Agnes (Creators) and Trout debate the reality of what’s right in front of their faces, which certainly fits in with all sorts of current events that I plan to save for another day, though I’ll add the possibility that Trout is just jerking her chain.Point being that it’s hard to know, these days, who is […]
Illustrator Everett Peck has passed away.Everett Lee Peck October 9, 1950 – June 14, 2022 Illustrator, cartoonist, animator, painterThe Peck Family has posted on social media that Everett has died.Animation Magazine also has the sad news. Illustrator, cartoonist, animator, writer and teacher Everett Peck — best known for his popular animated series Duckman and Squirrel Boy […]
Rob Tornoe, for Editor & Publisher, takes a look at the current status of newspaper syndication as it involves comic strips and editorial cartoons (and puzzles).Rob starts the article with self-syndicated cartoonist Chad (Tundra) Carpenter. While “Tundra” has lost some papers that were forced to cut back or shutter during the pandemic, he did benefit […]
Cowboy poet and humorist Baxter Black has passed away. Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star Baxter Black January 10, 1945 – June 10, 2022 Cowboy poet, humorist, columnist, songwriter, speaker, author,and comic strip writer. From Farm Journal:Baxter Black, the veterinarian turned cowboy poet, storyteller and philosopher of rural life in America, died Friday, June […]
It was seven years ago today that presidential candidate Donald Trump rode down an escalator to the cheers of a crowd it later turned out had been hired rather than simply assembled, which is hardly surprising, given that he was not a minor politician stepping up into a major campaign.He had plenty of fans, because […]
© RL Crabb Let’s start with a cartoonist’s cartoon about cartooning. © EC Publications I grew up in central Maine in the ’60s and ’70s, and while we weren’t exactly the Mayberry of the North — the fictional town of “The Andy Griffith Show” — if you were looking to find a nearly 100% […]
Heidi MacDonald reports on the WEBTOON advertising blitz: I don’t take the subway very often here in NYC, but other local Beat staffers (and a smattering of other social media postings) have noted that Webtoon has launched a pretty prominent subway advertising campaign around town. I witnessed these Webtoon subway ads myself last Friday night […]
Deadline breaks the news: CBS has put in development JumpStart, a multi-camera comedy based on Robb Armstrong’s long-running comic strip. Wayne Conley (The Best Man) will pen the TV adaptation, which hails from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS Studios. Based on the popular comic strip that debuted in 1989, JumpStart is set in Philadelphia […]
I think we could use a few laughs at the moment, though they needn’t be completely frivolous. Man Overboard, as so often is the case, makes a point about our responsibilities and our debts that gets both a chuckle and a sigh.I’d add, too, that we often see things online about how gentle and thoughtful […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Back Issue! 136 Red and Rover: Fun’s Never Over My Perfect Life Dirty Pictures You Know Exactly Batpig: Too Pig to […]
It was all a con.Matt Wuerker (Politico) extracts the most damning revelation from yesterday’s Jan 6 Committee Hearing:Trump knew he’d lost, he knew there was no chance of an effective appeal, but he pulled the old pigeon drop on his True Believers, conning them with the promise that he’d use their money to counter massive […]
The Phantom cover art by Bret Blevins and Terry AustinThe Chronicle Chamber has revealed that Bret Blevins is the ghost artist temporarily relieving Mike Manley on The Phantom daily comic strip. They stress that it is a temporary situation. Due to some personal reasons the popular daily artist has had to temporary hand over the […]
Beginning today Mike Manley has handed over his comic strips to other artists. Hopefully this is a temporary issue until Mike’s health improves.A couple weeks ago Mike posted on his Facebook page that he was feeling very bad, though a Covid test came up negative. Beginning today (June 13, 2022) Mike’s name has dropped from The […]
Editorial Cartoonist Stuart Carlson has passed away.Stuart Scott Carlson September 1955 – June 10, 2022 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting Stuart’s death: Stuart Carlson, the former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel political cartoonist, died Friday at age 66. Carlson, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease about seven years ago, was hospitalized over the Memorial Day weekend […]
The modern day swamp creature began with Theodore Sturgeon’s 1940 short story “It.” It would be adapted as a Marvel comic book decades later. A couple years after It The Heap appeared in Hillman comic books. The Heap would be revived in 1971 by Skywald Publications. In the years spanning the 1940s and the […]