We’ll start easy today, with a bit of trivia sparked by the current Vintage Radio Patrol, from November, 1948. In the strip — which, by the way, I read for its camp value — the criminals have taken over a legitimate used car lot and are re-selling stolen vehicles.It would be another six years before […]
Boy’s Life began in 1911. The next year it was bought by, and became the official magazine of, the Boy Scouts of America. Comics had been a part of the magazine from the beginning but a particular energized period was the couple of decades when the comics section was produced by Johnstone and Cushing ad […]
Today’s Zits struck home because it’s not only true but something I hate because (A) I think the people doing it are idiots and (B) that makes me feel like a cranky old man.And while I think Jeremy’s mother is in a state of perpetual over-reaction to things that don’t matter, I’m with her on […]
A few decades ago Dave Whamond began his career as an editorial cartoonist for The Calgary Herald while still in college. Now he once again joins The Brotherhood of Editorial Cartoonists.Daryl Cagle welcomes Dave “to Cagle.com and our syndication package.”The Dave Whamond archive at Cagle Cartoons only has a dozen or so cartoons up at […]
I don’t often feature political cartoons on local issues, though I think it’s important that cartoonists do them, which, in turn, means it’s important that local newspapers have a cartoonist on staff.A cartoonist whose only market is syndication wouldn’t bother to comment on a company that makes ball caps in suburban Buffalo deciding not to […]
Books due to be released December 2018. Library of American Comcs Volume 12: Baron Bean, 1918 My First 100 Peanuts Words boardbook Superman: The Silver Age Sundays, Vol. 1: 1959 – 1963 Garfield Nutty as a Fruitcake: His 66th Book A Valentine For Linus! (Peanuts) Laughing Matters: The Political Cartoons of Richard Laurent American Comic […]
Frew (Australia) The Phantom comic book wraparound cover by Sunday Phantom artist Jeff Weigel. Many of today’s young people seem to know little about history and geography, among other things, and it doesn’t help when even the comics page is feeding misinformation. The Dec. 11 “One Big Happy” has a father asking his son, “What’s Istanbul […]
I’ll admit to having been sucked in completely by this Alex, because, while everyone in the strip is contemptible on some level, Clive had been painted as the victim in this ongoing divorce thread.For all the comical excesses of the characters, part of what makes this strip work is their lifelike nature, and I think […]
Marshall Ramsey, who has garnered considerable attention this year with his double cartoon tributes of Barbara and George H. W. Bush, has left the Jackson Clarion Ledger (a Gannett newspaper). Sez Marshall: “I’m leaving by my choice.”Earlier today Marshall informed via Twitter:Bit of person news: On December 16, 1996 I sat down at this drawing […]
[Association of American Editorial Cartoonists President Pat Bagley will be handing over the mantle to Kevin Siers next week. In the meantime, here is his departing letter] Dear Colleagues, First, the good news. The long-awaited redesign of our new website is nearing launch and should be up sometime in January. (Buy Adam Zyglis a beer […]
So say we all, because we can simply enjoy a few giggles over things of no particular weight and import.Theoretically.Let’s at least start with some light-hearted fare.By July, 1935, “Thimble Theater” was firmly given over to Popeye, but it had not simplified things down to (A) Bluto grabs Olive, (B) Popeye eats spinach (C) Popeye […]
Rutland Reader Wants Her New England Cartoonist Back From the Rutland Herald: The first couple days, I thought perhaps your layout folks had simply made a mistake. But after a week, I have come to the sad realization that you have replaced the “Non Sequitur” comic strip with “Beetle Bailey.” Now, I have nothing against […]
(Baby Blues)(Pickles)The question of real vs. artificial Christmas trees seems like one of those issues in which either argument makes sense and it comes down to what you want to believe and what you prefer to do.However, you aren’t hurting the forests by buying a real tree or saving them by purchasing plastic.Christmas trees are […]
Only days remain until Ripley’s Believe It or Not turns 100.Founder Robert Ripley launched his unbelievable career of discovering the world’s oddities on Dec. 19, 1918, when he published his first cartoon, “Champs & Chumps.”Or maybe a few days earlier. GoComics recently sat down with the current “Believe It or Not!” illustrator John Graziano, who took […]
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the […]