Tom Spurgeon, keeper of the must-go site for comic book enthusiasts, “The Comics Reporter,” offers a link to a Canadian history site that featured a brief discussion of this 1958 offering, “Apostle of the Hurons,” a graphic biography of Saint Jean de Brébeuf that appeared in the “Indian Record,” a publication of a religious order that […]
Boston area media critic Dan Kennedy is reporting that Boston Globe cartoonist Dan Wasserman has left the paper, but will continue to draw a Sunday local cartoon and his syndicated editorial cartoons, which the paper runs “several times a week.”Kennedy reports that Wasserman called the move “more freedom for me, less overhead for the paper.”In […]
Just a couple of months after an original Bill Watterson watercolor Sunday of Calvin & Hobbes went for an outstanding $203,150, comes another original Calvin & Hobbes to the auction block. This strip is a daily and was part of a swap of originals between Brian Bassett, creator of Adam@Home and Red and Rover, and […]
Universal Uclick, GoComics and Bill Hinds have announced that this year’s the 2012 Sports Jerk of the Year Award in Bill’s Tank McNamara strip. Bill writes:“While Lance’s actions for award consideration certainly accumulated over a number of years, 2012 was the year that many of his conflicting statements and untruths came to light. The public […]
I don’t run blog posts about who’s getting picked up or dropped anymore, but this story has some interest into the business side of the syndication business. The Duluth News Tribune didn’t like that as a long time subscriber to Blondie (since 1937 – seven years after Blondie debuted), it’s been paying yearly increases on […]
A perfect time to run into a simple, small, non-cosmic bit of humor from Hilary Price at Rhymes with Orange.I’m sick of issues and need a bit of whimsy. The mission of this blog includes the idea that all good cartoons invoke truth, but, thank goodness, some truths are weightier than others.As are some crates. When […]
Mike Luckovich makes a rude point on a day traditionally devoted to guacamole and cliches.Football is the only sport I follow anymore, and I really enjoy football. To return to a recent conversation here, nobody is required to like the things I like. I’d rather watch “The Borgias” than “Downton Abbey.” I don’t think either is […]
Jeff Koterba’s commentary on the Second Amendment lacks a bit of subtlety, but it does encapsulate some of the thinking that went into the document, and that’s been absent from a lot of the commentary on the topic.The First and Second amendments are an odd pair, since it seems that nobody who supports one can […]
Daryl Cagle, he of the political cartoon aggregation site, uses the term “Yahtzee” for the times when multiple cartoonists simultaneously come up with the same idea. Or, if it is a weeping Statue of Liberty in the wake of tragedy, the same non-idea.And it is indeed rare that a true Yahtzee — five of a kind, […]
I was forwarded a note that a casting agent is looking for someone with “encyclopedic knowledge of cartoons” to be on a prime-time TV game show.Here’s the information from Gina (the casting agent). Her email is below. Send her your info if you’re interested. If you are selected, please let me know so I can […]
New Yorker cartoonist Corey Pandolph, (AKA Fake Rockstar, former Elderberries cartoonist, creator of Toby, Robot Satan and Barkeater Lake) woke up to find his car had been towed. As a struggling cartoonist/illustrator in New York, his income varied, so he took the creative route to raise the money to get it back by selling his […]
Our story so far: Trapped in the house by a blizzard, Poncho is forced to coexist with his master’s cat-loving, flu-stricken wife. Worse yet, he has been caught relieving himself in the litterbox. Can this be the end of their ongoing rivalry? Will these implacable foes at long last learn to respect and even love […]
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1438570989/when-we-went-mad-a-documentary-of-ecch-ic-proportiThis looks like a great project. My name is Alan Bernstein – I am the Co/Producer and Director of the movie When We Went MAD! a documentary that explores the history and influence of MAD Magazine. Whether you grew up reading MAD, had a brother or sister who read it, or remember a parent who […]
Fascinating story about a woman who approached famed cartoonist Winsor McCay to threaten a lawsuit against him if he didn’t pay her money. The woman claimed his wife had broken up her marriage and she was prepared to go to the press. Irene Lamkin showed up with a man at the dressing room door of […]
Lio rarely fails to please, and often manages to delight.And, for those with limited English skills, it’s also available in Spanish!When Mark Tatulli debuted the strip in 2006, it got a lot of “adds” (that is, newspaper clients), but sparked some discussion within the biz about how he was going to be able to keep […]