Last summer 15-year-old Hunter Wooldridge began his life as a newspaper comic strip creator. Now Hunter returns with a new comic strip for the Frankfort State Journal.For the past school year, Frankfort High sophomore Hunter Wooldridge has been carefully plotting storylines, sketching characters and honing his craft for Thursday’s return to The State Journal comics […]
Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics examine the drawing behind some favorite cartoons.Line, crayon, more line, wash, much more line, tone.Frank Cotham, Robert Weber, Richard Taylor, Mick Stevens, Jack Ziegler, James Thurber, George Price, Alex Gregory, Wm. Hamilton, Charles […]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer recently changed their format from six columns to four columns.But now they don’t know what to do with it and are asking readers to design and edit the paper.Our recent redesign made some of those questions more urgent and more obvious, and I’m writing to consult with our readers on the […]
GoComics has announced the launch of Matt Tarpley’s “Cat’s Cafe.”About the comic: Everyone is welcome at Cat’s Café! There is always a seat and someone to talk to. Follow Cat, Penguin, and Rabbit along with a variety of other special animals, form a wonderful place where everyone can feel warm, fuzzy, and accepted.Matt’s bio: Matt […]
The Paris Review has an excerpt from the book Scrawl: an A to Z of Famous Doodles by Todd Strauss-Schulson, Caren Strauss-Schulson, and Claudia Strauss-Schulson which looks into the legendary “doodle” collection of their father.From the piece:Over the course of his career, he (David Schulson) amassed arguably the most impressive private collection of drawings, scribbles, […]
Gary Varvel offers a thought-provoking idea, though his own opinion isn’t particularly clear here.The original Tea Party was protesting taxation (as does the current Tea Party, if it exists anymore) but it was tangled up in a whole lot of issues, including, but not limited to, a lack of representation in Parliament.England hardly believed in […]
Sometimes I sit and wonder. For example… I wonder if Mike Curtis and Joe Staton are going to bring Annie back to Dick Tracy every five years.Annie, Warbucks and Company showed up five years ago (with some foreshadowing) in the Dick Tracy comic strip on the eve of the 90th anniversary of Little Orphan Annie’s first […]
Ann Telnaes lays out the governing principle for today’s blog. All over and in every direction.In fact, last night Dear Leader had another of his pep rallies and Daniel Dale, the correspondent for the Toronto Star, tweeted updates but, at the end, couldn’t find any news or much of a theme, beyond a series of […]
The Galveston Daily News has dropped Jeff Stahler‘s daily Moderately Confused panel immediately, replacing it with Mark Parisi’s Off The Mark panel.The comic strip “Moderately Confused” appearing on page B5 of Monday’s [May 20, 2019] edition was, as several readers pointed out, inappropriate, in bad taste and not funny. The content of that strip was […]
Brian Hibbs, at ComicsBeat, goes in-depth for us examining the BookScan numbers for the 2018 Graphic Novel section.It’s time to look at graphic novel sales in 2018. Implausibly, this is the sixteenth annual report of something that is hard to exactly perceive and understand: the size and shape of the sales of graphic novels and […]
If you happened to grow up in America in the 1960s, 70s or 80s, you’ve no doubt seen the work of artist Jack Davis. Best known for his work on MAD Magazine, Davis’ art permeated American pop culture in so many ways, it’s arguable that he was at one point the country’s most well-known artist. […]
Joy of Tech got out ahead of the flood of post-GOT commentary, and did so with a piece that would work no matter how things turned out.I’m not one of those people who takes pride in having not watched something everyone else was talking about, but I gave Game of Thrones a try and couldn’t […]
A few pictures of The Reuben Awards evening nicked off Twitter and Facebook. David Blumenstein takes a group photo.Here’s that tall guy in the middle of the above pic – Will Henry with editor Shena Wolf: above: Peter Kuper, Maria Scrivan, Joe Dator – winners all.below: Dave Blazek and Family (Jillian and Eileen) – […]
DD Degg has the full roundup of Reubens winners here, but I thought I’d provide a taste of times they’ve appeared in Comic Strip of the Day. Maria Scrivan actually won for greeting cards, but her line and sense of color give her panel, Half Full, a greeting card feel, and I have a feeling that […]
The National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year presented May 18, 2019 (nominees listed, winner highlighted): Lynda BarryBrian BassetStephan PastisHilary PriceMark Tatulli The 11th time is the charm for Stephan!! above photo via National Cartoonists Society hat tip: Anne Morse-Hambrock and TomHeintjes