A collection of newsy items and comic strip commentary featuring Tayo Fatunla, Jason Chatfield, Alex Hallatt, and Charles M. Schulz; with Our Roots return to a New York newspaper, The Bobby Fuller Four, the end of the line for Peanuts, peeing in the comics, babysitting and babies, and tributes to St. Valentine. Tayo Fatunla reports […]
Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons? Part III Here in Part III, we will identify the last of the three contributors to the 1960 set. My identification will be based entirely on stylistic comparisons, as I do not have any external corroboration that the artist I will name ever worked in any capacity for […]
Rea Irvin’s The Smythes; F. Opper, R. & G. Dirks and J. Swinnerton jam; the Leffingwells’ Little Joe; McDonnell’s Mutts and Schulz’s Peanuts; and Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich and Flash Gordon makes some three. Rea Irvin was The New Yorker’s first art editor and creator of the magazine’s iconic mascot, the butterfly enthusiast Eustace Tilly. […]
Featuring Beetle Bailey (now updated), Peanuts (this too has an update), Hogan’s Alley, Nemo, Comics Revue, Extra Ordinary Comics, MazeToons, Popeye, and I Hate Fairyland with corresponding cartoonists.75 Years of Beetle Bailey “Beetle Bailey” is the rare popular culture touchstone that has been embedded in daily life since its debut on Sept. 4, 1950. CT […]
The folks at the San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) have released the souvenir book of the event and as has been their habit for the past several years they have kindly made it available to all by way of a free pdf issue.As seen it cover features the 75th anniversary of the Peanuts gang with Charles […]
Revealed is Peanuts merchandise debuting at this month’s San Diego Comic-Con and some exclusive Peanuts products available only at the SDCC. Plus other Peanuts collectibles coming your way. Peanuts is celebrating its 75th anniversary in a big way at San Diego Comic-Con with a booth, a nostalgic pop-up shop, and a Friday afternoon panel — […]
featuring Bill Watterson, Frank Frazetta, Rama Duwaji, Bob Fingerman, Alison Bechdel, Peter Kuper, Joe Dator, Charles M. Schulz, Shel Silverstein, and Art Spiegelman.Updates The original art by Bill Watterson for the first appearance of Spaceman Spiff in Calvin and Hobbes sold in a Heritage Auctions sell-off for nearly half a million dollars. A record for […]
With Russell Myers, Wayno, Trygve Olson, Lee Mendelson, Mark Pett, Mr. Fish and Art Spiegelman.Russell Myers As a boy, Russell Benton Myers was fascinated by the comic strips in the newspaper. The family subscribed to two newspapers, the Tulsa World and the Tulsa Tribune. That gave him two sets of Sunday comics sections — a […]
The latest GoComics update from mid-June 2025 tells us of improvements to the site.Visit the twice monthly updated *What’s New on GoComics* page for continued news.NCS Wear Grab a piece of cartooning history! We recently discovered a treasure trove of NCS exclusive t-shirts that had been tucked away in our storage facility in Florida and […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2025 release (or so).Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Hägar the Horrible: The First 50 Years by Dik Browne It’s time to set sail with the […]
Joann Mackenzie for the Glouchester Daily Times talks to local cartoonist Mark Parisi (or here), nominated for the National Cartoonists Society’s 2024 Cartoonist of the Year aka The Reuben Award. Now in its 38th year and distributed daily by United Press Syndicate [sic] to some 100 newspapers, “Off The Mark” [link added] has been described […]
I admit that I don’t follow Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane religiously due to the weird (to me) arcs. But this week’s amusement with Edda and Amos is sweet and endearing (so far). We’ll see if Brooke can keep it on course, meaning the course I want. Though my favorite individual comic of this week […]
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 […]
The big comics celebration this year is the Diamond Anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. And it is certainly worthy of all the acclaim and hoopla and licensing.But it has some tough competition in the Best Humor Comic Strip of All Time ranking. Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Gary Larson’s The Far Side, E.C. Segar’s […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Let’s start with one I just learned about that should have been on the February […]