A new book from Eisner-nominated, Reuben and Addy award winner Jim Benton has been announced by IDW Publishing. The book is available for pre-order for a February 2019 release date. And there’s a nice blurb from Dav Pilkey on the cover.From the IDW site:When Clyde the Bear decides to ditch his safe and peaceful life in […]
I could probably just post Tom Toles‘ cartoon and sign off for the day. For all the Sturm und Drang of the hearings, this is pretty much it.I knew a girl in college who had gone to a boarding school where her roommate was the daughter of a Mafia figure. (She told me this story […]
Reality Check cartoonist, multiple Reuben category award-winner and all-around Canadian Dave Whamond has just released a new book from Kids Can Press. “Rosie’s Glasses” is written and illustrated by Dave and early reviews over at Amazon are saying:“one of the best books I have ever read.”“charming”“wordless”Here’s more from the promotional piece on Amazon:Award-winning author and illustrator […]
Former Nancy and The Muppet Show cartoonist Guy Gilchrist is featured on a podcast called “Tomorrow Comes Movies.”From the podcast:Guy on finding out he had The Muppets Show comic gig:“I had to sit there in my garage studio and pretend that miracles happen ever single day to me — and be a grown-up — and […]
Over at The Comics Journal, Teagan O’Neil reviews Paige Braddock’s new 20th anniversary Jane’s World collection from Lion Forge.From the review:Love Letters is an apt title as the book is actually interspersed with testimonials from folks like Howard Cruse, Alison Bechdel (who attests that Braddock draws breasts “better than anyone”), Stephen Pastis, and Hilary Price. The […]
Let’s start with the obvious, because sometimes pointing out the obvious is the best you can do. Dave Granlund points out that Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is getting different treatment from the Republican majority than Merritt Garland’s nomination received. Ditto with Matt Wuerker‘s commentary, which does not break any new ground or display any unexpected insight but […]
George Gene Gustines over at the New York Times weighs in on the Benders retirement from “Alley Oop” and the strip’s future.From Carole Bender:“Alley Oop has been our constant companion for a big chunk of our lives. Jack started drawing Alley Oop 28 years ago, and I joined him as an assistant 27 years ago. We […]
Over at The Comics’ Journal, there’s a nice piece from Frank M. Young on how Roy Crane handled marriage in his King Features’ comic “Buz Sawyer.”From the piece:This is the triumph of Buz Sawyer. Though full of violence—with moments of stark brutality that rival Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy—Sawyer is a character study that inverts the romantic notion of the […]
King Features is launching “Macanudo” this month from Argentinian cartoonist and recent Eisner-award winner Ricardo “Liniers” Siri. It’s unclear from King’s release what day in September it is launching.One of the launch clients appears to be The Aberdeen News in Aberdeen, South Dakota. They’ve done a welcoming article here (with paywall, unfortunately). update:Today (September 4) King […]
Let’s start with David Fitzsimmons‘ panel today, because, while he’s not the first to point out that Evangelicals are willing to overlook the entire New Testament and substantial portions of the Old, his depiction of Trump brought something to mind.When I was younger, and not a whole lot younger, I was always bothered by Exodus […]
100 years ago this year.Covington native Robert Franc Schulkers published the first adventure of the “Fair & Square Boys Club”– as told by Gregory Hawkins, the club “seckatary” – on Feb. 3, 1918, in the Enquirer. At the height of its popularity, the newspaper serial and comic strip reached 10 million households and spawned 30 […]
Sally From Peanuts Made Me a Better TeacherSally, the younger sister of Peanuts’ Charlie Brown, did not perform well in school. She wrote reports the morning they were due. She failed multiple exams. As an overachieving child, I attributed her poor performance to laziness. But now that I’m an educator, I understand where she was […]
Earlier today one of the points of Mike’s column was the casual portrayal of same sex partnerships in the Bliss panel. Commenters at the GoComics page also noticed.I tried to pass on commenting, but can’t resist.As mentioned in the Bliss comments Bud Fisher‘s Mutt and Jeff have been doing the same bed thing for 100 […]
What is today’s Arlo and Janis? Is it an homage? An encomium? Or perhaps a panegyric to Ernie Bushmiller’s 1969 (below) Labor Day Comic. Whatever you may call it, Jimmy Johnson has done it and now it belongs to the world.www.gocomics.com/arloandjanisInteresting to note, that new Nancy creator Olivia Jaimes has also turned in an “I’m […]
I don’t think you could have a better Labor Day commentary than this Clay Bennett cartoon.It could have run just about any time in the past year and a half, because Trump repeatedly takes credit for things that haven’t happened or that he had nothing to do with.But Trump has been particularly vocal lately in […]