Children’s book author/illustrator Tomie dePaola has passed away.Thomas Anthony (Tomie) dePaola September 15, 1934 – March 30, 2020 Earlier today Tomie’s publisher announced via Facebook:We mourn the loss of a master storyteller. Tomie dePaola has passed away. We extend our sympathy to his legions of readers, friends, and colleagues. From Tomie’s website:He has written and/or illustrated […]
Not to minimize the efforts of Edgar, who has been doing an excellent job of regularly updating the Comics Kingdom Blog, but it is exciting (to me) that beginning last week King Features Syndicate cartoonists have joined Edgar in posting to the blog.Brian Walker, Alex Hallatt, Wayno, Rino Piccolo, Jim Keefe, Bill Bettwy, John Rose, […]
Per the Washingtonian, Politico and Andrews McMeel editorial cartoonist Matt Weurker is hosting a virtual cartooning class for kids on Wednesday April 1st.From the piece:If you’d like to take part in the 30-minute session, Wuerker advises having ten sheets of copier paper and a pen handy. “If you’re a real coward, you can use a […]
Michael de Adder‘s gag is particularly funny because it relies on the notion that this is all part of some cunning plan, and that, if he wanted to give away his secrets, Donald Trump could write a book about what he does and why.Also that his contradictory positions are somehow pleasurable.In reality, he’s mad as […]
Just a wonderful installment of Wiley’s Non Sequitur today.Wiley – please consider allowing the GoComics shop to make a print available of this beautiful take on autism.Wiley informs me that prints are available, (I am so used to seeing the “Buy a Print” notice below the GoComics strips, that I completely overlooked the “Non Sequitur […]
Graeme MacKay offers some advice for those working from home.Several decades ago — the kids are in their 40s now — I used to write at home and manage kids, so my patience with people who cartoon about the impossibility of that is fairly limited, though I guess it’s easier if you’ve been doing it […]
On the occasion of an upcoming book…Bado’s Blog reviews the Duncan Macpherson biograpy. In northern New Zealand… The Times this week began featuring cartoons from Aucklander Isabelle Russell. In anticipation of his forthcoming book…Tom Gauld is interviewed by Creative Review. Short book review from Publishers Weekly here. In 2006 a blogger called Charles Lavoie wrote that every New […]
In collaboration with the Stimola Literary Studio, Brian “Dog Eat Doug” Anderson is scheduled to live stream a “How to Write Any Story”, a writing workshop for kids seven and up.The half-hour event starts at 10:00 (ET) on March 31st. Follow this LINK to the live stream: https://www.facebook.com/theconjurersnovel.
There is apparently no such “Chinese curse” as “May you live in interesting times,” but Ed Hall does a nice job of illustrating the times in which we do live, a time in which a madman genuinely appears to believe that he can create truth simply by following his own self-centered, unexamined whims.“Truth” being agreement […]
Harriet Glickman, who championed the integration of the Peanuts comic strip, has passed away. Harriet Mae Glickman (nee Ratner) November 1, 1926 – March 27, 2020 From Nat Gertler’s notice:Harriet Glickman, the woman who had suggested to Charles Schulz that he add an African-American character to the strip and thus inspired the creation of Franklin, passed […]
Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott are doing a series of public service announcements regarding the coronavirus pandemic utilizing their Baby Blues characters. Coronavirus safety tip #1 of 5 From Rick and Jerry:Download your Baby Blues Coronavirus Tips! Free to print and distribute. Print out the B&W version for kids (or you) to color! See each original post […]
Tales from the Slush Pile by Ed Briant has gone on hiatus.Every Thursday, for over 14 years, Publishers Weekly has featured the comic strip “Tales from the Slush Pile” in their Children’s Bookshelf. There is now a hiccup in that schedule as the March 26, 2020 installment of the strip (above) reveals.Publishers Weekly tells The […]
From the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists: 3/27/20 UPDATE: The 2020 AAEC+ACC cartoonist convention has been officially cancelled. Wes Tyrell, President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists, said, “We just heard today from the Canadian Feds, who were hosting a big chunk of the convention, that they must postpone until an undetermined date. We are […]
King Features wasn’t able to locate today’s “King of the Royal Mounted,” but a quick archival search brought it up at the Press-Democrat of Santa Rosa, not to be confused with Santa Rosita where detective work involves looking for buried treasure under a big W.So here it is and it turns out to be a […]
March 26 was scheduled to be Opening Day for Major League Baseball.You may remember that the Zits comic strip for today was replaced:King Features Syndicate has issued a correction for Zits black and white and color for 3/26. Due to the event’s postponement, a comic about baseball’s Opening Day was replaced.So we got this 2010 […]