Let’s start with the Birthday Boy, because it’s one of the few bright spots in the day.Garfield turns 40 today and there’s a hoohah going on including a book and a lot of coverage.Rather than simply steal his links, I’m going to let DD Degg provide them.But I will add to his collection the interview I […]

Garfield by Jim Davis turns 40 today. Newspapers around the world are celebrating the occasion.In Canada the Edmonton Journal ran an article and interview with Jim Davis.Q: What did your life look life before Garfield? A: I was earning $135 a week as an assistant to T.K. Ryan on the Tumbleweeds comic. I wanted to […]

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As the great orange cat approaches his 40th birthday, Jim Davis and GoComics did a Q&A. From the interview:GoComics: What would you say is the single Garfield strip over the years that created the most buzz or controversy? Jim Davis: I did a strip where Garfield is laying on the floor saying he’s down. Down, down, down, down, down. And, […]

Sky Masters of the Space Force: the complete Sunday Strips in color (1959-1960) written by Dave Wood and Dick Wood, art by Jack Kirby and Wally Wood produced and edited by Ferran Delgado Print previews the book.This passion project of Delgado’s reproduces the Sunday Strips full tabloid size and lovingly restored. It also features essays […]

Underground Heroes: New York Transit in Comics New York Transit Museum Exhibit June 21, 2018 – January 6, 2019The New York Transit Museum’s newest exhibition, Underground Heroes: New York Transit in Comics is a raucous ride through New York’s transit system from a range of visual storytellers and draws on satirical cartoons, comic strips and comic […]

The Gasoline Alley comic strip has been in rerun status since November 2017. The most recent story line was rerun comic strips from May and June 2007. above: the original June 15, 2007 comic strip and the rerun from June 13, 2018.The 2007 story continues, for weeks, with Slim’s sleep disrupted by kids playing basketball […]

He is short, fat and bald. He never had a wife, a girlfriend or a date. And he doesn’t wear pants. Or shoes. Seven years ago, on the occasion of Tom Wilson‘s death, The Cleveland Plain Dealer took a look at Tom’s most famous creation (I’m hoping Tom II will forgive the slight.) That leads […]

The Comics Beat is reporting that the Dick Tracy comic book project has been revived at IDW and that Rich Tommaso along with Mike, Lee and Laura Allred will team up to make it happen.From the CB story:The story has an unspecified time period, but don’t expect any kind of attempt at modernizing the concept […]

When I came across this Sarah Glidden piece (h/t Matt Bors) yesterday, I thought about adding it to my Father’s Day post as an update. But I quickly realized it was too well-done and important and needed to be a stand-alone here.Go read the rest. I’ll wait.This is brilliant, insightful, self-deprecating stuff and I wish […]

The press has had a field day pumping the news that a publisher’s firing of a political cartoonist in Pittsburgh is a sign of President Trump’s war on freedom of the press. It’s nonsense. above image via KDKAMonica Showalter at The American Thinker takes a contrarian viewpoint to the cartoonist firing.

Fare Well Evelyn Smith! John Kovaleski reveals that KFS editor Evelyn Smith is retiring. Evelyn spent the 1980s and 1990s as Managing Editor for Tribune Media Services, the 2000s and 2010s as King Features Syndicate editor. The 2017 King Features Directory lists her as Senior Comics Editor. We wish Evelyn the bluest skies. Warner Bros. Announces […]

Alex Hallatt may have just been going for the pun in today’s Arctic Circle, but it struck me another way, which is one of the perils of cartooning.In 2007, I wrote a newspaper serial story for the New York News Association, a piece of historical fiction set in New York City in the 1890s and […]

Daddy Daze by John Kovaleski debuts June 17, 2018

While some cartoonists issue reruns for a couple weeks to get vacation time (or grab some shut-eye), Darrin Bell has come up with a unique method of getting ahead of deadlines so he can clock in some vacation, or do promotional tours, or give him time to do his political cartoons.Darrin does two daily comic […]