Twenty years ago was a very sad weekend for comics fans.Already dismayed with the news that the Peanuts comic strip was ending, the day of February 12, 2000 became unbearable when news broke that cartoonist Charles Schulz had died. The very next day came the announced end of Peanuts, a planned end and so we […]
Drawing is something all little ones do. Occasionally they don’t give it up. If you are a cartoonist and want to learn how to become professional, there’s an opp for that. The opportunity is to learn from professionals. Craig Boldman has a course coming up in March for the still young.Students will learn about character development, […]
So the Primary is over and we’re back to being invisible.Someone will ask for our vote in November, but with only four electoral votes, that’s all they’ll do: Ask. The begging is now officially over.And I guess I’m not an influencer after all, because I read a couple of analyses of the vote that expressed […]
Art Van Rhyn, The Cambrian cartoonist for 30 years, has decided to retire. Kathy Tanner writing for both The Cambrian and the San Luis Obispo Tribune:He joined the newspaper’s cadre of freelancers in 1991, soon after I became a reporter there. The Cambrian’s editor asked Art to submit a cartoon, which he did. “The next week,” […]
Famed French cartoonist Claire Bretécher has passed away.Claire Bretécher April 7, 1940 – February 10*, 2020 * A number of early reports gave February 11 as the date of passing.“Women in comic strips are usually portrayed either as shrews or movie stars. But in real life, women, like men, are neither of these extremes, so […]
We’ll let New Yorker cartoonist Lila Ash lead off today, though I’m hoping it won’t take months for the nattering nabobs to stop talking about caucuses.I’d like today’s New Hampshire Primary to shift their attention away from whatever happened or didn’t happen or should have happened in Iowa, not because what happens here will be […]
above: the February 10, 2020 issue of The Flying McCoysThe National Cartoonists Society has announced that it will be awarding its Silver T-Square to Andrews McMeel President and Editorial Director John Glynn:From NCS President Jason Chatfield:On behalf of the board of directors of the National Cartoonists Society, It is my great pleasure to announce that […]
Let’s start with a timely Juxtaposition:(Darrin Bell)(Jeff Danziger)Bell is specifically referring to the Iowa Caucus, while Danziger seems more to be looking towards tomorrow’s NH Primary, but they’re both casting the remainder of the race as being between Pete and Bernie.It’s part of the horserace style of reporting that is the bane of small-d democratic […]
Cartoonist Jim Rose has passed away.James A. (Jim) Rose August 7, 1932 – January 24, 2020 From the obituary:Savannah political cartoonist and artist JIM ROSE passed on January 24, 2020. He was 87. His cartoon, “Phrogg,” ran in the Sunday edition of the Savannah Morning News for many years commenting on local and national news and […]
Archie artist and editor Victor Gorelick has passed away.Archie Comics announced on Twitter: Victor Gorelick April 5, 1941 – February 8, 2020 From the CBR (aka Comic Book Resources) notice:Gorelick joined Archie Comics at 16 and served in a variety of roles at the company. He became Archie Comics’ editor-in-chief in 2007. The next year, in […]
Peter Brookes gets to do a “torn speech” cartoon here for a couple of reasons, the first being that I admire his artwork.Another is that I’m willing to forgive a furriner for not realizing that the Democrats never expected to remove Trump from office, and I’m also willing to accept that Dear Leader is treating […]
Career women was not a new concept in 1961, but those shown on the comic pages were rather old-fashioned. Nick Dallis, creator of Rex Morgan and Judge Parker, decided to update the concept for a modern audience – within reason. Three independent, liberated women in the big city, who would not pass The Bechdel Test. […]
Tom Tomorrow scores in a time when it’s hard to make more than one valid argument, never mind popping off nine of them.Most of the multi-panel commentators at the moment seem to start well and then either fade to pointlessness or wander off into delusional conspiracy theories. Granted, there are prolific one-panel cartoonists who drop […]
To celebrate the last decade of PBF, Dark Horse is releasing a special and comprehensive Almanack collection of Nicholas’s comics. In addition to placing all of his work in one place, the book also contains scrapped panels that never made the main website.On the occasion of The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack (10th Anniversary Edition) being […]
Bette Banjack sits down with Loose Parts’ Dave Blazek and gets a recipe.Moving through the newspaper world he landed at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News. Being a creative person, Dave has done it all. Graphic arts, writing, plus creating and directly some 500 radio commercials plus around 100 TV commercials. He retired as Inquirer […]