This is an installment of 2019 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2019 Departures These comics ceased production for U. S. newspapers in 2019 ROSY’S DINER Charlie Daniel November(?), 2006 – February 3. 2019 weekly […]
This is an installment of 2019 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2019 – The Dearly Departed These U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2019. BATTON A. LASH [nee:MARANGI] October 29, 1953 – […]
This is an installment of 2019 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1:Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2019 Detours/Deviations Detailing some changes in syndicated U. S. newspaper comics in 2019. ALLEY OOP After four months of reruns following The Benders’ 2018 […]
I expected a certain amount of repetitive imagery on New Years Day, but the phrase “Out with the old, in with the new” hit on a level I haven’t seen since 1977, when the Gong Show did an entire show of people singing “Feelings.”Well, except that all of those were bad and some of these […]
Print and film classics from 1924 become public domain on January 1, 2020.Some famous comic strips which were created in 1924 finally have their debut year now p.d. Boots and Her Buddies first appeared on February 18, 1924 from the NEA Service. So there is most of the year available there. Here is a very […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced its new officers.AAEC Officers 2020-2021 President: Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer President-elect: Jen Sorensen, The Nib Vice President: Mike Thompson, Detroit Free Press Secretary-Treasurer: Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Immediate Past President: Pat Bagley, Salt Lake City Tribune Director: Ed Hall, freelance (2nd year) Director: Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker Director: Tim Campbell, […]
I’m thinking (hoping) this will be the last of these “Best of” issues.By some reckoning this is the end of the 2010s decade, so… Mike Peterson has linked to The Economist/Kal Best of the Decade page, so we’ll move on to CagleCartoons’ 2010 decade galleries. Gary McCoy Milt Priggee Rick McKee Bruce Plante Steve Sack Now […]
The news of John Lewis’s pancreatic cancer inspires this Mike Luckovich cartoon saluting cancer survivors and hoping he’s one of them.So say we all.First thing I learned when I was diagnosed a little over three years ago was that everybody’s cancer is different. Not only is every type of cancer different, but everybody’s particular experience […]
From the Philadelphia Inquirer Signe Wilkinson‘s Favorite cartoons of 2019. Phil Hands of the Wisconsin State Journal looks back at 2019 – with commentary. From the Los Angeles Sentinel, the Top Eight by David G. Brown. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a best of Steve Sack gallery behind a paywall. John Cole and the North […]
I’ve recently mentioned my past covering shopping malls, but I hadn’t mentioned “category killers,” a term from that corner of retail business.A category killer is a store that makes it pointless to add other stores in that category. For instance, if you lease to Dick’s Sporting Goods, there’s no point in a smaller sports store […]
Is it my imagination, or has Peter Guren developed quite a sense of humor lately? Is it my imagination, or does Thomas Yeates just get better every week? Hi and Lois dream the impossible dream (getting political?) Today’s Heart of the City and today’s Mutts and today’s Mary Worth Amelia Earhart? Jimmy Hoffa? The Lost […]
Joan Crosby Tibbetts, daughter of Percy Crosby, has passed away.Joan Crosby Tibbetts September 21, 1932 – October 26, 2019 From Joan’s Linkedin page: Owner, Skippy, Inc., Feb 1968 – Present 51 years 11 months primary job as court-appointed administrator of Percy Crosby Estate (my father), involving licensing of his famous SKIPPY character; policing and enforcing trademark/copyright infringements; […]
The Missoulian (Big Sky Country) has decided to rid its comic pages of opinion strips. Effective after Sunday, Jan. 5, the Missoulian is ending its subscription to the comics “Doonesbury” and “Mallard Fillmore.” Many readers have long complained about both strips. The leading complaints about “Doonesbury” [Andrews McMeel Syndication] these days is that the daily […]
A couple of Sunday funnies to start things gently.Zits made me smile partially for the portrait of a young teen finding a way to show off powers beyond his true capacity, and partially for the memory of doing the same thing myself.Not quite this.But at about 12 or 13, I had a female pen pal […]
Ignoring the violence, or the threat of violence, that has accompanied past events like it, a Dutch politician is calling for another Draw Mohammed contest.Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has revived his plan to hold a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad, more than a year after cancelling such an event out of fear […]