Newspapers are starting to tell readers what will replace The Pajama Diaries when Terri Libenson retires the comic strip on January 4, 2020. Terri’s home paper The Cleveland Plain Dealer, where we first learned of Terri’s plans, offered a comics poll a couple weeks ago. In the running there is Curtis, Macanudo, Six Chix, or […]
The Seattle Times, taking a page from their past… A few years ago, when The Seattle Times was relocating from its old building on Fairview Avenue North and John Street, a pile of old editorial cartoons landed in my new Denny Way office. The artist, Sam Groff, who worked for The Seattle Times from 1935 […]
above: Specialty drawing by Ron Ferdinand NMCV:How did you get the job working on Dennis the Menace? Ron: I subscribed to a quarterly magazine called “Cartoonist Profiles.” In 1980, there was an interview with Hank Ketcham. He had just moved back to Monterey, CA from Geneva, Switzerland and was starting a training program. I sent […]
Today’s The Other Coast pings a particularly sweet spot for me, because I remember asking my mother about the same problem: Santa comes down chimneys and we didn’t have one. Well, we did, but it led directly into the furnace, which didn’t seem like a good entrance to the house. The background to her answer […]
The Associated Press has picked up the story of Jim Davis and Heritage Auctions offering The Jim Davis Collection of original Garfield comic strip and specialty and roughs to the public. Cartoonist Jim Davis is offering up more than 11,000 “Garfield” comic strips hand-drawn on paper in an auction that will stretch into the coming […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – when political cartoonists pick their favorite cartoons from the past year. Earlier Mike Peterson linked to Ann Telnaes and Tom Toles selections from The Washington Post. But the WaPo also did another roundup: Every Saturday in print, The Post publishes a sampling of editorial cartoons from […]