Jeff Mallett and his comic strip alter ego Frazz are triathletes.Jef may be a bit less accomplished, but is no less dedicated than Frazz.Jef is interviewed about his upcoming 4.2-mile swim on Labor Day across the Straits of the Mackinac between Michigan’s peninsulas that runs along the Mackinac Bridge.Of the triathlon activities, swimming is not […]
Noted Oregonian and long-time “Stone Soup” cartoonist Jan Eliot recently posted on social media about her permanent contribution of 10 years of “Stone Soup” comic originals to the Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State University in Columbus. The Daily Cartoonist asked her some probing follow-up questions.**TDC: You recently donated 10 years of Stone Soup comic originals to Ohio […]
Steve Breen leads off today because he’s covering the news and not the noise.There are plenty of Omarosa cartoons, and we’ll get to them, but Breen is the first to pick up on this bit of news that is only news because the question it raises is “How many times can a man turn his […]
Ron and Shirley met in 1957, in 1958 they became Mr. and Mrs. Bugos. They are longtime fans of Rex Morgan, M.D., and the current creator of the feature Terry Beatty helped them celebrate their 60 anniversary in the comic strip.With their 60th anniversary approaching, the Bugos’s five children and 17 grandchildren wanted an appropriate […]
Juxtaposition of the Day(Clay Jones) (Jeff Koterba)As noted elsewhere on the Daily Cartoonist, newspapers are standing up to the forces of repression this Thursday, and Clay Jones is backing a client with the above cartoon.Meanwhile, Jeff Koterba’s Omaha World-Herald is a bit ahead of the movement with an editorial marking its 133 birthday with a declaration […]
To counter what it describes as President Donald Trump’s “dirty war against the free press,” The Boston Globe is urging newspapers across the country to take a coordinated stand against his anti-media attacks. And scores have already answered the call to battle. On Saturday, Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe’s deputy editorial page editor, told CNN that […]
There’s a Man Who Leads a Life of Danger Secret Agent X-9/Secret Agent Corrigan ran as a daily-only comic strip from 1934 to 1996. Mark Carlson-Ghost looks at the star and co-stars of the strip, and at the creators assigned to the G-man.Secret Agent X-9 is well known by comic strip fans, but is largely […]
In advance of the October release of their 35th book “Adult Time,” the Daily Cartoonist conducted an email interview with “Baby Blues” creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott.**TDC: Your 35th (!) Baby Blues book hits the streets in mid-October. How does a 28-year-old comic have 35 books?JS: This is actually our 45th Baby Blues book, […]
Monday can be tough for this feature: A lot of editorial cartoonists don’t work the weekend and so won’t post new material until tomorrow, while a lot of strips are just starting new story arcs and it’s hard to tell which ones will pan out.But this Kal Kallaugher piece is a good example of someone […]
In the 1970s Garry Trudeau edited a series of comic strip reprints. Among the “Cartoon Stories For New Children” was a Gasoline Alley by Dick Moores. Bill Peckman and Michael Sporn presented the book in two parts. Part One. Part Two. Summer Fun. With a title of Sunday Funnies we ought to have some color. So […]
Michael Cavna over at the Washington Post interviews Art Speigelman on being first cartoonist to receive the award.From the story:The MacDowell Colony arts organization in New Hampshire wanted to bestow upon the legendary cartoonist its 2018 honor, which has previously gone to such creative titans as Stephen Sondheim, Georgia O’Keeffe, Toni Morrison and David Lynch. […]
According to this Comics Beat story, Target will be the sole dispenser of a new line of Disney graphic novels about princesses.Well, good. We need more princess-promotion these days.Perhaps the best place to start would be by conceding that a lot of children’s content is more extruded than created, and that, while I cheerfully watched […]
Bob Montana’s ArchieA bronze statue of comic book and comic strip character Archie, with a plaque honoring Bob Montana, was dedicated in Mededith, N.H. August 9, 2018. TV station WMUR filmed the unveiling. The Charlotte Observer carried a short AP piece. Cartoonist Becomes EditorLong time Big Valley cartoonist Marc Lutz has taken a job as editor […]
Let’s start with the current Vintage Juliet Jones storyline, in which quiet, submissive Vassily the Exchange Student has been forced to put on the gloves with the Class Bully, and we all saw this result coming and Stan Drake sure dragged it out.The original ran in 1961, which I mention because there was a time […]
Over the last 150 years there were and are many great editorial cartoonists, you can name your favorites and I can name mine. There are fewer that we deem a Master of the Craft.Paul Conrad was a Master.Paul Conrad often claimed that making President Richard Nixon’s enemies list in 1973 was one of his proudest […]