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Michael De Adder penned this brilliant cartoon back in late August, and I wish it had gone out of date but it is more relevant by the moment.I also wish, I suppose, that fear of the mob were the only thing motivating media moguls, because, when it is conflated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 […]
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 […]