Freelance political cartoonist Clay Jones was recently interviewed by Mike Rhode.Why are you in Washington now? I moved to Fredericksburg in 1998 to work for The Free Lance-Star. I stayed in the area after I was laid off in 2012. What would you like to do or work on in the future? I would like […]
The New York Times interviews Gary Larson to coincide with the launch of the first website to legitimately post his comics.From the piece: Did any cartoons provoke controversy? Man, controversy never seemed too far away from me, especially during my first year of syndication. I truly thought my career may have ended a number of […]
Jimmy Margulies gets the prize for an apt literary reference as we prepare for the alleged trial of the alleged President.The issue isn’t so much that the Republicans are in lockstep. That’s been obvious for more than a decade. But Kevin Siers points out that we can skip the references to the Wizard of Oz, because the […]
Animator/gag cartoonist Stuart J. Knickerbocker has passed away. Stuart James (Stu) Knickerbocker March 10, 1925 – December 14, 2019animator, artist, gag cartoonistFrom the obituary: Stu was a substitute teacher in Detroit before he began his career in commercial art at the Jam Handy Organization in Detroit. He spent most of his career at Portafilms in […]
Around the time I became a fan of the newly refurbished Hardy Boys, there were other simulacra of which I was unaware. One of those carbons was Brains Benton.A few years after the books first appeared in 1959, veteran cartoonist Tom Gill partnered with a writer (probably not Brains creator Charles Spain Verral) to create […]
Danae may be ahead of her classmates in today’s Non Sequitur, but they’ll follow soon enough. The notion that what’s said on-line stays on-line is nonsense.I remember, in about 2003, going to see a principal at an elementary school so rural (How rural was it?) so rural that you could see cows in the pasture […]
Cartoonist Adam Ellis called out a Malaysian company for using his comic strip art in an advertising campaign without permission, notification, or compensation.Shopee Malaysia has apologised after being called out by cartoonist and former Buzzfeed writer Adam Ellis for stealing one of his comics to promote its 12.12. Birthday Sale. In a tweet last week, […]
Peter Brookes leads off today with a cartoon about the UK elections that resonates in the US.There are plenty of political analysts who link Boris Johnson’s stunning victory to the radical policies of his chief opponent, Jeremy Corbin, and American commentators have suggested that Democrats are heading down the same path to defeat if they […]
The (Vancouver, Washington) Columbian will no longer publish a Monday edition of their newspaper. But the paper let readers of the daily syndicated features know that “Monday Favorites Won’t Be Lost.”Monday comics and puzzles will be in the Tuesday paper, as well as the Tuesday dated features.
Cartoonist Charlie Daniel was born December 14, 1929; today he becomes. in our parlance, a Senior Stripper. Happy Birthday Charlie!For 60 years, from 1958 to 2019, Charlie was cartooning for Knoxville, Tennessee. Charlie was let go by Gannett early this year.Charlie has been honored throughout his career, most recently being awarded the Distinguished Artist Award […]
This Phil Hands piece is a good opener on a day when a power failure has delayed the process. It had nothing to do with weather but the lack of power is lack of heat in the house, which puts me in the mood.The police in Hands’ home base of Madison are, I suppose, right […]
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. LOAC Essentials Volume 14: Barney Google, 1928 Anatomy of Authors Rugrats: The Newspaper Strips Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of […]
Berni Wrightson‘s original art for the wraparound cover to his illustrated edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for Marvel in 1983 has sold for $1,000,000.00.From icollector:Bernie Wrightson original wrap-around cover artwork for Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. (Marvel, 1983) Accomplished in pencil and ink on large 20 x 30 in. heavy weight art board. Bernie Wrightson, […]
From the Livingston Ledger:An image of the Duke of Cambridge leap-frogging over his father the Prince of Wales [#39] is among the satirical Gerald Scarfe cartoons going on sale. The unpublished image, which has a £3,000 to £5,000 estimate, is among a catalogue of cartoons to be sold by Sotheby’s auctioneers in central London on […]
As Mansion Global says:Ranan Lurie couldn’t have drawn a more perfect view from his 63rd-floor Manhattan apartment, which serves as his office and studio. Now the political cartoonist is about to put the two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom apartment at Time Warner Center on the market for just under $5 million. The listing is set to be […]