It is being reported that comic artist Gérald Forton has passed away. Gérald Marcel Forton April 10, 1931 – December 18 (16?), 2021 From the JN notice (via Google Translate): Born in Brussels on April 10, 1931, Gérald Forton died Saturday 18 at the age of 90 in Apple Valley, California. He was one of […]
Comic Book Resources offers up Star Wars: 10 Things You Never Knew About The 1979-1984 Newspaper Strips.The countdown starts with the little known fact that:Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson first proposed the idea for a newspaper strip. With Goodwin as the writer and Williamson on art, the two had worked on the newspaper strip Secret […]
I don’t know how far ahead Jef Mallett works on Frazz (AMS), but he hit this one squarely: Michigan, where he lives, looks to be hovering around freezing for the next week but in no particular danger of snow before Christmas.Here in New Hampshire, we got just under a foot yesterday and it seems likely […]
Texas History Movies was a comic strip that first ran in The Dallas Morning News for two years from 1926 to 1928. Then the newspaper canceled it. But the cartoons about Texas history didn’t die. The originals were reprinted again and again in books and distributed to hundreds of thousands of Texas public school students […]
The San Francisco Chronicle and Peter Hartlaub remember Don Asmussen. [Don] Asmussen, who drew cartoons and illustrations for The San Francisco Chronicle, died on Thursday, Dec. 9 at age 59. He entertained audiences around the world with his syndicated Bad Reporter comic, San Francisco Comic Strip and other local and national projects. Asmussen’s wit had […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies in association with The Beat is calling for submissions to their 2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize in two categories: Best Print Comic and the Best Webcomic.Submissions in both categories must be received by January 30, 2022. Each year the Cartoonist Studio Prize will be awarded to work that exemplifies excellence in […]
Let’s start the day by checking our own values. This portrait of Roger Stone isn’t the first time Ann Telnaes has dipped into the slime bucket to depict one of Dear Leader’s dubious allies, nor is it surprising that he found a slipper that fit perfectly.As soon as Stone took the Fifth in front of […]
The attempt by Alden Global Capital to acquire full control of Lee Enterprises group of newspapers has taken an unexpected turn as the stock of Lee has doubled since the initial Alden offering.From Poynter (December 14): In a surprise development as Alden Global Capital pursues a hostile bid to acquire Lee Enterprises, Lee’s shares have […]
Cartoon Brew remembers those from the animation industry who passed away in 2021. In a year already saturated with tragedy, news of yet another passing in the animation world was often the last thing we wanted to hear. Yet we covered more deaths in 2021 than in any previous year: 35 in all. This isn’t […]
Up, up, and away as comic book auction results reach – biff! zow! – incredible prices. A decent grade issue of Superman #1 (1939) auction at over two and a half million dollars, while a not-so-great condition of Action Comics #1 (1938), Superman’s first appearance, went for more than one and a half million. A […]
On Monday, Dec. 13, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in downtown Chicago launched a virtual experience of its popular museum exhibit: “Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin and the Art of War.” The live exhibit, currently on display at the museum through April 2022, features nearly 150 of the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist’s original drawings and […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) addresses the crucial question of life on Earth being obliterated by a meteor, the odds of which, I would note, have not changed simply because we are better at tracking space objects. Though they may become slightly lower, since we’re working on ways of dealing with it.Not that we haven’t been thunked […]
Gannett has begun their 2021 political cartooning year in review series and they have begun with Nathan Archer toons from The Tallahassee Democrat. © Tallahassee Democrat/Nathan Archer
Early next year the Sally Forth comic strip will celebrate 40 years.And it looks like Francesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe have something special planned.© King Features Syndicate
San Francisco Bay Area public TV and radio station KQED challenges schools and teachers to get their students involved: Join a Youth Media Challenge to engage student voice and choice and foster civic engagement. Challenges are open to middle and high school students across the U.S. Challenge your students to share their voices beyond the […]