Got a bit of a whiplash reading the Sunday Funnies today what with cartoonists using their Sunday comics to switch between Super Bowl topics and Valentine’s Day themes. And then Dick Tracy abruptly breaks off its this year’s unfinished plot line to go to two weeks ( February 11 – 25, 2024) of a Minit […]
Original Peanuts comic strip artwork by Charles M. Schulz are highly prized by collectors. So naturally some try to profit off that attraction. Artist and original art collector Rob Stolzer makes us aware of one such attempt. Live Auctioneers carries an Andrew Auctions, who “acts solely as an agent for various owners and consignors,” item […]
Ralph Hagen comes up with a brilliant observation in this morning’s The Barn (Creators), though I guess if you enjoy texting instead of talking you might not think so. But it does seem we’ve come full circle, though there are apps that will let you talk and then convert it to text, which matters because […]
Rick Stromoski, Lynn Johnston, Raina Telgemeier, and Bob Fingerman.Rick Stromoski, the cartoonist of Soup to Nuts and Andrew’s Journal fame, returns with a second book, in what can only be called a series now, about the adventures of Schnozzer & Tatertoes, a pair of anthropomorphic dogs. Schnozzer is a level-headed, intelligent schnauzer who keeps his […]
Comics writer and editor and comic strip historian Alfredo Castelli has passed away. Alfredo Castelli June 26, 1947 – February 7, 2023Several comic sites have reported the death of Alfredo Castelli. On February 7, Aldredo Castelli died in Milan, at the age of 76. Since 1965, his name has been linked to the history of […]
Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) says that we’ve suddenly turned into a nation of legal experts, though, to be fair, he didn’t say “suddenly.” Rather, the sudden part is how we’ve focused our usual kibitzing on a particular legal question.There are only a handful of cartoonists and columnists who have been to law school, which perhaps is […]
Presenting a duke’s mixture of cartoonist and comics related news items. With Lent and a period of self-sacrifice quickly approaching we feast on a glut of funny as New Orleans cartoonist Walt Handelsman and The Times-Picayune present a selection of Fat Tuesday cartoons Walt has drawn through the years. ********** When the News-Sun announced it […]
The big news this morning is about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin last night. It was so predictable that cartoonists weighed in days before it happened, which would normally be dangerous but, well, not always.Bill Bramhall widened his vision to take in the international significance, as Carlson’s fawning is tied into Republican refusal to […]
Although the entire run of Calvin and Hobbes is available both online and in print, many fans are interested in finding other comic strips that are similar to Calvin and Hobbes. Thanks to the amazing quality of Calvin and Hobbes, finding a worthy successor is a challenge. There are several comic strips, however, that either […]
Cartoonist, illustrator, and painter Frank Renlie has passed away. Frank Hanson Renlie April 17, 1936 – September 10, 2023From the obituary: Frank Renlie graduated from the Burnley School of Professional Art (currently known as The Art Institute of Seattle). His early work was particularly inspired by his instructors William Cumming and James Edward Peck. Following […]
A local cartoon, certainly, but one that will amuse people far from Glasgow. Steven Camley notes that police there are beginning to enforce a new national law against parking on sidewalks or at curb cuts as well as double parking. Or, as he has Lovely Rita explain things in the best possible way, you can […]
It has been nearly a month since Michael de Adder‘s last weekly cartoon for The Washington Post. Three years ago Michael, after freelancing for the paper, was signed as a contract cartoonist to The Washington Post and charged with supplying three cartoons a week.Over the years that was dropped to two cartoons a week. Then […]
Capp, Kitchen, and Comix; Hal Foster’s medieval masterpiece; The making of Wednesday Comics, DC’s weekly broadsheet comic book; Charles Dana Gibson educates Mr. Pipp; Flash Gordon and beautiful women.When Dennis Kitchen tried to get Al Capp to draw an underground comix cover. It’s hard to name an institution that represents the golden age of underground […]
David Rowe picks up on both themes for today: King Charlie has been diagnosed with cancer, and so has Uncle Sam, at least in the John Dean sense of there being a cancer on the presidency. We’ll get back to that second part.As for the King’s cancer, Matt is refreshingly sarcastic about the vague announcement. […]
So who came out ahead with the recent spat of newspaper groups standardizing their comics pages? Gannett/USA TODAY Network with around 200 newspapers, Lee Enterprises with more or less 70, McClatchy‘s 30 or so, PostMedia‘s three dozen dailies(?), and Wick Communications’ 10 papers comes to about 350 newspapers whose parent companies have determined what comic […]