That young man above illustrated the 1929 Warren Harding High School Yearbook.Alex Jay presents all those yearbook illustrations from that young artist.Oh, and here is a later self-portrait of the cartoonist with his most famous creation:
David Rowe (Financial Review) offers a somewhat enigmatic response to yesterday’s release of the tape in which Dear Leader solicited a crime or suborned perjury or attempted to extort Georgia’s Secretary of State or whathaveyou.It is a tangled web, but, as he notes, it’s only one in a collection of damaging recordings that should have […]
The first new comic strip for 2021 is Mt. Pleasant by Rick McKee and Kent Sligh. Tribune Content Agency is pleased to announce the addition of comic strip Mt. Pleasant to its product line of premium content. Created by Pluggers cartoonist Rick McKee and comedy writer Kent Sligh, Mt. Pleasant will be available, daily or […]
I couldn’t decide where to start this morning until I had settled on the headline, at which point it made sense to start here: Put up or shut up, Steve Kelley (Creators.)Show your evidence of fraud and illegality. Seriously. Do it.While you’re at it, explain why experienced attorneys and professional politicians who wanted to challenge […]
Beginning the week of January 3, 2020 editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson will move the distribution of his syndicated work from the blowhard city’s Washington Post Writers Group to the windy city’s Tribune Content Agency. Pulitzer Prize winner Nick Anderson joins Tribune Content Agency’s Editorial Cartoon Service in January 2021. Anderson joins an esteemed collection of […]
As of January 1, 2021 most everything from 1925 entered public domain status. While that Duke University links focuses on some lesser works, we will turn our attention to more important literature that is now available after the Walt Disney Extension.Among the more well-known comics that started in 1925, and whose first year is now […]
If Ionesco or Becket were writing “The Comic Strip That Has A Finale Every Day,” this Frazz (AMS) would be the one to endlessly cycle, it being more absurd than dadaesque.Or, at least, it would become absurd if you simply kept cycling it. As it is, it speaks for the prevailing mood, which is that […]
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. […]