Katie Cook is a comic artist, illustrator, and a writer. She created the webcomics Gronk (2010-2015) and started a weekly comic called Nothing Special in 2017 that is still going string. You can read a new comic each Tuesday over at Webtoon. Nothing Special has also been printed in three volumes (I, II, III) by […]
A commenter responded to my recent complaint about Facebook postings of vacation photos by saying “On Facebook, everybody who is going on a vacation gets snoozed by me for 30 days.”This is such an excellent idea that I’ve begun doing it myself, and this Flying McCoys happens to have appeared just in time to serve […]
Earlier this month we reported on the Australian Press Council (APC)ruling that Cathy Wilcox “breached its Standards of Practice” when she published a cartoon in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Now University of Technology Sydney publishes Centre for Media Transition fellow Alena Radina’s “Too Hot to Handle,” a deeper dive into “the contemporary conditions […]
The Berkeley Scanner is reporting that former museum curator and comics historian Andrew Farago was arrested. A prominent member of San Francisco’s cartoon community was arrested earlier this month after recording birthday party guests, adults and children, using the bathroom at his Berkeley home, according to court papers. Andrew Farago is a pop culture writer […]
There is not a whole lot more to report from our first post about the Big Nate newspaper replacements. Adding to that list in the link above is Wallace the Brave – Minnesota Star-Tribune, The Boston Globe, and the Sunday Washington PostThe Grizzwells – Dallas Morning News Rosebuds – The Kokomo Tribune, Logansport Pharos-Tribune****Brevity – […]
The jokes write themselves, and the cartoons likewise. I’ve lost track of how many candidates have promised to drain the swamp only to find, once in office, that they kinda like it, but this is the first time I remember one of them building an actual swamp.This is a bookends juxtaposition: Venables posted his piece […]
The Boston Globe had a space open up on their comics page and chose to fill it with the pre-adolescent children of nearby Snug Harbor. Carlos R. Muñoz at The Boston Globe introduces Bostonians to Wallace the Brave (or here): When cartoonist Will Henry was a teenager pitching comic strips to local newspapers, an editor […]
It is becoming increasingly likely that the 70-80 newspapers that make up the CNHI (formerly the Community Newspaper Holding Inc.) are all dropping the comics page from their newspapers. Earlier this month we reported on the North of Boston Media Group, a subdivision of CNHI, dropping the comics (second item). 1800 miles southwest of Boston […]
There’s so much Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose going around that there’s a danger of things not being seen as news anymore. This is not to be confused with Steve Bannon’s “flood of sh*t” policy, in which each new outrage drives the previous outrages from sight, though that is a related factor.We’re […]
It is two and a half months before the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip will come to an end. It’s 1995 and Watterson is thirty-seven. He’s sitting at the desk where he’s worked for the last ten years, drawing the adventures of Calvin and his maybe-real or maybe-stuffed-toy tiger, Hobbes. Calvin and Hobbes runs in […]
Like many long-lived comic characters (think World War Two veterans Mr. Fantastic and Ben Grimm) Jeremy Duncan’s timeline in Zits has to be adjusted on occasion. Today we learn the eternal 16 year old was born in 2009. Quite a feat for someone who first showed up nearly 29 years ago. Of course he could […]
Well, obviously. Father’s Day is kind of weird, because while men want acknowledgement I don’t think they’re as much into presentation as women, so that flowers or breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day is a good thing, but ties and coffee cups on Father’s Day don’t make much of an impression.The best Father’s Day I […]
American-born comic writer now a Member of the British Empire, Mutt and Jeff the animated classics restored, Lynd Ward award winner talks cartooning, and a first and last look at a put-upon English pop. American-Born Comic Strip Writer Appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Judge Dredd co-creator and comic […]
The history of newspapers! A Dick Tracy villain to fix the Reflecting Pool? The History of American Newspapers Here’s a book I’m looking forward to as much as a new history of comics. My interest in the history of newspapers grew out of my comic strip obsession. When I was a wee tyke newspaper editor […]
The UK is joining Australia and several other nations in restricting Internet use by kids under16. The most common restrictions are on user-to-user platforms like Facebook, Snapchat and others, though this site provides more specific information on how various countries have set up their bans.Clearly, Blower sees it as a performative act by PM Keir […]