Here’s today’s Candorville, in honor of the fact that it’s been five years since I took on a job that lasted about six months. Before I accepted the job, I asked my prospective boss how the then-new recession was hitting the paper and he assured me that things were just fine, that a community with […]
Gocomics has just launched “Origins of the Sunday Comics,” and I guess the best way to explain it is to reprint their explanation:This series will present the earliest offerings—from 1895 to 1915—of the famous and lesser-known cartoonists who where there when comics were born—over 150 creations from more then 50 superb artists, most reproduced here […]
Tall Tale Radio comic podcaster Tom Racine is now on GoComics.com. His guest for the first podcast on GoComics is Mark Tatulli, creator of Heart of the City and Lio. Past podcast interviews are still located on talltaleradio.com.
Sherman’s Lagoon operates from a cheerful, light-hearted, relentless predator’s perspective that makes it only natural that one of the strip’s book collections is entitled “Poodle: The Other White Meat.” It also has some of the best Bob Newhart timing on the comics page. Those two factors came together today, as they often do, but even better […]
Tom Gammill’s The Doozies will mark it’s fourth year on GoComics.com on December 1. Tom is a TV comedy writer (credits include some of the biggest shows on TV: “Seinfeld”, “The Simpsons”) and the creator of the “Learn to Draw with Tom Gammill” series.Congratulations, Tom.
For a week or two, I’ve been watching “Big Top” at GoComics, seeing that it was coming to an end and thinking I should provide a heads-up when it restarted. “Big Top” reruns have re-started. Rob Harrell did Big Top for five years and I was poking around to see if I could find out why he […]