MacMillan Publishers and Roaring Brook Press have announced the release of Lio and Heart of the City creator Mark Tatulli’s new children’s book “They Came.”The Daily Cartoonist caught up with Mark and asked him about the new book.Mark:I was inspired (or moved) by the rising lack of empathy for immigrants that I was seeing … […]
Patrick Chappatte with a cartoon so wonderful that I don’t mind that it may well be obsolete by the time you see this.With the US not qualifying, I’ve been picking teams throughout World Cup only to have them disappear, and I’m reluctant to say that I’m rooting for France today, not simply because there’s a […]
Over at Nielsen Bookscan and for the week of June 24th, Mo Willems clocks in at No. 31 with his 2017 book “An Elephant and Piggie Biggie.” To date Nielsen reports more than 180,000 of the new Willems’ book have been sold.While Instagram and Facebook cartoonist Catana debuts her new book “Little Moments of Love” at […]
We’ll start with a rare example of an artist beating the bureaucracy, with a hat tip to Bado for pointing out this WashPost article.The Postal Service wanted to feature the Statue of Liberty on a stamp. They found a nice photo of her and purchased the rights from Getty Images for $1500, then ran off […]
Q: You’ve decided to put the pen down on “In the Bleachers” … What gives? The comic is only 33 years old.A: Yeah, 33 years. Would you believe I started Bleachers when I was 4-years old?I didn’t think so. Anyway …I still have three youngsters who need to burn through Dad’s hard-earned cash until they’re […]
From Snow White to Bugs Bunny to PunkinheadCelebrating a cabin built 100 years ago in Manitoba gives reason to profile Charles Thorson, who spent his childhood in said cabin.Charles Thorson moved to Hollywood in 1934 and became a cartoonist who created prototypes for Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the […]
Speed Bump cartoonist Dave Coverly spent some time in Bloomington, Indiana on his way to the hinterlands. Dave and some of his cartoon originals return to Bloomington for a good cause.Reports The Herald Times:Over the course of three decades, his panels have occasionally featured jokes involving cats and dogs. Some of those panels will be […]
Consolidated Publishing Co. publishes two daily newspapers (and a few weeklies) in Alabama. They have decided that the daily papers, The Anniston Star and The (Talladega) Daily Home, should have identical syndicated content.For decades, The Anniston Star and The Daily Home have both published a comics page. Over the years, the lineup changes from time […]
Arlo & Janis touches off a low-level rant, because I care more about this phenomenon on radio than I do on TV, possibly because I don’t watch a lot of TV.I appreciate that, in the Olden Days segment, he had the woman come in from the next room, because, if you were right there, phones […]
[Jack Ohman] grew up fishing for bluegills in Lake Johanna, slinging Texas rigs for bass on Mille Lacs and drifting for walleyes in his father’s 12-foot “car-topper,’’ a vintage boat he still keeps. High school friends coaxed him to the Kinnickinnic River in River Falls, Wis., and he evolved into a fly fishing junkie of […]
I mentioned the other day that, in eighth grade social studies, we learned the terms “log-rolling” and “back-patting,” from a teacher who also required us to know the members of the Supreme Court and of the President’s Cabinet, and, in the latter case, what their departments were charged with.It’s become a regular luncheon-speaker horror story […]
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting the death of Steve Ditko. Artist Steve Ditko, who co-created Spider-Man and Doctor Strange with Stan Lee, has died at age 90. The New York Police Department confirmed his death to The Hollywood Reporter.No cause of death was announced. Ditko was found dead in his apartment on June 29 and […]
Let’s start things off with the Serendipity Award, as Rhymes With Orange drops this gag smack in the middle of a massive heat wave at least for those of us in the Northeast, which includes RWOHQ in Massachusetts.I suspect that, if you had a wax museum without AC, you could set up a pretty impressive […]
From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:July 5, 2018 marks the 60th birthday of legendary comic creator Bill Watterson. His iconic cartoon Calvin and Hobbes has entertained generations of readers, bringing the witty adventures and philosophical musings of a six-year-old boy and his stuffed tiger to newspapers around the world. To mark Watterson’s birthday, here are 60 facts you may not know about him.60 […]
Editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey ponders his career choice in 2018.Editorial cartoonist positions were already disappearing because of the swing of accountants’ axes. Losing one because the cartoonist was too critical of a person in power is particularly chilling.I’ll be honest, it’s unnerving. Change is scary. There are days when I wake up with fear in […]