In the category of Happy Timing, F-Minus dropped this strip on the day I finished the heavy lifting on my final week before retirement.Writers don’t actually retire, of course: They keep writing. They just stop getting paid for it.In this case, the fellow is right, despite the limited lesson he took away.I used to joke […]
Cartoonist Frank Johnson has passed away.Frank B. Johnson April 13, 1931 – April 2, 2020From the obituary:Frank came out of the Army, he started working for Charlton Press Comics doing humor comic books, including “Lil Genius”, “Lil Tomboy”, “Rock and Rollo”, “Double Trouble”, “Lil Rascal Twins”, and “My Little Margie’s Boyfriends”. Frank continued drawing comic […]
I didn’t understand GrubHub before the lockdown, since so many pizzerias and Chinese places deliver anyway and because I couldn’t see the advantage of paying some gig worker to do what it would take you so little effort to do yourself, which is get off your lazy ass and go get the food.It didn’t help […]
So I can get Jim Scancarelli spelled right without looking it up.I think for the rest of my natural-born days I’ll have to copy and paste Francesco Marciuliano.Charles Schulz? I think I got him down. But not everybody does. Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, is among the most influential and respected cartoonists of […]
Mike Lynch has dug up a survey of cartoonists from 25 years ago.I found the answers to questions 15 through 18 fascinating.Mike has 20 cartoonists who responded to the questionnaire.See who got #18 right and who got it wrong.
Unsure why (unable to find any explanatory message) but after ten years,more or less, cartoonists Jack Swanepoel and John Curtis, better known by their partnership pen names Dr. Jack and Curtis, have decided to take a sabbatical from their Eyewitness News (EWN) cartooning in South Africa.Below are some selected cartoons from the deep archives of […]
David Rowe begins today’s conversation with this delightful take on everything.Fauci’s deadpan expression captures his serious intent, while his expertise is shown in the charts on his desk, ready for use in his testimony, his framed degrees and his overflow of books.But despite his having shut the door and put a “closed” sign on it, […]
above: the hard copy cover, the free e-book does not contain a pull-out poster or flip-book animationAndrews McMeel Publishing and the Schulz Museum have joined forces to give away laughs. From all of us at Andrews McMeel Publishing and the Schulz Museum, thank you for nurturing a lifelong love of reading in kids. Please enjoy […]
Don’t do a lot of comic book stuff here, there are a bunch of sites for that, but…The lovely comic book artist of the 1940s, Lily Renée is celebrating her 99th birthday today, and we would like to join in the celebration and wish her well.HAPPY BIRTHDAY RENÉE!
The 2020 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival will take place;one way or another, in one form or another.But the organizers would like your opinion on the matter: So what does the pandemic mean for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus? * We can say for sure that CXC is going to happen in some form this October, and that […]
Back in January, when the world was “different,” the Portland political cartoonist submitted entries for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. He became busy with other obvious pressing things to even think about the Pulitzer until Monday morning, May 4. “I wasn’t aware that I was a finalist until about two hours before (the […]
Today’s posting will be big on links, because, for some reason, I’ve suddenly come across a number of really good things you should go explore on your own.And if you are properly locked down and socially distant, you’ve got time for that, right? Right!So we’ll start with Sarah Cooper, who, if you haven’t already discovered […]
A few days ago we mentioned the St. Cloud Times’ website had signed on for the Andrews McMeel Syndication online package. Well, it seems that was only the tip of an iceberg. Over the weekend a number of other Gannett newspapers announced they too were giving their readers free access to the AMS syndication comic […]
Watch as Wisconsin State Journal political cartoonist Phil Hands walks viewers through his creative process as he draws this year’s Mother’s Day cartoon. WiscNews presents Phil digitally drawing this year’s Mother’s Day cartoons.
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. […]