Mental Floss has a story on an upcoming auction at Swann Auction Galleries of Charles Schulz’s original “Peanuts” art. One Sunday from 1970 is estimated expected to reach $30,000.http://mentalfloss.com/article/545662/original-peanuts-comic-strip-auction-block-estimated-sell-30000(photo Swannn Auction Galleries)
Lee Holley 1932 – 2018 Lee Holley died earlier this year. Comics historian R. C. Harvey has done a career-spanning obituary for The Comics Journal.
It’s an article from last year, but as his new album releases today, a reminder that Calvin & Hobbes had an important influence on Josh Tillman.From the Exclaim.ca article:“I was so much like Calvin when I was a kid. Down to, like, really intense anthropomorphizing toys and stuff. I was sort of depressed in the […]
Timing is everything in humor and, with a hat tip to DD Degg at The Daily Cartoonist, here’s one I missed yesterday — an Over the Hedge written two weeks ago — and here’s Michael Fry’s commentary on the serendipity.That was cool. Now do it again. Arlo & Janis offers a look at the gracious past, and […]
Every cartoonist knows that at sometime there will be a syndicated comic strip, done weeks ago, that lands in the newspapers at a very inopportune time.Michael Fry and T. Lewis, who have been doing Cliffsnotes TV gags this week, are enjoying the opposite with today’s Over the Hedge.Michael about today’s strip says,I wrote this two […]
Ryan Pagelow’s first collection of “Buni” from Andrews McMeel will be available for sale on June 5th.From the Buni “About” section on GoComics:Buni is a dark comic about an optimistic bunny with terrible luck. Always positive, Buni doesn’t understand that the cute world he lives in is really out to get him, whether it’s at the […]
Bizarro touches on a nerve, because I’m never sure where my Old Anti-Tech Man intersects with common sense, but I really don’t get texting ahead for a cup of coffee or for McDonalds.Even if you adore technology, the difference — as Wayno suggests — between texting your order or just saying it is pretty small, […]
At the National Cartoonists Society’s72nd Annual Reuben Awards dinner on May 26th 2018The Reuben Award was presented to… GLEN KEANE also nominated:LYNDA BARRYSTEPHAN PASTISHILARY B. PRICEMARK TATULLI hat tip to Tom Heintjes UPDATED The National Cartoonist Society announcement of Glen Keane as 2017 Reuben Award Winner.
Lucas Turnbloom, Terri Libenson and Dana Simpson have been nominated for the Kids’ Comics Awards being held by the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Comics Arts Festival over June 16-17 at the Ann Arbor District Library.Dream Jumper by Lucas Turnbloom and Greg GrunbergInvisible Emmie by Terri LibensonPhoebe and Her Unicorn: The Magic Storm by Dana SimpsonSee the rest […]
Or is it? From the Lubbock Avalance-Journal:My wife and I continue to wonder why Lubbock Avalanche-Journal continues to run the “Dilbert” cartoon on the “Comics” page?This cartoon is dump and stupid.See the whole letter here:http://www.lubbockonline.com/opinion/20180530/letter-aj-needs-to-consider-dropping-dilbert-cartoon-from-comics-page
Nell Minow does a nice write-up at Medium.com about some of the National Cartoonists Society‘s panels that took place over this past Reuben Awards’ weekend.The NCS meeting always blends the past and future with presentations by new young comic artists and oral histories of the classics.Many more (much shorter) reports plus photos can be seen […]
Did you know King Features co-produced The Beatles 1968 film “Yellow Submarine”? Well, they did. And this summer they’ll be celebrating its 50-year anniversary.The film will be re-released this summer in theaters.From a Rolling Stone story:For the 50th anniversary screening, Yellow Submarine was restored in 4K digital resolution, though no automated software was used in order to […]
The Library of Congress has announced a multi-million dollar donation of comics and memorabilia from Diamond Comics owner and CEO Stephen Geppi. The collection includes original work from Walt Disney and Richard Outcault.From the Library of Congress release:The Library of Congress announced today that collector and entrepreneur Stephen A. Geppi has donated to the nation’s […]
I really like Steve Sack’s commentary on the rollback of banking regulations.If you remember back when post-Depression banking regulations were first eased under Carter and Reagan, there was a lot of talk about how it was okay because they wouldn’t make the same mistakes that had been made in the 1920s. And we promptly fell into […]
The Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) is reporting that jailed cartoonist Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé (aka Jamón y Queso) has been released from prison in Equatorial Guinea and is now safe and free in Spain.From their site:Esono Ebalé, a prominent artist and cartoonist often critical of the government, who traveled to Equatorial Guinea to request […]