Today’s Big Nate is part of a story arc on the topic of Prank Day, which I guess is a thing. Not only is it featured in a syndicated comic strip — which is my definition of when something becomes a thing — but I remember about 15 years ago when kids swiped a real […]
The fact checking site Snopes has investigated the circumstances surrounding the recent difficulties between the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Rob Rogers.Was a Cartoonist Fired for an Anti-Trump Drawing?WHAT’S TRUERob Rogers was fired by the ‘Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’ after the newspaper rejected a number of cartoons critical of Donald Trump’s presidential policies.WHAT’S FALSERogers’ firing wasn’t based on one […]
From the ‘‘All Things Considered’ site.Wallace the Brave is a new daily comic strip, which is getting attention, award recognition and increasing readership. It’s about a boy who’s less depressed than Peanuts character Charlie Brown and kinder than Calvin & Hobbes.From the All Things Considered site.**Check out Wallace the Brave at GoComics.Will’s twitter @MrWillHenry
The book with a new original sketch by Bill Watterson sold at the charity auction for $11,000 to comic book artist Tony Harris. above: Shelton Drum, Tony Harris, and Mr. Harris’ sonDetails about the highlight of the auction, and more about Team Cul de Sac, at Mike Rhode’s interview with Chris Sparks.Mike Rhode: You’ve mentioned […]
On June 18, 2018 the television game show Jeopardy!, in the first round, contained a category for comics’ fans.COMIC-CONVERSATIONS The “answers”:$200 It encloses dialogue from a specific speaker’s mouthThen showing an image similar to $400 An image that extends beyond the edge of a page is said to do this medical verb$600 King Features specializes […]
Let’s start with the Birthday Boy, because it’s one of the few bright spots in the day.Garfield turns 40 today and there’s a hoohah going on including a book and a lot of coverage.Rather than simply steal his links, I’m going to let DD Degg provide them.But I will add to his collection the interview I […]
Garfield by Jim Davis turns 40 today. Newspapers around the world are celebrating the occasion.In Canada the Edmonton Journal ran an article and interview with Jim Davis.Q: What did your life look life before Garfield? A: I was earning $135 a week as an assistant to T.K. Ryan on the Tumbleweeds comic. I wanted to […]
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As the great orange cat approaches his 40th birthday, Jim Davis and GoComics did a Q&A. From the interview:GoComics: What would you say is the single Garfield strip over the years that created the most buzz or controversy? Jim Davis: I did a strip where Garfield is laying on the floor saying he’s down. Down, down, down, down, down. And, […]
Sky Masters of the Space Force: the complete Sunday Strips in color (1959-1960) written by Dave Wood and Dick Wood, art by Jack Kirby and Wally Wood produced and edited by Ferran Delgado Print previews the book.This passion project of Delgado’s reproduces the Sunday Strips full tabloid size and lovingly restored. It also features essays […]
Underground Heroes: New York Transit in Comics New York Transit Museum Exhibit June 21, 2018 – January 6, 2019The New York Transit Museum’s newest exhibition, Underground Heroes: New York Transit in Comics is a raucous ride through New York’s transit system from a range of visual storytellers and draws on satirical cartoons, comic strips and comic […]
The Gasoline Alley comic strip has been in rerun status since November 2017. The most recent story line was rerun comic strips from May and June 2007. above: the original June 15, 2007 comic strip and the rerun from June 13, 2018.The 2007 story continues, for weeks, with Slim’s sleep disrupted by kids playing basketball […]
He is short, fat and bald. He never had a wife, a girlfriend or a date. And he doesn’t wear pants. Or shoes. Seven years ago, on the occasion of Tom Wilson‘s death, The Cleveland Plain Dealer took a look at Tom’s most famous creation (I’m hoping Tom II will forgive the slight.) That leads […]
The Comics Beat is reporting that the Dick Tracy comic book project has been revived at IDW and that Rich Tommaso along with Mike, Lee and Laura Allred will team up to make it happen.From the CB story:The story has an unspecified time period, but don’t expect any kind of attempt at modernizing the concept […]
When I came across this Sarah Glidden piece (h/t Matt Bors) yesterday, I thought about adding it to my Father’s Day post as an update. But I quickly realized it was too well-done and important and needed to be a stand-alone here.Go read the rest. I’ll wait.This is brilliant, insightful, self-deprecating stuff and I wish […]