The flow of inspiration from the Trump firehose has been such that I just want to flush it out now, hit Friday Funnies tomorrow, and hope for new things by Saturday.But, before that, Tom the Dancing Bug deserves praise for being able to bundle so much fraud and stupidity into a single, inventive, multi-panel cartoon, […]
The following are some comic strip related books released or scheduled to be released in November (though a few were released earlier in October to comic book stores before book stores got them). Links lead (mostly) to the books’ Amazon pages. King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate paperback edition Walt […]
The BBC covers the Peanuts exhibit going on over in the UK at Somerset House by having its writer reflect on the deeper meanings of Charles Schulz’s work.From the story:Schulz drew Peanuts during some turbulent decades in America, marked by the Korean War (1950-3); the Vietnam War (America entered in 1965 and the war ended in […]
I referenced Daniel Patrick Moynihan the other day, who is mostly famous for saying that you are entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts.Moynihan died in 2003, so he only got to see the initial Newt Gingrich portion of the fact-free revolution, and thus could argue that there are facts and […]
Ramsey Stiglich Breen Stahler Heller Enos Beeler Summers McKee Castillejos Peters Hall Marlette Englehart Luckovich below: November 14 additions Streeter Archer Darkow Handelsman Bell
Cartoonist Charles Glass has passed away.Charles Edward Glass July 4, 1930 – November 5, 2018Magazine cartoonist, advertisingFrom the obituary:After graduating, Charlie moved to New York City and studied at the Arts Students League. It was in New York City where his career as a cartoonist took off. He was a regular contributor in both The […]
On a Sunday afternoon in September, Olivia Jaimes was hiding in a storage closet at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in Columbus, Ohio. She’d been in there for two hours, watching episodes of The Good Place on her laptop and dressed like a chic fugitive — sunglasses, hair beneath a hoodie, face obscured by a scarf. […]
above: last year’s Comic Strip Stanley Award to Gary ClarkThe Australian Cartoonists’ Association is holding its annual Stanley Awards and Cartoonists Conference this weekend in Canberra (or maybe its going on right now, isn’t Australia, like, three or four days ahead of the U.S.?)The Stanley Awards are Australia’s equivalent of the United States’ National […]
I wasn’t planning to run any more Veteran’s Day rain strips, but this L’il Donnie ought not to go unremarked.There have been several strips on the topic, but, as I predicted the other day, even the ones that are above average already feel stale. The outrage was Saturday and, while I noted the barriers to […]
Alcon Entertainment has announced that Mark Dindal will direct new animated “Garfield” feature film produced by John Cohen and Steven Wegner.From the story:Dindal, 58, is best known as the director of animated features like Cats Don’t Dance, The Emperor’s New Groove, and Chicken Little. “Comic strip characters have always had a special appeal to me,” he said in a […]
Comic book and comic strip writer and editor Stan Lee has passed away.STAN LEE (Stanley Martin Lieber) December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018 Stan Lee had been in the comics business since 1941, but it was in 1961 that he began his rise to fame. With Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, and others Stan […]
above: a Bill Mauldin non-Veterans Day strip Between 1969 and 2000, Charles Schulz dedicated 19 Peanuts strips to Veterans Day, making him perhaps the most decorated creator to commemorate the United States holiday on all of GoComics.The GoComics blog presents those 19 Peanuts/Veterans Day strips and some history. But they seems to have missed a couple – […]
The Columbus Dispatch has given notice, at the bottom of a column touting its e-edition extras, that the hard copy will no longer carry the daily Peanuts comic strip. Reason? – $$$$.Another change will affect one comic. We are dropping the daily Peanuts cartoon this month. We will keep the Sunday Peanuts strip for now, […]
Jeremy Banx offers the only Armistice-Remembrance-Veterans Day cartoon you’ll ever need, reminding us that the only thing that can stop 2 or 3 million bad guys with guns is 3 or 4 million good guys with guns.Which may or may not be true, but if we can’t even agree on what the day is called […]
Paul Berge celebrates the end of The War to End All Wars with a selection of editorial cartoons from 100 years ago.The End was the beginning of cleaning up the mess. Or as Paul puts it: “every party needs its pooper.” Paul has done an incredible job of following the First World War for years. From […]