Today’s Bottomliners coincidentally echoes some rumblings on social media, which I think started … … with this piece that graphic novelist Nate Powell posted about two weeks ago … … but which, in the last 48 hours or so, was joined by this article, which ran last May at Comics Beat, in which another graphic novelist explains […]
Dick Tracy has always been a straight shooter, but his dialogue in the last panel knocked me out of my chair.One of the best parts of comics is when a character says something you agree with but would never actually say out loud.I don’t dignify my preference for staying home by calling it a phobia, […]
Cartoonist and artist Jeff Stahler is featured on the PBS show Broad & High. Equal parts about his cartooning career and his art career. It’s the first four and a half minute segment after the introduction. Editorial cartoonist and illustrator Randall Enos remembers a “typical evening at the [National] Cartoonists Society” about 60 years […]
The Erie Times-News plans on cutting 14-16 of its 36 comic strips and panels.Our intent is to eliminate one of the two pages of comics we run each day, which means dropping 14 or perhaps 16 of the 36 comics we run Monday through Saturday. We are not making wholesale changes to our four-page, full-color […]
I’ve seen about half a dozen Carol Channing obituary cartoons, which sent me to IMBD to find out the last time she worked. Turns out it’s not quite as long ago as this TV Guide cover, which was in 1966.She did some voice work a quarter century ago and a couple of cameo appearances a […]
90 years ago on January 17, 1929…E. C. Segar introduced Popeye into his comic strip. Popeye was only intended to be in this one episode of Thimble Theatre and disappear, but by the end of the adventure Popeye had become too popular to ignore. After a brief absence Popeye returned and stayed.Segar was a genius […]
Popeye’s Cartoon Club, the new weekly online comic strip, is set to debut from King Features Syndicate on January 17, 2019, the 90th anniversary of Popeye’s first appearance in Thimble Theatre. A page is set up on the KFS site.As explained in an early December 2018 New York Times article the strip will feature a […]
Here are some books scheduled for January 2019 release.Images and links to Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Peanuts Every Sunday Box Set Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union Complete Chester Gould Dick Tracy Volume 25 The Best of Alex 2018 Steve Canyon Volume 9: 1963-1964 by Milton […]
I’ll let today’s Candorville set the tone, because it’s the most self-critical of today’s batch of cartoons, plus I’m always pleased whenever Clyde becomes the voice of reason.It did seem, at first, that Jazmine Barnes had been the victim of a random, race-based drive-by shooting and there was a lot of outrage over the concept. […]
Tom Batiuk spent a few days of his Funky Winkerbean last week dishing on young’uns unknowledge of zipatone and Dr. Martin’s and other old school cartooning equipment. Magazine and Marmaduke cartoonist Brad Anderson‘s papers have been donated to the Billy Ireland. Some (well, at least one) major bookstores break protocol by putting out new releases early, seemingly […]
Poor Lee Judge.Not only do the scandals come faster than you can draw them, but even trivial gags get one-upped by a President who is far more of a chintzy, childish cheapskate than anyone could imagine.But, yeah, the National Champion Clemson Tigers are lucky he didn’t just set out an array of binkies and bottles.The […]
Heidi MacDonald reports that Olivia Jaimes was voted The (Comics) Beat Newcomer of the Year.The voting for Comics Industry Person of the Year was a foregone conclusion. As Heidi explains:The overwhelming choice was the one and only Stan Lee. Although Stan’s passing on November 12th 2018 was fresh on everyone’s mind, his historical stature ensured […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley is facing accusations of sexism after two cartoons in a row could be interpreted as portraying women as gold diggers. January 13, 2019 cartoonThe Pittsburgh City Paper has taken the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Steve Kelly to task for the cartoons:For the past two days, Pittsburgh readers looking for some […]
We’re dealing with sub-zero weather moreso than snow, though we got a load of that the other day. Enough to make me laff at this Zits, because I’ve had a VW van and, when your source of heat is the gentle breeze blowing over the engine eight feet behind you, the distinction between wipers that […]
The big news is the premiere of the Little Oop Sunday comic strip by Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon.This raises two questions in my mind: First – does this strip require a new entry in any comic strip listings or does it just get a note in the Alley Oop entry? Second – will […]