We thought this was worth breaking out from D.D. Degg’s earlier post. In comics’ news from the National Football League, the Chicago Bears have announced that the intend to launch what they’re calling a ‘Monsters of the Midway’ comic strip. It looks and feels far more “comic book” than “comic strip” but check it out […]
“Join, or Die” is widely heralded as America’s first newspaper political cartoon. It was published in the May 9, 1754 edition of Benjamin Franklin‘s Pennsylvania Gazette. An original of that publication will be auctioned off July 26. The original May 9, 1754 “Pennsylvania Gazette” newspaper featuring Benjamin Franklin’s famous “JOIN, or DIE” cartoon will be […]
Mutts Comic Con Tribute Title Panel Patrick McDonnell‘s annual Comic Con comic strip appeared yesterday. Some may have missed his Mutts title panel tribute that is usually dropped. Above: the July 22, 2018 Mutts title panel and the inspiration from 1963. The full Mutts strip can be read at the Arcamax site. Cartoonist […]
Brian Fies has announced that Abrams ComicArts will publish a full-color graphic novel of his true-life account of the 2017 Santa Rosa fires. Publication is slated for Spring 2019. From his Facebook post: Publishing lead times being what they are, I’m actually in the throes of deadline woes right now, with just a few weeks to […]
DC: John, your new comic with King Features, “Daddy Daze,” launched on June 17th. How did you come up with the concept? JK: I was looking for a new project and ended up reviewing some old projects for inspiration. One of those was a on-line weekly strip I did in grad school about being a first time father. They […]
NPR’s WAMU features an hour spot on editorial cartoonists. From the site: How will the industry continue to evolve amidst changing political and economic circumstances? And what do editorial cartoons capture that other media forms don’t? https://the1a.org/shows/2018-07-18/editorial-cartoons @Rob_Rogers @PatBagley @AnnTelnaes @ScottStantis @WAMU885
We’re tickled to welcome long-time newspaperman and comics’ journalist Mike Peterson to the Daily Cartoonist team. Mike has owned and operated the erudite and whimsical “Comic Strip of the Day” blog for the last eight and a half years and has a vast and passionate knowledge of the art form. Here’s Mike’s “mission statement” from […]
One of the bulwarks of Comic Strip of the Day has always been the personal take and today the Buckets provides a bit of serendipity with a clueless old gaffer stumbling over the concept of social media, just at the moment CSotD shifts to the Daily Cartoonist. CSotD has been around for about eight and […]