Comic book writer Marty Pasko has passed away. Martin Joseph (Marty) Pasko né Jean-Claude Rochefort August 4, 1954 – May 10, 2020Friends Paul Kupperberg and Paul Levitz broke the news on social media. covers via Grand Comic DatabaseMarty began writing comic books in the early 1970s, and was a writer and editor into the 2000s. […]
I don’t like to say “I told you so,” because (A) it seems grandiose and (B) it would be much nicer to live in a world where someone had listened and also because (C) I wasn’t the only voice out there, so I can hardly take credit.But let’s look at what is essentially one big […]
Art Young’s Inferno is, unlike Dante‘s before it, not an indictment of sinners per se (hey, we’re all sinners) but the plutocrats and Wall Street criminals that have repeatedly exploited the citizenry through legal legislation with extralegal loopholes. Fantagraphics has just published a superb new edition of this 1934 classic—the “Original Art Edition,” with reproductions […]
Sandra Bell-Lundy is celebrating thirty years of her Between Friends comic strip.When I first began the strip, Maeve was married to Simon. Susan was single. Kim was a white woman named Laura. I had sold my strip to 3 Southern Ontario daily newspapers and a couple of weeklies. I was making $100 per week…and working […]
If I were, for some odd reason, ordered to live in a major city, Pittsburgh would be at the top of the list, not because it’s where Rob Rogers produces “Brewed on Grant Street” but because it provides the material that makes it possible.It’s a bluecollar city, to begin with, but, unlike Chicago, which is […]
Wonderful seems to a word often associated with Patrick McDonnell and his works. His Mutts comic strip and books are wonderful. His charitable and humanitarian efforts are wonderful. Even Patrick’s blog is wonderful, except when it is beyond wonderful, as is one of his latest.In “A Note From Patrick: May 2020” Patrick notes some fan […]
As noted earlier Lee Enterprises had announced there would be a series of pay cuts, lay-offs, and furloughs across its chain. Around the time Adam Zyglis took his two week furlough David Fitzsimmons of The Arizona Daily Star took a single week. Now Fitz is preparing us for a second week without his illustrated view […]
Monomythic, a blog “covering gods and monsters, epic stories and forgotten legends, love and war, and everything in between,” features an interview with Baldo co-creator Hector Cantu and new Heart of the City cartoonist Steenz on Facebook Live .
The conversations in Reply All nearly always demonstrate the comic potential for combining reality with a wink, and, while Lizzie simply can’t help revealing her true feelings, she seems such a real person that it works.A character who is a particular “type” generally becomes tedious, and there are any number of strips with a grumpy […]
It’s been quite a spring, and few of the events of the past two months have offered much reason to smile. Sometimes we all wish there was something – anything – to take our minds off of it all. We feel it too, and we hear you. Today, I’m happy to announce that the St. Cloud Times […]
James Herbert (1943–2013), one of the best-selling horror writers in the world, was a devoted admirer of Tufts’s work, and he claimed that there was no writer in the world who was better at action and staging a plot. Bill Blackbeard (1926–2011), a man known for preserving the treasures and history of newspaper comics, defending […]
Caitlin McGurk over at Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum is asking for help to identify the source of some Anime cels in their collection.From the Ireland site:Anime fans, now’s your time to shine! Within our International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection, we have a number of unidentified cels and animation drawings from […]
From the piece:“A lot of bad art is going to come out of this nightmare — including my own — and that’s okay,” Emmy-winning artist Dean Haspiel said a month ago, as more people were isolating and social distancing. His point was that artists should keep creating art — any art — in response to the effects […]
(We’ll do Friday Funnies on Saturday this week)(Scott Clissold)On this anniversary, we are engaged in a new struggle against the coronavirus which demands the same spirit of national endeavour that you exemplified 75 years ago. We cannot pay our tribute with the parades and street celebrations we enjoyed in the past; your loved ones may […]
Artist Mary Von Egidy has passed away. Mary Frances (Mae) Von Egidy (née: Boyd) March 9, 1921 – April 22, 2020 From the obituary:She was a talented artist and worked for Alex Raymond in her younger years painting backgrounds for the Rip Kirby and Flash Gordon comic strips.Couldn’t find anything else about her working with Raymond, […]