Later this year Ziggy will celebrate 50 years as a syndicated comic panel/strip.On 27 June 1971, a new comic made its debut in American newspapers, Ziggy. Created and drawn by cartoonist Tom Wilson, Sr., the strip chronicled the experiences of the ill-fated title character… Although the subject matter for Ziggy was the mundane, its public […]
Francis (AMS) leads today because, for all the bonding in a hyperconnected world, we Americans are still awfully fixated on ourselves.There was a time when one of the wire services here did a “Top 10 Stories of the Year” list each January, and they finally came under fire for including US sporting events and the […]
The School of Visual Arts highlights cartoonist Ray Billingsley with an interview. Raised in Harlem, Ray Billingsley was still a kid himself when he started drawing for the magazine Kids at the age of 12 … He debuted Curtis in 1988. Distributed by King Features, Curtis—a multilayered tale of an urban African American family of […]
February 15, ’21 saw the first signed daily Shoe comic strip by Gary Brookins in five months.There is no announcement at Shoe Comics, or on Gary’s Facebook about his return to the daily comic.When Gary retired last year he kept his hand in the game by continuing to do the Sunday Shoe. Now, for this […]
This isn’t actually an editorial cartoon, except that it is.It’s one of HJ Ford‘s illustrations for Andrew Lang’s 1894 retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Blockhead Hans,” a story that suggested Andersen had a low opinion of the press in general and of editors in particular.There are enough editors in the world who think I’m a […]
Smidge and Friends by Ayla KreelakThe weekly Nunatsiaq News has introduced a new comic strip by a young local cartoonist They also introduce cartoonist Ayla Kreelak: Kreelak’s comic strip, which started as her own personal project, offers a glimpse into Inuit culture from the perspective of a young woman who aspires to be a graphic […]
(Grand Avenue – AMS)(Joe Heller)Start the day with a Juxtaposition, because tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which starts the beginning of Lent, which used to matter to people a whole lot more than it seems to in the present day.You can go back into history and find all sorts of ways people marked Lent centuries ago, […]
A treasure trove for cartooning fans is now available!The Internet Archive has made available the run of Jud Hurd’s CARTOONIST PROfiles magazine. From issue #1 (March, 1969) to issue #146 (June, 2005) CARTOONIST PROfiles was THE insider magazine for newspaper and magazine cartoonists (and greeting cards and illustration and and animation and caricature and… ).Accessing […]
Short notice for a couple of Tuesday, February 16 events.Join cartoonist Jimmy Margulies live online tomorrow night as he talks about political cartooning the past 30 years. The nationally-syndicated cartoonist has had a ringside seat to New York City and the shenanigans of New Jersey pols, from Chris Christie to some guy named Trump. Tues, […]
Leading into Valentine’s Day the Judge Parker comic strip had two people profess love for each other:That was a moral affront to one person who let writer Francisco Marciuliano know:Marciuliano’s response earned a… Read the thread on Ces’s Twitter feed. Around the time the outraged reader started reading Judge Parker he must not have seen that […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2021 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Volume 29 The Complete Dick Tracy by Chester Gould is completed! In Love & Pajamas Britain’s Best […]
Real Life Adventures (AMS) asks the question on all our minds: “What’s the deal with mattresses?”Well, there’s also the question of “Whatever happened to President’s Day?” or, another way, “Remember when we had Lincoln’s Birthday and Washington’s Birthday?”But let’s not bring those old guys up because then we’d get to talking about San Francisco, where […]
By the time the comic strips showcased below came around there had been romance in comic strips. Eventually love became, if not the main focus, a frequent topic in some strips. When a strip’s title character is thirty-ish and the main supporting character is her younger sister affairs of the heart will enter the plot. […]
Today’s Pardon My Planet (KFS) provides a coincidental coda to the impeachment, because, come on now, what did you expect?I’m actually more optimistic now than I was at 24, when I was sure, along with a whole lot of other people, that Nixon would escape the revelations of Watergate.In fact, I wrote a parody of […]
100 years ago today in Gasoline Alley (from the New York Daily News):Over the years Jim Scancarelli has used the Sunday around Valentine’s Day as a reason to revisit the day Skeezix was found and his life after that momentous occasion.It was not unusual for the birthdays to be numbered. Birthday’s of note have […]