Walt Kelly and PogoIn 1977, four years after Walt’s death, The Museum of Cartoon Art issued a A Retrospective of Walt Kelly and Pogo The Cartoonist Guild of America (1936 – 1939) B. K. Munn inquires into the little known history of an attempt at a cartoonists’ union. America’s First Color Newspaper Supplement (1892)From the archives of […]
Paige Braddock has, at least for the time being, decided to end her Jane’s World comic strip. above: Jane’s World ending on a happy high note Paige earlier this year, after years with the company, was promoted to Chief Creative Officer at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. The added duties may have played a role in […]
Do geeks dream of electric meters?Today’s xkcd offers a hint for Christmas shopping if you have someone as geeky as Randall Munroe on your list, and, while the strip is often thought-provoking, it sent me back to Earth Science, which I took in 1963-64, but not because of a hygrometer, though we probably had one.Nay, […]
Translator Anthea Bell has passed away.Anthea Bell May 10, 1936 – October 18, 2018From the above linked obituary:In 1970 Anthea Bell found herself with the tricky task of translating Asterix in Britain. The eighth adventure in the comic book series about everyone’s favourite Gaul rested on a French view of the English that was not […]
Darrin Bell leads off today because the major issue facing us is that we might be better off if we had a deliberate, Machiavellian liar in the White House.But it’s becoming increasingly clear that this is not some cunning plan.We knew Trump was devoid of empathy, but it’s not just that he can’t identify with […]
The following are some comic strip related books released or scheduled to be released in October. Links lead to the books’ Amazon page. Pearls Takes a Wrong Turn: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury Mother Is Coming: A FoxTrot Collection Adult Time: A Baby Blues Collection Dance Like Everybody’s Watching!: A Zits Treasury Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips […]
First, this note to editorial cartoonists: If Elizabeth Warren had — without claiming any advantage for it — said that her family spoke of African-American heritage, was mocked and called “Aunt Jemima” for it, but then took a DNA test that bore out her claim, would you depict her as a triumphant minstrel-show mammy?Don’t put […]
Liza Donnelly TCJ: And during this time you were submitting cartoons to other magazines and selling there? Liza: By then I had met a bunch of other cartoonists. There was a cartoonists association. I met Sam Gross and Roz Chast and George Booth around that time. Particularly from Sam you learned about the other publications. […]
In-Cumbria magazine has a recent news piece on cartoonist Luke McGarry’s art exhibition at the University of Cumbria (UK) running from Oct. 12th through Nov. 2nd.From the piece:Luke, best-known for internet meme sensation, Sad Chewie and cartoons for American humour magazine, Mad, is putting on his ’31 at 31’ retrospective exhibition at the University of […]
The Deseret (Salt Lake City) News has done a story on Brigham Young University professor Kerry Soper. Soper is the author of “Gary Larson and The Far Side” an in-depth look at the influence and importance of the comic.From the story: Soper’s reverence for “The Far Side” belies its decidedly irreverent spirit — or, as Soper describes […]
Clay Bennett extracts the meat from Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes interview with President Trump:President Trump at rally: “And then we fell in love, okay. No really. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they’re great letters. We fell in love.” Lesley Stahl: I wanna read you his resume, okay? He presides over a cruel kingdom of […]
WLRN-TV in Miami has produced a documentary short about Carlos Castellanos and Hector Cantu … also known as the creators of the syndicated comic “Baldo.”See video here.
This past weekend [Cedric Hohnstadt] drove down to Kansas City, MO for the Fall Cartooning Weekend sponsored by the North Central Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. The main event was an afternoon of lectures hosted at the offices of comic book syndicate Andrews McMeel Universal, the company behind GoComics [and The Daily Cartoonist]. Cedric […]
Kate Beaton has a thoughtful and extended twitter reflection on what it took and what she’s realized in her comics’ career:From the thread: I wish talent was enough to earn success, but promotion and hustle and ambition are all needed for most people. I don’t think I know anyone who enjoys promoting their work, it’s ok […]
Joy of Tech asks a key question, which is why we seem to ignore major problems that impact the entire world, but obsess over less consequential issues if they impact us more personally and immediately.The immediate answer — and the gag I think they had in mind — is that we are a bunch of […]