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, […]
Cartoonist Orlando Busino has passed away. Orlando Francis Busino October 10, 1926 – January 11, 2022 From the obituary:Orlando F. Busino, 95, of Ridgefield, died peacefully on Tuesday, January 11, 2022. He was the loving husband of Ann (Darlington) Busino having just celebrated 70 years of marriage. Mr. Busino was a retired Cartoonist and his […]
Tom Tomorrow indulges in a bit of self-examination, and it strikes home with me as well, since I also monitor social media or possibly obsess over it.The difference between us, I think, is that he can’t help feeling things while I seem to be able to compartmentalize more, which is the difference between artists and […]
Milton Caniff finds his horizons unlimited as Steve Canyon debuts January 13, 1947. The first eight dailies and the first Sunday.© Ester Parsons Caniff Estate
Far out, man. A joint task force between Brian ‘Box’ Brown and King Features Syndicate has dovetailed to distribute Brian’s Legalization Nation comic strip to a wider audience. © Brian Box BrownKFS Editor Tea Foughner and Comics Kingdom both announced the dope deal today.From Comics Kingdom Facebook page:Today, we’re excited to announce LEGALIZATION NATION has […]
Comics DC makes us aware that:In his cartoon from yesterday “Urine Trouble,” Clay planted a bunch of conservative cartoonists, many of whom are anti-vaxxers or covid denyers, under a bunch of tombstones. I see Scott “Dilbert” Adams, Henry Payne, Al Goodwyn, Mike Lester, Branco, Chip Bok, Glenn McCoy, Gary McCoy, Tom Stiglich, Rivers, Lisa Benson, […]
Chip Bok (Creators) was likely being sarcastic with this one, but the comments indicate that a whole lot of the wrong readers liked his cartoon.Having recently been puzzled by the idea that maybe Michael Ramirez had had a Saul-of-Tarsus moment, I was prepared for this, but I laughed anyway. Sarcasm can be tricky, and there […]
Bill Amend, creator of the FoxTrot comic strip, has been using his Twitter feed to dump on Fox News and, separately, the NFT culture with non-FoxTrot “editorials” drawn on napkins.Bill felt that his NFT slap had gained him enough new followers that he could afford to lose a few by chiding Fox News. I picked […]
The animated TV series “Big Nate,” based on the long-running comic strip by Lincoln Peirce of Portland, will debut Feb. 17 on Paramount Plus, the streaming service announced Tuesday. A sneak peek of the show will air Sunday on the Nickelodeon cable network during halftime of the NFL playoff football game between the Dallas Cowboys […]
or, Bungleton Green in the 21st Century. In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jackson—a former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaper the Chicago Defender—did something unexpected. He took the Defender’s stale and long-running gag strip Bungleton Green […]
“The Washington Times is interested in ascertaining what cartoons its readers enjoy most, and which are the least popular.”That should read “was interested” for this is not the Moonie newspaper of 2022, rather the Hearst newspaper of 100 years ago – January 11, 1922. Whether the results of the survey were acted on is unknown. Six […]
Pat Byrnes starts us off with a reflection on how Biden has done fairly well in some areas, quite well in others, not so well in some, but still sees his approval ratings low and sees that fact trumpeted regularly in the press.I have a theory that Wordle and Squid Game would not draw nearly […]
Dav Pilkey (Dog Man) and Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) were the big winners in 2021. Each of them had three books in last year’s Top 25 best selling books list. Both creators each sold over two million editions collectively of their three books, with Pilkey edging Kinney by almost 365,000 sales.Excerpt from […]
Helping to clobber kid’s cancer the National Cartoonists Society raised $54,000 last Fall with a Heritage Auctions event selling original art for the benefit of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital!The Good News from the NCS: To all members of the NCS who contributed, thank you so much for your support of the 75th Anniversary NCS […]