I’ve been feeling sorry for Tom Tomorrow and other deep-digging satirists lately, in part because the real world is becoming so ridiculous that it doesn’t give satire anywhere to go, but, particularly in his case, because Steve Bannon’s ongoing flooding of the zone makes multi-panel humor hard to sustain. At any given moment, something may […]
Lincoln Peirce has announced that beginning June 14, 2026 the Big Nate comic strip will run Sunday only. From Lincoln Peirce’s Instagram page: Here’s part of the final Big Nate daily comic strip, which will run on June 13th. No more Nate on Monday thru Saturday, but there’s still going to be a Sunday page. […]
Yesterday’s comic strip roundup got cut short as I had an “Appointment With Danger Dinner.” Let’s continue with the news that… Terry Beatty has returned to drawing Rex Morgan, The Daily Bugle has dropped its Comics Section, and Andrews McMeel has stopped syndicating Ginger Meggs to newspapers. Terry Beatty is Back! Terry Beatty has returned […]
Weyant keeps it simple and gets it right. I’ve used the term “The whole world is watching” often, in the shame-building sense in which demonstrators chanted it at the Democratic Convention in 1968 when the Chicago police were beating the crap out of them on national television.Weyant suggests it by drawing the World as the […]
This weekend was the L.A. Times Festival of Books where they unveiled their best books of last year. Jaime Hernandez took home the prize in the Graphic Novel/Comics category, and Trung Le Nguyen (Trungles)‘s graphic novel “Angelica and the Bear Prince” won the Young Adult Literature category.Jaime graphic novel “Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets […]
Origins IssuesThe story of how Kit Walker became The Original Phantom continues into its 12th Sunday, while the story of how Ming became The Merciless continues in the daily and Sunday Flash Gordon. And King Features/Comics Kingdom celebrates the 80 anniversary of the Mark Trail comic strip. We’re proud to mark this 80th anniversary. And […]
This is a really good cartoon. Bennett has excellent artistic skills and a keen eye for depicting frustrated despair, which he make a recurring motif in his work. He’s even color-coded his firefighters with red and blue clothes under their bunker gear.The problem is that this shouldn’t be an evergreen — a cartoon that could […]
A few cartoonists, past and present, are spotlighted. Vaughan Tomlinson Magazine cartoonist Vaughan Tomlinson (Readers Digest, Airmail, Alta, Private Eye, The Oldie, Weekly Humorist, etc.) has been contributing panels to Comics Kingdom for a year now and The Kingdom’s Alex Garcia has now gotten around to interviewing him about how Vaughan goes about creating Oddly […]
If Carillo had dropped this tomorrow instead of last Sunday, you might think he was commenting on the Hegseth/Ezekiel/Pulp Fiction matter, rather than accidentally predicting a week in which everyone was wrong and the smart move was to stay out of it.In any case, Hegseth wasn’t quoting either Zeke or Jules, but since making the […]
On April 17, 1926 Editor and Publisher celebrated the 32nd anniversary of newspaper comics with a comic supplement featuring specially created comic strips for the 1926 Newspaper Convention. The contributing cartoonist were Edward Grinham, Merrill Blosser, Burt Thomas, Frank King, Sidney Smith, Frank Godwin, J. R. Williams, Rube Goldberg, C. W. Kahles, Frank Willard, Bud […]
The Graphic Medicine International Collective has added two new board members: political theorist and historian Soha Bayoumi, PhD, and writer and cartoonist Jen Leach (Furtivedoodles).Jen is New York based writer and cartoonist. She works at New York University driving student wellbeing communications and initiatives. Early in her career, she hid her (bipolar) diagnosis and her […]
Variety is reporting that King Features has partnered with Reginald Hudlin to develop a television series starring The Phantom of comic strip fame. From Jennifer Mass at Variety: A live-action [emphasis added] TV series based on Lee Falk’s classic comic strip “The Phantom” is in the works from “Candy Cane Lane” and “Sidney” filmmaker Reginald Hudlin, […]
We should probably go a little easy on Pete Hegseth, who never said he was quoting Ezekiel when he whipped out that prayer the other day. What he said was that it was something some aviators had laid on him, and it’s obviously rewritten with flyers in mind.And, BTW, what Jules quotes in Pulp Fiction […]
Baseball fan (Yankees and Phillies) Howard Goldstein has spent the better part of a lifetime collecting baseball memorabilia concentrating on the subject of Jewish participation. Parts of his collection have been spotlighted in museums around the nation including Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of Fame.The last few years saw Mr Goldstein get serious about exhibiting his collection […]
Early this year it was reported that Block Communications had decided to shut down the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette following court decisions that favored the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh over the newspaper. Now The New York Times’ Katie Robertson is reporting (or here) that: The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, which runs The Baltimore Banner and is […]