NEW ORLEANS (press release) – A special exhibit examining the work of artist and political cartoonist Arthur Szyk will be on public display at The National WWII Museum starting Sept. 2. In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art & Human Rights will showcase more than 50 of Szyk’s original works, which focus on humanitarian issues that the world faced in […]
The John Hart Studio produces three comic strips: B.C., Wizard of Id, and Dogs of C-Kennel, plus they are in charge of re-presenting the oldies of Back to B.C. and Wizard of Id Classics, so you can see they are a busy bunch.But they have found time to issue a new newsletter after a two […]
This week saw the return of Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s survey of newspaper comic strip trends of the past, this time he looks at the circulation figures of comics in 300 269 newspapers during the year of 1990 (in three parts). What strip were on the rise, which comics were losing clients. The end of Bloom County […]
Since we noted the beginning of a Comics Kingdom webcomic and the ending of a GoComics webcomic let’s also mention another webcomic that has nothing to with either of those sites, though it did have something to do with starting up Keenspot.After 25 years and seven months Darren Bleuel has brought his Nukees webcomic (which […]
Adam Zyglis makes a joke out of Trump’s call for a Special Master to review the documents the FBI took out of the cartons he didn’t have. Attorneys online and in the media seem to agree that he should have asked for a Special Master immediately following the search, not after DOJ had unpacked and […]
The government of People’s Republic of China has disciplined those it deems responsible for “tragically ugly” illustrations that appeared in an elementary school math book.In May of 2022,Photos of the pictures went viral on China’s social media. Related hashtags had been viewed more than 4bn times by Monday and millions of comments were left beneath […]
New Kid by Jerry Craft, Maus by Art Spiegelman, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, Anne Frank’s Diary (Graphic Adaptation) adapted by Ari Folman and David Polonsky, and, of course, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe are among the most challenged or banned comic books since the […]
From Bert Archer, Montreal Gazette Editor regarding the controversial Boris cartoon: There has been a good deal of outrage over the most recent Boris cartoon published online Monday afternoon and in print Tuesday morning. It depicted an elderly lady in Montreal not paying attention while her small dog pissed in the direction of a poster […]
GoComics is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Cornered, the comic panel by Mike Baldwin. The first Cornered panel on GoComics is dated September 1, 1997 which would be twenty-five years, but Andrews McMeel Syndication (then known as Universal Press Syndicate) started distributing the panel on November 16, 1997 after Mike had started it nineteen months earlier.As […]
(Rabbits Against Magic — AMS)(Prickly City — AMS)Politics are everywhere, and it’s good to see them on the funny pages because it just might get someone who actively avoids thinking to give it a try. That may be a pretty slim slice of the pie: I doubt the people who most need to see these […]
The Chronicle Chamber reports that India’s Regal Publishers are celebrating their second year anniversary by issuing a special edition of The Phantom comic book. To celebrate their two year anniversary, Regal are releasing a special #25 issue with 164 pages instead of the normal 56 page issues they have been releasing for the past year. […]
As one webcomic begins, another one ends.Luke McGarry made it known through his Luke McGarry’s TLDR comic strip that he has decided to bring the nearly six-year-old webcomic’s relationship with GoComics to an end tomorrow (August 31). © Luke McGarryLuke also mentioned it on his Twitter feed.I’ve decided to bring my tenure at @gocomics to […]
Debuting today (August 30, 2022) is Olive & Popeye, a new twice weekly webcomic from Comics Kingdom starring a couple of characters that have been around for 90 to 100 years.The comic strip is by Shadia Amin and Randy Milholland.As Comics Kingdom explains: Olive & Popeye will be available every Tuesday & Thursday on ComicsKingdom.com, […]
Everyone is familiar with Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse and The Brick.It began with the introduction of the pair in the July 26, 1910 issue of The Dingbat Family where George Herriman felt the need to fill in the bottom of the comic strip so the space did not go to waste.But what caused the […]
Before we get into all the issues in this country, an appreciation for Jordanian cartoonist Osama Hajjaj (Cartoon Movement)‘s take on the flooding in Pakistan. I’m dubious about those cooling towers, since nuclear is a potential alternative to energy sources that contribute to climate change (UPDATE: See comments), but I like the cause-and-effect framing of […]