A new edition of the 1980 collection MacDoodle St. by Mark Alan Stamaty is being released with an added 24 pages including a brand-new, twenty-page autobiographical comic by Stamaty explaining what happened next and why MacDoodle St. never returned, in a unique, funny, and poignant look at the struggles and joys of being an artist. […]
The first “Cathy” comic strip ran on November 22, 1976. Guisewite remembers the day well; she hid in the bathroom at work for most of it. She was 26 years old and working at an advertising agency in Detroit as a copywriter, and she was terrified that she would be laughed out of the office […]
We’ll start with Pooch Cafe, which is based on a question I’ve never asked a dog, not for fear of getting Poncho’s response but because I don’t expect any response at all.But I keep asking the question of politicians and I have no idea why, except that every once in awhile one of them does give […]
The National Newspaper Awards is the trade name of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Awards Programme Administration Corporation, a not-for-profit body which governs the awards program. Finalists for Editorial Cartooning: • Michael de Adder, Halifax Chronicle-Herald/Brunswick News/Toronto Star. • Brian Gable, Globe and Mail. • Garnotte (Michel Garneau), Le Devoir. A couple National Newspaper Awards notes: Brian Gable […]
The 2018 National Cartoonists Society Divisional Award nominees for the 73rd Annual NCS Reuben Awards! The winners will be announced on May 18th, 2019 in Huntington Beach, CA. The National Cartoonists Society
This post has been updated on March 18, 2019 to include, below the original post, the final thoughts on the strip from Sunday inker Joe Sinnott and Stan Lee’s comic strip assistant and editor Mike Kelly. Today Reed Brennan posted an announcement about the future of The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip: Attention Spider-Man clients: You’ll be […]
The Erie Times-News, after tallying their comics survey, has cut 10 comic strips and panels from their daily line-up.Gone are “Wallace The Brave,” “Mr. Boffo,” “Mary Worth,” “Lio” “Herman,” “Moderately Confused,” “Wumo,” “The Buckets,” “Shoe” and “Get Fuzzy.” Though I suspect not everyone will be amused by today’s comics pages, I hope you will feel […]
Alex Dueben, at The Comics Journal, has a nice interview with Jim Scancarelli about his 40 years on Gasoline Alley.I have to ask, are Walt and Skeezix ever going to die? I’ve been asked that. In the back of my head, I have a scenario that would work. I have told Bob Harvey, but I […]
I’m as distracted as Mo — this has been quite a weekend, and if the worst outcome is a chunk of pineapple in your martini, you got away with a better taste in your mouth than the rest of us.It’s even worse than this. Ann Telnaes apparently drew this one before Trump first failed to […]
Little Man on Campus by Dick BiblerAnd then there was Richard “Dick” Bibler, whom Richard E. Freiburg remembered as “easily the best known Oread Hall resident” of the late 1940s. Not for any hard-court or gridiron glories, mind you, but rather for his popular “Little Man on Campus” cartoon that appeared in the University Daily […]
The Barn pretty well summarizes the day. As an excuse to get blind drunk, it’s not bad. As a holiday saluting a nation, well, it’s only one day out of 365 and tomorrow all those fools will be at work hungover.That should be punishment enough, but feel free to cheerfully ask them if they’ve got […]
When The Amazing Spider-Man artist Alex Saviuk acknowledged the end of his and Roy Thomas‘s run on the comic strip he mentioned that “March 23 will be the last Daily and March 17 will be the last Sunday as we close out the current storyline.”And today’s March 17 Sunday strip certainly reads like an ending, […]
I’m going to start with an encouraging word from Mark Anderson at Andertoons, in these days of shutdowns and cutbacks and layoffs.There’s something worse than getting fired.Not getting fired.I’ve popped around a fair amount and I’m very familiar with the job that is fun until your boss leaves or until the place is sold and […]
above: Macanudo by LiniersHere are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Laptops Are So Warm: An Ask a Cat Collection Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the […]
What type of content seems to go over well in Madison? People really like it when I make fun of Donald Trump. It’s a pretty liberal community here in Madison, so people always really love that. People always loved it when I when I would make fun of Scott Walker, the old governor of Wisconsin, […]