The Daily Cartoonist recently sat down (virtually) with cartoonist Rob Harrell. Rob’s resume includes the much-beloved gone-too-soon syndicated comic “Big Top,” taking over for Brian Bassett on “Adam at Home,” a series of “Zarf” graphic novels from Penguin Random House and a CGI film from Paramount based on his Top Shelf Comix graphic novel “Monster on […]
There’s a lot going on today, much of which does not reflect well on civilization.My Kindle edition of Bob Woodward’s “Fear” was delivered at midnight, but, for the moment, I have only the Washington Post coverage of the other day and a few other early reviews to go on.However, I suspect there will be some […]
Happy anniversary Leroy and LorettaYesterday was the 50th anniversary for The Lockhorns, debuting September 9, 1968.But today’s panel seems to be celebrating the occasion. Mars LandingAfter years of training and traveling…Safe Havens has a (not quite man) landing on the moon. Comic Strip Within a Comic Strip Perhaps most famously would be Al Capp’s Fearless Fosdick.Today Tom […]
Michael Cavna covers the fallout from Australian cartoonist Mark Knight’s work on the Serena Williams/Umpire U.S. Open flap.From the piece:In doing so, Knight draws facial features reflecting the dehumanizing Jim Crow caricatures so common in the 19th and 20th centuries. Knight’s cartoon conjures up a range of such caricatures that were branded on memorabilia and […]
The Northwest (Fayetteville) Arkansas Democrat Gazette had a recent editorial summoning up some memories of a Lil Abner-based theme park called “Dogpatch USA.”From the editorial:Truth be told, Dogpatch USA was never the grandest amusement park to ever open its gates. Its developers had big visions when the park near Harrison, themed after the satirical “Lil’ […]
A site called JSTOR (a site that reports to mix news and academics) has posted a piece called “The Most Controversial Comic Strip” on the legacy of censorship in comics and found in Walt Kelly’s “Pogo.”From the piece:As a Cold War liberal, Kelly also satirized communists by portraying two beatnik cowbirds as fellow-travellers constantly revising […]
Okay, I recognize the cartoon character in this one, and I’m inclined to agree with Bill Day that the damage done is pretty negligible.However, a lot of that is due to the overlap with the revelations in Bob Woodward’s book, which comes out tomorrow but was excerpted and discussed in the Washington Post the day […]
Update:Larry Lieber‘s last daily pencilled Spider-Man comic strip was dated September 8, 2018.Beginning September 10, 2018 the dailies are pencilled and inked by Alex Saviuk.Alex Saviuk is now the daily artist and Sunday penciller of The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip. original August 2, 2018 post:It seems Larry Lieber is retiring from daily penciling of The Amazing […]
Illustrator Wallace Tripp has passed away.From Wallace Tripp’s Facebook page earlier today:Dear friends, Wally has passed on to the Studio in the Sky. He had a wonderful life full of love, laughter, art, music and airplanes.WALLACE WHITNEY (WALLY) TRIPP June 26, 1940 – September 9, 2018 A bit of biography from the Wally Tripp homepage:Wallace […]
Today is the official launch day for Liniers’ King Features’ comic “Macanudo.” Go check it out over at King’s site. The Aberdeen News earlier introduced Macanudo to its readers, today they welcome the debut strip to its pages.Today’s strip may be most people’s introduction to Liniers and “Macanudo,” but he has amassed a career’s-worth of accomplishments […]
Over at the GoComics blog, reclusive Nancy cartoonist Olivia Jaimes is interviewed. The interview seems to predate the #sluggoislit movement on twitter.From the interview:GoComics: How about the reaction among Nancy fans? Have you had much interaction with them since April? Do you pay much attention to their comments (we love your Aug. 19 strip about the “exact […]
The producers and creators of the very popular Lone Ranger franchise tried to duplicate that success with The Green Hornet. And that included trying to get the character starring in a comic strip.Green Hornet historian Martin Gram has explained that after an aborted 1939 attempt Bell Syndicate gave it a shot in 1940. Bell’s proposal […]
I wasn’t sure where to start today, but David Horsey may come the closest to my position.I’m not quite with Bob Englehart, in proclaiming the unknown writer as a hero, because, as others have suggested, there’s an element of complicity in staying on the team, even if you’re helping to thwart the President’s most outrageous […]
Two thoughtful blog posts about the late Mort Walker coincide with King Features’ decision to finally shut down a pair of moribund old strips, Henry and Hazel, as reported elsewhere at DailyCartoonist.Calvin has a point about the brutal mistreatment of comic strips by newspapers, though, as I’ve said before, if you’re reading this on a […]
The Albany Times-Union notified its readers that they will begin carrying the new Macanudo strip starting Sunday September 9.But I will also tell you that an editor quickly learns what readers consider important when, say, there’s a missing clue to a crossword puzzle, or when a typo creates a recipe calling for 1 T. of […]