San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have selected 15 individuals to automatically be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2023. These inductees include 11 deceased comics pioneers and 4 living creators. The deceased greats are: Jerry Bails, Tony DeZuniga, Justin Green, Jay Jackson, Jeffrey […]
Lyndon offers an optimistic thought in this morning’s Pros & Cons (KFS): As bad as things appear at the moment, we can still hope that incompetence will overcome megalomania, greed and corruption. It always has in the past, though, granted, that’s of little consolation for those crushed before the inevitable collapse.But, with luck, our grandchildren […]
Cartoonist Jim Strahle has passed away. From the obituary: Jim was a 1966 graduate of Parkview High School in Springfield, MO, where he began drawing cartoons for the school newspaper. However, it was ten years later, at the mark of his reunion, that he was prompted to finally face his fears about cartooning and work […]
Jane Rosenberg‘s courtroom sketch of former president Donald Trump scowling at his recent Manhattan arraignment has not only gone viral, but has gone to the cover of The New Yorker. From Newsweek: The Reuters Pictures Twitter page shared a courtroom sketch of Trump by Jane Rosenberg—that has now been viewed two million times—before social media […]
If we sing the praises of a comic strip that hits a news item on the moment despite its lead time, we should point out when one doesn’t, but today’s La Cucaracha (AMS) isn’t that simple a case.It’s not just that we haven’t seen “another Biden bank collapse,” and not just because there’s no such […]
Comics Kingdom has again expanded their roster with the addition of Willy Black by Guillermo Saldaña.Very limited information as to the new comic strip at the CK site. Above is the place holder/pseudo-introduction. The Comics Kingdom Twitter account informs us that the strip will start April 9, 2023 but not how frequently. More background about […]
Musician and Robotman creator Peter Shelley has passed away. From the obituary: Peter Shelley, (née Southworth), born in London, England, February 28, 1943, passed away from cancer at his home in Victoria, BC on March 23, 2023, with his three children at his side, his humour never failing. He started his music career in A&R […]
Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty has passed away. From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australian cartoonist, filmmaker and satirist Bruce Petty has died at the age of 93. In a statement, his family said Petty died peacefully this morning. “He leaves behind his loving family and will be dearly missed,” the statement said. Born in Melbourne’s north-east […]
On the Fastrack (KFS) reminds me that the first course I took in my major was called “Ways of Knowing,” and I think it was intended to take a room full of first-semester sophomores down a peg or two. It was that basic classic college metaphysics class where the professor holds out a pen and […]
James Swinnerton, Bill Watterson, Henry Jackson Lewis, Leonard Starr, Walt Disney and Company “Jimmy Swinnerton came to the desert to die in peace – and found so much beauty to paint that he crossed up the doctors and got well.” Years before, in 1892, Hearst had plucked the 16-year-old artist out of the California Art […]
Yesterday there was, I think, a first for mainstream newspapers around the United States when a same sex marriage occurred in a nationally syndicated comic strip. Judge Parker by Francesco Marciuliano and Mike Manley featured the wedding of Ronnie and Kat. I remember Jane’s World by Paige Braddock ending on the same note: But that […]
Pedro X. Molina (Counterpoint) offers a provocative — in the best sense of the word — response to yesterday’s arraignment. The timing is good, with Holy Week coming up, in which Christians will be hearing once more the story of how Pontius Pilate offered the crowd a choice of which condemned prisoner to free and […]
Cartoonist Norm Rockwell has passed away.From the obituary: After his time in the army, Norm went on to earn his degrees in teaching and guidance and counseling from the University of Minnesota – Winona and UW-Stout in Menomonie. He was very proud of the fact that he received not just one masters degree but two. […]
Andertoons (AMS) picks up today’s Fortuitous Timing Award, particularly since he offers all three possible pleas, including the one that might well emerge if Trump’s lawyers don’t keep a lid on their client.That’s not just my politics wisecracking. There has been significant speculation, including from some attorneys, about the dubious strategy of turning Trump loose […]
When most comic strip animals talk, they don’t exactly scream “realism.” But the animals that populate “They Can Talk,” the wry, brilliant weekly webtoon by local cartoonist Jimmy Craig, don’t just sound authoritative — they’re downright relatable. Jimmy Craig is interviewed by Peter Chianca of Boston.com in anticipation “a Q&A session at Harvard Book Store in […]