From the Jim Crow Museum: The Introduction of comic strips in the American press in the 1890’s corresponds with the beginning of a renewed of racial segregation in the United States. While Southern laws were used to oppress American citizens of African descent, the mainstream white press served up accounts of Blacks in newspaper articles […]
WEBTOON, the online comics giant goes public today. The latest tech company to go public is Los Angeles-based Webtoon Entertainment, a platform for content creators who make and sell digital comic books and manga. Here’s what you need to about Webtoon and its initial public offering. What is Webtoon? Webtoon Entertainment is a digital platform […]
Mike Smith (KFS) begins things by expressing doubt that tonight’s debate will change any votes, and he may be right, not because it won’t be a chance to evaluate the candidates head-to-head but because the people who watch will likely be the people who have already been paying attention. Lisa Benson (Counterpoint) makes much the […]
Antelope Valley Press made changes to their comics page earlier this month with a notice that indicates all the dozens of Horizon Publications newspapers that run comics will be switching to a company-wide standard comics page in the near future. A company-wide standard comics page of only King Features Syndicate comics.The Antelope Valley Press front […]
“My pay has not been adjusted since the 1970s.”The Navajo Times informed readers the newspaper and editorial cartoonist Jack Ahasteen have parted ways. The Jack Ahasteen Comics will no longer be printed in the Navajo Times. The Times’s longtime editorial cartoonist, Jack Ahasteen, is separating from the Navajo Times Publishing Co. Inc., a sudden change […]
I like Zits (KFS) more when they focus on Jeremy and his friends rather than Jeremy and his parents. Jeremy is a slacker, but he seems to represent all kids in the parental strips while he’s more of a Maynard G. Krebs comic figure alongside his more together pals.This week features a teens-and-jobs story arc, […]
The San Diego Comic Con has announced the nominees for its 2024 Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award which is usually for comic book artists/cartoonists and this year is no different, except… Vincent Kings is one of the nominees for Time Dog and Other Fairy Tales, a comic book laid out as comic strip. ********** From […]
Peter Steiner sums it all up. Thank you for coming and don’t forget to tip your waitress.But, no, I’ve never been known to avoid elaboration, and there’s a lot more to be said, even if you shouldn’t say it in Louisiana. Or Texas or Arizona or in any of a number of other places and […]
Both the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) have posted updates concerning their upcoming 2024 conventions. Since the NCS’ Reubens Banquet and Awards come first – August 22-24, 2024 – we will start with them. Reuben Playbill Ads ON SALE thru July 16 The NCS update has to do […]
Who better to draw an imaginary tale of Shannon being a “good little girl” than a guy who makes a troll fun? After the first panel, drawn by creator Greg Evans, of today’s Luann comic strip Jay Fosgitt takes on drawing the Luann dailies for two weeks (Greg And Karen Evans remain as the writers […]
An obvious but timely meme, to which I’ll add an old but timely joke:“What is the difference between ignorance and apathy?”“I don’t know and I don’t care.“In Amusing Ourselves To Death, Neil Postman argued that the model for our dystopia was not Orwell’s “1984” but Huxley’s “Brave New World,” because we were not being repressed […]
Patrick McDonnell returns to Mutts with a new Sunday page today, and tomorrow new dailies begin anew after mostly reruns for 2024 up to this point. (The Sundays will be all new eventually – but today’s isn’t the starting point for regular new Sunday strips.) Also returning Sunday was Lyman in Garfield after an absence […]
After warning her fans that she would be taking a Summer sabbatical Olivia Jaimes has gone on vacation. Today’s Sunday Nancy page shows Leigh Luna taking on the cartooning chores as the first of a round robin of women creators to do a few weeks of Nancy comic strips while the pseudonymous Jaimes either rejuvenates […]
It seems appropriate that Madam & Eve, which has of late dwelt entirely on South Africa’s corrupt and discouraging political scene, should offer this suggestion for relief, which applies to everyone in a corrupt and discouraging political scene, which these days feels like pretty much everybody.Besides, one of the 10 Commandments — available soon on […]
Earlier this month we mentioned the Jules Feiffer collection of original art up for bid at Swann Auction Galleries. Swann has revealed the results of some of the items. Some of the items’ estimate were over optimistic, some were grossly underestimated (see the page from the comic book that featured the first time Frank Miller […]