As Scoop describes it: Cartoonist and caricaturist Angelo Torres, known for his work in MAD, EC, and Warren, is the subject of the new short film, My Dinner with Angelo. Now streaming on Vimeo, the movie features Torres interviewed by Ian Scott McGregor. Scoop continues: Accompanying the interview is new footage of Torres’ contemporaries like […]
Once again the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is teaming up with Cartoon Crossroads Columbus and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum for their annual convention this year. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists will again be part of the CXC Festival in October in Columbus, Ohio. While CXC is free and open to […]
A very late notice that Glenn McCoy, after a four year absence, returned to The Duplex comic strip on April 18, 2022 (the dailies, Glenn started doing the Sundays again on May15, 2022).His sojourn in Hollywood seems to have refreshed his comic strip sensibilities – the art and gags seem fresher than ever.Not to downplay […]
Wallace the Brave (AMS) takes a sweet but kind of downer look at Father’s Day. Their wistful pessimism is not, however, to be confused with Prickly City (AMS), which takes the occasion to be genuinely unpleasant and divisive.Spud and Amelia don’t hate their fathers. They miss them in their own quite different ways: Spud literally never […]
A few book related items have surfaced recently. So…Our friends at Stoopid! take the comic part of comic book seriously and they have just released a new issue of the funny book. Order the new issue here and catch up on back issues you may have missed. At the dawn of the Silver Age of Superheroes […]
We always hear that there are a little over 25 editorial cartoonists on staff at print newspapers in the United States. Or a bit under 50, or around two score and two, or about three dozen, or …But never a list of those dwindling souls.Eric Devericks moved on. So here is a list of staff […]
It is unfortunate that the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal coincides with the current political crisis, but we’ve added “-gate” to every bump in the road for the past half century, and both scandals involve the White House, so the popular linkage was likely inevitable.But Matt Wuerker (Politico) demonstrates how different the world we […]
The Great Bend (Kansas) Tribune announced new comics coming to the paper. June 19 [2022] marks the day for new comics in the Sunday paper. The Great Bend Tribune is excited to introduce fresh, new comic strips to you. We hope you will enjoy them, as we tried to pick comics that would be appropriate […]
Dated June 17, 1942 was the first issue of Yank, The Army Newspaper.That issue contained a number of cartoons and comic strips by soldiers. One of those comic strips was the first appearance of The Sad Sack by Sgt. George Baker.The Sad Sack would be in Yank from the first to the last. In the […]
Beware of Toddler by George Gant will make its Comics Kingdom debut on Father’s Day June 19, 2022, joining a growing list of webcomics on the site that includes Funny Online Animals, Gearhead Gertie, Rae the Doe, #Sales, Kevin and Kell, Safe Havens, and Todd the Dinosaur.The announcement was made as part of an interview […]
Agnes (Creators) and Trout debate the reality of what’s right in front of their faces, which certainly fits in with all sorts of current events that I plan to save for another day, though I’ll add the possibility that Trout is just jerking her chain.Point being that it’s hard to know, these days, who is […]
Illustrator Everett Peck has passed away.Everett Lee Peck October 9, 1950 – June 14, 2022 Illustrator, cartoonist, animator, painterThe Peck Family has posted on social media that Everett has died.Animation Magazine also has the sad news. Illustrator, cartoonist, animator, writer and teacher Everett Peck — best known for his popular animated series Duckman and Squirrel Boy […]
Rob Tornoe, for Editor & Publisher, takes a look at the current status of newspaper syndication as it involves comic strips and editorial cartoons (and puzzles).Rob starts the article with self-syndicated cartoonist Chad (Tundra) Carpenter. While “Tundra” has lost some papers that were forced to cut back or shutter during the pandemic, he did benefit […]
Cowboy poet and humorist Baxter Black has passed away. Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star Baxter Black January 10, 1945 – June 10, 2022 Cowboy poet, humorist, columnist, songwriter, speaker, author,and comic strip writer. From Farm Journal:Baxter Black, the veterinarian turned cowboy poet, storyteller and philosopher of rural life in America, died Friday, June […]
It was seven years ago today that presidential candidate Donald Trump rode down an escalator to the cheers of a crowd it later turned out had been hired rather than simply assembled, which is hardly surprising, given that he was not a minor politician stepping up into a major campaign.He had plenty of fans, because […]