The late night comedians took up the announced death of Archie.David Letterman used the announced (“What’s next? Dagwood Bumstead chokes on one of those sandwiches?”) to offer the “Top Ten Memorable Moments In Comic Strip History”.Crowd did not react well to the Beetle Bailey joke.Conan O’Brian looks at rejected ways of killing off Archie.
Fabulous news from Newsday. The paper has hired Pulitzer Prize-winning Matt Davies as their new staff editorial cartoonist. He’ll begin his job in September. Rita Ciolli, editor of Newsday’s editorial pages, called Matt “a singular talent in the cartooning world”. Matt replaces Walt Handelsman who left the paper for The Advocate in New Orleans.
Yesterday, I joked that the new Life With Archie comic in which the title character is killed was a desperate attempt to remain relevant. This morning I read a post over on Comic Chron that tracked the height of Archie’s popularity (spoiler: peaking in 1958) and the long decline since. For those of us who […]
Great presentation by The Australian of a “tour our gallery of The Australian’s best cartoons and illustrations through the decades.” The must-check-out link of the day. An illustrated historyBill Leak, Eric Lobbecke, Bill Mitchell, Larry Pickering, Peter Nicholson and of course the incomparable Bruce Petty…what would a big news day be without the wit and […]
Break out the credit cards and take out a second mortgage. The Stephan Pastis and Bill Watterson original Pearls Before Swine strips are now officially up for auction. Here are the strips in question below. Click through on them to see a really big, big version where you can see the pencil markings and other […]
Back in April, it was announced that Archie was going to die heroically in a futuristic story-line “Life With Archie”. Now we learn that heroic manner is to take a bullet for his gay best friend.From WILX.com: Archie Comics co-CEO Jon Goldwater says he wants Andrews’ death to be a lesson about gun violence and […]
The LA Times has a story on how decades of creating Doonesbury has helped Garry Trudeau write and produce the TV show Alpha House.From the LA Times:“Alpha House’s” executive producer, Jonathan Alter, a former Newsweek senior editor, said that’s where Trudeau excels. “One of the great things about Doonesbury that I noticed many years ago, […]
From the Longview News-Journal (Longview, TX): Carthage cartoonist Donnie Pitchford?s characters Lum and Abner will guest-star in the award-winning “Dick Tracy” comic strip on Sunday, July 20. ?Lum and Abner, those two loveable characters from Pine Ridge, Ark. will be part of a unique series in which the great detective rescues another famous comic character, […]
From Molly Crabapple’s blog: In June, Molly Crabapple was invited by the Karam Foundation to the Salam School in Turkey, a mentorship program for children displaced by the Syrian War. While there, she covered the walls with her drawings and wheat pastes based on many Syrian fables. What a great opportunity. Click through below to […]
Four members of The Australian Cartoonists Association will be attending this years 2014 International Cartoon Festival of Saint Just le Martel. About 50 ACA members contributed to an exhibit of work “Australian view of the World and Australian Humour”. The four that will be attending are Eric Lobbecke, Judy Horacek, Ward O’Neill and Christophe Granet. […]
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo is experimenting with audio with her comic strip this week. Each day this week her feature appears in newspapers as usual along with a message to visit her website to hear audio commentary about that day’s strip.From her blog: What Is It and How Will It Work? The 6-day series […]
The Association of Alternative Newsmedia has announced this year’s awards for best in alternative journalism. In the category for cartooning, first place this year goes to Jen Sorensen (Slowpoke Comics), second place goes to Tom Tomorrow (This Modern World) and Cullum Rogers (INDY Week).Congratulations!
From Kuwaiti Times:The creator of an Islam inspired popular comic series said that he takes death threats made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al-Qaeda seriously. Following their recent call to kill former MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei, ISIL has called for killing psychiatrist Dr Nayef Al-Mutawa, the creator of ?The 99? […]
Randy Glasbergen who must draw 20 or 90 cartoons a day to keep up with his syndicated panels The Better Half and Thin Lines and his freelance/cartoon service empire has illustrated a new book called Laugh Together, Stay Together
Nearly 2 years after it hit the web, Nina Paley’s “This Land Is Mine“ is viral. Honestly I’m not sure if it hasn’t already been viral. Given the topic of the Middle East, it has capacity to go viral every 18 months. Sigh. This Land Is Mine from Nina Paley on Vimeo.Her original blog posts […]