Tom Tomorrow lays out the State of the Union, and it’s good that he goes into such detail, because a large number of cartoonists are either going into end-of-the-year round-up holiday mode or else pointing out that tornadoes are sad, leaving a reduced number of watchdogs at the gates.The destruction in Kentucky is indeed unfortunate, […]
Cartoonist and children’s book author/illustrator Sharon Smith Kane has passed away.Sharon Kane (neé Smith)February 18, 1932 – November 3, 2021 From Andrew Farago’s obituary at The Comics Journal: Children’s book author and cartoonist Sharon Kane (née Smith) passed away on November 3, 2021 at the age of 89. Her newspaper panel Buttons an’ Beaux, launched […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones On The One Hand / On The Other Hand The Life and Comics […]
As we pull within two weeks of Christmas, Ben (MWAM) threatens his wife, and us, with a series of excruciating puns to fill the days, and I hope he follows through. The funny pages are so flooded with bad takeoffs on Christmas carols each year that it’s a relief when one of them confesses to […]
Big Nate gets into a creative discussion with his creator.© Lincoln Peirce Guess who comes out the worse for wear. Elsewhere Weenus has a few words about comics creators.© Jonathan Lemon Rabbits Against Magic gets a new cast member? For old times sake. © Bill HindsTank McNamara brings back memories. It happened to me once.© Tribune Content Agency Animal […]
A laugh from Mr. Boffo to start the day. Joe Martin’s sense of humor is based on the loveable loser, and a formula in which a sensible opening tumbles into bathos, and it certainly works for me, particularly since, before going through the day’s cartoons, I begin with a stroll through social media to catch […]
From The San Francisco Chronicle: Editor’s note: Longtime Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen was never conventional. So it was not entirely surprising that just before he died on Thursday, Dec. 9, he decided to dictate his own obituary. He requested that it be published just as he told it. Hi, this Don Asmussen’s obit. I’ve spent […]
At 93 Sy Barry, artist of The Phantom comic strip from 1961 to 1994 and a comic book artist for 16 years leading into that assignment, remains active as an art instructor. Every Monday afternoon, laughs and wise-cracks come from the art room at Stone Hill at Andover, a retirement facility on Elm Street. A […]
I was recently reminded that Allan Holtz’s annotations to George McManus’s Bringing Up Father (Forever Nuts edition) was put on the internet for all to read, and that the remarks remain available.There are many things going on in these nearly century-old Bringing Up Father comic strips which may be incomprehensible to the average reader of […]
My first impression of this Steve Breen (Creators) piece was that he obviously hadn’t read up on the particular level of sanctions which Biden apparently proposed, should Putin (further) invade Ukraine.As noted here (and in the general news coverage), it’s not just the type of sanctions against individual oligarchs that Obama invoked in Putin’s initial […]
Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen has passed away. Donald Alan (Don) Asmussen October 31, 1962 – December 9, 2021Don has been fighting cancer for a few years, a battle he lost yesterday.John Backderf has informed us of the sad news. The San Francisco Chronicle has published a notice: Don’s loss is absolutely devastating,” said Chronicle […]
The 2012 Tarzan webcomic (retitled The New Adventures of Tarzan in 2013) by Roy Thomas, Tom Grindberg, and Benito Gallego has (finally) been scheduled to be collected in a hardcover book.In 2012 Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. began to produce new Tarzan adventures as a webcomic by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg in a Sunday half-page […]
(Dr. Macleod)(Jeremy Banx)Two threads in this particular Juxtaposition: The backgrounder is the current dustup in the UK about Boris Johnson locking everyone down and then allowing his own staff to hold a Christmas party last year at 10 Downing Street. It was revealed, apparently, in a wonderfully foolish cock-up when the Prime Minister’s new PR person […]
On December 9, 1991 Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen debuted from United Feature Syndicate.Here is how The Camden Courier-Post introduced the new comic strip to its readers:But there was some Betty before “Betty”: Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen first met as senior high school students in a local art competition. Their paths crossed […]
To the delight of some and the dismay of others, the socialist idea continues to slowly, if very belatedly, make its way throughout the channels of American culture. Of particular recent note was its appearance in Dilbert, the daily comic strip send-up of the foibles of corporate office life. Of course, since it is the […]