New features are popping at King Features Syndicate and Comics Kingdom. This week saw The Saga of Brann Bjornson and Suburban Fairy Tales debut at Comics Kingdom, now comes news from the cartoonist that Rosebuds by Supr Dee (Deon Parson) has signed with King Features Syndicate (KFS). The Rosebuds comic strip first showed up on […]
I like cartoons that make demands on their audience, and Andertoons did a lovely job here of requiring readers to recognize a very unusual name and a key indicator of her voice. If you don’t get it, it’s completely explained in the comments, with a few people taking umbrage at not having been spoonfed but […]
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer at MoMA March 7 – 14, 2024More information and a screening schedule at Fleischer Cartoons: The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer ********** Ohio State U. and The Billy Ireland present Mexico and Comics March 4, 2024 In celebration of our current exhibit, Depicting Mexico and Modernism: […]
Saga is the story of a Viking named Brann Bjornson and his large family as they cope with the modernization of their Nordic medieval world. Some things, such as mead, magic, and horned helmets, have remained. But now, rather than fight dragons, Vikings, such as Brann, work for them. Trolls work in the IT department, […]
Paul Fell lays out one of the major issues in the upcoming elections, which is that a significant portion of the electorate is being fed a steady diet of, at best, downer takes on everything and, at worst, lies.I understand the concept of spin. When I first began teaching high school kids about editorial cartooning, […]
Cartoonist Kevin Fagan grew up idolizing Charles M. Schulz and “Peanuts.” Now that his own comic strip, “Drabble,” is turning 45 this week, Fagan is contemplating his long run in the funny pages and once again has Schulz on his mind. “I knew Charles M. Schulz pretty well,” Fagan says from his home in Mission […]
Dale Hale takes on Peanuts; George Lichty Grins and Bears It; Burne Hogarth becomes king of Tarzan’s jungle jive.Dale Hale, cartoonist and Charles M. Schulz Comic Book Ghost When Dell Comics took over the [Peanuts comic book] line in 1957, however, they chose a completely different direction. Instead of reprinting and re-reprinting newspaper strips, they […]
Frazz (AMS) starts us off with a head-scratcher. I think the observation is right, but it comes from a direction I hadn’t explored, so it set me back a bit.There are those who object to fans using “we” at all, but that’s nonsense. Why bother having uniforms or selling gear if you don’t want the […]
As was reported the National Press Foundation (NPF) awarded Jen Sorensen the 2023 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons. Her four-panel approach has criticized how society worships wealthy people with “big” ideas, satirized the doubling of “frontover” deaths as vehicle height increases, and explored the evolution of Twitter, from the early […]
Tomorrow King Features Syndicate is scheduled to launch an all-new Comics Kingdom. Our new website will boast a unique visual identity and an optimized user experience designed with you in mind. From front-end wireframes to a streamlined user interface, our focus has been creating an attractive and user-friendly platform. Our commitment to a clean and […]
One of the arguments against impeaching Trump, Drew Sheneman reminds us, is that it threatened to make impeachment a weapon for trivial partisanship. Or maybe they started it. After all, if, after the 1968 elections, we’d learned that Richard Nixon collaborated with the North Vietnamese to stall LBJ’s peace moves, we might have impeached him […]
Charles Ettinger begins today (February 26) as the regular, signed Dick Tracy artist (2024-present). He follows… Shelley Pleger (2021-2024), who followed… Joe Staton (2011-2021), who followed Jim Brozman (2009-2011), who followed Dick Locher (1983-2009), who followed Rick Fletcher (1977-1983), who followed Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould (1931-1977). Yes, there have been other signed “guest artists” […]
The South bookstore is full of people. Almost all of them are there for the same reason: to get a dedication from the famous cartoonist Ricardo Liniers. Various books are seen on the tables and some even wear t-shirts with the Argentine illustrator’s characters. I ask him more about the illustration part, I tell him: […]
I’m not sure when Brewster Rockit (Tribune) takes place, but it’s not now, or, at least, not here, and even here and now, we’ve outgrown Sadie Hawkins Day, when women were allowed to propose to men or at least to invite them to sock hops.Any woman still sitting around wishing some guy would take the […]
Featuring Lalo Alcaraz, Julia Wertz, Flash Gordon, HerblockAnissa Rivera for The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports on Lalo Alcaraz’s three month project.********** Cheryl has a cartoonist daughter of considerable renown. Publishers pay to print her books. Several have been translated into French. She appears regularly in The New Yorker. Julia Wertz is probably the most […]