SANTA FE – He uses a cane and moves slowly but the mordant wit guiding the pen that launched thousands of political cartoons skewering the powerful and despotic is still evident. Pat Oliphant, 86, sips coffee in his Santa Fe home studio as he tells a reporter he has not drawn for several years after […]
There are a number of MLK cartoons up for the holiday, but Bill Day captures the essential question of how things could possibly have changed so much, and yet so little.He does it with a pair of graphics suggesting that Martin Luther King is still the same person he was in life, and a set […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Alley Oop Book One: Dinny Comic Book Women The Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 11: 2002-2004 Drawing the Past, Volume 1: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the […]
Dallas Frazier, Songwriter of ‘Elvira,’ ‘Alley Oop’ and Many Country Hits, Dies.Excerpt from the Variety obituary: Dallas Frazier, a songwriter who broke out with the pop novelty hit “Alley Oop” and went on pen country classics like the Oak Ridge Boys’ “Elvira,” died Friday at 82. “Dallas Frazier is among the greatest country songwriters of […]
Cartoon artist Paul Trap has to keep the creative juices flowing to come up with plots and punchlines for his daily comic strip, Thatababy. Sometimes the inspiration needs coaxing. “I attribute it to caffeine and the pressure of deadlines,” Trap said The strip centers on two parents and their curious, often mischievous infant, inspired by […]
I agree with Tom Stiglich (Creators) so very rarely that I’m going to give him the honor of leading off today’s rant.I don’t agree with him that Hillary Clinton is a villain. I like her, and I think she’d have made a pretty good president and certainly an improvement on what we got instead.But, as […]
Twenty years ago at The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: After the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette cancelled the comic strip “Lola” over a fart joke in July, the paper was hit with a flood with letters from angry readers, the Arkansas Times reported in August. No scandal, including the impeachment of native son President Clinton, has rivaled the response to […]
So this happened…From Eric Diaz at The Nerdist: Penciller Mike Zeck’s artwork for page 25 of Marvel’s classic event series Secret Wars’s eighth issue features the [first appearance origin] of Spider-Man’s black suit. This costume, which was really a living alien symbiote, would eventually bond with a certain reporter named Eddie Brock, and become Venom. […]
As I comment on today’s Ben (MWAM), it is minus-7 F (-22 C) outside, but the good news is that the massive snow will not arrive until Monday. The better news is that I don’t much care, because, like Ben and Olivia, I’m retired and don’t have to go out anyway.“Retired” being relative these days, […]
Well not so much shoes or ships, more so comic strips.Baby Blues‘ circulation number is dropping by at least one with its move to Andrews McMeel. The Waterbury Sunday Republican is asking readers to vote for a replacemnt.It’s time for a change to our popular Sunday comics, and we want your help. Starting next month […]
Science fiction and mystery writer and comics historian Ron Goulart has passed away.Ronald Joseph (Ron) Goulart January 13, 1933 – January 14, 2022 “I was hardly there when the electric dishwasher grabbed me.” “It was a clear black night and they were several million miles from home.” “The dead man went for a walk” […]
The big news today is that Steve Kelley (Creators) has embraced Critical Race Theory and has begun promoting that view of history in his cartoons. Or at least in this one.And he has the situation right: Democrats have long been critical of their party’s legacy in Civil Rights.As Biden suggested, and as Kelley confirms, they’ve […]
Lucy is, of course, Lucy Shelton Caswell, original curator of The Billy Ireland.Lucy with current curator Jenny Robb The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award for 2022. As a result of postponing the 2021 award due to COVID, we were able […]
Update: As Jerry Scott informs in the comments below Baby Blues is up at GoComics.original January 12 post:Baby Blues, the very popular comic strip by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman, has switched teams moving from King Features Syndicate to Andrews McMeel Syndication. Kansas City, MO (January 11, 2022) Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) will assume sales […]
Publisher Simon & Schuster has created Boynton Bookworks, an imprint dedicated solely to the creative output of Sandra Boynton. From Associated Press via Kansas City Star: Sandra Boynton’s prolific career as an author, cartoonist and songwriter has reached the point where a publisher has formed an imprint dedicated solely to her books. On Thursday, […]