British comic artist, writer, and editor Paul Neary has passed away. Paul Neary December 18, 1949 – February 10, 2024 A number of places have reported Paul’s death, here is John Freeman: I’m very sad to report the passing of award-winning comic artist, writer and editor Paul Neary, who has died after a long illness. […]
Letting Dave Whamond lead off, despite a couple of hesitations. One is about the connection between the shooting and football, but my main quibble is with “How could this happen?” because, come on, who’s surprised anymore?Which is his point, so he should have reworked it. He does make up for it with the looks of […]
Some notes taken while reading this week’s comics. J. C. Duffy started the week with one of his Fusco Brothers possibly commenting on the comics page consolidation going on among newspaper companies.The next day Harry Bliss used his Bliss panel to make an observation about artists in general. Then Gary Hallgren(?) with Hagar the Horrible […]
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.If you click on that link, you’ll find that Mark Twain didn’t say it, but a lot of people have and for good reason. We’re in the middle of a particularly apt example.As noted the other day, self-appointed experts leapt to explain what […]
Editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder shares news via X/Twitter of a new comic strip project: I’m working on a comic strip called THE deEP STATE By Michael de Adder. It will be available through Substack and Patreon. Links below. Choose either Substack or Patreon, it will be the same content updated at the same time. […]
Sun-Times editorial cartoonist Jack Higgins has passed away.John Joseph (Jack) Higgins August 19, 1954 – February 10, 2024 The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting the death of Jack Higgins: Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun-Times cartoonist Jack Higgins knew the power of the pen. “Political cartoons are meant to take the mighty and the pompous and cut them down […]
When I was in college, Notre Dame had a game against Tulane. I was in the reception area of a dorm at St. Mary’s when a group of people got back from the game, including a girl who had been to Pat O’Brien’s, and brought one of the bar’s special Hurricane glasses all the way […]
GoComics serves notice of Wannabe by Luca Debus, a new comic strip that debuted a month ago. This new digital comic strip from creator Luca Debus follows McKenzie, Andy, and Margot. The daily feature follows the roommate trio through all the mayhem and mishaps that come with being a twenty-something, like crafting the perfect social […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum claims to house the world’s largest collection of cartoon- and comics-related materials, including a range of inked paper, artifacts, newspaper clips, magazines, scrapbooks, and even the drawing board used by Chester Gould, who created the Dick Tracy comic strip. But it is much more than an archive: it is at […]
Jeff Stahler (AMS) taps into something that occurred to me during the game. A lot of what they were advertising was of little interest to me, but I also had a sense of “been there, seen that” as creative ideas seemed replaced by celebrity cameos.Celebrity cameos were once a delightful surprise because they only appeared […]
The time honored tradition of the newsboy delivering the daily newspaper is no more. Begun long ago with boys hawking sometimes ten different editions a day on city streets. The practice began to change when home delivery became common, along with fewer extras. Though well into the 20th Century youngsters continued to deliver newspapers to […]
One of the recurring gags in Candorville (KFS) is Clyde’s continuing, deliberate ignorance. When the news comes on, he switches to reruns of Gilligan’s Island, and, as seen in this morning’s strip, he doesn’t notice monstrous storms and flooding outside his window.In moral theology, “invincible ignorance” is an excuse for sin, the theory being that […]
Got a bit of a whiplash reading the Sunday Funnies today what with cartoonists using their Sunday comics to switch between Super Bowl topics and Valentine’s Day themes. And then Dick Tracy abruptly breaks off its this year’s unfinished plot line to go to two weeks ( February 11 – 25, 2024) of a Minit […]
Original Peanuts comic strip artwork by Charles M. Schulz are highly prized by collectors. So naturally some try to profit off that attraction. Artist and original art collector Rob Stolzer makes us aware of one such attempt. Live Auctioneers carries an Andrew Auctions, who “acts solely as an agent for various owners and consignors,” item […]
Ralph Hagen comes up with a brilliant observation in this morning’s The Barn (Creators), though I guess if you enjoy texting instead of talking you might not think so. But it does seem we’ve come full circle, though there are apps that will let you talk and then convert it to text, which matters because […]