I was basically my own editor for 25 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And then the publisher decided he didn’t like what he saw.Rob Rogers, in comic strip form, details his Post-Gazette story for us at The Nib. Since Rob’s Brewed on Grant strip has seemingly ended, maybe we can get a different weekly comic strip […]
Rob Rogers finally tells the whole story over at the Nib, and it’s both fascinating and unsurprising. Go read the rest of it.There are elements of the story that should seem familiar, but it was, on the whole, outrageous enough that it’s a lesson in Where We’re At.Any time you have a change in management, […]
A few Hey Look comic strips by Harvey Kurtzman via The Bristol Board. From The Saturday Evening Post comes gag cartoons by comic strip cartoonists before they made the newspaper syndicates. A look back at The Great Comic Switcheroo of April Fool’s Day 1997 courtesy Neil Robertson. Above image from the instigators’ Baby Blues page. […]
A few Walt Disney news items via Cartoon Brew.Released tomorrow, July 3, 2018, is ‘A Mouse Divided’ by Jeff Ryan – A New Book Exploring How Success Tore Apart Mickey Mouse Creators Walt Disney And Ub IwerksCartoon Brew’s Amid Amidi explainsThe book…explores how Walt Disney’s colleague Ub Iwerks was never given the credit he deserved […]
Journalist Jean Godden, writing for Westside Seattle, reveals that she hasalways had a secret love affair with editorial cartoonists and wish I’d had the talent and training to be one. It’s one thing to be an editorialist trying to right the world in 700 words or less. It’s far, far better to slay dragons in […]
The best part of the 2018 World Cup is that the US team didn’t make it, so we haven’t had a lot of coverage and, thus, we haven’t had a lot of handwringing by Old Fartstm who feel compelled to hate the world’s most popular sport.It also means that I accidentally watched a really good […]
Back here we wished the lovely Evelyn Smith a future of happiness on her retirement.Sally Forth (and past Flash Gordon) cartoonist Jim Keefe also wishes her well:I worked with her during her King Features’ stint – first as a colorist – and more recently as the artist on Sally Forth. She’s one of those people who […]
Artist and cartoonist Paul Miller has passed away.Paul Rader Miller January 20, 1935 – June 18, 2018 From the Marin Independent Journal obituary:Paul was a Marine from 1954-56, and a 1958 graduate of UCLA, earning a B.A. and a Masters. His passion was being an artist of many media and styles, including caricatures. He treasured teaching a […]
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal today begs for pardon:The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published an editorial cartoon this past Monday – a cartoon which deserves an apology. The editorial cartoon caused anger and hurt for many in the community, including the law enforcement community – and for that we are regretful. We apologize for publishing the editorial cartoon, and […]
Yesterday was the opening of the “Cartoons from the New Yorker” exhibit at the Laumeister Art Center at Southern Vermont College in Bennington, and you really should have been there, because Bob Mankoff is extremely funny and wise and, in the space I’ve got, I’ll only be able to skim over a bit of what […]
For Charles Schulz and Peanuts fans this year’s San Diego Comic Con (July 19-22, 2018) is the place to be if you absolutely need to have a bunch of exclusive collectibles. A comic book, patches, t-shirts, lanyard, bandana, and pop sockets are only some of the items available exclusively at The Con. Speaking of Cons… Ted […]
Steve Christensen, who formerly served as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, which at its height sold more than 140 features in more than 100 countries around the world, has died.Steve Christensen November 18, 1953 – June 20, 2018 During his 1985 – 2000 tenure at the Los Angeles Times Syndicate he served […]
In 2011 David Horsey left Seattle for a six year vacation in Southern California. Now, upon his return to Seattle, he finds that the city didn’t just go into hibernation mode waiting for its wayward son to return. No, the city has changed. Original May 24, 2018 post:Late in 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist David Horsey […]
There have been a flood of cartoons about the Capital Gazette murders, but Marshal Ramsey offers the sentiment that matters to me.I also like Liza Donnelly’s quiet, controlled tribute, because she didn’t overplay it, though she added a commentary that spoke of sorrow, which I appreciate, saying, in part: We don’t know yet the motive for the […]
Mark Streeter Dana Summers Andy Marlette Bob Englehart Jeffrey Koterba Gary Varvel Steve Artley Signe Wilkinson Jim Morin They did what they could. They drew. Editorial cartoonists drew from the heart as the mass shootings they so often have to convey hit close to home.David Beard at Poynter on “how a few AAEC members represented the […]