A new addition to our running tally of Prince Valiant title panels by Thomas Yeates; these are exclusive to newspapers carrying the adventure strip in their Sunday comics section as a third/quarter pager.The Raven panel (below) ran from November 10, 2019 to March 22, 2020. (h/t James Delach for end date) On March 29, 2020 […]
above: Earth Day 1970 poster by Walt Kelly via The Billy Ireland Library and MuseumApril 22, 2020 is the 50th Anniversary of the first Earth Day, and there is a surprising lack of Earth Day comic strips and cartoons today.I was certain that some would join The Other Coast and Mutts and a few others […]
The Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State is hosting an online event with Barbara Brandon and Bianca Xunise. Entitled “Where We’re Coming From: African-American Comic Art & Belonging,” the event will start with Washington University associate professor Rebecca Wanzo discussing her new book, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging […]
We’ll start with David Fitzsimmons’ commentary on the militants who demand the opening of society and who insist that the contagious nature of the coronavirus is a myth or an error or a political gambit.As noted yesterday, there have been a plethora of such cartoons, mostly featuring the notion that those who protest today will […]
Back in the first decade of the 20th century cartooning genius Winsor McCay did a number of strips about dreams. Most famous was Little Sammy Sneeze.Always with those descriptive ears bookending the title. In the current New Yorker cartoonist Peter Kuper pays tribute to Winsor McCay, with a twist.Read the entire satire/homage strip.
palooka (n.) by 1926, “mediocre prizefighter,” of unknown origin, credited to U.S. sportswriter and “Variety” staffer Jack “Con” Conway (1898-1928), who might at least have popularized it. Non-boxing sense of “average person” is from Joe Palooka, hero of Ham Fisher’s boxing-themed comic strip, which debuted in 1930. No Ham Fisher didn’t coin the term with […]
Heritage Auctions has made available for auction some classic 1969 Mad Magazine original art from Al Jaffee. From Al’s twitter:PUMP PUMPA PUMP! “The Heart Transplant,” MAD #128, July 1969, will be auctioned off in 11 short days! It’s your chance to own some of the WORST classic art MAD ever dared to publish! Perfect to […]
Deb Milbrath made me laugh this morning and that’s worth something.And she’s right: His nightly pep rallies have lost all but the tiniest fig leaf of “public information” and become beefing sessions. He is, indeed, #CryBabyInChief.Anyone who has dealt with bullies knows they tend to burst into tears from a good punch in the nose, […]
Warning: Curtis creator Ray Billingsley has had his account hacked.A notice from Ray: Someone is going through his list asking a favor.From my email today: A reply to the request will get this: Check Ray’s Facebook page where Ray is understandably incensed.
Today’s Argyle Sweater “Comic Strip First Drafts” features character cameos from across the comics pages: Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot, The Far Side, Barney Google, Ziggy (look close) and Pearls Before Swine.Click here to see The Argyle Sweater on GoComics.
Flood Magazine has a piece on a biographical documentary on cartoonist Jim Woodring.From the piece:“Working with Woodring on this film was truly fascinating,” Miguel Cima, the film’s executive producer told us. “He opened up his private studio and led us deep into his quasi-spiritual, deeply colorful hallucinatory world. You will not be the same after […]
Mark Tatulli has passed his Heart of the City comic strip into the hands of Steenz (Christina Stewart). Steenz will be Heart’s cartoonist beginning April 27, 2020. As seen below, there will be no attempt to emulate the Tatulli style, Steenz will go her own way.From Mark’s Twitter feed:So here it is, folks! I’ve passed […]
Signe Wilkinson offers a disturbing commentary on a disturbing situation, Tara Reade’s contention that she was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden.It is a plain, historic fact that women’s accusations of sexual assault have too often been disbelieved, that “he said/she said” has far too often, too automatically come down on his side.It’s important that we […]
While Broom-Hilda herself is 1500, the comic strip is just now turning 50. Fifty years ago Russell Myers took an Elliot Caplin idea and formed Broom-Hilda.From today’s Tulsa World: Elliot Caplin worked in the comic industry just like his brother, Li’l Abner creator Al Capp. Caplin came up with the idea for a strip […]
As the Columbus Dispatch says:For those who haven’t set foot in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, now is not the time.But during the COVID-19 closure of the Ohio State University facility, thousands of the cartoons, comics, drawings and other materials in its collection – the largest of its kind in the world – […]