Its already a disappointing Yuletide season for me thanks to King Features. Neither Popeye or Popeye’s Cartoon Club celebrated the 100th Thimble Theatre anniversary, this week or last Sunday. Not even a mention on the King Features or Comics Kingdom Twitter feeds, or their Facebook page. Tea manages to sneak in the Thimble Theatre words […]
It is the end of an era for one of the most famous names in book publishing. Penguin is being sold by Pearson, its owner for the last half-century, as the company focuses its activities exclusively on education. The sale means that none of the so-called ‘Big Five’ of English-language book publishing remain in British […]
The New Zealand Media Council, a self-regulatory body funded by industry, has ruled that the Garrick Tremain “spots” cartoon “has no redeeming qualities.” The New Zealand Media Council’s findings relating to the Tremain cartoon: Cartoonists employ wit, satire, exaggeration, caricature and humour to make a point.A few deft stokes of the pen and a few […]
As The Philadelphia Inquirer says: Check out the cartoons previewing 2020 by Alli Katz, Andrea Beizer, Tom Stiglich, Jim Hunt, Terry Laban, Jeff Curnow, Rob Tornoe, Al Goodwun, Greg Kearney, Meghan Turbitt, Peter Evans, and Box Brown. The Inquirer’s Currents section, where these cartoons appeared in print, features opinions and viewpoints to help you better […]
There have been some churches featured on Facebook and Twitter that have caged the Baby Jesus in their nativity sets, and I like Mike Luckovich‘s version of the concept. But lest we forget, this idea has Scriptural relevance: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, […]
The Joplin (Missouri) Globe has announced major changes to its comics pages. From a November Comics survey the newspaper determined that the favorite strips are Pickles in the daily comics and For Better or For Worse was the Sunday favorite. Zits came in #2 in both the daily and the Sunday polling. The Globe […]