When last we checked in with Bud Fisher he had created the first successful daily newspaper comic strip* Mr. A. Mutt, which debuted on November 15, 1907 in the San Francisco Chronicle.The daily was an instant San Francisco treat and proved to be a great circulation booster for M. H. de Young‘s newspaper, which really […]
Today’s Zits (KFS) illustrates the problem I have with podcasts. It’s not that they’re a collection of belches and farts, exactly, but they tend to be just about that rigorous in the way they’re set up and planned out.There’s already a certain amount of ego involved in thinking people want to know what’s on your […]
When “Peanuts” cartoonist Charles M. “Sparky” Schulz died in Santa Rosa in 2000, his wife of 27 years already was deeply involved in the world of cartooning. Since then, Jeannie Schulz has emerged as an ambassador not only for her late husband’s work, but also for the art of cartooning worldwide. “She’s one of the […]
There has been a dark side to newspaper comics from the very beginning.Death and dismemberment from Hogan’s Alley to Terry and The Pirates to Doonesbury.© Tribune Content AgencyTom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean seems to have become the default fall strip for the present embodiment of tragedy in the “funny” papers. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of […]
Max Beerbohm was born 150 years ago.A Catalogue of The Caricatures of Max Beerbohm (1972)From Wikipedia: Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humourist. He was the drama […]
This Jason Chatfield piece could be a gag or a political cartoon, but, either way, it’s an exaggerated look at how I shop these days.I recognize that my refusal to buy Arizona Iced Tea is a personal crotchet: They’ve changed hands several times since trying to use Crazy Horse’s name on a malt liquor and […]
The Comics Journal released its obituary of Paul Coker, Jr. today.Comics historian and Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago does a great job by Coker. This has perhaps the best accounting of Paul’s early career at Hallmark Cards. One of his first clients, the Kansas City-based Hallmark, hired him as a staff designer in 1955. […]
Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication (aka Counterpoint Media) has expanded their roster of editorial cartoonists with the recent addition of Eric Allie and Mike Beckom.Their profiles and cartoon galleries join the original five (scroll down). Counterpoint Syndication now has seven – The Magnificent Seven?
Cracked Mazagine no longer prints its issues but it does maintain an active website and … This week on Cracked we’ll be talking all things Calvin and Hobbes A Short History Of ‘Calvin and Hobbes,’ The Last Great Newspaper Comic Well, none other than the authoritative voice of Slate calls Calvin and Hobbes “the last […]
Apparently he doesn’t, Loretta.Netiquette has seemingly vanished since the Good Old Days when people knew that all-caps was SHOUTING and stupid and the sign of a troll, and when we all knew better than to feed the trolls.And there were only a half dozen emoticons and none of them looked like little cartoons.Now the little […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has released an early look at the line-up of their 2022 AAEC Convention. The AAEC has been working closely with CXC on this fall’s gathering in Ohio, and we now have a preliminary schedule for our convention. A few highlights: Thursday, Oct. 6: Later, we’ll be gathering at a […]
I was poking around in old newspapers last night and came upon this column heading from the Washington Post of January 8, 1905. It struck me as a fun piece of old whimsy, but, as I was cleaning it up, I noted the signature of Clifford Berryman, who was certainly no backshop hack, and that […]
“Ignorant, wrong, and racist, you Christian fascist enabler”Following up on that Marcel Boudreaux cartoon from earlier today, is Patrick Chappatte describing his Muslim maelstrom over a cartoon. For a few days last June, I was abundantly called a racist, or islamophobic, or both on Twitter. The culprit: a cartoon on the anti-abortion decision of the […]
Seems a number of comics have decided they’re “gonna leave this city, got to get away.” Serenity does not rule all the countryside. But mostly… Doonesbury © G.B.Trudeau Hi and Lois © Comicana Inc Baldo © Baldo Partnership Pearls Before Swine © Stephan Pastis Frazz © Jef Mallett Prickly City © Scott Stantis Mark Trail © North America […]