This is an installment of 2020 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2020 DebutsThese comics began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2020 © Nathan ArcherELLAby Nathan ArcherJanuary 3, 2020 – weekly stripTallahassee Democrat © Rachel LindsayRACHEL LINDSAY […]
This is an installment of 2020 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2020 DeparturesThese comics ceased new production for U. S. newspapers in 2020© Terri LibensonTHE PAJAMA DIARIESby Terri LibensonMarch 27, 2006 – January 4, 2020King […]
This is an installment of 2020 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2020 – The Dearly DepartedThese U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2020.© Sam Wyche & J. D. CroweSAMUEL DAVID (SAM) WYCHEJanuary 5, […]
This is an installment of 2020 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1:Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations)2020 Detours/DeviationsDetailing some changes in syndicated U. S. newspaper comics in 2020.© Batom, Inc.FUNKY WINKERBEANThere were a number of guest artists on Funky Sundays in […]
The railroads did not stop growing because the need for passenger and freight transportation declined. That grew. The railroads are in trouble today not because that need was filled by others (cars, trucks, airplanes, and even telephones) but because it was not filled by the railroads themselves. They let others take customers away from them […]
Political and magazine cartoonist Ken Mahood has passed away.Kenneth B. (Ken) MahoodFebruary 4, 1930 – December 30, 2020The Daily Mail is reporting the death of Ken Mahood: He passed away peacefully in St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Wednesday. Moving tributes were paid yesterday to the brilliant and charismatic former Mail cartoonist Ken Mahood, who […]
Some miscellaneous items from the recent past.On this day 25 years ago, Bill Watterson’s iconic comic strip Calvin and Hobbes bid us farewell. To take us on a path down memory lane, here are some of the best Calvin and Hobbes strips created.Well, some of the best as decided by Mackenzie Cummings-Grady. Comics were so central […]
Some articles and essays dealing with comic history from this past week.A sad fact of life is that Rob Stolzer only infrequently posts to his Inkslinger blog. But when he does it is an essay filled with intelligence and wonder. Rob has rewarded us with a new end-of-the-year piece about an mostly unknown comic artist. […]
The newest Visual Arts Journal features Michael Tisserand interviewing Ray Billingsley. Read the entire interview here. Comics DC interviews cartoonist (and homegirl) Liza Donnelly. What work are you most proud of?Getting into The New Yorker, particularly at age 24. I am also very proud of the book that I wrote, Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest […]
Can’t accuse Tim Campbell (WPWG) of sugar-coating things.Granted, we’ve got vaccines now, but even if everyone got them, it would be late spring before we could safely unmask. And given the number of delusional nitwits amongst us, it probably won’t happen that quickly.I was looking around the grocery store the other day. We’re polite people […]
Over 1200 pages long with more than 1200 new entries, this is a bibliography of articles and books on all aspects of comic and cartoon art including comic books, comic strips, cartoons, animation, editorial cartoons, newly updated as of the end of 2018. The electronic book, a non DRM PDF, includes tens of thousands of […]
There isn’t much to say about Mitch McConnell, and Ann Telnaes (WashPost) appears to have said it all right here.Of course, the ball is still in play, and let’s all admit we didn’t expect the House to come up with a 2/3’s majority to get that $2,000 check back on the field.Nothing is dead until […]
Billy Penn informs Philadelphians about area news, and the big news in Philadelphia these days is Signe Wilkinson‘s retirement. Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Signe Wilkinson is retiring from the Philadelphia Inquirer at the end of the year, where she spent three decades chronicling the city’s woes, lambasting its leaders, and celebrating its victories. The local […]
Part Two of The Best Editorial Cartoons of 2020.Possibly the most famous cartoon of 2020 is by Mike Luckovich, who provides a brief commentary for each of the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoons he picks as his best. From USA Today: This week, we are featuring 2020 retrospectives by editorial cartoonists from across the USA TODAY […]
(Pia Guerra – The Nib)(Benjamin Slyngstad)I’m starting with a Juxtaposition because I don’t want to single out a particular cartoonist and there have been more than one who have, apparently, jumped to conclusions regarding the Nashville bomber.Or, at the best, commented on those conclusions, which are being leapt to full-force on social media.First of all, […]