Over at The Comics Journal, historian and cartoonist R.C. Harvey writes a lengthy piece on who made the initial suggestion to Milt Caniff that lead him to create his most-famous character — The Dragon Lady. From the piece: The idea of the Dragon Lady came from quite another source. It’s fairly certain that Captain Joseph Patterson, honcho of […]
She sits at her desk in front of the tablet, picks up her stylus and begins to fill in the panels of a comic strip that will be printed six months from now. Her stylus flows effortlessly across the screen, brush strokes creating one character’s hair in long swooping strokes. One woman’s frown is quickly […]
Lil’ Donnie by Mike Norton, which gets regularly noticed in CSotD, has its first collection released today. So what better time to have a career spanning profile and interview with Mike. When did you start drawing and writing? When I was 4 years old! Professionally not until 1997. I started writing in 2013.
Before we get to the main event, Pearls Before Swine has a well-timed strip today. The Manafort/Cohen news broke late enough yesterday that I’m going to give cartoonists a chance to catch up, but one difference between this and Watergate is that, in a world without gatekeepers, those who insist that laws don’t apply to […]