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 The unpublished image, which has a £3,000 to £5,000 estimate, is among a catalogue of cartoons to be sold by Sotheby’s auctioneers in central London on […]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 […]
Janis is right, but it’s hard not to put eagles above buzzards in the Grand Scheme of Things.Buzzards are pretty amazing birds, hunting with their noses as much, perhaps more, than their eyes.I think the preference for eagles is that they tend to be more solitary, and they combine hunting and scavenging. We like to […]
Johnny Sampson notes:I did the “Special Edition MAD 20 Fold-In”, out this week! Some of you know this but @original.aljaffee gave me his blessing a while back, and this is (to my knowledge) the first non-Al Jaffee Fold-in MAD’s ever published. I’m thrilled he got to see it in print for himself. (I think he […]
Pat Bagley starts us off with a depressingly accurate look at things. The comment on the tax on services identifies this as a local comment on Utah politics, but it applies nationally as well.I suppose they might listen if they were more beholden to local voters than to corporate contributors, but an Amendment to overturn […]
The firefighters who battled the Tubbs and Kincade fires received a “thank you” in a popular comic strip published on Monday. above: Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis“Pearls Before Swine” usually is about the misadventures of several animals, but creator Stephan Pastis of Santa Rosa shifted the comic’s focus to show how grateful he is […]
We reported on the tariffs a few months ago.Now the effects are hitting home as the most important American literature is being affected.Co-editor Mark Evanier explains the delay in deliverance:Volume 6 of The Complete Syndicated Pogo — subtitled Clean as a Weasel — was originally going to be printed in China and the materials got […]
For those with a political bent in need of a 2020 calendar, you might want…The Economist 2020 KAL Calendar orTHE 2020 LALO ALCARAZ AND LA CUCARACHA CARTOON CALENDAR! orthe 2020 Keefie-Toon Mega-Mix Calendar!
An update on our story of an editorial cartoon that made light of a measles outbreak in Samoa that is killing the young and the elderly.After an uproar and street protests the Otago Daily Times printed a mea culpa, and editor Barry Stewart publicly stated a more heartfelt apology.Cartoonist Garrick Tremain at the time gave a […]
When an editor gets a message from a reader about an editorial cartoon, he knows it is not going to be from a happy camper. But every once in a blue moon that editor is surprised:Political cartoonist Michael Ramirez is simply a genius. I have been amazed and entertained for years by Mr. Ramirez’s phenomenal […]
Michael de Adder picks up on the news that Canada’s athlete of the year and the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year are both women.Tennis player Bianca Andreescu was the unanimous pick for Canada’s Lou Marsh Trophy, while women’s soccer hero Megan Rapinoe was chosen by SI for her courage as well as her athletic […]
Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide has provided comics researcher Jeffrey Lindenblatt a platform to present his latest project. Jeffrey has taken 300 newspapers, from large to small. and used them as a source to extrapolate the best selling newspaper comics strips from 1978 to 2019.Says Jeffrey:I decided that I would research 300 different daily papers from […]
Today Channing Miller said goodbye to The Daily Texan:After six semesters, six comics editors, three different job descriptions and four sketchbooks, it is finally time for me to say goodbye to my beloved corner of the basement. This corner isn’t just a place where I have sat with aching knuckles and a sketchbook in my […]