Happy Birthday Joe Giella, born June 27, 1928! Joe becomes the latest creator to join the Senior Strippers list. A list of cartoonists who for 90+ years continue to survive “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”Below is, as best as I can determine, a list of cartoonists who continue to carry on […]
Back in the day comic books were ubiquitous – found at newsstands, grocery stores, the five and dimes, drug stores, railroad stations, just everywhere. Now they are mostly relegated to the shelves of your local comic book shop.That seems to be changing. With the popularity of superheroes on TV and in movie theaters, comic book […]
Heidi MacDonald reports on the Barnes & Noble announcement that they will be promoting a pre-teen focused graphic book section:Barnes & Noble made it official today. As first reported in The Beat, the retail chain will be adding a separate kids graphic novel section to its stores. According to the official release the sections are […]
Mickey Mouse debuted November 18, 1928. Ninety years later art book publisher Taschen Books will release a big celebratory book about The Mouse’s animated cartoons, comic books and strips, the cartoonists involved, licensed merchandise, and more Mickey Mouse miscellany.As Amid Amidi at Cartoon Brew notes:The 480-page book by Daniel Kothenschulte will be extremely heavy, shipping […]
Mike Luckovich goes there.But it’s okay, and has been since Charlottesville, when the nazis declared that, yes, this is who they are, and Dear Leader gave them his blessing.And Godwin’s more recent thoughts on the subject are well worth reading.Now, in all fairness, Trump shouldn’t be expected to grasp the parallels, given that he is […]
Comic strip, comic book, animation, and courtroom sketch artist Bill Lignante has passed away. Word is spreading of the death of cartoonist Bill Lignante with this posting by Mark Evanier. above: Bill’s National Cartoonists Society mini-autobio cardWilliam G. (Bill) Lignante March 20, 1925 – February 27, 2018 Bill Lignante drew comic strips and Western/Dell/Gold Key […]
Editorial cartoonist A. F. Branco‘s new book, Make America Laugh Again, is available for pre-order now from Amazon, and will be released next week.Promo as seen at Ammoland.com. Volume One is Comically Incorrect and still available from Amazon.
Crying girl not taken from mom: Corrected/Updated Darcy cartoonCleveland Plain Dealer editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy has corrected and apologized for making a factual error in his June 20th cartoon. above: the original cartoon as seen on Cagle.com My June 20 cartoon, in which I drew the image of the girl, erroneously stated the girl had been […]
Both new 2018 syndicated comic strips (Wallace the Brave and Daddy Daze) continue to get press coverage. Will Henry‘s Wallace the Brave gets in a local newspaper about the comic strip and the cartoonist appearing at a meet and greet Sunday June 24.The article about the new comic also has an interview with William Henry […]
The SF Gate is reporting that legendary Bay Area cartoonist Phil Frank (1943 – 2007) will be commemorated in two bronze statues. Frank was the cartoonist of the long-running San Francisco Chronicle comic “Travels with Farley” and the syndicated comic “The Elderberries” with Joe Troise.From the story:He also would have made light of the fuss […]
The Huffington Post’s Caroline Bologna covers King Features’ “Daddy Daze” launch with an interview of its cartoonist Jon Kovaleski.From the story:“When my son was about 6 months old he started verbalizing, except he only said one word ? ‘Ba’ ? over and over, but he really thought he was talking. I decided to give this […]
Today’s “One Big Happy” by Rick Detorie over at GoComics has a Laura Ingalls Wilder joke as the Internet storms back and forth over the removal of her name from a book award. It should be noted that “One Big Happy” does not run its comics on the same day on GoComics as they run in […]
In “Anne and God,” Anne Morse-Hambrock breaks away from the lighter questions she normally poses to confront the Deity with this more fraught issue.The obvious answer is to repeat the well-know koan of the two monks and say, “Put her down; I did a mile ago.”But, as she says, she already knows that the burdens […]
Mike Curtis, writer of the Dick Tracy comic strip, sent a note to the Dick Tracy Depot:The next MINIT MYSTERY is ready and now it’s two weeks long! Guest artist is RICH BURCHETT, known for his work on BATMAN, BLACKHAWK, ARCHIE, and THE JUSTICE LEAGUE. His stint on MINIT MYSTERY begins SUNDAY AUGUST 19 and […]
The (Columbia) Missourian has moved their Sunday Funnies. No longer a free-floating insert, the Sunday comics are now a part of the regular newspaper pages just like the daily comics. The June 24, 2018 Missourian front page.From Editor Mike Jenner: Dear Reader, You may have noticed something different about today’s print Missourian — the Sunday […]