Rob Snyder is the Spirit’s publisher, and also a photographer, writer, copy editor, editorial cartoonist, headline writer and ad salesman. He’s also the weekly paper’s sole comic strip artist. The first stripJust learning of this funny local weekly comic strip. It began November 15, 2017 in the Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, W.V.). The Spirit […]
First look at the animated Addams Family movie! Courtesy MGM and Behind The Thrills comes a peek at the upcoming (next year) animated movie feature of Charles Addams classic creation. Warning: link contains an earworm! Jules Feiffer Has Never Been HappierFeiffer expresses great enthusiasm for his latest project, which is something he never imagined would actually […]
Over at The Comics Journal, R.C. Harvey writes at length about pioneering African-American cartoonist Ted Shearer and his syndicated comic “Quincy.”Ted Shearer from the article:“When I gave my name over the phone in arranging for an appointment, I suppose they figured that ‘Shearer’ was Irish. But when I showed up for the meeting and the […]
Garfield’s 40th Anniversary book “Age Happens” is being released on his 40th Birthday, June 19th.The book features a foreword from longtime fan and Pulitizer Prize-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda of Broadway’s “Hamilton.”Buy it here.Twitter: @garfield@Lin_Manuel
Kevin Siers may have done the unforgiveable and read the decision, written by Justice Kennedy, the concurrence by Justice Kagan, the less striking concurrence by Justice Gorsuch and the passionate dissent by Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayer, as well as Thomas’s concurrence, which emphasizes the art-aspect.Despite a flood of angry, pro-LGBTQ cartoons, this was not a […]
[William Wilson’s] “Wallace the Brave” comic strip, which he pens under the name of Will Henry, is now in more than 100 newspapers across the U.S., including the Houston Chronicle where it begins Sunday.And the Houston Chronicle is where this piece introducing readers to their newest comic strip appears. Will Henry’s Wallace the Brave remains […]
Sports and political cartoonist and journalist Rob Tornoe, who also comments on the media, has an article for today’s (June 4) Philly.com/Philadelphia Inquirer with the latest on the Rob Rogers/Post-Gazette situation.The problems between Rogers and Burris date back to March, shortly after Burris first took over as the newspaper’s editorial director. On his Facebook page, […]
In case you missed it the first time it published, this is a worthy read and/or re-read. It’s especially poignant because of what’s happened with the cartoonist change on the feature in the last few months.My failed attempt to draw the Nancy comic stripwww.gocomics.com/nancyTwitter: @BoingBoinghttp://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/ivan-brunetti/
Terri Libenson has a talent for illustrating serious points with ironic humor, and today’s Pajama Diaries is a spur towards more in-depth thought. And if Jill’s dismissal of her own talent with “I got lucky” is the germ of the problem, I did get lucky in that Terri provided enough of a clue that I […]
Last month Kirk Walters and The Toledo Blade celebrated 30 years of Maumee Dearest, the local weekly comic strip. This weekend the paper and the cartoonist looked back.In 1988, a young cartoonist at The Blade named Kirk Walters submitted a multi-panel strip he’d drawn in the hope the paper would consider running it on the […]
Eulogies honoring the memory of Nick Meglin are appearing.A wonderful tribute came from comics writer. editor, and executive Paul Levitz. With permission:Word is spreading of the sudden passing of Nick Meglin, an insufficiently celebrated but extraordinarily important influence on American culture and cartooning. Nick is close to the last survivor of the offices of E.C. […]
Let’s begin where we left off yesterday, with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s bizarre boycott of their own cartoonist. See yesterday’s blog posting for background, see JP Trostle’s cartoon above for a response I like.And here’s Rob’s latest cartoon. What the hell, if his own paper won’t print them, I will. And they’re still paying him, last […]
Tom Hentjes and Jason Chatfield have both tweeted that MAD Magazine legend Nick Meglin has passed away. Nick was present at last week’s Reuben Awards in Philadelphia.
Michael De Adder penned this brilliant cartoon back in late August, and I wish it had gone out of date but it is more relevant by the moment.I also wish, I suppose, that fear of the mob were the only thing motivating media moguls, because, when it is conflated with their own Murdockesque goals, it’s […]
The National Cartoonists Society has discovered that two awards were given out erroneously last Saturday at the Reubens banquet in Philadelphia.From NCS President Bill Morrison’s note to the membership:When compiling the names of the winners to send to our award manufacturer, I accidentally took the names for the four online voting categories (Newspaper Panel, Newspaper Strip, Editorial […]