above: a Bill Mauldin non-Veterans Day strip Between 1969 and 2000, Charles Schulz dedicated 19 Peanuts strips to Veterans Day, making him perhaps the most decorated creator to commemorate the United States holiday on all of GoComics.The GoComics blog presents those 19 Peanuts/Veterans Day strips and some history. But they seems to have missed a couple – […]
The Columbus Dispatch has given notice, at the bottom of a column touting its e-edition extras, that the hard copy will no longer carry the daily Peanuts comic strip. Reason? – $$$$.Another change will affect one comic. We are dropping the daily Peanuts cartoon this month. We will keep the Sunday Peanuts strip for now, […]
Jeremy Banx offers the only Armistice-Remembrance-Veterans Day cartoon you’ll ever need, reminding us that the only thing that can stop 2 or 3 million bad guys with guns is 3 or 4 million good guys with guns.Which may or may not be true, but if we can’t even agree on what the day is called […]
Paul Berge celebrates the end of The War to End All Wars with a selection of editorial cartoons from 100 years ago.The End was the beginning of cleaning up the mess. Or as Paul puts it: “every party needs its pooper.” Paul has done an incredible job of following the First World War for years. From […]
David Rowe does have the advantage of a half-day time difference, but I was surprised to find him one of so few to respond instantly to Trump’s decision to skip the 100th Anniversary of the End of WWI because of what is reported to have been a light rain.And it’s a nice merge of the […]
Mike Thompson – 20 Years at The FreepFriday marks 20 years since I first walked into the front door of the Detroit Free Press as the new political cartoonist for the premier news organization in the most interesting news town in America. And this city and state has never left me wanting for topics for my […]
One of the world’s most recognizable cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse, is celebrating his 90th birthday on November 18. The date is taken from the 1928 premiere of the animated short film “Steamboat Willie” in which Mickey Mouse made his theatrical debut.Nation Multimedia (Thailand) presents 10 fascinating facts and fun trivia about Mickey Mouse.Among them:Mickey’s first […]
Patrick McDonnell as Schulz Museum’s Second Saturday Cartoonist – or not On November 10 the Schulz Museum was all set to welcomeaward-winning cartoonist Patrick McDonnell, creator of the comic strip Mutts, to talk about his favorite mutts, from real-life dogs to Snoopy. McDonnell will sign books after his talk, including his newest collection of Mutts […]
Maybe you can see things more clearly from a slight distance, but Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder once more boils it all down to the essential point, aided, I would note, by the fact that his detailed style makes it possible to capture Bill Murray’s best hangdog expression.Simply citing the movie would have been a […]
The audio interview with new Alley Oop creators Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon at Tall Tale Radio includes a number of reveals – one is that their new Alley Oop comic strips will begin Monday January 7, 2019. above: Jonathan Lemon’s model sheet for Alley Oop via the New York Times As Andrews McMeel has […]
Tom Racine and Lucas Turnbloom celebrate 10 years of podcasts and interview the new creative team behind “Alley Oop.”http://www.talltaleradio.com/episode-275-alley-oop/
Enemy of the People: A Cartoonist’s Journey by Rob Rogers coming December 2018.2018 has been an eventful time for Rob Rogers – from staff editorial cartoonist to fired staff cartoonist, and becoming a cause célèbre in the process. Rob writes about the unsettling year and his life leading up to it in a new book. […]
Just because Friday Funnies is a no-politics zone doesn’t mean we can’t be a little thoughtful, and the menopause arc in this week’s Pajama Diaries set me to thinking about women and cartooning and progress and such.This isn’t the first time Terri Libenson has been more frank than most, but let’s start with the idea […]
Speaking of Social Media Standards… (see Matt Bors)Rachita Taneja had one of her Sanitary Panels comic strips removed from Facebook.Facebook on Tuesday morning took down a comic strip criticising the alleged inconsistent application of its community standards, the framework within which the social media giant takes action against comments and other material reported as offensive. […]
Before the polls opened in the U.S. on November 6 Matt Bors tweeted:Which resulted in, according to Matt: and Twitter promptly suspended Matt’s account. People, some well-known, noticed and responded.and Twitter took notice of the objections and restored Matt’s account. Matt is back on Twitter, though his original tweet is apparently permanently deleted. Whoops, Matt was suspended again, this second […]