One of the most iconic Robert Crumb pages from his underground comix days is going up for auction in late November at Heritage Auctions.Robert Crumb’s original artwork for his famous comic strip ‘Stoned Agin’ will be offered for sale at Heritage Auctions next month. The 1971 illustration has been described as a “cultural icon”, and […]

GoComics announced in their weekly newsletter that ‘Mexikid Stories’ by Pedro Martin had joined the site.From the “About” section: Pedro Martin has created a cartoon memoir of his childhood during the ’70s and ’80s. In this collection, he relives the fun and perfectly fine craziness of growing up as one of nine kids in a […]

I hadn’t intended to lead with this house ad from the Tampa Bay Times of July 29, 1974, but it’s both apt and oddly timed.I was looking for a photo of the original “Point/Counterpoint” segment from 60 Minutes, which inspired the memorable “Jane, you ignorant slut” rants of Saturday Night Live, playing on the staged […]

Cartoonist Richard Thompson contributed illustrations to a 1996 science book.Mike Rhode informs us:[W]e’ve recently been told of a book where Richard contributed over a score of drawings, and we’ll share some of them with you. Richard’s drawings were used in the 1996 edition called Everyday Science Explained and then reprinted in 2003. His ability to […]

So many releases we had to make two posts.Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.  The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning […]

Stephff (Stephane Peray) is a well-respected international cartoonist, giving up what I’m sure was a major portion of his income, not to mention his hometown paper, on an issue of principle. Bado has a little more info on his blog.Earlier this year, Stephff also gave up cartooning for the Arab News, and issued a longer explanation […]

[H. Kevin] Miserocchi knew Addams for just nine years before the cartoonist suffered a fatal heart attack in 1988, but he continued a friendship with his wife, moving onto the Sagaponack estate two years later to, first, keep her company, and then helm the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation. It is where he both lives […]

Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.  SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made The Funnies Funny   If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em   The World is Askew   The Unicorn Whisperer (Book 10) […]

I’d have been surprised if Marty Two Bulls had let the day go by unremarked, and he’s on point in calling out the idea that there was some time in our post-Columbian history that was truly “great.”America is a work in progress and after more than 500 years it’s appropriate to point out how little […]

– – Auction ends Monday October 14, 2019 – –A message from Signe Wilkinson:When he retired from the Philadelphia Inquirer after 41 brilliant years, I inherited the great Tony Auth‘s drawing board (with a built-in light table). The Inquirer is consolidating space and Tony Auth’s drawing board, which I have been using these past several […]

Attempted Bloggery has a theory about an unpublished Charles Saxon cartoon.Last week Michael Maslin’s Ink Spill published a photograph of an original Charles Saxon cartoon hanging on the wall of the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. “Couldn’t we break our rule about hitchhikers just this once?”Stephen Nadler thinks a 1959 Syd Hoff New Yorker […]

Above is the October 5, 2019 issue of Long Story Short by Daniel Beyer.That seems to be the end of the feature. Neither GoComics nor ArcaMax has updated it since that first Saturday in October. More tellingly is that Beyer’s syndicate Creators has not updated  the panel. Commenters on the GoComics and ArcaMax sites have […]

 A tip of the hat to Africartoons for picking up this Paolo Calleri cartoon, which uses an admittedly tired image to make a decidedly current and modern point.As noted here the other day, there is a bonding between grandparents and kids which I remember from my own youth, when “old folks” like Benjamin Spock and […]

Dejects, a chronicle of a career’s rejected comics by Emmy award-winning cartoonist Jay Stephens, launched in Montreal last week, raised money and awareness for mental health. Dejects is a crowdfunded, mature comic book from an artist otherwise known for his work as a writer-illustrator for Chickadee Magazine, OWL Magazine and as a cartoonist for Nickelodeon, […]

Martin Rowson drops an accusation not unlike the Mike Luckovich cartoon featured here Thursday, but at once more gruesome and more subtle.“Subtle” in that it’s not hard to draw a line from Trump’s business interests in Istanbul to his betrayal of our Kurdish allies, but perhaps you already have to recognize, and to accept, the […]