Allan Holtz has turned his Stripper’s Guide over to Alley Oop publisher Chris Aruffo for three days allowing Chris to reveal how he went from Oop fan to Oop publisher. It’s a fascinating story. Chris takes us from reading the comic strip in his newspaper to reading it online to gathering the physical strips in […]
British political cartoonists play rough, but even those like Matt who deal in topical humor have an edge that gives their work some bite. Here he does a concise job of summing up the bowdlerization of the late Roald Dahl’s work.For those who have missed the outcry, the company that owns the rights to Dahl’s […]
The Anchorage Daily News informed readers of changes to their comics page today: Readers of the comics pages are going to notice some changes this week. A couple of these occurred at the first of the year, but we’ve added several features — and cut some — starting this week. The new comics to the […]
Editorial cartoonist Paul Berge blogs. Mostly it is about his current cartoon, but on the weekends he gets historical. This past weekend he entertained us with some background on dingbats: Last Saturday’s post looked back on my abortive attempt to add a little character in my editorial cartoons giving postscriptive commentary on the topic of […]
I have long thought — realized — that the Internet is a sanctuary for a number of people out on the edge of the autistic spectrum, and Pat Byrnes boils it down to a cartoon.It’s an observation, not an accusation. As noted before, for several years I ran a high school Quiz Bowl with 24 […]
Alice by Andrea E. Beizer will begin running at Comics Kingdom on February 20, 2023, adjust your favorites. The “About” page at Comics Kingdom on the Alice character: Alice may be described as an older woman…or a maturing woman…or a woman of a “certain age” — as she is trying to make it in a […]
Beginning this year cartoonist Rick Detorie has reduced his workload on One Big Happy to six daily comic strips – the Sunday page has been in rerun status since January 1, 2023. Christmas Day 2022 (above) was the last new Sunday edition, with reruns from 2017 replacing new strips this year. One Big Happy began […]
This first point isn’t trivial, but it is personal. Greg Kearney notes the looming cuts at UMaine Farmington, a school I had contact with when I was editing the local paper. The school impressed me because I’d lived in another college town and it was nice, for a change, that downtown merchants didn’t have to […]
Following Saturday’s mention of the time Boss Tweed was arrested in Spain with the aid of a Thomas Nast cartoon acting as a mug shot, Friend of the Blog Ann Telnaes retrieved the cartoon with which Spanish authorities identified the prison escapee and posted it on-line.I knew the story, but the Harper’s clipping offered a […]
Adding to the TDC notice of Chris Browne‘s passing with his home papers’ obituaries for the cartoonist. From the Sioux Falls Argus Leader is what seems to be the funeral home announcement: Chris Browne, illustrator of the internationally-syndicated comic strip Hagar the Horrible, died here on February 4, 2023, after a long illness. He was […]
Liz Montague, Henry Barajas, Robb Armstrong, Lawton Wood, Fleischer StudiosLiz Montague‘s “graphic memoir” Maybe An Artist gets reviewed by Brandeis University’s the Justice: In her brilliant, hilarious graphic memoir, Montague validates every experience I have had, from being a young Black girl to growing into a young Black woman, and particularly one who is passionate […]
Ann Telnaes sums up the Dominion Voting Systems v Fox News case in a single graphic: They knew the truth but chose to lie.And before we go any farther, her collection of Fox personalities reminds me that, when Boss Tweed escaped from jail and fled to Spain, US authorities — unable in those days to […]
Andrews McMeel has released their notice of the new Bill Watterson book revealing little new information about The Mysteries but included the announcement of the publication of newly formatted Calvin and Hobbes books. From Andrews McMeel’s press release regarding The Mysteries: The deluxe hardcover edition features elements of a classic fairytale book, with exquisite art […]
Mr. Boffo offers a bit of safe harbor for troubled marriages and thank goodness for finicky cats. Our cat ate Friskies kibble every day without a complaint and maybe that’s why our marriage didn’t last: We didn’t have cat food to agree to disagree about.Somebody was kvetching on social media yesterday about how half of […]
With the explosion of talkies in the late 1920s, movie studios looked to talent from the New York stage to write dialogue and musical numbers. Studios quickly found that the salaciousness typical of Broadway wouldn’t fly in other parts of the country. The Catholic Church was calling for a purification of cinema, and the movies […]