Boston Globe sports cartoonist Larry Johnson has passed away. Larry C. Johnson October 12, 1949 – November 15, 2024 From the obituary: Larry C. Johnson, 75, died peacefully on November 15, 2024. Born in Boston, Larry was raised and educated in Boston and was a graduate of Canton High School Class of 1967. He attended […]
These past decades have seen pro sports fans around the country spurned by the teams they support and cheer when owners of sports franchises see shinier, brighter, newer things elsewhere – well, Money Talks. Oakland, California has been especially hard hit lately. Five years ago, after nearly 50 years in Oakland the Golden State Warriors […]
Charlie McGill, after 70 years of sports cartooning for The (Bergen County) Record, has decided to retire from the newspaper at age 90. Mike Kelly for NorthJersey.com profiles Charlie’s 70 years of cartooning, including a 40 image gallery. At The Record’s former headquarters on River Street in Hackensack, his tilted drawing board — about the […]
Rhea Ripley, a superstar of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), has one of her ring battles being featured in the Gil Thorp comic strip today. Is it a one-time appearance or a multiple day guest role? [next day edit: multiple] Either way the professional wrestling world has taken notice. Today at PW Mania: On August 20, […]
Roy Carlson has a column at Sports Collectors Daily specializing in Topps Baseball cards. Like many, I grew up watching cartoons on TV for hours on end every Saturday morning. When programming eventually shifted to adult content, I marched from living room to bedroom and submersed myself into yet another batch of cartoons – the […]
Former Cincinnati Enquirer editorial cartoonist (and de facto sports cartoonist) and current Zits comic strip artist Jim Borgman returns to Cincinnati to throw out the first pitch of an upcoming Reds game. From The Cincinnati Enquirer: The Enquirer’s renowned former cartoonist Jim Borgman is returning to the Queen City and stepping up to the Reds’ […]
Sports and editorial cartoonist Phil Bissell has passed away. Charles Phillip (Phil) Bissell February 1, 1926 – January 2024 The New England Patriots announced the sadness yesterday. Phil’s big claim to fame came in 1960 when the new AFL team revealed that they would be called The Patriots and his cartoon in The Boston Globe […]
Radio host, columnist, and cartoonist Jay Leeson has passed away. John Thomas (Jay) Leeson V March 5, 1979 – September 28, 2023 Self described as “Prairie Populist. Artist, commentator, communications pro. 7th generation Texan.” From The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (with a gallery of Jay’s political cartoons): Jay Leeson, a West Texas political advocate and media personality […]
Matt Groening and Life in Hell, Bruce Petty and the Vietnam War, Etta Hulme and Comic Books, Art Evans and College Mascots, Carl Jones and The Boondocks, Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers and Roses in December. Before there was Homer, there was Binky Everyone knows that The Simpsons is what made Matt Groening one of […]
(Adam Sacks) (Joy of Tech) So I got on Threads (comicstripoftheday) and yet, unlike Scrooge, my life has not been transformed. I don’t much like it, because it seems crowded, but maybe that’s because I don’t much like looking at things on my phone because they seem crowded. I’m assuming Threads will eventually come to […]
This is a “Where do I begin?” day, because I have a file full of worthwhile cartoons, including a new one by Lee Judge (KFS). In his latest substack, Kareem admits that, when he was young and naive, he thought voters were eager to learn about issues and make intelligent choices. But as he grew […]
More comic strip stuff. Teaser Tuesday Curtis, Crabgrass, and Dick Tracy leave us on tenterhooks as to what will follow this week. As regular readers of Mike Curtis’s Dick Tracy know the Diet Smith resolution may take months. Also waiting to be resolved is the decision of what comic strip The Canberra Times will keep […]
Thirty years ago: Two out, bottom of the ninth. The eternal goat (not G.O.A.T.) Charlie Brown steps up to the plate. And… The greatest day in the life of Charlie Brown. Jump to today and it’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball 2023 and Arlo and Janis bring us up to date. Or as knowledgeable […]
For one game only, and the first in a decade, the Patriots will revive their original Pat Patriot uniforms featuring the iconic colonial man cartoon drawn by Rockport’s own Phil Bissell. Bissell tells the story of how Pat Patriot came to be in his book, “PATSPA!: 65 Years of Cartoons, Caricatures & Creating a […]
While we’ve been distracted by royalty of the British and cartooning kinds the world continued to spin. Here we do some catching up. But before we move on from cartoon royalty… 10 Funniest The Far Side Comics, According To Reddit One of the inspirations for Gary Larson’s popular recurring characters was just honored by his […]