In the 1970s Garry Trudeau edited a series of comic strip reprints. Among the “Cartoon Stories For New Children” was a Gasoline Alley by Dick Moores. Bill Peckman and Michael Sporn presented the book in two parts. Part One. Part Two. Summer Fun. With a title of Sunday Funnies we ought to have some color. So […]
Michael Cavna over at the Washington Post interviews Art Speigelman on being first cartoonist to receive the award.From the story:The MacDowell Colony arts organization in New Hampshire wanted to bestow upon the legendary cartoonist its 2018 honor, which has previously gone to such creative titans as Stephen Sondheim, Georgia O’Keeffe, Toni Morrison and David Lynch. […]
According to this Comics Beat story, Target will be the sole dispenser of a new line of Disney graphic novels about princesses.Well, good. We need more princess-promotion these days.Perhaps the best place to start would be by conceding that a lot of children’s content is more extruded than created, and that, while I cheerfully watched […]
Bob Montana’s ArchieA bronze statue of comic book and comic strip character Archie, with a plaque honoring Bob Montana, was dedicated in Mededith, N.H. August 9, 2018. TV station WMUR filmed the unveiling. The Charlotte Observer carried a short AP piece. Cartoonist Becomes EditorLong time Big Valley cartoonist Marc Lutz has taken a job as editor […]
Let’s start with the current Vintage Juliet Jones storyline, in which quiet, submissive Vassily the Exchange Student has been forced to put on the gloves with the Class Bully, and we all saw this result coming and Stan Drake sure dragged it out.The original ran in 1961, which I mention because there was a time […]
Over the last 150 years there were and are many great editorial cartoonists, you can name your favorites and I can name mine. There are fewer that we deem a Master of the Craft.Paul Conrad was a Master.Paul Conrad often claimed that making President Richard Nixon’s enemies list in 1973 was one of his proudest […]
Trending up as the No. 3 video on all of YouTube.com, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah covers the 50th Anniversary of Franklin’s first appearance in “Peanuts.”
The recently opened National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., has reconstructed Brad “Marmaduke” Anderson’s studio and create an interactive exhibit.From Brad’s son Paul:They had contacted us with a request to donate as much of Brad’s studio as we could. Drawing board, light board, chair, materials, items on walls, papers as they were about the office. […]
Wiley Miller is in the midst of an impressive run of news/deadline synchronicity, with this Non Sequitur appearing just as Laura Ingraham announces on national television that she is not the unwitting victim of some subconscious prejudice but is, in fact, a fully intentional white supremacist who wishes to have our government enact blatantly racist […]
An international line-up of Americans Ward Sutton, Matt Bors, Brian Fies, and Rob Rogers;Canadians Terry Mosher, Wes Tyrell, and Graeme McKay;New Zealanders Sharon Murdoch, Toby Morris, Rod Emmerson, and Nigel Buchanan.Hosted by Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Jack Ohmanand Salt Lake Tribune cartoonist and AAEC President Pat Bagley.Plus seminars, exhibits, business meetings, and the crowning of […]
If you are heading to get some book bargains at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, you may want to arrive earlier and visit the current MAD magazine exhibit before hitting the book sale.Artistically MAD: Seven Decades of Satire is on display until late October. This comprehensive exhibition will showcase original drawings and paintings […]
Tom Spurgeon over the Comics Reporter has a small piece on The Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State University holding their first annual duplicates sale on August 30th. And you ask: What in heaven’s name is a duplicates sale? Well, keep reading …From their site: Calling all collectors, book worms, scholars and fans!The Billy Ireland will hold its […]
(Signe Wilkinson)Well, thanks for coming. That’s all for today.———–Okay, perhaps a little commentary, though I think Wilkinson’s pen drop pretty much says it.There’s some argument to be made that these aren’t Trump’s lawyers but Manafort’s, but that seems like a distinction without a difference.As Dear Leader said, Manafort is being treated like Al Capone: You […]
Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon #236 (on sale now) has a few pages of the kids’ adventures drawn as tribute pages to Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.Of course tributes to the genius that is Bill Watterson is not uncommon.Some years ago Dan and Tom Heyerman did Calvin and Hobbes some years later. Locust Moon Comics’ Little Nemo: Dream […]
“Jane’s World” was the first gay-themed work to receive online distribution by a national media syndicate (United Features/Comics.com). Paige Braddock is the cartoonist behind the long-running comic strip and TDC interviewed Paige as she prepared for the August 21st launch of her 20th Anniversary “Jane’s World” book from Lion Forge. TDC: Forgive the ignorance, did Jane’s World first debut in […]