I enjoy reading the Stripper’s Guide – a blog focused on comic strip history maintained by historian Allan Holtz. One of his latests posts is regarding cartoonists that made the headlines (of the 1930’s). One such tidbit from these archives is the mention that Gary Cooper (who won an Oscar in 1952 for his role […]
The Orange County Register recently took a poll with nearly 3,000 respondents to come up with the best and worst comics on the funny pages (of the OCR). The top honors go to “For Better or for Worse” by Lynn Johnston “Luann” by Greg Evans, “Foxtrot” by Bill Amend “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz and […]
Doonesbury character “Rev. Sloan” was modeled after William Sloane Coffin – a former Yale University chaplain. William Sloan Coffin passed away yesterday. The relevant text from the AP story from the NY Times is below. William Sloane Coffin was immortalized in the ”Doonesbury” comic strip when its creator, fellow Yale graduate Garry Trudeau, blended his […]
I’ve posted news about Dan Piraro’s live comedy act here before (listen to interview, here are tour dates and more tour dates). The L.A. Times wrote up a good review for the show which begins tonight in LA. In a bit of turnabout, Piraro reads and comments on the best of his hate mail as […]
Universal Press has issued a press release to announce that Bill Amend has put out a new FoxTrot collection. This collection is available at Amazon. The Fox family’s zany antics keep us entertained as they encounter pop culture in their everyday lives. Mom Andy tries unsuccessfully to push her youngest son, Jason, away from his […]
Yesterday I posted that Vaughn Larson, editor and cartoonist for “The Review” (WI) had been called up and will serve an 18 month tour in Iraq. Editor and Publisher has a much longer and detailed story. “We were put on alert back in January, so it wasn’t much of a surprise,” the Wisconsin Army National […]
Before I report on the survey that ran last week on this site to gauge its performance, I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all those who took the time to answer the questions. Perhaps, like cartooning itself, this is a solitary effort and sometimes it’s difficult to know just how […]
According to the AAEC website, Vaughn R. Larson, news editor and editorial cartoonist for The Review (Plymouth WI) has been called up for a 18 month tour in Iraq. Vaughn is a vetran of the first Gulf War. He reports April 19th. God speed Vaughn.
Universal Press Syndicate has issued a press release to commenmorate the 5th anniversary of Lalo Alcaraz’s debut as a syndicated editorial cartoonist with UPS. Lalo also created “La Cucaracha” in 2002 which is also distributed by UPS. “Lalo brings a young, fearless Latino sensibility to political and cultural critiques, and that’s saying something when you […]
The Detroit Free Press announced over the weekend that they were launching a new and improved features section called “Life.” In passing they mention… You’ll find some other changes in Monday’s paper, including a new comics lineup, a new page with more puzzles and a fresh new focus for The List! — metro Detroit’s best […]
Recently I posted a story how the Sacramento Bee was cutting their Sunday funnies from 8 pages to 6. This story (which is a week old), talks about the community reaction: In a nutshell: only 250 responded. 250. That’s it.
E&P reports that a new book, edited by Ted Rall, featuring 21 online cartoonists will be published in June. The book is entitled: “Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists.”
Among many editorial page changes at the Dayton Daily News, Mike Peter’s editorial cartoons will now be in color. Mike’s cartoon has also been moved away from the house editorial to the opposite facing page – which probably has more to do with getting it on a page that runs color – than with the […]
Sunday seems to be the day newspapers announce that they’re messing with the funnies. This time, The Repository (Canton OH) will debut Tony Carrillo’s new feature “F Minus” next week on the 17th. Interestingly, the editor does mention the internal polling that took place before making the decision to put “F Minus” in the line-up. […]
Last January, I told you that Pat Oliphant was going to be part of a fund-raiser for the Harry Truman Presidential Library. Here now is a write up about the event that occured last Thursday. The event set a record for total money raised. Notice: The story doesn’t go into much detail of what Pat […]