With Alison (Rudy and Trevor) Mason, Patrick (Mutts) McDonnell, USA Today Play (Prince Valiant), The Daily News (Gasoline Alley), The Pit graphic newspaper (with Madison Tom), Trino (El Rey Chiquito) Camacho, and Mort Todd. But without Emi (Olive) Burdge. The Adventures of Rudy and Trevor by Alison Mason Here I was ready to announce a […]
With Lalo Alcaraz, Peter Arno and Michael Maslin, Roz Chast, Jason Chatfield, Nate Powell, Joe Sacco and Patrick McDonnell. Lalo Alcaraz is a Top 40 Feedspot lists the “Top 40 Socal Mexican Influencers in 2025” and Lalo Alcaraz makes the cut. Bio CALÓ News Cartoonist, AMS, RFK 2025 winner, Herb Block 22, 2x Pulitzer finalist, […]
The Harvey Award winners were announced tonight at the end of the New York Comic Con. The Harvey Awards honors books and creators working in sequential art. Additionally, six individuals were inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame. Here are the inductees and the category winners. Harvey Awards Hall of Fame Inductees Book of […]
The New York Comic Con weekend begins today (Comics Beat covers it in full). Mostly comic books but as usual there are comic strip related projects taking place. Like the Comics Kingdom booth. The National Cartoonists Society will also be there with members showing up throughout the run. The New York Comic Con also issues […]
New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Campbell comes to Boise Boise Weekly spotlights Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell prior to her meet and greet at Pengilly’s Saloon. Hilary Campbell is a cartoonist for The New Yorker, comedian and author whose latest project blends humor with vulnerability. Her newest graphic memoir, “The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir About Food, […]
Exclusive to The Daily Cartoonist is Patrick McDonnell‘s Introduction to The Essential Peanuts. “A Bringing of Happiness” – Introduction by Patrick McDonnell People like to celebrate time and numbers—the 75th anniversary of the world’s greatest comic strip, fifty years of one man’s genius, and his nearly 18,000 combined dailies and Sundays. That’s a lot of […]
A roundup of various news items about comic strips and comic strip cartoonists. Synchronous Syndicate Symposium First is Comics Kingdom throwing a spotlight on Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey. Seventy-five years. That’s how long Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey has been making readers laugh, wink, and occasionally nod in recognition at life’s small absurdities. From his very […]
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. […]
July saw a few changes in a few comics, including the abandonment of a long-standing (long-sitting?) tradition in a long-running strip. Jimmy Johnson is celebrating 40 years of Arlo and Janis. Today he notes that, other than the very early Arlo, that character’s appearance has changed the least. Which can’t be said for Marvin by […]
This week Greg and Karen Evans are bothering me. I’m used to King Features and Comics Kingdom updating the copyright dates on their reruns. And at least Patrick McDonnell erases the original copyright year without replacing it with the current year. I do give Greg and Karen credit for giving fans a heads-up. A couple […]
Featuring cartoonists Berkeley Breathed, Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa, Will Henry, Marcus Williams, Patrick McDonnell and Jane Goodall, Lee Falk and ????, Rick Stromoski, and Christina ‘Steenz’ Stewart. We start off with a reminder that Berkeley Breathed’s The Bloom County Boys continues to issue new strips. As does Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa’s Shifts vertical […]
Dick Tracy, Mutts, Macanudo, Moomin, Marmaduke, and 2025 Eisner Award nominations and a bunch of cartoonists associated with the aforementioned. Mike and McDonnell Return (briefly?) Today ends Eric Costello‘s seven month “guest writer” stint on Dick Tracy as Mike Curtis returns as the credited writer beginning Sunday, May 18, 2025 (no “guest writer” insert). We’ll […]
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 […]
The Born Loser, Frank and Ernest, Calvin and Hobbes, Frazz, Bizarro/Bizarfield, Tom the Dancing Bug, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Big Nate, Eye Lie Popeye, Mutts and, of course, more. The Born Loser archive at GoComics only goes back to 1994, so those of you who didn’t see the debut strip from May 10, 1965 […]
Billy Ireland’s New Yorker Centennial Celebration! New Yorker Centennial Celebration! Join us on Saturday, March 1 for a special program celebrating the centennial of The New Yorker magazine and a reception for our new exhibit, See Anyone You Know? The New Yorker Cartoons and Covers of Edward Koren. This event is FREE and open to the public. No […]