Donald Duck was introduced to the public when Walt Disney and company adapted The Little Red Hen fable as the Silly Symphony short The Wise Little Hen premiered on June 9, 1934. https://zippy.gfycat.com/EducatedImaginativeGrunion.webm above: via gfycat At the same time Donald Duck debuted in print as part of a Walt Disney partnership […]
It seems newspapers are slowly returning Non Sequitur to their comic pages. After the fubar earlier this year and the accompanying cancellations, editors are listening to their readers who continue to want the comic back in their papers. The latest is The Spokesman-Review. You wouldn’t believe how many notes I still get each […]
In Lufkin, Texas the switching of comics, beginning today, rates a front page story – admittedly below the fold at the bottom of the page, but still, front page news! Good News Starting today, readers of The Lufkin Daily News can look forward to seeing a few new cartoons on the comics page. ‘‘Nancy’’ and […]
Erie native Dave Blazek has written and drawn his daily cartoon panel “Loose Parts” for nearly two decades, and the panel has been collected into five books and counting. But he never considered himself a cartoonist until May. That’s when Blazek and “Loose Parts” received the highest honor a newspaper panel cartoon and its […]
Given that it’s Sunday, we’ll start with a Sunday cartoon. Betty is something of an oddity, because Betty and her husband are Salt of the Earth types, which, in both Comics Land and TV Land, usually doesn’t involve terribly thoughtful humor. However, the strip sustains a level of humor that is reflective, despite a strongly […]