Leo Traub writes: Newspaper comic strips have an artistic quaintness that endears them instantly to the reader. Despite dropping newspaper sales, the magic of ink on paper doesn?t fade over time. Nothing compares to hand-drawn comics, with their unique imperfections and nonuniform lettering. While still in print, Bill Watterson?s Calvin and Hobbes series ? my […]
For those of you interested in comic history, make sure you check out this new book by Michael Kahn and Rich West called Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be – a coffee table book about the political satire and cartoon magazine “Puck” that was published between 1871 until 1918. Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson […]
Boing Boing has published an article by Monte Beauchamp who has identified 16 cartoonists he argues were the early trend setters or trail blazers by which others followed. He includes: Walt Disney, Winsor McCay, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Osamu Tezuka, Charles Schulz, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Hergé, Hugh Hefner, Jack Kirby, Al Hirschfeld, Rodolphe […]