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 […]
Like many of us in early 2021, Martin Lee was deeply affected by many issues, including COVID, George Floyd, and anti-Asian hate crimes. Finding himself in a self-diagnosed “funk,” he needed refuge and found his way back to the art of his youth. Little did he know that this diversion would lead to the start […]
From Blog for Arizona: David Fitzsimmons is the cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star. He will be roasted by former politicians Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, and District 2 Pima County Supervisor Dan Eckstrom. I also know personally stand up comic attorney Nancy Stanley and former Tucson Citizen videographer Daniel Buckley who are evidently involved. Fundraiser […]
My first impression of today’s Barney & Clyde (WPWG) was that Barney had, indeed, been taken, since most coats of arms are bogus.Having “Arms” at all is, as he says, up to the Heralds’ College, but I looked and, by golly, there is indeed a set of arms for Pillsbury that looks like what he’s holding.Though […]
The Sandusky Register (Erie County Ohio) and The Norwalk Reflector (Huron County Ohio), both members of the Ogden Newspapers family, will share the same Weekender (Saturday/Sunday) edition. The start of the 2021 high school football season also will be the kickoff for a new combined Weekender newspaper. “This will be an expanded weekend product for […]
Self portrait © by Stephan DoncheComics journalist and author Chris Arrrant askedComic industry people: What’s something about your job that you wish more people understood? Chris got quite a response from cartoonists in various genres. A sampling:Making comics is HARD work. Just how labor intensive it is. (drawing, penciling/inking) Or how long it takes […]
David Fitzsimmons riffs on the 1893 bronze by German sculptor Hugo Rheinhold, in which an ape contemplates a human skull, while sitting on a stack of books, one of which is by Darwin, the other identifiable text being Genesis 3.5, “Ye shall be as God.”I particularly like it because of the cobwebs on this ape’s […]
Comic Shops across the nation will be giving away comic books on Saturday August 14, 2021.Free!With over four dozen comics from Archie to Zorro. The Free Comic Book Day website lists all the comics that might be available in your area.Visit your local comic book shop on Saturday August 14th!
Marc Murphy salutes the new Census data, which shows an actual decrease in the number of non-Hispanic white folks in the US, with a reminder that both apples and their pie are immigrants. Yes, I fact-checked an attorney: Apples originated in what is now Kazakhstan and the pie in England.I’m a non-Hispanic white person, but […]
New Illustrator on Ripley’s Believe It or Not For the second time this year John Graziano has been replaced on Ripley’s Believe It or Not. The August 8, 2021 Sunday page was unsigned (and not Graziano art), then beginning Monday August 9, 2021 the dailies were by another artist. Unlike that May substitute this artist […]
Dateline: CanadaDateline: CanadaSteve Canyon came to a U. S. Air Force base in northern Canada last winter and was promptly dropped from the comic page of the Peterborough Examiner. In an editorial the newspaper explained, “We have become disturbed by the political implications of the strip. The hero and his friends were on what was […]
Bizarro (KFS) tests the “It’s funny ’cause it’s true” concept, and, yes, it’s funny, and, sigh, it’s also true.I don’t have a solution except to keep on keepin’ on, but, since the editorial cartoonists are mostly playing catch-up today with Cuomo, Infrastructure and DeSantis cartoons, we’ll feature funny stuff instead. Juxtaposition of the Day(Existential Comics)(xkcd)I’m well […]