The 2020 Reuben Awards were delayed until September last year, and now the winners are finally getting their awards in the mail. Above: Hy Eisman and his Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award With the mail comes another round of recognition, in this case Dave Blazek.In 2019, Blazek, an Erie native, won the [Divisional] Reuben Award [for […]
I find it perversely comforting that, having praised Popeye the Sailor Mensch on Saturday for giving away a million dollars, I find in Monday’s Thimble Theater (KFS) that he’s having trouble doing it.“Perversely comforting” in that, while I wish it were otherwise, it’s clear that even back in 1937, we had plenty of cynics amongst […]
Cartoonist David Aja creates a new comic strip featuring The Batman of 1949.From Comic Book Resources:Writer/artist David Aja’s story for Batman: Black and White #2 is done in the style of the daily Batman newspaper comic strip from 1946 to 1949. DC Comics publicist Clark Bull tweeted Friday, “I’ve been hoping for the revival of DC’s […]
Cartoonist Paul Gilligan, of Pooch Cafe and King of the Mole People fame, has signed a book deal with Tundra/Penguin Random House for a series of graphic novels for young readers.© Paul GilliganPublishers Weekly reports: Peter Phillips and Tara Walker at Tundra have acquired, in an exclusive submission, world rights to Pluto Rocket by Paul […]
© Baldo PartnershipToday’s Sunday Baldo reminds me of the old Grin and Bear It Sundays.© King Features Syndicate © Maria ScrivanSomeone at GoComics (temporarily) dropped the “K” from today’s Half Full,giving an excuse to link to this history of comic’s color. © Bizarro StudiosLooks like Dan Piraro’s Bizarro is taking a cue from Dan Piraro’s other graphic […]
Dog Eats Doug (Creators) has a sweet story arc just starting on weekdays. Since the death of the original Sophie who inspired the cartoon version (but was much older), I understand Brian Anderson has been fostering adoptable dogs, and, even if he hasn’t, the family in the strip has.“Fostering” means giving a dog a place […]
Animator Ron Campbell has passed away. Ron Campbell December 26, 1939 – January 22, 2021 From the Ron Campbell Cartoon Pop Art Facebook page:It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have received news that famed animator/producer/director/storyboard artist Ron Campbell has passed away at age 81. Ron was a dear friend and my […]
The celebrated cartoonist of France’s Le Monde daily Plantu said Friday that he would soon leave the paper after half a century of work that has seen him mock the elite in his country and elsewhere with bitingly acerbic drawings. The departure on March 31 of Plantu — who has championed cartoons as a bastion […]
The Oatmeal has it right: Enough already with the Bernie memes.Timing is everything and you had your chance and if you haven’t placed Bernie somewhere and posted it on social media, it’s too late now. We’re fixated now on the horror of Joe Biden owning an expensive watch and a Peloton exercise system, which is such […]
Margaret Marilyn DeAdder, professional clipper of coupons, baker of cookies, terror behind the wheel, champion of the underdog, ruthless card player, and self-described Queen Bitch, died on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. Marilyn loved all children who weren’t her own and loved her own children relative to how clean-shaven they were. She excelled at giving the […]
Our RFK Human Rights item reminds us to mention other awards deadlines. Your submissions must completed by January 22, 2021Today is the last for National Cartoonists Society‘s Divisional Reuben Awards submissions. Entry deadline: Jan. 25, 2021Almost as immediate is The Pulitzer Prize, whose deadline is only three days away. DEADLINE: January 31, 2021For The Award Formerly Known as The […]
I don’t think squirrels are crepuscular, but apparently Harry Bliss and Steve Martin — teaming on this Bliss (Tribune) — do, and who am I to argue with them?I’ve never charted squirrels to see what they do around noon, and perhaps they aren’t diurnal, but then nobody’s out at noon, at least not in the […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization is now accepting submissions for its Excellence in Journalism awards. … the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world. Entries should […]
© EC ComicsHundreds of years before The Impossible Trident there was …William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective, engraved by Luke Sullivan, offers an Escher-like array of impossible lines and vanishing points: a man lights his pipe from a distant candle; a flock of sheep grow bigger as they recede round a corner; a foreground flag […]
Artist, musician, teacher, and cartoonist Bill Bryant has passed away.Dr. Billy Joe (Bill) Bryant October 19, 1936 – January 18, 2021 From the obituary:In 1976, Bill moved his family back to Louisiana where he began his teaching career at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, retiring as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Fine and Graphic Arts […]