We don’t feature a lot of comic book news here – mostly because there are so many comic book news sites available.But for some reason I have some comic book links bookmarked. Figure I’ll share them with you before they get deleted. Unsurprisingly the links are mostly about the history of the modern comic book. The […]
There’s a new face in the GoComics family—five new faces, in fact! Last week, we welcomed fan-favorite Baby Blues to the site, who brought with it all growing pains of the MacPherson family—Darryl, Wanda, Zoe, Hammie, and Wren. The GoComics Blog put up an interview with Baby Blues creators Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman. How […]
Maarten Wolterink (Cartoon Movement) offers this commentary on the pending confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, and his work falls over two sides of the fence:On the one hand, it is a caution against military adventurism and getting unnecessarily involved in unwinnable conflicts. After all, as Proverbs 26:17 cautions, “He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is […]
Ozark Ike by Ray Gotto 1948 Dick Tracy by Chester Gould 1936 Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff 1934 Jungle Jim by Alex Raymond 1939 Mary Perkins On Stage by Leonard Starr 1957 Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray 1957 Captain Easy by Roy Crane 1941 Casey Ruggles by Warren Tufts 1951 Prince Valiant by Harold Foster 1962 Terry and the Pirates (and […]
From Georgia Dunn earlier this month: I have some very sad news to share, Lupin died this morning. It was fast, and he had a great few weeks before today. He had been in good spirits and acting like his old self. He was such a terrific good bad great cat, and I will […]
Sherman’s Lagoon (KFS) plays with a fairly well-known saying, that fish don’t understand the concept of being “wet” because they live in water. It’s applicable to all sorts of things people don’t seem to get for having failed to ever step outside their own experience.Some people are lucky enough to live lives that don’t allow […]
For POLITICO’s 15th anniversary, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker picks his favorite sketches of the past decade-and-a-half chronicling American politics. Like those old Herblock and Mauldin and Conrad books Matt selects and annotates the cartoons – he also provides an introduction profiling his career at Politico. Over these past 15 years, POLITICO has done […]
Wishing Jenny Campbell blue skies. © Jenny CampbellWas aware of the Christmas Covid problems Jenny had, but nothing of today’s Flo & Friends topic (if it means what I think). What could make an All-American Family turn on Stephan Pastis?© Stephan Pastis (or maybe Bil Keane Inc?)Read the disgusting Pearls Before Swine before we throw it on […]
Monty (AMS) has been having various misadventures in the Arctic, and here, as noted in that fourth panel, he’s having his leg pulled by the locals.Do the natives have 50 words for snow? According to this, yes but also no, since, to begin with, there’s more than one Eskimo/Aleut language and 50 was a rough […]
A Comic Chronicles EditionSo much comics history. IF FAY KING HADN’T MARRIED A PRIZE FIGHTER named “Battling” Nelson, we’d know almost nothing about her life. We know her opinions about the manners and mores of the twenties and thirties from her comic strips, cartoons and columns. And we have an inkling of what she looked […]
*Some new animation this season featuring classic cartoon characters.More Mickey Mouse content will be making its way to Disney+ real soon. © DisneyToday, Disney+ announced the premiere date and released the trailer and key art for The Wonderful Winter of Mickey Mouse, launching its second season. The second installment consists of four extended-length specials that […]
My initial response to Clay Bennett (CTFP)’s cartoon is not “maybe it’s me” but “yeah, it’s definitely me.”I was thinking that because you can declare an Ace to be 1, he still had a straight flush, J-Q-K-1-2. I’m less embarrassed by thinking a flush could — how you say? — go around the corner, than […]
The first Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoon in 1922 How is The Pulitzer Prize board celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning? By eliminating “Editorial Cartooning” as the name of the category.Editorial Cartoonists, going forward, will be known as Illustrated Reporters and Commentators.From the Pulitzer site: The Editorial Cartooning category is […]
John Cole shows both reactions to Biden’s press conference. He gets the time wrong: It was just under two hours, hardly four, but still a prodigious effort.The dual response, I think, is between those who did the assigned homework — who watched the conference and judged it for themselves — and those who fake their […]
Ginger Snappish offers a primer on comic lettering. Part 2 of The Art of Lettering Comics. Other blogs about typography and lettering…from Todd Klein and Alex Jay.