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 […]
There’s enough going on that the best way to start off is to have Tom Tomorrow bring us up to date on everything. Think of it as the five-minute NPR news break at the top of the hour before we get into Morning Edition or All Things Considered and start digging down on the details.And […]
Confirmed. Fishman = Loren Fishman. See update below original story.original March 10 post:New Mallard Fillmore comic strips are being signed “Fishman.”After about 3½ months of reruns new Mallard Fillmore strips have begun appearing this week. But they are not being signed by creator Bruce Tinsley.Last year Reed Brennan notified subscribers to the comic that, “Due […]
I’m getting burned out on editorial cartoons, mostly because they aren’t saying much that’s new or important anymore.JD Crowe has the right to publicize the nitwits of spring break because it took pleas from several sources to get his governor to shut down Alabama’s beaches and get rid of spring break crowds.Parenthetically, I’d be bummed […]
When is too late? What is proper?Syndicated comic strips are created weeks in advance, and Sunday editions are set in stone a couple weeks before delivery to our front porches. So times and circumstances often conspire against the medium.Today Tank McNamara had a (really funny) baseball gag.Unfortunately baseball season for 2020 has been delayed for […]
Starting off today with John Aucther, both to pursue his point and to express how tiring it is to monitor social media these days.He’s right about the foolishness of trying to gather everything under the umbrella of “media” in any meaningful way.It’s ironic … or maybe just stupid … to hear people who are fans […]
Chen Weng knows from coronavirus hot spots. The artist was born in Wuhan and now lives in Seattle, so it was only natural that her online comics would begin to steer toward commentary about covid-19. “People in the rest of the world might not have known much at the time, but it was all people […]
We’ll start the day with Steve Sack‘s commentary on working at home, because he acknowledges the challenge without going overboard.With about half my career having been freelance, I’ve worked at home both with kids under foot and after they were long gone, and I do recognize the fact that my deadlines have been far enough […]
Comic strip artist and animator Román Arámbula has passed away. Román V. Arámbula September 18, 1936 (?1935?) – March 19, 2020 animation, comic stripsThe Lambiek Comiclopedia profile.A brief filmography and comics work outline from I.N.D.U.C.K.S.: Education/training Mexico City University Animated films Television commercials 1960s (no specifics known). – Hanna-Barbera: Layout artist 1970-1975 (Josie and the Pussycats, […]
The National Cartoonists Society has revealed the 2019 NCS Divisional Award nominees for the 74th Annual NCS Reuben Awards.All nominees for all categories at the National Cartoonists Society site.Good Luck to all!
The “Women Cartoonists International Award“ announced Doaa Eladl from Egypt as the winner of the first grand prize… while Camila de la Fuente from Venezuela/Mexico won the youth prize. Guy Badeaux has the winner details, along with submissions from the Honorable Mentions.