Tom Spurgeon over the Comics Reporter has a small piece on The Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State University holding their first annual duplicates sale on August 30th. And you ask: What in heaven’s name is a duplicates sale? Well, keep reading …From their site: Calling all collectors, book worms, scholars and fans!The Billy Ireland will hold its […]
(Signe Wilkinson)Well, thanks for coming. That’s all for today.———–Okay, perhaps a little commentary, though I think Wilkinson’s pen drop pretty much says it.There’s some argument to be made that these aren’t Trump’s lawyers but Manafort’s, but that seems like a distinction without a difference.As Dear Leader said, Manafort is being treated like Al Capone: You […]
Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon #236 (on sale now) has a few pages of the kids’ adventures drawn as tribute pages to Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.Of course tributes to the genius that is Bill Watterson is not uncommon.Some years ago Dan and Tom Heyerman did Calvin and Hobbes some years later. Locust Moon Comics’ Little Nemo: Dream […]
“Jane’s World” was the first gay-themed work to receive online distribution by a national media syndicate (United Features/Comics.com). Paige Braddock is the cartoonist behind the long-running comic strip and TDC interviewed Paige as she prepared for the August 21st launch of her 20th Anniversary “Jane’s World” book from Lion Forge. TDC: Forgive the ignorance, did Jane’s World first debut in […]
From the story:The August 20, 1913, edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (subscription required) reprinted a cartoon from the London Chronicle about the newspaper of the future. And it serves as a fascinating snapshot of an era when automobiles were still relatively new, powered flight was just a decade old, and broadcast radio was still for early adopters.
After reading the write-up for Colonial Comics: New England, 1750-1775 at Comics Worth Reading, I made a mistake that has both positive and negative outcomes for readers here: I accidentally ordered the Kindle version instead of the paperback.The positive is that I was able to sit down and read it sooner and can report that […]
Cartoonist John Blair Moore has passed away.JOHN BLAIR MOORE 1948 – AUGUST 5, 2018 From John’s autobiography:Born in Tibet in the 1880’s, John Blair Moore was raised by a family of iternant(sic) Yak herders high in the Himalayas, where he spent years perfecting his skills in animation and narrative cartoon strips. Unfortunately, being about forty […]
There are three sketch artists in the courtroom for Paul Manafort‘s financial crimes trial.Reuters is using the artwork of William (Bill) Hennessy, Jr. The Associated Press is going with Dana Verkouteren. NPR has the talents of Art Lien. Network and cable news seem to be gravitating toward the Hennessy drawings.Hennessy was the artist Stephen Colbert used for an […]
Over on reddit.com, this post getting some love.Twitter: @Garfield
Berkeley Breathed restarted “Bloom County” in 2015 and he’s now onto his third collection of those new strips. IDW will release “Bloom County: Best Read on the Throne” this September. It’s available for pre-order here.From the IDW site:Collecting year three of the Bloom County relaunch begun in 2015! The stakes are higher, the punchlines are sharper, and […]
The Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia has announced that New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast is to receive their “Visionary Woman Award”. From their site:Since joining The New Yorker in 1978, Roz Chast has established herself as one of our greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities and surreal imaginings of modern life. Her […]
The Smithsonian.com jumps in on the Olivia Jaimes helmed “Nancy.” From the story:The Revamped ‘Nancy’ Is the Perfect Comic Strip for 2018. The comic’s first woman artist mines her own girlhood experience to make the eternally 8-year-old, cookie-loving grouch even funnier.
Let’s start with a salute to fortuitous timing by Wiley Miller, whose Non Sequitur by, I assume, happenstance hits the comics pages while Wells Fargo’s incompetence, venality and lousy response is in the rest of the newspaper.In another bit of interesting timing, NPR has just started a series on the housing crisis with the observation […]
Drawing Caleeforneeya: Political Cartoons of Rex Babin, 1999 – 2012 The California Museum, in association with the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, is presenting a retrospective exhibit honoring Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin.The exhibit, running August 14 – October 14, 2018, will coincide with the AAEC Convention in Sacramento, California the weekend of September […]
Dan Saad hasn’t been out of print since college. When U.S. newspaper circulation peaked at more than 60 million in the 1980s, his editorial cartoons graced the pages of The News-Herald. Three decades later, they still do.Dan’s AAEC profile says he “worked as the editorial cartoonist at the student newspaper, The South End, from 1972-1977.” […]