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NPR talks about Charlie Brown character
NPR ran an interesting piece on the resilience and lovability of Charles Schulz’ character Charlie Brown yesterday They explain how a character so miserable, picked on and so unlucky could be so easily identified by millions of people. They also interviewed Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse and children’s book author Judith [...]
Posted on: May 13, 2008, Section: Comic history, Interviews, Comments: 6 Comments
News Briefs for May 12, 2008
» Jack Bender, current cartoonist on Alley Oop will be attending this year’s national Tarzan convention in Waterloo, IA this year. Bender is a native of Waterloo and has an extensive collection of Tarzan art. He’ll discuss Tarzan art while there.
» Slashfilm.com is reporting that Frank Miller will be directing a live action remake of [...]
Posted on: May 12, 2008, Section: Comic history, Movies, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 1 Comment
Get a first year Garfield original for $5k
Ted Dawson over at “Three Men in a Tub” blog reports that an original Garfield comic strip is for sale an eBay store for $4,499. The seller writes that it is thought to be the 25th strip published in papers and one of the earliest Garfield originals to be sold publicly.
Disclaimer: With all auctions, online [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2008, Section: Auctions, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 9 Comments
Two Peanuts cartoons auctioned for $106,270
Two original Peanuts comics strips were auctioned off at Philip Weiss Auctions, according to E&P, for a combined total of $106,270. The two comics - one daily (selling for $52,110), one Sunday (selling for $54,160) prominently picture Snoopy. They were dated 1957 and 1962 respectively.
Just six months ago, an original Sunday dating 1955 sold for [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2008, Section: Auctions, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
News Briefs for April 16, 2008
» Stacy Curtis has two new books from the Meghan Rose series that he illustrated.
» The “Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz” exhibit currently running at the Toonseum in Pittsburgh has been extended until May 18th.
» Mike Witmer, who does the Pinkerton webcomic on gocomics.com has signed a publishing contract with [...]
Posted on: Apr 16, 2008, Section: Books, Comic history, Speaking Engagements, web comics, Comments: 11 Comments
News Briefs for April 11, 2008
» The Yale Daily News has a history of how Garry Trudeau started in the comics. Interesting, the path started out like most. When Garry approached the paper, the ran his stuff because “we print pretty much anything.”
» Neil Cohn, a frequent speaker on the topic of “visual language theory” has posted research that “reports [...]
Posted on: Apr 11, 2008, Section: Animation, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
Review: Willie & Joe The World War II Years
Tom Spurgeon has posted a favorable review of Bill Mauldin’s Willie & Joe collection created by Fantagraphics.
Reading these comics it’s hard not to see Mauldin through them, the young, funny and ultimately sensitive young cartoonist following the carnage of Europe and piercing all the way to the heart and humanity of a group of young [...]
Posted on: Apr 10, 2008, Section: Books, Comic history, Comments: 2 Comments
Mutt & Jeff celebrates 100 years
Mutt & Jeff have just crossed over the centurion mark for a comic strip. The original feature by Bud Fisher included only Mutt and debuted in the San Francisco Chronicle in late 1907. He later added Jeff in March of 1908. According to Wikipedia, Mutt & Jeff may be the first daily comic strip.
Over the [...]
Posted on: Apr 2, 2008, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 42 Comments
Archived photos of legendary cartoonists
A Swedish cartoonist/blogger who has posted photos of some of the cartooning industry’s legendary cartoonists. Names like: Al Capp, Otto Soglow, Jimmy Swinnerton, Hal Foster, Westover, Goldberg, Hatlo and Chic Young.
The first thing that jumps out at me is that they all wore ties. At their drawing board. Okay, so maybe it was for the [...]
Posted on: Mar 28, 2008, Section: Comic history, Comments: 0 Comments
Second volume of Terry and the Pirates released
E&P reports that the second volume of the Milton Caniff’s classic Terry and the Pirates collection has been released. This second out of six volume is 352 pages with all the daily and Sunday strips that first appeared between 1937-1938.
Posted on: Mar 28, 2008, Section: Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 1 Comment
Beetle Bailey Collection to be released
Checker Book Publishing has teamed up with King Features to publish an early Beetle Bailey collection. The first book is entitled Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey 1950-1952. The book should hit bookshelves in May or June of this year.
Posted on: Mar 26, 2008, Section: Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 2 Comments
Early gag panels by legendary comic strip creators posted
Mike Lynch has dug up and posted a few early magazine gag panels that were published by B.C. creator Johnny Hart, Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker, Dennis the Menace creator Hank Ketcham among others.
Posted on: Mar 25, 2008, Section: Comic history, Magazine cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Fourth Watterson archived editorial cartoon posted
With the demise of the Cincinnati Post, Matt Tauber has gone through the microfilm archives and pulled out some of Bill Watterson’s editorial cartoons. So far he’s posted four of his cartoons: see first, second, third (this is a well known, circulated cartoon) and finally a fourth one as well.
Posted on: Mar 19, 2008, Section: Comic history, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 5 Comments
US News & World Report examines editorial cartoonists’ influence
US News & World Report has an interesting report on the history of the impact of editorial cartoonists on presidential politics. The article goes back to Ben Franklin up through Thomast Nast, Homer Davenport and then into the Herblock, Pat Oliphant era.
The birth of television in the 1950s and the spread of color photographs in [...]
Posted on: Feb 29, 2008, Section: Comic history, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Rick O’Shay cartoonists gets exhibit
Stan Lynde’s Rick O’Shay ran in a hundred papers from 1958 to 1977. The Montana native’s artwork is now on display in the Montana Secretary of State’s office in the Capitol building. The Secretary of State began exhibiting artists work at the capitol as a nice touch for tourists and artists.
Posted on: Feb 27, 2008, Section: Comic history, Exhibits, Comments: 6 Comments
