In today’s Between Friends (KFS), Maeve has been awarded the Cardboard Box and ambitious suck-up Jim is feigning surprise. But, to repeat something I’ve said before, I never lost a job I still wanted, which is relevant since Maeve was on the brink of resigning.I was fired twice, which isn’t bad over 40-some years, and […]
Support Your Local (or Distant) CartoonistMike set it up last year and we occasionally add to it and post it here for fans to support their favorite cartoonists. Recently Jim Keefe opened a Patreon account: My Patreon is a catch basin for all the things that I’ve learned in a career spanning some 30+ years. […]
Continuing with Mike’s plagiarism theme of this morning we come to MalMidjourney. During the New Year’s weekend, artists linked to a Google Sheet on the social media platforms X (formerly known as Twitter) and Bluesky, alleging that it showed how Midjourney developed a database of time periods, styles, genres, movements, mediums, techniques, and thousands of […]
“(N)o plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.” — Judge Learned HandMike Lester (AMS) is hardly the only conservative to be dancing on the grave of Claudine Gay’s career, now that she has been pressured into resigning as president of Harvard University.I begin today with a quote […]
The Monster and Mike Doonesbury, Milholland and The Mouse, Hugs and Kisses from Peanuts, Bret Blevins and Judge Alan Parker, The Comics Journal’s 2023 Best Name Checks a few Comic Strips, Cleveland Scene’s Comics Issue, and Love to Ramona Fradon on her Retiring at age 97.It’s that time of year when we get bonus Doonesbury […]
Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s Paper Trends: The 300 for 1998Scroll down for more of Jeffrey’s 1998 survey entries at the Stripper’s Guide.********** BEFORE THE CARTOON 2: Comic cuts and conversational captions The Penny Satirist, which called itself “a weekly satirical newspaper” featured the first sustained use of front-page political cartoons in London. The first number of the […]
Al Goodwyn (Creators) is a very nice guy, and this is a well-intended New Year’s cartoon. I’m leading with it today because I’ll also feature some less honest commentary, but I believe this to be completely sincere and honest and naive and wrong.Goodwyn is no cynic, but maybe you have to be one to be […]
British comic artist John M. Burns has passed away. John Michael Burns 1938 – December 29, 2023From John Freeman: We’re very sorry to report the passing of British comic artist John M. Burns, perhaps best known for his work on 2000AD and Look-In. John passed away peacefully, in hospital on Friday 29th December. He had […]
The New Year brought in a lack of updating of many Tribune Content Agency (TCA) strips at GoComics. Animal Crackers, Bound & Gagged, The Middletons, plus the Annie reruns remain daily views at GoComics ; but Bliss, Bottom Liners, Brewster Rockit, Broom-Hilda, Dick Tracy Gasoline Alley, Gil Thorp, Pluggers, and 9 to 5 haven’t yet […]
The Mutts comic strip will go into rerun status for six months as Patrick McDonnell gets busy with some special projects – one of which will be putting together a book collecting the very popular Guard Dog freedom strips. To keep up-to-date with Patrick’s activities check in at Mutts Comics website, visit his blog, sign […]
Adam@Home (AMS) is in an optimistic mood as 2024 has launched, though not quite as much in a hurry as his wife, who I suspect is only trying to encourage him, given that they’ve been married long enough to have a couple of kids on the brink of middle school.After all, encouraging him has worked […]
This is an installment of 2023 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed) 2023 – THE DEARLY DEPARTEDThese U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2023. JACK BENDERMarch 28, 1931 – January 5, 2023newspaper […]
This is an installment of 2023 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures– – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed)2023 DETOURS/DEVIATIONSSome changes to U. S. newspaper comic strips and panels in 2023. Rick Detorie goes six days a week as his One Big […]
This is an installment of 2023 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed)2023 DEBUTSThese comics began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2023. BEWARE OF TODDLERby George GantSunday onlyJanuary 2023 –King Features Syndicate[first appeared online […]
(Banner by Johnny Walbridge, who, as noted yesterday, went on to be a Disney writer and animator.)We’ll start our look back at 1924 with a strip I didn’t know existed, possibly because it was only around for about three years. Ring Lardner was a popular writer and this was something of an extension of his […]