It has been nearly a year since Bruce Tinsley has created new Mallard Fillmore comic strips. After going with reruns, Bruce and King Features signed Loren Fishman as temporary guest cartoonist.But it seems that very soon Bruce will return to his comic creation.The last time Bruce’s Mallard Fillmore appeared with Tinsley’s signature and a current […]
Let Us ReviewObituary cartoons are often cloying, unimaginative and sometimes foolishly off-target, but they are also a necessary way to help a cartoonist’s community mourn.Sometimes, however, they rise above, and Thomas Nast’s piece mourning the death of James Garfield is an example: The Statue of Liberty was so new as to not yet figure in […]
Editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba has been laid off by The Omaha World-Herald.Jeff let us know today via his Twitter feed: It is with deep and profound sadness that I must tell you that today, after over 31 years of drawing daily cartoons for my beloved hometown newspaper, The Omaha-World-Herald, my job was eliminated due to […]
When the Jewish Week ended its print edition earlier this year, the weekly Everything’s Relative comic strip by Jordan B. Gorfinkel (aka “Gorf”) that had run there since 1996 was left without a home. That has changed as Jewish Link started printing the comic beginning September 10, 2020.Jewish Link co-publisher Moshe Kinderlehrer introduces the strip […]
Our friends over at Ohio State University Bill Ireland Library & Museum are hosting a three-round virtual Comics Trivia evening on October 2nd.You are required to register to participate.From the CXC site:The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum challenges you to a three-round game of comics trivia! We’ll start out with some Comics 101 questions, […]
This week’s story arc in Betty has them contemplating the collection of snow globes they’ve accumulated in their travels, with the central question being “Why on earth did we accumulate all these snow globes?”Apparently, they weren’t being ironic, though snow globes from tacky gift shops might be an interesting thing to collect. And by “interesting” […]
Joe Kubert is an acknowledged master of the comic arts,but here Mark Avila appreciates him as the greatest teacher of the comic arts. The Society of Illustrators has organized ways for you to enjoy the Museum and our programming online! This includes exhibits, panels, podcasts, and children’s activities. Explore our #MuseumFromHome through our new virtual platform.The […]
Alex adds a caution to the cheerful notion of leaving the city to telecommute from rural splendor.Which isn’t happening.But, then again, is.That first article is based on the logic that just because people are looking at houses on realtor.com and Zillow, it doesn’t mean they’re actually bidding and buying and serious.The second article involved actually […]
Cartoonist Art Sansom was born 100 years ago on September 16, 1920.Twenty-five years after his birth Art Samsom would join the NEA art staff, an organization with which he would spend the rest of his life. In 1948 Art would be picked to continue the weekly Peggy comic strip for the syndicate.Yes. Art started his […]
In 2014 Thomas Yeates, the artist of the Prince Valiant comic strip, began the practice of including title panels to remedy some artistic problems with the layout of the strip. These title panels, which change as the next adventure begins, are exclusive to the Sunday sections that print the strip (a practice I heartily endorse). […]
A lady once asked him how he came to define ‘pastern’, the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, “Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.” — Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson”Sometimes the best defense is no defense at all, but for an arrogant egotist like Johnson to […]
There are some new dogs in town — well, new in the Journal Sentinel Sunday Comics section, anyway. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has added The Dogs of C-Kennel to its Sunday Funnies. Will, Kenny, Cocoa, Tucker and Iggy are the “Dogs of C-Kennel,” which makes its Milwaukee debut in this Sunday’s Comics section. Begun in […]
With a five million copy print run, the newest Dav Pilkey book Dog Man: Grime and Punishment debuted as the #1 best seller across all genres. NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Dog Man is the top dog! The global bestselling series by author and illustrator Dav Pilkey makes a triumphant return to the #1 […]
A Chris Britt cartoon has angered a Blue Lives Matter group. A resident of Tacoma, Washington, Chris Britt is a firebrand editorial cartoonist who regularly lampoons President Donald Trump and others he doesn’t agree with. He’s merciless. He was only a little more tame when I hired him in the late 1980s to draw editorial […]
If you thought the pearl clutching over last month’s David Fitzsimmons cartoon being used in a classroom setting was over, not so.On Sunday, September 13, the New York Post reported: A Westchester County high-school teacher kicked off his first day of classes by handing out an image on the Black Lives Matter movement — comparing […]