90 years ago Mickey Mouse became very popular due to his freewheeling attitude in the early cartoons. After a couple decades Mickey Mouse was tamed as he became the 1950s company image, and his popularity declined. Five years ago his early character was revived with a new series of shorts.You may have heard of these […]
This is the story of five kids and a mouse.It begins with a boy—Dan O’Neill, who, at 21, became one of the youngest syndicated cartoonists… Before long, he met up with 20-year-old Bobby London and 23 year-old Ted Richards at the Berkley Tribe… 25-year-old artist named Gary Hallgren, who at that time had been running […]
Kevin Siers References A Past Master Not news but I enjoyed Kevin Siers tribute to the famous Robert Minor cartoon and using it for a current situation. Ch-Ch-Ch-ChangesElsewhere someone takes a famous cartoonist’s old cartoon and changes it to please his own political ideology without so much as a fare-thee-well. Something that seems to be increasingly […]
I don’t expect a coherent theme to emerge today, so we’ll start with a Tank McNamara of great social significance and then see what’s next.I remember when, back well before the Internet or anything like it, the Sporting News would show up on the doorstep with its analysis of the most recent World Series game, […]
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews American cartoonist Scott Adams, who captured the dysfunction of the modern workplace in his long-running comic strip “Dilbert.” Adams has also written several works of satire, commentary and business analysis, including “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life” and […]
Jim “Sherman’s Lagoon” Toomey and University of Georgia Professor Samantha Joye have partnered to produce a kids’ film series on the importance of healthy oceans.From the story: “The Adventures of Zack and Molly” follows the story of a young man who is more interested in the small world of his smartphone than the larger world around […]
But first this …When I drop subtle hints that newspaper editors are cloth-eared, humorless dweebs who ought not to be in charge of selecting comics, here’s how it comes down elsewhere in the paper.Back in the days when papers had budgets, editors would have conventions where they’d make stupid collective decisions, like the time they […]
GoComics is offering free GoComics Premium membership as a trial. Everyone knows that one of the keys to a happy, successful life is to Read Comics Every Day. That’s just common sense, right? And the easiest way to do that, of course, is to become a Premium member of GoComics.com. That’s why we’re offering a free, […]
Mary Schmich, newspaper columnist and the last writer of the Brenda Starr comic strip, went on the radio to talk about a recent column that generated some negative feedback.But the first 5 minutes of the interview deals with the end of Brenda Starr. After 25 years Mary had tired of the never-ending daily chore and […]
You’ve probably been pronouncing “Seuss” wrong. Sorry, but Seuss is not pronounced “Soose.” Instead, Dr. Seuss and his family, who emigrated to the US from Bavaria, pronounce the name “Zoice.” Seuss collected hats, won a Pulitzer Prize, coined the word ‘nerd’, and more.Marilyn La Jeunesse and Insider present the above and 19 other “surprising things […]
David Reddick’s Intelligent Life will stop syndicating for print later this year.No official word from David or King Features Syndicate, but Jeremy Boyer, on an upcoming comics change in The (Auburn, N.Y.) Citizen, writesReaders of The Citizen will begin to see Macanudo appear in the Dec. 23 edition. It will be replacing Intelligent Life, which […]
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 […]