above: Specialty drawing by Ron Ferdinand NMCV:How did you get the job working on Dennis the Menace?Ron: I subscribed to a quarterly magazine called “Cartoonist Profiles.” In 1980, there was an interview with Hank Ketcham. He had just moved back to Monterey, CA from Geneva, Switzerland and was starting a training program. I sent him […]
Today’s The Other Coast pings a particularly sweet spot for me, because I remember asking my mother about the same problem: Santa comes down chimneys and we didn’t have one.Well, we did, but it led directly into the furnace, which didn’t seem like a good entrance to the house.The background to her answer is that […]
The Associated Press has picked up the story of Jim Davis and Heritage Auctions offering The Jim Davis Collection of original Garfield comic strip and specialty and roughs to the public.Cartoonist Jim Davis is offering up more than 11,000 “Garfield” comic strips hand-drawn on paper in an auction that will stretch into the coming years, […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – when political cartoonists pick their favorite cartoons from the past year.Earlier Mike Peterson linked to Ann Telnaes and Tom Toles selections from The Washington Post. But the WaPo also did another roundup:Every Saturday in print, The Post publishes a sampling of editorial cartoons from around the […]
The Clowns are running The Circus.New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen explains how it came about:Every last one of the serious adult types at this publication is off mulling some wine, trimming a tree, roasting a chestnut, taking in a matinée of “Little Women,” lighting a candle, putting out a candle-related fire, or catching up […]
A leftover from yesterday, this Pajama Diaries has been rattling around in my consciousness for a couple of reasons.One is that, as Terri Libenson brings the comic to a close — there’s only two weeks left — I’m going to really miss it but I suspect that she, like Jill, is doing a little housecleaning, […]
Its already a disappointing Yuletide season for me thanks to King Features.Neither Popeye or Popeye’s Cartoon Club celebrated the 100th Thimble Theatre anniversary, this week or last Sunday. Not even a mention on the King Features or Comics Kingdom Twitter feeds, or their Facebook page. Tea manages to sneak in the Thimble Theatre words in […]
It is the end of an era for one of the most famous names in book publishing. Penguin is being sold by Pearson, its owner for the last half-century, as the company focuses its activities exclusively on education. The sale means that none of the so-called ‘Big Five’ of English-language book publishing remain in British […]
The New Zealand Media Council, a self-regulatory body funded by industry, has ruled that the Garrick Tremain “spots” cartoon “has no redeeming qualities.”The New Zealand Media Council’s findings relating to the Tremain cartoon:Cartoonists employ wit, satire, exaggeration, caricature and humour to make a point.A few deft stokes of the pen and a few well-chosen words […]
As The Philadelphia Inquirer says:Check out the cartoons previewing 2020 by Alli Katz, Andrea Beizer, Tom Stiglich, Jim Hunt, Terry Laban, Jeff Curnow, Rob Tornoe, Al Goodwun, Greg Kearney, Meghan Turbitt, Peter Evans, and Box Brown.The Inquirer’s Currents section, where these cartoons appeared in print, features opinions and viewpoints to help you better understand the […]
There have been some churches featured on Facebook and Twitter that have caged the Baby Jesus in their nativity sets, and I like Mike Luckovich‘s version of the concept.But lest we forget, this idea has Scriptural relevance:And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, […]
The Joplin (Missouri) Globe has announced major changes to its comics pages.From a November Comics survey the newspaper determined that the favorite strips are Pickles in the daily comics and For Better or For Worse was the Sunday favorite.Zits came in #2 in both the daily and the Sunday polling. The Globe reports:The least favorite […]
I’m starting to get in the Christmas mood, but Dear Leader keeps dragging me back to Macroland.John Cole suggests a nice blend of myth and reality, much better than all the “Trump as Santa Claus” cartoons, because he blends Trump’s personal desperation with the idea that, unlike George Bailey, he’s taking counsel from someone dragging […]
December 20, 2019 Letter from the National Cartoonists Society calling for submissions. Note that membership is not a requirement to submit and be considered for the divisional awards and the submissions deadline is January 23, 2020.
Ye Gods! There’s some synchronicity among today’s comic strips. Dick Tracy The Phantom Mark Trail Curtis Pearls Before Swine Overboard