To celebrate the 230th anniversary of The Bill of Rights we travel back thirty years when cartoonists and syndicates collaborated with The Newspaper Features Council to mark the bicentennial of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. So, from The Iola Register of 1991, we present The Art of Democracy. Charles M. Schulz […]
The misadventures of Big Nate are coming to Paramount+. The all-new animated series from Nickelodeon Animation Studio is based on the best-selling children’s books and comic strip written and drawn by acclaimed author and cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Big Nate © Lincoln Peirce The show will feature a brand new story set in the ‘Big Nate’ […]
Frazz (AMS) brings back one of the more delightful memories of college this time of year: The first wisps of snow that brought out the freshmen from Florida and California decked in every stitch of winter parkas, hats and mittens they had brought to Indiana.At which those of us who had, perhaps, put on a […]
Ellwood Atfield, the communications and advocacy headhunter, was delighted to host again the Political Cartoon of the Year Awards. We are delighted to announce the 2021 winning Political, Pocket and COVID Cartoons and Cartoonist’s. The winners for this British award were announced December 9, 2021. The Low Trophy for the Political Cartoonist of the YearBen Jennings […]
A few of the delightful comics today.Occasional daily cartoonist Ron Ferdinand, he’s the regular Sunday comic strip artist, drew Dennis the Menace creator Hank Ketcham in today’s panel as Henry Mitchell’s boss. © North America Syndicate Liniers pays tribute to another classic cartoonist in Macanudo. © LiniersPerhaps Winsor McCay‘s most famous Little Nemo episode. As Richard […]
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 […]