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 […]
I cobbled this photo together in the early days of Comic Strip of the Day, but, as the blog turns 14, I am pleased that, while a few people have felt stung by criticism, nobody has ever asked me to stop using their work here. However, before I launched things on Feb 6, 2010, I […]
Comic book and comic strip artist Jose Delbo has passed away. Jose Delbo (José María Del Bo) December 9, 1933 – February 5, 2024)His family shared the sad news: Today we lost a legend of a father, grandfather, husband, and artist. [Jose Delbo] was as kind and as noble a man as there could be. […]
It’s been a while since I shared some current comic strips, so let’s do some catching up. I’m a sucker for cartoonists playing with the format. Breaking the panel borders is nothing new, but Tatulli playing havoc with the copyright notice hooked me. And the five panel staging struck me as odd for the strip, […]
Nick Anderson makes an interesting observation: There has been a constant drumroll from the right publicizing the idea that the border is open. Maybe that encouraged more people to try, despite the Obama administration’s publicity warning them that it was too dangerous and unlikely to succeed.I’m not convinced either stands up to much scrutiny. Jonathan […]
From The Daily Pennsylvanian: Interim Penn President Larry Jameson criticized recent political cartoons published by a lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication.In a statement published on University social media Sunday night, Jameson said that the cartoons do not reflect his or the University’s views, describing them as “reprehensible, with antisemitic symbols, and incongruent with […]
HERE’S that piece I said I’d get to on the new Phantom daily story that started two weeks ago. The Phantom writer Tony DePaul discusses rewriting the 1953 story “The Chain” by Lee Falk. On Phantom matters, Bret Blevins and I are deconstructing a confounding little Sunday story from 1953, one in which Lee Falk, […]
The Grammys will be tonight and I will continue my annual tradition of not caring. David Sipress is correct that people our age likely haven’t heard of many of the nominees except for Joni Mitchell, though the gag comes with a few actuallys.Actually, unless we’ve been living under a rock, we’ve at least heard of […]
This is just not a good cartoon. It’s one of my earliest attempts at gag cartooning. That is cartoonist Kyle Bravo talking about one of his early efforts. One notable thing with this cartoon, I was trying out a different pen tip. I drew it on my iPad like usual, but instead of the smoother […]
Jason Kottke writes: In June 2021 (pre The Bear), New Yorker cartoonist Zoe Si coached Ayo Edebiri through the process of drawing a New Yorker cartoon. The catch: neither of them could see the other’s work in progress. Super entertaining. Jason continues: I don’t know about you, but Si’s initial description of the cartoon reminded […]
Edison Lee (KFS) has returned to a theme that I have missed. Some years ago, they introduced Katie, a girl as smart as Edison and capable of putting him in his place when necessary and occasionally when not. She was not only a positive role model for little girls, but took the edge off him […]
The Herblock Foundation has extended the deadline for accepting submissions. Cartoonists now have until February 5, 2024 to get submissions in for the Herblock Prize. Deadline February 1st, 2024: Extended until February 5th! After reviewing the eligibility rules below, please go to the link for our Entry Form to upload your submissions: https://www.herbblockfoundation.org/herblock-prize/entry-form
Ruben Bolling tells us that a comic strip he produces under a pseudonym has ended. From his newsletter: It is my sad duty to announce that The Comic Strip That Has a Finale Every Day has finally ended its eight-year run on gocomics.com on December 31, 2023. It has had its final Finale. Ruben added: […]