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 […]
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site‘sMary Tucker Jasper Speaker Series…annually welcomes 300 prestigious guests to enjoy a dinner, nationally recognized speaker, and the presentation of the Advancing American Democracy Award.The Advancing American Democracy Award is bestowed annually by the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site upon an individual who, in an exemplary way, advances the values of our […]
King Features Syndicate has cancelled a few comics features.Henry and Hazel has already been noted here and here.Also announced is the end of Happy Musings by Sally Huss.Happy Musings is an illustrated panel featuring a pithy maxim.Created by artist and author Sally Huss it debuted as a six-day-a-week feature from King Features on October 23, […]
King has also alerted clients that Henry will also be ending its run in syndication. King points out in its notice that Henry had been in reruns. Henry started with King in 1934. Henry’s last Sunday in syndication will be October 28th and its last daily on Saturday, October 27th.From the King Features site:Created by […]
This week’s daily BC comics are promoting the LUMA Projection Arts Festival in the Mastroiannis’ hometown of Binghamton, N.Y.From Mason Mastroianni’s Facebook page:Tomorrow, a special event week of BC Comic Strip will begin in newspapers across the world. From Monday through Saturday, We will be celebrating LUMA Projection Arts Festival, and it’s impact on community arts in our hometown […]
Sources reporting that King Features will end the Hazel comic panel. The last daily will be September 29th.From the King site: The name Hazel has become synonymous with a live-in maid who is more to her “family” than a housekeeper. This lovable character was created by Ted Key in 1943 and began appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. […]
The September 3rd Nancy featured a couple of panels with the dialogue “Sluggo is Lit.” The Twitter-verse grabbed a hold of the phrase and turned it into a meme under the hashtag #sluggoislit. In the wake of Twitter’s response, Comicbook.com has listed the Top 10 “Sluggo is Lit” mashups. And the internet comic mercandise and apparel company […]
Dogs of C Kennel raises several existential questions, though it doesn’t actually touch on the question of when “existential” became a thing.All of a sudden, I’m seeing all sorts of people cite such-and-such as an existential threat to their existence, which reminds me of when the Watergate hearings got everyone saying “at that point in […]
Eisner-nominated Michael Cavna does a fun roundup of editorial cartoons that are weighing in on Bob Woodward’s Donald Trump book. Featuring Jack Ohman, Clay Bennett, Mike Keefe and Bob Englehart.Check it out at The Washington Post site here.
Andrews McMeel has launched a new searchable licensing site. The site features searchable archives of more than 100 comic features including such favorites as Calvin and Hobbes, Doonesbury, NonSequitur, Cathy, Luann, Stone Soup and The Comics Strip That Has a Finale Every Day.The Daily Cartoonist is owned by Andrews McMeel.
Artist and comics historian and comic art identifier Hames Ware has passed away.CARLTON HAMES WARE AUGUST 20, 1943 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 From Karen Green’s September 6 Facebook post: In June, I went to Arkansas to meet with Hames Ware, a genius of Golden Age comics research and co-editor of THE WHO’S WHO OF AMERICAN […]