A roundup of Peanuts items from its 75th anniversary year. For 75 years, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, Lucy, Pigpen and the rest of the gang have been a part of nearly everyone’s life in all corners of the world. Consumer products have played a pivotal role in the evolution and awareness of the Peanuts brand […]
One can hope, along with Ohman, that Senate Republicans will at least have their staffs read the Big Beautiful Bull and highlight the irrelevant, dangerous parts the House snuck in, like the part that says local government can’t pass bills limiting artificial intelligence.And it wouldn’t hurt to examine some of the relevant but cruel parts […]
Featuring Shoe, Broom-Hilda, Bizarro The New Yorker, Creature Features, The Phantom, Arlo and Janis, Olive and Popeye and Thimble Theater.I began my comic strip reading with the Comics Kingdom feed today and Shoe was one of the first ones to make an impression. The psychiatrist was good, but the sofa and the Perfessor lounging across […]
Guilford College’s Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR) program is receiving more national recognition. Only this time the attention is coming from an unexpected source: a comic strip. Josh Neufeld, a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times, published a comic strip earlier this month in The Boston Globe that […]
A sudden explosion in Trump Always Chickens Out references, caused by a sudden explosion in the White House press room because some nasty reporter asked the TACO how he felt about being called a taco.One of those things we warn 4-year-olds about: When you react like that, it just encourages them. So now there are […]
ComicLab hosts Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar are preparing for an educational and entertaining live recording of the ComicLab podcast at the Boston NCS Conference and Reubens in August. Featuring a panel of cartoonists who are succeeding with self-publishing, self-promotion, and fan management on platforms like Patreon, Kickstarter, Substack, and more, you’ll discover what strategies […]
Two Prize – Herblock and Pulitzer – stories. Mike Rhode at Comics DC brings a few exclusive pictures of the Herblock Prize awards ceremony. At the moment it is the only news I found about the 2025 presentation, which featured winner Marty Two Bulls, Sr. with a video acceptance and Lalo Alcaraz in discussion with […]
Caulfield ponders the change in seasons, and is accurate enough to say summer “kind of” starts with Memorial Day. To my mind, it’s perfectly logical that summer “kind of” ends with Labor Day, because that was when we’d head back to school. Several decades ago, when my boys were little, Colorado schools tried starting school […]
Hearst’s International Feature Service The history of newspaper syndication — and specifically the distribution of cartoons and comic strips — is a story yet to be told, and told well. Rick Marschall at Yesterday’s Papers shares a booklet with us about a Hearst/Koenigsberg side hustle. By 1917, Hearst’s lieutenant Moses Koenigsberg split up the syndicate […]
Notes on Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Shrimp & Grits, Flash Gordon, Crabgrass, Macanudo, Andy Capp, The Saga of Brann Bjornson, Home Free, Heaven Help Us, Crankshaft, Phoebe and Her Unicorn, The Far Side, Thimble Theater Starring Popeye, Wallace the Brave, and including a Ziggy Stardust cameo.With Ripley’s Believe It or Not characterization in mind […]
Ann Telnaes originally posted this a year ago, but brought it back recently to comment on the flourishing of AI. Then someone re-posted this segment with a link to the full piece:That fragment zeros in on the main problem with AI. Whether it’s graphic art, writing, music or whatever, the essence of art is translating […]
Cartooning Pope Leo XIV Pat Byrnes and the newspaper he rode in on is taken to task by a Yakima Herald-Republic reader: To the editor — I’m Catholic and from Chicago and celebrating the election of the new Pope. But your May 13 cartoon on the editorial page went too far. The depicted “communion wafers” […]
This morning’s Duplex reminded me of a news story I was sure I’d clipped, but can’t find. A business professor at the University of Denver wanted to make a point about ethics, so announced to his class that he was going to award a certain number of A, B, C and D grades and that […]
The premise of Macanudo is that two children living in Nuevo Aires, Henrietta and Martincito, possess imaginations so powerful that it gives them the special ability to see the invisible, magical world underlying the lives of children everywhere. This power is called “Macanudo,” giving the strip its name. In its native country, the strip is […]
Comics artist Tod Smith has passed away. Tod Garfield Smith October 4, 1952 – April 4, 2025From the Providence Journal obituary: Tod Garfield Smith, 72, of Rocky Hill, CT, passed away on April 4, 2025, after a long illness. Throughout his childhood, Tod was a fan of comic books and comic book heroes and was […]