One of the first things Lincoln Peirce did when he arrived at Colby as a first-year student in 1981 was go to the office of the Colby Echo and pitch the student newspaper on a comic strip. That strip, which ran in the Echo until Peirce graduated in 1985, was called Third Floor, named after […]
If you’ve read Gulliver’s Travels, you’ve encountered a verbal nicety of those days, which is that nobody calls anyone a liar. Rather, they accuse him of “saying The Thing That Is Not.” You would also encounter such roundabout language throughout the D’Artagnan Romances, although, in those stories, people skirt the word “liar” narrowly, not to […]
Princess Bride Adapted to Comic StripsIt seems that every scene of The Princess Bride will eventually find its way into Dan Schkade’s Flash Gordon. From earlier this year: And now insects of unusual size. Shrinkflation in the ComicsIt wouldn’t surprise me to see the dozen carton of eggs reduced to ten with no reduction in […]
If you can’t trust cartoonists, who?Like Monty I read the daily comics, unlike Monty mostly online since my local only carries six comics, two of the three mentioned above. Barely moving on we come to Daddy Daze where we find out that we can’t trust cartoonists. Rory out of The Barn is just flat out […]
The expression “2 a.m. in the sophomore dorm” goes back at least to Usenet days. It refers to overly idealistic ideas and nonsensical proposals that arise in the wee hours of the morning among people who have not yet learned how the world works and who base their judgment on how the world should be […]
Per Wikipedia: The Angoulême International Comics Festival (AICF; French: Festival international de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket of Japan. But from Humanity: The Angoulême Comic […]
Sadie Hawkins DayNovember means Sadie Hawkins Day and Lesley Kennedy at History.com writes of the whys and wherefores. “I would always begin my stories with ‘What if…?’” Capp once said, according to Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary by Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen. “What if there were a special day in Dogpatch in […]
Lyndon Johnson liked to use a phrase from Isaiah, “Come, let us reason together.” It seems a very long time ago, and I suppose it was. LBJ left office nearly 60 years ago, and I’m not sure how often we’ve tried to reason together since. I have recalled here before that chants of “Hey, Hey, […]
Running the Gamut: Comic Stripping (Wannabe)! Editooning (Jack Ohman)! Magazine Cartooning (Liza Donnelly)! Comic Booking (Donut Squad)! Animating (Legal Rights Reverting)! More Comic Stripping (Dogs of C-Kennel)!Wannabe by Luca Debus Enters The Kingdom A few people relayed the new to me news to me that the Wannabe comic strip by Luca Debus has signed onto […]
A set of British First World War Campaign medals have been nicknamed after cartoon characters.From The Great War 1914-1918: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred are the affectionate names given to the three WW1 campaign medals — The 1914 Star or 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal respectively. These medals were primarily awarded to the […]
Matt Wuerker sings of arms and the man with a Veterans Day cartoon. There aren’t as many “Little boys saluting tombstones” cartoons as usual, which is good, but, then, there aren’t as many cartoons marking the holiday at all, which is puzzling and, IMHO, not good. Most of the veterans who get the day off […]
Jeff Koterba shares a big announcement with us: Okay, so…cartoonists don’t get promotions. The great cartoonist and friend, Mike Peters (editorial cartoonist and creator of the comic strip, Mother Goose and Grimm), once said something like, “the only promotion a cartoonist ever gets is the day he’s hired.” There’s truth in that. I mean, when […]
Dykes to Watch Out For, a widely syndicated strip cartoon series, ran from 1987 to 2008, ending only after [Alison] Bechdel achieved success with her first graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragic Comedy, later made into a Broadway play. Fun Home was followed by Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2013), then The […]
Looks like we may possibly probably could have an end to the shutdown. Both my senators — one of whom has a special-needs kid — made the switch, which is either pragmatism or cowardice, depending on your POV. So a lot of political cartoons have to be used before they become obsolete.Mamet, however, is playing […]
Let’s start with what may be the most wonderful seasonal comic strip of the year. Mike Manley always lets us know what season it is in Judge Parker and he does a fantastic job of it in the top two tiers today. While Francesco Marciuliano‘s sentimental, but not mauldlin, script in the lower two tiers […]