Lincoln Peirce is in the news with his new book Max and the MidKnights. Publishers Weekly interviews Lincoln about the book and his Big Nate comic strip.One topic brought up is what to call this not-prose, not graphic novel type of literature: Despite your new book’s departure in setting and genre, the pages echo the […]
Good Timing AwardI got a major Update message the other day from Lenovo, so I don’t know if it was their upgrade or Microsoft’s, but after it was installed, my laptop began freezing up.The next day, I saw an “Update and Shut Down” prompt as I logged off, which made me think they’d found and […]
A New York Times summary of a recent Authors Guild survey regarding the income of writers these days, and finding the median is below poverty levels..The survey showed a shift in book earnings to other writing-related activities, such as speaking engagements, book reviewing or teaching. Including those sources, respondents who identified themselves as full-time book […]
When Brian Fies lost his house in the wildfires of 2017, his friends were appropriately horrified.When, shortly thereafter, he produced a short, multi-panel cartoon memoir of the disaster, however, I will confess to a bit of joy, in part because I knew that was how my friend heals, and in part because, we all admitted […]
Next month is February and some publishers are preparing Valentine’s gifts for us.The long awaited and always greatly anticipated Hogan’s Alley magazine is due in your local comic book shop on February 27, 2019. Tom Heintjes has generously shared the cover and contents page of issue #22 with comics fans.An earlier gift is the new […]
Judge Parker threatens to become self-aware, likely because Francesco Marciuliano, who also writes “Sally Forth,” is writing the stories.Sally Forth has made shattering the fourth wall an ongoing feature, and that’s fine there but I’d hate to see it here. However, if Ronnie’s caustic grasp on normalcy becomes the catalyst that brings it down to […]
update – January 7, 2019As noted by Les Taylor (comment #63) the Boston Globe has heard the chorus of complaints and relented, somewhat.The uproar even made the local TV news.They put a notice in the January 7, 2019 edition of The Globe:Regarding the cut comics and puzzles they are “planning to restore some of them.” […]
Let’s have the teacher/cartoonist, Mr Fitz, lead off today.He not only raises an important question but suggests several subtopics.To start with, a lot of art proceeds from troubled souls, and if you’re going to refuse to study works by unpleasant people, you won’t have a whole lot left to work with. Even those schlocky sad-eyed […]
The NEW Alley Oop by Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon begins now, January 7, 2019!And coming Sunday January 13, 2019 = Li’l Oop! UPDATEOn the occasion of the new Alley Oop Stephen Roth at GoComics interviews writer Joey Alison Sayers and artist Jonathan Lemon.The new creators expand on how they see their version of Alley […]
90 years ago, on January 7, 1929, there debuted two important comic strips. The Tarzan comic strip was covered here, so let’s go back to the future with Buck Rogers.Anthony Rogers first appeared in the science fiction story Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 cover dated issue of Amazing Stories. […]
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil […]
After 20 years in suspended animation copyrights have expired on works created in 1923. Congress, bowing to pressure from a few corporations, extended U. S. copyright rights from 75 years to 95 years in 1998. Some details of the results can be read here and here and here.Some creations never had their copyrights renewed under […]
Some serious thoughts, some purely silly ones, but starting with a good insight by John Cole into the impact of the shutdown.There have been several cartoons commenting on the fact that our National Parks are unable to service their trash cans and washrooms, and I’m certainly not going to dismiss that.But I don’t see a […]
Texas is the second largest state in terms of area and population, yet there are no Texas newspapers with staff editorial cartoonists. That is not to say there aren’t cartoonists plying their trade in the Lone Star State. Between El Paso and San Antonio and nearly a hundred miles south of the Pecos River, in […]
Thea Voutiritsas has gathered a list of the three most popular comic strips as sorted into four different categories. These are the favorites of readers who checked in at GoComcs during 2018.24 years after the last new Calvin and Hobbes appeared Bill Watterson‘s brilliant comic made it onto three of the four groups.The four groupings […]