On the occasion of an upcoming book…Bado’s Blog reviews the Duncan Macpherson biograpy. In northern New Zealand… The Times this week began featuring cartoons from Aucklander Isabelle Russell. In anticipation of his forthcoming book…Tom Gauld is interviewed by Creative Review. Short book review from Publishers Weekly here. In 2006 a blogger called Charles Lavoie wrote that every New […]
In collaboration with the Stimola Literary Studio, Brian “Dog Eat Doug” Anderson is scheduled to live stream a “How to Write Any Story”, a writing workshop for kids seven and up.The half-hour event starts at 10:00 (ET) on March 31st. Follow this LINK to the live stream: https://www.facebook.com/theconjurersnovel.
There is apparently no such “Chinese curse” as “May you live in interesting times,” but Ed Hall does a nice job of illustrating the times in which we do live, a time in which a madman genuinely appears to believe that he can create truth simply by following his own self-centered, unexamined whims.“Truth” being agreement […]
Harriet Glickman, who championed the integration of the Peanuts comic strip, has passed away. Harriet Mae Glickman (nee Ratner) November 1, 1926 – March 27, 2020 From Nat Gertler’s notice:Harriet Glickman, the woman who had suggested to Charles Schulz that he add an African-American character to the strip and thus inspired the creation of Franklin, passed […]
Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott are doing a series of public service announcements regarding the coronavirus pandemic utilizing their Baby Blues characters. Coronavirus safety tip #1 of 5 From Rick and Jerry:Download your Baby Blues Coronavirus Tips! Free to print and distribute. Print out the B&W version for kids (or you) to color! See each original post […]
Tales from the Slush Pile by Ed Briant has gone on hiatus.Every Thursday, for over 14 years, Publishers Weekly has featured the comic strip “Tales from the Slush Pile” in their Children’s Bookshelf. There is now a hiccup in that schedule as the March 26, 2020 installment of the strip (above) reveals.Publishers Weekly tells The […]
From the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists: 3/27/20 UPDATE: The 2020 AAEC+ACC cartoonist convention has been officially cancelled. Wes Tyrell, President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists, said, “We just heard today from the Canadian Feds, who were hosting a big chunk of the convention, that they must postpone until an undetermined date. We are […]
King Features wasn’t able to locate today’s “King of the Royal Mounted,” but a quick archival search brought it up at the Press-Democrat of Santa Rosa, not to be confused with Santa Rosita where detective work involves looking for buried treasure under a big W.So here it is and it turns out to be a […]
March 26 was scheduled to be Opening Day for Major League Baseball.You may remember that the Zits comic strip for today was replaced:King Features Syndicate has issued a correction for Zits black and white and color for 3/26. Due to the event’s postponement, a comic about baseball’s Opening Day was replaced.So we got this 2010 […]
There are many reasons to like Mike Thompson‘s cartoon, starting with the timing.I hit a point last night where I didn’t want to read the arguing and self-sanctities on my computer anymore and I didn’t want to watch the talking heads promote their talking points on TV, and so I just read books that had […]
Cartoonist/artist Ted Mullings has passed away.Harry Theodore (Ted) Mullings April 7, 1926 – April 12, 2019* commercial artist, painter, cartoonistFrom the obituary:Ted was a commercial artist for the Climax Molybdenum Company and the owner of The Little Cottage Art Gallery in Leadville. He was a member of the Ski Club in Climax, a member of the […]
Patrick McDonnell pays tribute to Rube Goldberg in today’s Mutts. I’m the Guy was one of many titles that made up Rube Goldberg’s comic strip. This was at a time when even daily comic strips were given enough room to have companion panels/strips.In 1912 Rube, with Bert Grant, wrote a song with the title.https://youtu.be/PMfyO0Ppmg0 More about […]
Jeff Danziger captures the mood, or at least mine and presumably his.I’ve been working from home for the past decade, so I don’t know why this would be any different, but it is, mostly, I think, because “working from home” always included a lot of little errands that I’m thinking twice about now.Which reminds me […]
Diamond Distributors, the company that gets comics from the publishers to your local comic book shop, is (temporarily) halting shipments of comic books and other products after this week’s shipments.From ComicsBeat:Product distributed by Diamond and slated for an on-sale date of April 1st or later will not be shipped to retailers until further notice. Product distributed by […]
Cartoonist Albert Uderzo has passed away.Alberto Aleandro (Albert) Uderzo April 25, 1927 – March 24, 2020 From The Guardian obituary:Asterix illustrator Albert Uderzo has died at the age of 92, his family has announced. The French comic book artist, who created the beloved Asterix comics in 1959 with the writer René Goscinny, died on Tuesday. He […]