In the 1960s many magazine cartoonists had hopes of becoming the next Mort Walker, Hank Ketcham, or Johnny Hart. Possibly reaching Charles M. Schulz status? George Gately (né George Gately Gallagher) was one such hopeful, though his first effort to rule the newspaper funny pages didn’t hit the heights.But then he created Heathcliff. above: the […]
Lemont confronts a harsh truth in today’s Candorville (WPWG) and not a bad introduction to Labor Day. To put a positive swing on it, you might say that no matter how much you define yourself by what you do for a living, your friends in the real world see only your off-duty persona. Which is […]
The new book Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz presents the story of the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, through over 400 pages of comic strips. It’s a very interesting approach, as authors Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi create comic strips that stick pretty snugly to the format, style, and […]
So I thought Lee Judge maybe took a week off for his mom’s birthday. But it is now going on two weeks since his last editorial cartoon and it has been a rich environment for political commentary. During the cartooning sabbatical Lee’s Substack columns have continued on their regular schedule and, though Facebook thinks Lee […]
Ward Sutton sums up the hypocrisy and chaos of our current situation, and he’s right without offering much of an argument, because, while certainly the mood has changed, the only thing that is really different is who’s on top.More specifically, what has changed is that the whiners have gained power, so that, instead of complaining […]
Rachel Smythe is the creator of Lore Olympus, one of the most popular comics in the world. If you haven’t heard of it, you’re not on WEBTOON. With more than 85 million monthly active users, it is the most-read digital comics platform in the world. Lore Olympus, which is a retelling of “The Abduction of […]
As Comics Kingdom informs us, “Pros and Cons is no longer offered as the author has ended the comic strip.” Pros & Cons by Kieran Meehan began as A Lawyer, A Doctor & A Cop on September 5, 2005. The back story that drives the strip’s humor is the friendship between the three characters that […]
I would have used this Existential Comics discussion yesterday if I’d realized the concept of theft and/or compensation was going to be debated in the comments. I like our comments section and appreciate that the great bulk of entries are genuine conversation, whether I agree with them or not.But theories don’t pay the rent.Existential Comics […]
Matt Bors, editor and publisher of The Nib, sent a message this morning: Tomorrow is the final day of publishing for The Nib. We have a blowout planned with more comics than we have ever published in a single day. That seemed like the only proper way to do it. Thank you for reading our […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Got a few books released in August missed on the mid-August listing. So… Arnold: The Complete Collection Volume 1 The Cambridge Companion to […]
Glad I didn’t use this Pearls Before Swine (AMS) when it appeared Sunday, because there has been an explosion of conversations about art and ethics in the days since.Not, mind you, that this is the first time the issue of purchasing vs downloading music has come up. Doonesbury devoted a week to the topic back […]
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation is setting up a charity auction, with dozens of NCS members offering original art to benefit the foundation.The original art for 2023 NCS Reubens by Sam Viviano and for the 1987 paperback by Bil Keane are among the treasures offered. They are just two of the items. Others include comic […]
Matt Groening and Life in Hell, Bruce Petty and the Vietnam War, Etta Hulme and Comic Books, Art Evans and College Mascots, Carl Jones and The Boondocks, Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers and Roses in December.Before there was Homer, there was Binky Everyone knows that The Simpsons is what made Matt Groening one of the […]
Sometimes it’s easy to call out a cartoonist. In this case, given that, in his profile statement at Counterpoint, Mike Beckom boasts of deliberately insulting people and being insensitive to their feelings, and styles himself as “not politically correct” at his Twitter page, it’s not out of bounds to assume his mockery of Hawaiian culture […]
The plaintiffs (Moonbug) own the popular kids YouTube channel CoComelon. Moonbug’s videos have garnered more than 165 billion (with a “b”) views on YouTube, outstreaming Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, and Drake combined. In 2021, Moonbug sued the defendants (Babybus), alleging that the defendants’ Super JoJo website included videos, characters and other content that infringed upon […]