King Features hires former AMU exec John Glynn
Sources tell TDC that former Andrews McMeel Universal President John Glynn has been hired by King Features Syndicate. John will help with…
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CSotD: Funny stuff, for the most part
We’ll start today with a Free Range (Creators) that doesn’t inspire any Great Thoughts beyond my memories of setting up…
CSotD: The Attack of the One-Trick Ponies
On the Fastrack (KFS) wins the Best Coincidental Timing Award for what can’t have been but surely seems a commentary…
CSotD: Reality checks on different levels
Kevin Necessary gets top honors for his marking of the collapse of Buffalo Bills’ safety Damar Hamlin, both as a…
CSotD: Assorted Short Subjects
Timing may not be everything, but it’s a lot of things, and today’s The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee (KFS)…
CSotD: Everything New is Old Again
It’s not as if Pros & Cons (KFS) was plowing any new ground with this gag, but it’s a common…
CSotD: Everything Old is Old Again!
Dorman Smith offered this hopeful-but-dubious wish for the New Year a century ago, and there hasn’t been much changed since,…
CSotD: Testing, testing, 1,2,3 …
Comics world is full of New Year’s Resolution gags this week, but Between Friends (KFS) happens to fit my current…
CSotD: Sizzling information
The railroads did not stop growing because the need for passenger and freight transportation declined. That grew. The railroads…
CSotD — Squirrels and Strawberries
There has been a boatload of editorial cartoons on Trump’s threat to start yet another unwinnable land war in Asia,…
Production error places Off the Mark into Pearls Before Swine Sunday comic
A “production error” in yesterday’s funny pages placed Mark Parisi’s Off the Mark inside Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine in…
Cartoonist Linus Maurer, namesake of Peanuts Linus character, passes at age 90
From Economic Times: LOS ANGELES: Linus Maurer, a cartoonist and illustrator whose old friend and colleague Charles M. Schulz borrowed…
Peanuts Movie streaming available on 16th anniversary of Charles Schulz passing
I noticed The Peanuts Movie was listed as being available for streaming on February 12 on Apple iTunes. That date is significant…
Mark Trail cartoonist Jack Elrod passes at age 91
Mark Trail cartoonist Jack Elrod has passed at the age of 91. You can read the full obituary in the…
Between Friends Cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy Starts Speakers Series
From Niagra This Week: Bell-Lundy has invited some of her comic friends to form a speaker series aimed at inspiring…