Back in the day, before the Zits era, there was a time when Jim Borgman was the editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Being the All-American boy he was, and still is, his cartoon ideas occasionally found themselves more appropriate to the sports page than the opinion page.With the Bengals playing in tomorrow’s AFC Championship […]
So I’m watching the Cowboys and the Saints on Thursday Night Football halfheartedly when on the screen pops up a comic artist’s idealization of some National Football League player. “The whole mission is to exaggerate features of players,” Hartley said. “There’s no way Drew Brees is that buffed out, but [we wanted to] kind of […]
Drew Litton, sports cartoonist for The Colorado Sun and 9News (KUSA, Denver), recently got a segment on his television station celebrating “a nearly 40 year career.” That marks when he joined The Rocky Mountain News in 1982. But Drew began his newspaper career four years before that with The El Paso Times as copy boy/photographer/editorial […]
… It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship: Sunday marked their 40th wedding anniversary. They celebrated with dinner at a restaurant attached to the Baltimore Art Museum. They have lived in Baltimore for most of the time since the Courier-Express closed, less than a year after their wedding. Ricig was a sports cartoonist at […]
From NorthJersey.com: Assemble New York Giants fans: the G-Men are officially joining the Marvel Universe. The New York Giants are teaming up with Marvel for an Avengers-inspired crossover this season that is being billed as an “integrated collaboration” that will draw inspiration straight from the comics and thrust Big Blue into the world of iconic […]
National Football League’s Indianapolis Colts threw some shade at the Philadelphia Eagles with a 4th of July comic strip posted on the Colts website.© Indianapolis Colts/NFLPanel four shows coach Frank Reich rejecting quarterback Carson Wentz’s cheesesteak offering, both were formerly with the Philadelphia Eagles.Panel five shows Carson dumping the Philly delicacy on the ground.WPVI – […]
Editorial and sports cartoonist Jim Thompson has a new gig at the conservative website RedState with a (mostly) daily cartoon called Code Red Comics.Red State welcomed Jim and a few other contributors today:As our readers are undoubtedly aware, we’ve had a lot of exciting changes at RedState this year and have added some new faces […]
Sports cartoonist John Furlow has passed away. John Allen Furlow July 23, 1921 – May 8, 2021 A month and a half shy of his 100th birthday artist, illustrator, and cartoonist John Furlow has died.From the obituary:Following his passion and extraordinary talent as an artist, John applied and was accepted to the Art Institute […]
Happy Birthday to Lily Renée (Lily Renée Willheim Peters Phillips) born 100 years ago today. Lily joins a few other centenarians on our Senior Strippers list.This seems a good time to update our Senior Strippers roster, cartoonists who for 90+ years continue to survive “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”Below is, […]
Sports writer, promoter, cartoonist Bill Morgan has passed away.William Edwards (Bill) Morgan, Jr. December 13, 1931 – February 9, 2021From the obituary: He was sports editor for the Lufkin Daily News from 1953 to 1955, when he went to the Dallas Morning News as a sportswriter. In 1960, the fledgling Dallas Cowboys hired him away […]
© The Sporting News © Marvel Entertainment © King Features Syndicate Ozark Ike was created by Rufus Anderson Gotto, who was a native of Tennessee so he probably knew something about hillfolk. However, his character was called Ozark Ike so maybe he didn’t want to insult any of his fellow Tennesseans. © respective copyright owner Baseball month […]
Sports cartoonist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq has been honored by the racing world.From the Daily Racing Form:Pierre “Peb” Bellocq, the most famous racing caricaturist of all time, [has] been selected for inclusion in the National Museum of Racing’s Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor, the Saratoga Springs museum announced on Monday. Bellocq, who has been known […]
From My Twin Tiers: ENDICOTT, NEW YORK (WETM-TV)- The DICK’S Sporting Goods Open announced the event’s 2021 date as well as a new 50th-anniversary logo to coincide with the semi-centennial playing of Broome County’s premier professional sports event. The 2021 event, which will be played as part of the Champions Tour’s combined 2020-21 calendar due […]
Famed sports cartoonist Murray Olderman has passed away.Murray OldermanMarch 27, 1922 – June 10, 2020SPORTS CARTOONIST (yeah, he merits the upper case), sports columnistFrom the notice: Marty Appel posted that Murray Olderman died at the age of 98.Murray Olderman profiled and drew sports cartoons of every major sports figure of the past 60 years, from […]
National Football League quarterback and coach Sam Wyche has passed away.Samuel David (Sam) Wyche January 5, 1945 – January 2, 2020Cincinnati Enquirer photo tribute.From the Cincinnati Enquirer of two years ago: …Wyche had been working on developing the no-huddle offense, which revolutionized the NFL and gave the Bengals an offensive edge over nearly every opponent. […]