The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Bill Bates has passed away a couple of weeks ago. He was 79. Bill was a local cartooning legend who had worked as a cartoonist for the Chronicle and the Carmel Pine Cone. In the 1980s, Bill met weekly with Hank Ketcham and Gus Arriola, two other legendary cartoonists […]
The guys that created Captain America and the artist that went on to create Iron Man, X-Men, Hulk and the Fantastic Four with Stan Lee, will have a collection of their work published by Titan Books. Jack Kirby (artist) and Joe (Simon) were two of the pioneering comic book creators in the early 1940s.
On a somewhat related cartooning note, I received word that Dan Froomkin, who blogs for the Washington Post with the blog “White House Watch,” was given notice that his contract has been terminated. Dan had a daily feature called “Cartoon Watch” that offered up links to that days best editorial cartoons. His latest blog post […]