We’ll Start with the BIG news of the day – Popeye.I’ll note that Randy Miilholland has returned “Thimble Theatre” to the title panel. © King Features Syndicate While Popeye fanatic Joseph Nebus notes, among other comments, another landmark: Also, unless I’ve missed someone, Milholland will be only the second credited creator of the comic […]
Publishers Weekly reports the death of Blanche Cirker. Blanche Cirker, co-founder of Dover Publications, died last week at the age of 104. Cirker and her husband, Hayward, who died in March 2000, founded Dover in 1941. Dover Publications was famous to comic strip fans as the publisher of “treasury-size” editions of Little Nemo and […]
Doing comic strips about the end of the school year — or the beginning, for that matter — is tricky because of how widely school calendars vary, state to state. But, this being the week after Memorial Day, there are a flood of summer vacation strips and this Non Sequitur (AMS) — a rerun, but […]
Graphic Illustrator or Cartoonist? What is a graphic illustrator? A graphic illustrator is a professional who creates illustrations with the help of computer software, application, or by hand. They create visual content such as logos that help their clients display their intentions and messages. To be a graphic illustrator is not easy as it requires […]
If you haven’t read my Daily Cartoonist partner DD Degg’s report on Gannett’s killing of editorial pages, you really must. It represents a significant blow to editorial cartooning as well as to newspapers in general.I’m opening with this 2009 Pearls Before Swine (AMS) because it sums up the actual challenge, and, if it’s oversimplifying things, […]
© Dave WhamondWhen we noted earlier this week that The Canton Repository was drastically cutting its editorial and opinion pages (with a corresponding cut of editorial cartoons) we did note it was a Gannett newspaper. What we should have realized is that if one Gannett newspaper makes such a major decision it is probably a […]
Randy Milholland will become the new cartoonist of the Popeye Sunday comic strip beginning June 5, 2022. Michael Cavna, at The Washington Post, broke the news that Hy Eisman, the Sunday Popeye cartoonist since 1994, will retire* at age 95 and Randy Milholland will take on the chore of continuing the new adventures of The Sailor […]
Drew Sheneman celebrates a bit of folly with some bite: The GOP is unwilling to admit that we’re unnecessarily slaughtering children because guns are not an issue of public safety but of political loyalty.As he notes, they are shielded by simply insisting that it’s bad policy to enact gun regulation in the wake of a […]
John Miller Baer, cartoonist turned politician turned cartoonist John Miller Baer, the first Representative elected to Congress under the endorsement of the Nonpartisan League, began his first full term on this date in 1917. Baer had been first elected to serve a partial term in 1915, filling the vacancy left by Representative Henry Helgesen. Despite […]
After 61 years the educational one column medical panel Health Capsules has ended. The didactic feature illustrated with a cartoon ran from February 20, 1961 to May 28, 2022. Health Capsules was created by Dr. Michael A. Petti and cartoonist Jud Hurd, they stayed with the daily panel for 41 years until May 4, […]
In my defense, unlike Wallace the Brave (AMS), I’m retired and don’t have to know what day it is.The post office is closed from noon Saturday until Monday, which is when the Chinese restaurants and barber shops are closed. That’s about it.Now that I’m retired, I don’t get a haircut very often and, as for […]
June 1st, 2022 saw Dave Blazek move his Loose Parts panel from the Washington Post Writers Group to Andrews McMeel Syndication.left: WPWG May 31, 2022 (Tuesday); right: AMS June 1, 2022 (Wednesday)This is the 4th syndicate for Dave Blazek and Loose Parts. Los Angeles Times Syndicate April 20, 1998 – December 23 (24?), 2000 Tribune […]
Last month the news of a new syndicate for editorial cartoons broke.Counterpoint founder Nick Anderson said the new operation would go active June 1, 2022. And so it has as a Jack Ohman cartoon with a Sacramento Bee/ Counterpoint Media credit appeared today.© Sacramento Bee/Jack OhmanClay Bennett, Lisa Benson, Tim Campbell, Jeff Danziger, and Jack […]
From the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists:Are you a young cartoonist [ages 18-25] who draws commentary on social topics? Do you know a young cartoonist doing work with a political tinge? The window is now open to enter the 2022 John Locher Memorial Award for editorial cartoons & comics. DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, JULY 1. Single […]
The Chicago Tribune ran a piece by Rick Kogan over Memorial Day weekend remembering the Chicago Tribune comics of the Medill/Patterson/McCormick era. above: Chicago Tribune Sunday funnies 1898 Patterson helped create and nourish, among many other strips, “The Gumps,” “Gasoline Alley,” “Moon Mullins” and “Terry and the Pirates.” He was energetically hands-on, offering advice, coaching […]