Coming in March 2019 is an impressive tome. DETECTIVE COMICS: BEFORE BATMAN (VOLS. 1 AND 2) HC Written by JERRY SIEGEL, MALCOLM WHEELER-NICHOLSON and others Art by JOE SHUSTER, FRED GUARDINEER, BOB KANE and others DETECTIVE COMICS exploded in 1939 with the debut of Batman in issue #27—and now, for the first time, DC […]
Frank O’Neal was a successful freelance magazine cartoonist of the 1950s and, like many gag cartoonists before and since, he thought a syndicated comic strip was the ticket to ride. So following the likes of Mort Walker, Hank Ketcham, Johnny Hart and others, O’Neal came up with an idea and signed with the Newspaper Enterprise […]
Arizona Daily Star cartoonist David Fitzsimmons spent part of last week in Mexico City attending The Line of Fire international conference. La Línea de Fuego was hosted by the Cartooning For Peace organization. As this Google translation explains: 18 press cartoonists from 14 countries meet for several days at the Memoria y Tolerancia Museum in Mexico City to […]
Over the Comics Kingdom blog, they’ve sampled a few cartoonists for the words of encouragement that most affected their careers. From the post: Jim Borgman: … when every aspiring editorial cartoonist was falling under the spell of Jeff MacNelly’s work, I sent him samples of my fledgling college cartoons, which were struggling to stand on […]
For the love of God and Thomas Nast and Woodsy Owl, can we please, please stop with the paper towel cartoons? Yes, Trump once disgraced himself and showed his lack of compassion by tossing out paper towels at a photo op in the wake of Hurricane Maria. We all know that, and, in fact, a […]