Ann Telnaes was out of the gate quickly as the indictments were announced, largely because she’d been following the story since it began and was able to repurpose an Oldie-but-Goodie. This is not to say that she anticipated the co-conspirators: Of these, only Giuliani was indicted.But she echoes a commentary also advanced by Adam Zyglis […]
Nope, don’t like it. Don’t like it a bit. Before last month gets too far away let’s bring up the major change to a comic strip in July. On July 10 Vic Lee changed the lettering font for his Pardon My Planet panel. Above left is the July 8, 2023 issue; above right is the […]
Grand Avenue (AMS) marks a cultural change that has often sent me digging through the memory banks. I suppose the sign might have been when the streetlights came on, and it’s possible, since they were more likely set to a specific time rather than light actuated, which would have sent us straight home from the […]
The National Cartoonists Society has issued a notice for ads in their 2023 Reuben Journal and Banquet Playbill noting the deadline for booking space in the program is August 7, 2023. Your ad will be included in the official Reuben Awards Playbill Magazine – with a feature on every nominee – which will be given […]
Pros and Cons (KFS) relies on three main characters: Samuel, the incompetent attorney; Stan, the somewhat brutish but kind-hearted cop and Lyndon, the psychiatrist continuously flummoxed by the twisted egos of his patients. Today, Lyndon has inadvertently led one of his regulars down the wrong garden path, hoping to shame him into taking control and, […]
We’ll start with a small bit of news: Marvel Comics and King Features Syndicate are now rerunning the reruns. Above opening panels from left to right: November 16, 2014, March 24, 2019, and July 30, 2023. The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip is now on a four year, four month rotation. When the newspaper strip first […]
Let’s start with some nonsense. The Walt Disney Company is about to do the unthinkable: retire Mickey Mouse. Inside the Magic reports that Disney is bringing The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse animated shorts to an end with tribute to The Mouse’s first short Steamboat Willie: Since 2020, Mickey Mouse has starred in the animated […]
As is so often the case, I find myself reluctantly agreeing with Clyde’s dubious street smarts in today’s Candorville (KFS) over Lemont’s more proper sense of logic and propriety. Or perhaps with John Lennon, who also felt that life was what happens while you were making other plans. Or perhaps with myself, having watched all […]
The Society of Illustrators has announced the artists entering their class of 2023 Hall of Fame. Among the inductees is New Yorker cartoonist Helen E. Hokinson. From the Society of Illustrators profile: Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (1893 – 1949) is best known for her New Yorker cartoons depicting the daily lives and social scenes of the […]
I’m off getting a magical new hip that will allow me to leap tall buildings in a single bound. While I’m recuperating in a place of dubious connection, here’s an interview I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. The cartoons were added in 2010 when I replayed the interview for Comic […]
Disney and animation historian Jim Korkis has passed away. James Patrick (Jim) Korkis August 15, 1950 – July 28, 2023Mark Goldhaber reported the sad news today on Jim’s GoFundMe page: Friends, I am heartbroken to have to inform you that our friend Jim Korkis passed away this morning. He was unresponsive this morning at the […]
Northern California freelance cartoonist R. L. Crabb notes the recent actions of McClatchy newspapers, headquartered in nearby Sacramento: The editorial cartooning world was shocked a few weeks ago when McClatchy Newspapers announced the layoffs of three Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists… To those of us who follow the business end of cartooning, it wasn’t a complete surprise. […]
I’m off getting a magical new hip that will allow me to leap tall buildings in a single bound. While I’m recuperating in a place of dubious connection, here’s an interview I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. The cartoons were added in 2010 when I replayed the interview for Comic […]
July 23, 2023 saw the beginning of a new story for The Sunday Phantom. (“The Commander Will See You Now”). That means a new Sunday title panel by Jeff Weigel! Gus Arriola is famed for his drawing on the Gordo comic strip. Todd Klein looks at another aspect of that cartooning art: GORDO is another […]
Another CBR Top Ten, this one purports to list the “most important” Eisner Award-winning comic books. Since 1988, the Eisner Awards have set the standard for widespread, critical recognition in the comics industry. In the 35 years since then, the Eisners have spotlighted dozens of artists, writers, and titles that stand on their own as […]