Clay Jones yesterday: Side note: This cartoon has already got me banned on Facebook for three days. Yes, the appeal is in. From Clay Jones Twitter feed…where he also admits to his crimes:Clay Jones Facebook page, where others are posting the cartoon over and over.
The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a rebirth of the adventure comic strip. The successful syndication in 1977 of The Amazing Spider-Man saw a number of action strips getting real estate on newspaper funny pages. The smash box office of Star Wars saw that property adapted to the three panel format, along with more […]
While we await further development on things that aren’t funny, here’s a look at something that really is.Or will be when it releases in October, but you’ll have forgotten by then, so pre-order it now, from the publisher or at your local bookstore. Joe Dator is a frequent New Yorker contributor, but even if you hate […]
Here’s a book that just came to my attention.Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo comics strip is in the public domain, and French artist Frank Pé applies his reinterpretation in Little Nemo: After Winsor McCay. There is no denying that Little Nemo: After Winsor McCay is an example of beautifully designed and gorgeously structured comics storytelling; truthfully, […]
Illustrator, graphic designer, and cartoonist Seymour Chwast was born August 18, 1931.About Seymour:He is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose revolutionary work altered the course of contemporary graphic communication in the 1960s, and continues to affect the field of design worldwide. In 1985, the studio’s name was changed to The Pushpin […]
This month, [GoComics is] celebrating a quarter-century of The Duplex, the syndicated strip by brothers Glenn and Gary McCoy that features Eno and Fang—a perpetual dim-witted bachelor and his loveable canine sidekick—and their long-suffering neighbors, Gina and Mitzi. The Duplex’s journey began with Glenn in 1996. “It sprouted from a scribbled character in one of […]
Let’s save a little bandwidth here with a roundup of 12 variations on the same cartoon. I’m breaking from format by not acknowledging and linking to each cartoonist, but I’m also breaking from format by not commenting beyond what the collection itself implies.Which should balance out. I will comment on Paul Fell‘s cartoon, because, like him, […]
In college I started reading underground comics by Robert Crumb and Peter Bagge, and I was exposed to Matt Groening’s Life in Hell and Roz Chast and Tom Tomorrow for the first time. I actually wrote my senior thesis about a womens’ underground comics collective called the Twisted Sisters. One of my favorite cartoonists from […]
Patrick McDonnell has been an artist for over 40 years. Best known for MUTTS, he has always made personal and abstract paintings while drawing comics and illustrations for publication. During the turmoil and isolation of the past few years, McDonnell’s paintings have literally exploded – in volume and intensity. In this exhibition of over 50 […]
DC Comics and Webtoon have announced they will be collaborating on webcomics. WEBTOON Entertainment Inc, the world’s number one webcomic platform today announced it has entered into a creative partnership with DC. The agreement will see DC and WEBTOON collaborate on several upcoming webcomic series’ set in the DC Universe. These standalone series will appeal […]
I’m feeling old and grumpy, but, thanks to Paul Berge, I feel less alone.I was tempted to do an entire blog entry of Saigon Evacuation cartoons, but he posted this on his page and it satisfies the urge, even if it doesn’t quell the frustration.Some of the more recent variations at least acknowledge that those were […]
Nearly 100 years ago I. A. Persinger began pasting Wash Tubbs comic strips into a scrapbook. In 1928, the barber, I.A. Persinger, began compiling this collection of “Wash Tubbs” comics, a well-loved daily newspaper strip by artist Roy Crane, whose adventure graphics popularized the visual sound effects—Bam! Pow!—we know so well today. Soon, though, the […]
When the Freckles and His Friends daily strip ended in 1971 Newspaper Enterprise Association supplied the first strip from September 20, 1915 for newspapers breaking the news to their readers.Which I guess is technically true, that was the first strip titled “Freckles and His Friends.”Merrill Blosser had only a few years of cartooning behind him […]
Ed Hall drew this one a few days ago, as the Taliban resurgence was just beginning, and it all fell down about as fast as that.As appropriate a metaphor it is, it’s an ironic one in light of the continuing flood of “evacuating Saigon” cartoons, because, as noted the other day, Afghanistan is not Vietnam, […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Birth of a Beetle: The Magazine Cartoons of Mort Walker Comic Book Artist Bullpen Trubble Town Red Lines Big Nate: Aloha! Authorizing Superhero Comics Tundra: Fashionably Funny Get the H*ll Out of […]