J. R. Williams was a jack-of-all-trades before he settled down as a cartoonist, one of those was ranch hand. As the cartoonist of the Out Our Way panel Williams portrayed several different settings, one of those was the ranch. These were not rough and tumble adventures as seen in Fred Harman’s Red Ryder nor the […]
We’ll lead off today with snippets of things you should go check out, starting with Ann Telnaes’s longer piece on the conference about sexual abuse at the Vatican. Or the conference at the Vatican about sexual abuse.Whichever. It is well-worth the click.Signe Wilkinson takes up a piece of that argument, agreeing with Telnaes that it’s […]
The early Little Orphan Annie original art up for auction I had mentioned elsewhere has sold. August 26, 1924 Little Orphan Annie = $12,000 + $1200 for the buyers premium. For comparison, here’s some other original art sold at the same Heritage Auctions lot, the following prices all include the buyer’s premium in the totals. October […]
Comics Related OscarsThe Oscars are tomorrow night.So Torsten Adair, at The Beat, has assembled past Oscars that went to comics related projects that originated in print (that leaves out almost all of the animated shorts and films). More of The BoondocksAaron MacGruder (and Seung Kim) have returned with more of The Boondocks.SOHH carries the strips. Game Time […]
Kal Kallaugher describes a central issue in the campaign to “Make America Great Again” that goes beyond border walls and is at the heart of a whole lot of issues we’re dealing with.America as a “Melting Pot” derives from a 1908 play by Israel Zangwill, an immigrant from Britain who was, himself, the son of […]
How better to kick off a Friday Funnies than with a Juxtaposition screen shot to show exactly how it fell on my page?I had already given Arctic Circle a superior chuckle, because my boy Vaska is quite the opposite and does not want to go out at all in foul weather.Fortunately, ridgebacks have iron bladders […]
Cartooning children’s show host ‘Sailor Bob’ Griggs has passed away.Robert Thomas (Bob) Griggs (aka Sailor Bob) November 21, 1933 – February 20, 2019 A generation of Virginians living within reception distance of WRVA-TV in Richmond grew up on Popeye cartoons presented by Sailor Bob.The character was created in 1959 for the sole purpose of introducing Popeye […]
I’m sure most of you, like me, regularly check the various print syndication homepages to see what, if anything, is new. So I naturally got excited when I checked in on the Andrews McMeel Syndication site and noticed a new listing: Lucas Turnbloom’s “How to Cat.” So I sent a request to the syndicate asking when […]
When I gave the advice “Dare to be stupid!” what I meant was that silly jokes are fun. I wasn’t advising deliberate stupidity in the political realm, which is disloyal.There is spin, and Adam Zyglis mocks the spin of those who don’t mind running up a deficit for a wall, but who can’t see how […]
A stretch of coastline in France has reported an unusual item repeatedly washing up on its shores over the last 30 years – in the form of a famously lasagne-loving orange cat. According to a report from the French-language broadcasterFrancetvinfo.fr, retro telephones in the shape of Garfield – the comic strip cat created in 1978 […]
In June 1940, the same month Will Eisner’s The Spirit debuted his Comic Book Section, Dale Messick‘s Brenda Starr first appeared in the Chicago Tribune Comic Book Magazine, a newspaper insert that had shown up three months earlier. Brenda Starr – Reporter began as a two-part Sunday only strip in the comic book on June 30, […]
(Rip Kirby)(Big Ben Bolt)Call this the “Juxtaposition of Nagging.” Over in the Vintage section at Comics Kingdom, Rip Kirby is just starting a new adventure, while Ben Bolt is at the climax of another.Offering these classic strips to those who pony up $20 a year to subscribe is better than a tote bag and a […]
While newspapers continue to drop Non Sequitur (though at a far slower rate), those who have dropped it continue to get letters about the action. With the pro-Wiley Miller faction far outweighing those who agree with the papers’ decision to drop Non Sequitur.Now there seems to be an organized push to return the comic strip […]
The Return of Maakies??!!Tony Millionaire‘s alternative comic strip Maakies ran from 1994 to 2016. It kinda returned in late 2018 as a coloring book.Now Tony is teasing the return: “MAAKIES DRINKY CROW! Coming back in March, multi-platform.”But in what format? Where? I need to know more! Sports Cartoonists are Nearly ExtinctBut here’s a four minute segment […]
We start with a mere fragment of an Existential Comics episode, the rest of which is hilarious, in which a procession of philosophers question Aladdin’s “princeness” and, hence, the genie’s honesty and/or competence.This cartoon pits my hatred of plot holes against my hatred of metaphysics, which makes for an interesting cage match.The traditional first meeting […]