As we reported last month Bunny Hoest with John Reiner are switching distributors, taking The Lockhorns panel to Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) beginning January 1, 2024 after 55 years with King Features Syndicate. Further confirmation is that AMS has added The Lockhorns to its list of comics available to newspapers… and created a The Lockhorns […]
The whole world is watching, and, as Cathy Wilcox notes, they’ve stopped laughing. I can’t speak for Australians, but, from here, it was always a kind of horrified laugh or sometimes, given that we’d elected him, an embarrassed laugh. But the laughter is dying down, as she notes, because he’s gone from being a buffoon […]
This week’s Wayback Whensday was put in motion by a Bob Harris comment to TDC earlier this week. The Wallace the Brave strip spurs my obligatory reminder that the Family Circus didn’t invent the footprints gag. Clare Dwiggins (“Dwig”) was using it at least as early as 1919. Tom Heintjes informs us that Bil Keane […]
Mike Manley, Tony DePaul and The Phantom crew, David Fitzsimmons, Brian Gable, and Cartoonist Rights Network.A Mike Manley health update.Mike Manley explains that he will need more intrusive surgeries: This whole roundabout of colliding health issues has revealed that my heart is an actually pretty bad shape even though I have never suffered any issues […]
I’m with Lizzie in Reply All (WPWG), with some mixed feelings about the holiday season but a large dose of “When is this over?”For the self-employed and empty-nested, the holidays are mostly days when the banks and the post office are closed, but, in addition, we’re entering a Dead Zone where a lot of people […]
From Patrick McDonnell: On November 1st, the Guard Dog story began running in newspapers and on MUTTS.com. And, today, this part of Guard Dog’s journey comes to a happy ending and new beginning… …Telling a tale like this in a daily comic strip is a different reading experience. Media today trains us for immediate satisfaction […]
The big news in Public Domain 2024 is selected Mickey Mouse copyrights, whose animated shorts Steamboat Willie and The Gallopin’ Gaucho were released in 1928, will finally succumb to The Mickey Mouse Protection Act. The Associated Press’ Andrew Dalton: With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader […]
Bill Bramhall marks the descent of Rudy Giuliani from “America’s Mayor” to a ridiculous — and now heavily fined — laughingstock, and it’s hard to argue with his assessment that Rudy has largely done it to himself.It wasn’t a particularly drawn out descent.In 2000, Giuliani was still mayor of New York City and involved in […]
Latisha Moore, event manager for the National Cartoonists Society, has passed away.Latisha Lavette MooreJanuary 23, 1976 – November 26, 2023From the Echovita obituary: It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Latisha L. Moore (Vero Beach, Florida), who passed away on November 26, 2023, at the age of 47, leaving to mourn […]
The First Dog on the Moon presents “a random selection” of topics that didn’t pass muster. We’ve stood that on its head to highlight some comics we think deserve recognition, though not eight samples like First Dog on the Moon had. Brad Pattullo contributes a monthly comic strip to The Erie Reader. This Summer Brad, […]
Zits (KFS) made me smile Sunday. Note that it’s not a slam on the Nutcracker itself, and I like classic ballet. But the guys agree that the same ballet every Christmas gets stale, even as a tradition.My smile came because I’m retired and no longer have the yearly discussion of whether we will send a […]
Take a cue from Moose Miller – forget the rest of the newspaper and turn to the comics. Though, as Henrietta Beak shows, with seven, eight, even ten comics to a page you may need some help to read the Sunday Funnies. We’ll start with an ending, a happy ending. Patrick McDonnell created the feel […]
I wish I didn’t like Megan Herbert‘s commentary so much.Advent calendars have become so commercialized that it’s not easy to find ones that just offer a small picture of a candy cane or something similarly of the season, hearkening back to a time when we were excited by the approach of Christmas but more easily […]
Mark Fiore, David Fitzsimmons, AAEC Awards listing.First stop is Mark Fiore, who is experimenting with AI. For the most part I’ve been frustrated because I see an image in my head that I could draw the old-fashioned way, but I can’t make the robot do what I want it to do. Yet. While I’m frustrated […]
Today is the semiquincentennial of an act by patriots – or maybe by smugglers? Both? December 16, 1773: Americans disguised as Mohawks dumped cheap, but taxed, English tea into Boston harbor. panel 1: George the Third of England sat upon his throne.And to Lord North, his treasurer, made all his stamp acts known. panel 2: […]