Rick Veitch is Vermont’s fourth Cartoonist Laureate.From the Rutland Herald:This month, Veitch was named Vermont’s fourth cartoonist laureate. His appointment, originally scheduled for an April 2 State House presentation with Gov. Phil Scott, was announced and celebrated through a live stream online, commencing Veitch’s 2020-23 term. Veitch’s extensive and diverse credits include DC Comics’ Swamp […]
Aislan quotes Pascal and I think puts his finger on not just the moment but why the moment is happening.I’ve often worried aloud about kids who have telephones and music plugged into their ears at all times: Will they learn to think with no experience of solitude?My grandfather said that, before sound recording, they could […]
Last month Wiley introduced us to the delightful Jack in a Sunday Non Sequitur.Wiley talked to the Spokesman-Review about Jack (and Non Sequitur):Jack, a 6-year-old autistic child, was recently introduced to readers as Jeffrey’s little brother. The character, who was inspired by Miller’s autistic grandson, who also is 6 and named Jack, has scored an […]
Like the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists Convention and the Herblock Prize Lecture, the San Diego Comic Convention has been cancelled.For the first time in its 50 year history, the show will not go on. Comic-Con International announced that there will be no San Diego Comic-Con in 2020 — and the next planned event will […]
I’m blaming Norman Lear.We had, in our house, “The Archie Bunker Rule,” which was that nobody who would not be welcome through the door was welcome through the television. My boys railed against it from time to time, and I relaxed it if they could make a good case for an exemption.But I watched the […]
Animator Gene Deitch has passed away.From the Expatz Czech notice:Prague, April 17 (CTK) – American director and animated film producer Gene Deitch, living in Prague with his Czech wife, animator and producer Zdenka Najmanova, died there last night at the age of 95 years, Garamond publishing house owner Petr Himel told CTK today. Eugene Merril […]
The print edition of Positively Naperville will start carrying a new comic strip. Sam & Joe by Jared Moser had appeared on the paper’s website, now it will beginning running in the print edition.Cartoonist Jared Moser, hailing from Wheeling, Illinois, is a freshman at North Central College, studying journalism and media communications, with a minor […]
Cartoonists are keeping busy with fun, health, and charity. The Seattle Times and cartoonist David Horsey offer downloadable bears to color. KBIR Knoxville checks in with 90 year old Charlie Daniel while he shelters in place.“I was beginning really to enjoy retirement. I was meeting with people for lunch every day and meeting old journalist […]
It’s getting really hard to avoid politics on Friday, and Rabbits Against Magic provides a demonstration.I suppose there were people who listened to FDR’s Fireside Talks or Churchill’s encouragement during the Blitz and dismissed them as partisan politics, but not many.Anyway, the “pollution” analogy holds for me. It’s everywhere. Granted that Non Sequitur runs on the […]
Wha..?? A last Cats With Hands? Yes. It seems Joe Martin has stopped producing new Cats With Hands strips and panels. (Joe continues creating Mr. Boffo and Willy ‘n Ethel comics.)Last month Neatly Chiseled Features started issuing “The Best of Cats With Hands” dailies beginning March 16, 2020. That strip was a rerun of the […]
Joy of Tech has me nailed fairly well.Their site is currently polling visitors to ask how much their lives have changed and I ticked the box for “It’s different, but not that different.”I haven’t done a videochat in a couple of years and never even bothered to mount Skype on my last several computers, while […]
In the beginning the “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year” was presented not with “The Reuben”, but with “The Barney.”When the National Cartoonist Society formed after World War II, one item on their agenda was an awards dinner to publicize the members and their craft. In 1947 the biggest Big Name among comic strip cartoonists was […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Addams’ Apple: The New York Cartoons of Charles Addams Ed Leffingwell’s Little Joe by Harold Gray Nat Enough I Think He’s Crazy […]
I’ll start with the above Dunkin’ Donuts commercial for the benefit of readers either too young or living too distant from these shores to catch the reference.Today’s headline is a portmanteau of that commercial along with the well-known wisecrack that one should not watch the making of laws or the making of sausage.I can attest […]
Earlier this year Lee Enterprises bought The Buffalo News and the BH Group. That purchase became final in mid-March 2020, two weeks later Lee Enterprises announced there would be a series of pay cuts, lay-offs, and furloughs across its chain. Yesterday it hit home as The Buffalo News’ Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Adam Zyglis announced he […]