most popular.Of course it is too soon to know if any of them will join the few other New Yorker cartoons with their own Wikipedia entries.cartoons […]
Mr. Smith Goes to The Big CityIn a 180 of the usual, Snuffy Smith and Loweezy are going to visit Barney Google. From the Comics Kingdom blog:This week, Snuffy Smith is going to the big city to visit Barney Google. That’s right, the tables have turned and the Hootin’ Holler Mountaineer is leaving the Kentucky […]
Stories about people getting fired before landing great success or fame are interesting to hear. As it turns out, The Oconee Enterprise has such a story. In 1978, Peter Steiner was fired from this newspaper for cartoons about a controversial school bond referendum. He went on to draw for The New Yorker and is well […]
Gag writer Choc Hutcheson has passed away. Charlie Robert “Choc” Hutcheson March 13, 1926 – November 19, 2020 From the obituary:As a high school student at Monument, Choc became a reporter for the Hobbs, New Mexico, Daily News Sun, and found a calling as a journalist that would spur a career in print and television news […]
Edward Frascino cartoon © The New Yorker/Condé NastOn November 15, 2020 Edward Frascino celebrated his 90th birthday. For the past 55 years of that time Ed has been contributing cartoons and drawings to The New Yorker (and for seven years before that he was a gag/idea man for the magazine’s other cartoonists). MM: You were […]
It seems that before famed comedian Steve Martin teamed up with famed cartoonist Harry Bliss last year, Steve had earlier been writing gags for a cartoonist.No, this is not about his 2007 collaboration with Roz Chast.At Inkspill Michael Maslin pulls a line from today’s New York Times interview with Steve Martin (or read it here […]
“A Wealth of Pigeons” by Harry Bliss and Steve Martin will soon be released. [Steve] Martin, who collaborate[s] with New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss, calls cartooning comedy’s last frontier. “It was a completely unique experience,’ he said. “It’s the precision of one thing. This is a one-second link between the picture and the words, or […]
Art Spiegelman artwork © Art SpiegelmanIn the age-old discussion about when comics finally “grew up” Maus is often exhibit A. The New Yorker called it “the first masterpiece in comic-book history”. It’s the comic that people who don’t read comics have read, and the only graphic novel ever to have won a Pulitzer prize. Forty […]
Comic strip and magazine cartoonist Bob Weber, Sr. has passed away. Robert P. (Bob) Weber, Sr. June 26, 1934 – October 17, 2020It is being reported on social media that Bob Weber has passed away:Just heard that gag cartoonist and longtime King Features’ Moose and Molly comic strip artist Bob Weber, Sr. passed away in […]
Macanudo © Liniers, distributed by King Features Syndicate Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921 Frankie Comics BB3X: Baby Blues: The Third […]