Each week my ADHD brain finds some comic-related things on social media that must be chased down. There were several this week. Due to scheduling conflicts with some top-tier subject matter experts, I had to push two topics to next week. This week we chase two rabbits: how do artists draw character’s mouths based on […]
I’m known to go down a rabbit hole from time to time and many of those threads come from something I saw on social media. Here’s three things I learned this week about Popeye (and billionaires), Marvel Comics Swim Suit Edition, and Will Eisner Mural in Copenhagen.Be a Non-AI Generated PopeyeTom Hientjes‘ reposted a Popeye […]
Internet Memes as Digital Successors to Comic Strips It seems we have transitioned from the nostalgic charm of newspaper comics to the instantaneous gratification of internet memes. Michelle Ann Abate of The Ohio State University sees memes in a different, perhaps more scholarly light—they might just be the digital age’s answer to comics. In a […]
Up, up, and away as comic book auction results reach – biff! zow! – incredible prices. A decent grade issue of Superman #1 (1939) auction at over two and a half million dollars, while a not-so-great condition of Action Comics #1 (1938), Superman’s first appearance, went for more than one and a half million. A […]
Scott Adams, promoting his new Loserthink book, appeared on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning (Nov. 5) and discussed President Trump’s use of Twitter, a social media platform that Scott is also familiar with.Fox News reports: After a New York Times analysis explained how President Trump’s Twitter account reshaped the presidency, Scott Adams weighed in on Tuesday, […]
Highlights, the magazine for young children, has issued a statement concerning the conditions under which immigrant children are suffering as they are detained by the United States.At Highlights, our core belief is that children are the world’s most important people. In light of the reports of the living conditions of detained children & threats of […]
As expected political cartoonists are registering their disgust with the New York Times’ response to a New York Times International editor picking a cartoon that produced some blowback.Above Clay Jones draws his reaction, but also uses his column to explain the good editorial cartoons do for newspapers and society. Below Joep Beltrams shows that the New […]
The April cartoon that appeared in the New York Times International Edition continues to elicit response and conversation.What makes more sense is the possibility that the cartoon made it into print because the paper’s staff—whether singular or plural—saw it as “a political issue and not religious,”… Yet the conventional wisdom on the left that anti-Zionism […]
So – there I am reading about book deals on the Publishers Weekly site, specifically to read about forthcoming Will McPhail projects:Rosenthal’s second big deal of the week was a preempt for two books from writer and cartoonist Will McPhail, whose work for the New Yorker has earned him the National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Award […]
When the unfortunate error in judgment in the Sunday Non Sequitur was revealed to the public earlier this week reaction from newspapers was swift. Also, unexpectedly, was the quick response from a salesperson competing with Andrews McMeel Syndication for real estate on The Funny Pages.Sent to newspaper editors on Monday was this message from the […]
Arnold Roth joined Rube Goldberg and Mort Walker as the only recipients of the Golden T-Square (for 50 years as a professional cartoonist). Who’s next on this august list? Is a Huntington Beach California fest-type-Reubens a done deal for next year’s? Sounded like it. Kudos to the NCS Voting Base for once again not forgetting […]
I am worried about King Features Syndicate. I am not sure that their Acquisitions Department is ACTIVELY engaged. The recent news of Deflocked leaving KFS for A/M pressed my apprehensive button.In the past three years, King Features has lost eight comic features: Grin and Bear It (2015), Apartment 3-G (2015), Edge City (2016), Bleeker, the Rechargeable Dog […]