Love Is… sticking around for 50 years.It was fifty years ago today that the Love Is… comic panel by Kim Grove debuted. above: first character drawing (1967); first Love Is… syndicated panel (January 5, 1970)The Love Is… website has a history of the evolution from postcard to syndication. Love Is… continues to be syndicated […]
I like Bob Moran’s presidential portrait, since so many people have been drawing parallels between the 1920s and the current set of 20s, but one major difference is that then we’d just concluded a horrific war and had a strong desire to avoid another.For all that can be said about Woodrow Wilson’s attitude towards race […]
At The Richmond (KY) Register:Beginning in the Tuesday, Jan. 7, edition of The Register, a new daily comic debuts. Rhymes With Orange is set to replace The Pajama Diaries, which will no longer be syndicated.In anticipation the newspaper got Hilary B. Price and Rina Piccolo to participate in the paper’s Five For Friday question and […]
After 42 years Peter Guren has decided to end his Ask Shagg weekly comic.The final Ask Shagg comic will appear tomorrow, with some sort of farewell message from Peter.ASK SHAGG by Peter Guren August 1978 1979 – January 5, 2020 weekly self-syndicated/United Feature Syndicate/CreatorsPeter’s LinkedIn profile notes that Ask Shagg began in 1978, then the […]
It’s hard to pick a starting point today, but Pat Bagley offers a good reflection on things, because we’ve sure seen a lot of talking heads and it’s up to you to sort out the ones who are offering honest analysis and the ones simply beating partisan drums, one way or t’other. But we’ve certainly been […]
Here’s the last episode of the Pajama Diaries, though, as she notes, you can relive the experience from the start by staying tuned to Comics Kingdom.And I hope, if you care enough to be here looking at comics, you do shell out the twenty bucks a year for full access to Comics Kingdom.Thanks to the […]
New Hampshire’s Valley News is reporting that a fire damaged the second floor of the Colodny Building in White River Junction. The Center for Cartoon Studies uses the ground floor which had water damage from sprinklers. The Colodny Building serves the CCS as a multi-use area, including, on occasion, exhibits; though no exhibit was being […]
Conservatives are indignant over the Christmas card Larry Flint’s Hustler sent out to members of Congress during the 2019 holiday season.The card cover riffs on a statement Candidate Trump said during his run for President. The inside of the card is being described as “disgusting and hateful” by Republicans.Right wing channels have taken umbrage, as […]
Yeah, it’s a cereal thing.From The Guardian:Lidl is to remove cartoon characters from its own-brand cereal ranges to help parents resist pester power and tackle Britain’s growing childhood obesity crisis. The discount retailer, which has almost 800 UK stores, pledged to remove cartoon characters from eight of its cereal ranges by spring.From the Daily Mail: […]
Nat Gertler and About Comics have reissued the 1924 Webster’s Bridge book, originally published by Frederick A. Stokes.Bleeding Cool has more information about the new edition of Webster’s Bridge.Nat Gertler must be a bridge fan, as Bleeding Cool notes, “This book is just the latest in a series of books of bridge humor from About […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has published the deadlines and links to various Award and Prize opportunities for Editorial Cartoonists.A few, including The Pulitzer and The Divisional Reubens, have January deadlines. The deadline for Canada’s National Newspaper Awards is only days away.National Newspaper Awards (Canada) Deadline: January 9, 2020 Rules and entry form available […]
Tallahassee Democrat political cartoonist Nathan Archer has created a comic strip for the paper.Ella by Nathan Archer January 3, 2020 – weekly strip Tallahassee Democrat Sez Nathan:The name is no coincidence. My feathered female protagonist is indeed named after Tallahassee’s own Midtown attraction, a favorite of mine since I moved here almost 20 years ago. Ella […]
I know, I know. Archduke Ferdinand and all that. A few cartoonists are already on it, but Prickly City is as close as we’re getting, because thank God, it’s Friday Funnies. Candorville is as political as we’ll get, as Darrin Bell wraps up this conversation about the Roaring 20s and the Current 20s. Lemont is absolutely right, […]
Jen Sorensen passes on some sad news:Though she doesn’t identify the paper I believe it was one of the Southland Publishing weeklies, which last year was purchased by the Arizona-based Times Media Group.“The Southland publications have always been special in their connection with the communities they serve,” [Steve Strickbine, president of Times Media Group] added. […]
Balzac et Grandville: Une Fantaisie Mordante or Balzac and Grandville: (The Google Translation)The first illustrated newspapers of the beginning of the 19th century gave a lot of space to the engravings and to the commentaries which accompany them. In newsrooms, illustrators and editors rub shoulders. This is how Jean-Ignace Gérard dit Grandville and Honoré de […]