Longtime/former New Yorker cartoon editor and current Esquire humor editor Bob Mankoff announced earlier in the month he was launching a new cartoon site in the same mold as The Cartoon Bank (a site he created and later sold to Conde Nast). He spoke to Michael Cavna at The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs about the new […]
Apollo Magazine muses on the “genius” of Charles Schulz as it uncovers more details on the Peanuts Exhibit running through March at Somerset House in London. From the piece: The final section of the exhibition looks at the treatment of particular themes in Peanuts. Lucy – ‘the most terrifying character in the history of comics’, according […]
Let’s at least start with something uplifting: Doc and Raider‘s lovely portrait of Montreal this time of year. Somebody was celebrating the resurgence of independent bookstores the other day and I made the point that, for all NYC types celebrate the original anchors, once Barnes & Noble and Borders went corporate, their big box stores did […]
Gasoline Alley recently celebrated its centennial anniversary. Only the Katzenjammer Kids has had a longer run, starting December 12, 1897 and running until sometime into 2006 for over 108 years. But a few more will soon reach their 100th year of new comic strips. The first one less than a month from now. Champs […]