Not an April Fool’s Day prank! Today April 1, 2020 only Nat Gertler/About Comics is offering free PDF downloads of three books. Our interest is concentrated on They Called Him Sparky. “They Called Him Sparky” is a book collecting friends from his Church of God days writing about Schulz and their memories of him. This […]
Daily News editorial cartoonist Bill Bramhall is among the journalists Florida Senator Marco Rubio is accusing of delighting in the current coronavirus pandemic. From Marco Rubio’s Twitter account: “Some in our media can’t contain their glee & delight in reporting that the U.S. has more #CoronaVirus cases than #China Beyond being grotesque,its bad journalism” […]
Rex Morgan from Marvin Bradley to Terry Beatty. Comic syndicate editor Richard Marschall remembers working with, and becoming friends with, original Rex Morgan, M.D. artist Marvin Bradley in the latest episode of his fascinating “A Crowded Life in Comics” memoirs. But this visit will be with Marvin Bradley – Brad – who had drawn Rex […]
above: Rob Tornoe for Editor & Publisher Yesterday our friend Mike mentioned the state of the newspaper industry: The industry is already in rough shape, and we can argue how much of that came from the Internet itself and how much was from a colossally foolish lack of response to the Internet and how much […]
Rod Emmerson offers tips for the lockdown and it all looks good to me, mostly because he accurately mirrors what I’ve seen in social media. Mostly what I’ve seen is my cartooning compadres saying “I’ve been training for this my whole life!” because those of us who make a living with a computer at home […]