This year, Hank Ketcham’s Dennis the Menace will turn 60. It started in 16 papers on March 12, 1951. It is now in over 1,000 papers world-wide. Hank Ketcham created his little character in October 1950, with inspiration coming from his own 4-year-old son, Dennis, and a comment made by his wife after an especially […]
A Malaysian newspaper has apologized for running a cartoon depicting Japanese superhero Ultraman “comically trying to outrun a tsunami.” The apology issued on the paper’s website and on social newtworking sites said Berita Harian had “no intention of poking fun” at the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on Friday. The newspaper expressed sympathy […]
Comic Book Resources interviews Richard Thompson about his comic Cul de Sac, his influences, and his Team Cul de Sac that is raising money for Parkinson’s Research. Much of the strip’s humor comes from the fact that many of the characters have their own unique worldview. Sometimes it?s Alice and Dill and Beni misunderstanding and […]
ComicsDC blogger and City Paper columnist Mike Rhode reports that the Washington City Paper has brought back it’s comics that it dropped back in 2008. The new line up will include two long-time contributors to City Paper, Derf and Shawn Belschwender with The City and Clowntime respectively and two strips new to City Paper readers: […]
This last fall at the triennial Festival of Cartoon Art at the OSU, Sheldon creator Dave Kellett gave an entertaining lecture on the future of comics from his vantage point as a professional webcomic cartoonist. His approach to the topic was to offer a response to Bill Watterson’s infamous “The Cheapening of Comics” speech given […]
Daryl Cagle is pointing out that the tragedy in Japan is creating three similar visual response: the Japanese rising sun, Godzilla and waves depicted in the Japanese art style. As usual when several cartoonists (in this case from around the world) use the same metaphor – he calls it Yahtzee.