Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Mac Raboy: Master of the Comics The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1916-1918 Tales From the Trumpster Fire: A Cartoon Anthology […]
Rick McKee orients us with this explanation of the GOP response to … well, you can’t call it a “scandal” if nobody is scandalized.Well, somebody is. But not everybody.What we’re hearing has confirmed what everyone believed, with “everyone believed” being divided between everyone who thinks Trump is a crook and everyone who thinks the elitists […]
Bob Lubbers was a “good-girl” artist. He began drawing girls in a very good way in 1940s comic books. In 1950 Bob moved from comic books to comic strips. Starting at the top with Tarzan. After a few years in the jungle, Bob joined Al Capp Enterprises where, partnering Lubbers with Capp, the inevitable happened. […]
Providence Journal Executive Editor Alan Rosenberg felt the need to explain why the newspaper will be running G. B. Trudeau‘s November 17, 2019 Sunday Doonesbury comic strip.Says Rosenberg:I winced when I first read today’s “Doonesbury.” It’s a particularly tough strip, assailing Donald Trump’s children as well as the president’s stand on immigration, in satirical terms […]
Ann Telnaes continues to draw the committee as it works and her array provides a nice precis of the day’s events, which is handy for viewers and ought to be intimidating for other cartoonists, since, while a lot of cartoonists can put out multiple sketches of an event, her half-dozen are each about one step […]
Recently Comics Beat asked friends and fans of Tom Spurgeon to “Name your 5 best memories of Tom Spurgeon. It can be ways he influenced you, or the things he did that touched you the most.” This is how they responded.From Comics Beat:In honour of Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Beat created a special “Five for […]
Arlo & Janis set me back a moment this past Sunday, until I re-read it and realized Arlo was talking about when wings went national, not when they were invented.Of course, wings were invented at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, and what KFC and others have done is turned good bar food into mediocre fast […]
Shareholders have approved the merger of Gatehouse (New Media) and Gannett.Below are some outtakes of the Rick Edmonds article for Poynter:The combination will take place Tuesday, Nov. 19. The deal had been announced in mid-August as a $1.4 billion purchase of Gannett by New Media. But New Media shares have declined so much in the […]
SAT, DEC 14 AT 5 PM EST Memorial for Tom Spurgeon The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum The Spurgeon Family and the Billy Ireland are setting up a memorial service for Tom.From the Billy Ireland:Our community is grieving an incalculable loss today. Thomas Spurgeon, friend, donor, member of our National Advisory Council and Executive […]
Ann Telnaes shows off her caricature chops with a portfolio of views from the hearings, and, while not overtly analyzing the proceedings, manages to both capture the moment and slip the knife between the ribs here and there.The hearings brought me back to Watergate days, because while there were a few times you were glued […]
Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has passed away.From Tom’s brother Whit:R.I.P. to my amazing brother Thomas Spurgeon. He lived one hell of an amazing life, and I love him.Thomas Martin (Tom) Spurgeon December 16, 1968 – November 13, 2019From the obituary:Tom Spurgeon, a writer, editor, journalist and historian whose lifelong passion was not just comics, but […]
Eddie Campbell reviews Screwball for The Comics Journal:Screwball follows an isolated strain of comics history as opposed to those other books that tell the whole lot decade by decade or by lining up a canon of masters. Which is not say it isn’t linear: from Fred Opper to Boody Rogers, editor Paul Tumey locates fifteen […]
Sousa and Machado set the scene today, as I try to reconcile history remembered with history in the making.History itself is a slippery thing, and Stephen Dedalus never quite explained his aphorism about history being a nightmare from which he was trying to awake, but, then again, he lived in Ireland, of which Chesterson said […]
Forget Classics Illustrated, let’s read Classics Cartooned.I’m Katie, and I’ve been drawing single-panel cartoons for the past eight years. I love silly puns, drawing, and reading, and these cartoons are a celebration of great books, authors, and literary tropes. I draw these with felt pens on paper, and then, because I am a bit technologically […]
Earlier this year a Daniel Brannan cartoon caused a bit of a fuss. Well, Daniel is not one to let the dust settle.From the Coeur d’Alene Press at the beginning of this month:Bigoted postcards arrived in Coeur d’Alene mailboxes Thursday, prompting outrage and solidarity from community leaders and candidates. The postcard, postmarked with Tuesday’s date […]