The Chic Young Estate is offering, via Nate D. Sanders, over 80 early Blondie comic strips and some of the toppers associated with it. The strips range from 1931, the second year of the strip, to 1951. This is some comic strip history! During these years Blondie became the most widely syndicated comic strip. (Blondie […]
Bill Bramhall offers a devastatingly accurate appraisal of our current situation, as our president seemingly competes with himself to see what foolishness he can come up with next. It is as if he were trying to gauge the loyalty of his Deplorables by seeing how clear he can make his incapacity before they finally break […]
Today we say goodbye to Mark Tatulli’s Heart of the City: Tomorrow we welcome the Steenz Heart of the City: Not quite ‘All-New” as proclaimed in the headline. Oh, the style and gags will be different, but Heart will remain the star. Over on Twitter cartoonist Steenz tells us how she adapted to […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for this year’s The Reuben. Congratulations to the 2019 NCS Cartoonist Of The Year nominees for the 74th Annual NCS Reuben Awards! Lynda Barry Terri Libenson Hilary B. Price Mark Tatulli Raina Telgemeier Congratulations to all! Earlier this month the NCS sent out the ballots to their members; […]
Kevin Siers marks a promising moment: President Trump declared that the Washington Post and CNN had misquoted CDC Director Robert Redfield and called up on him for backup. And Redfield said they had quoted him accurately. Apparently, there are people in the Trump circle who will choose the welfare of the public over loyalty to […]
Spring is the season for picking favorites, so let’s look at some choices. The Phantom is a popular comic character around the world, and in Sweden the publishers of Fantomen choose their favorite stories that ran in the comic book in the year of 2019. The Chronicle Chamber reports: As we saw in the Frew […]
I’m tempted to simply post Dave Brown‘s cartoon and walk away. Dear Leader’s childish speculation about UV light and disinfectants drew a lot of cartoons, many of them very funny, but, as absurd as his rambling word salad was, there wasn’t anything humorous about it, or about the way he continues to be enabled, not […]
In July 1960, at the age of 26, Jane Goodall traveled from England to what is now Tanzania and ventured into the little-known world of wild chimpanzees. With the 60th anniversary of Jane Goodall entering the forest of Gombe coming, stories of Jane are starting to appear. One of those stories is Jane developing a […]
“I have very little adult supervision.” Matt Wuerker, POLITICO’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, enjoys a colorful career sketching Trump, Pelosi, and other characters. [Politico goes] inside the wonderful world of Wuerker as he shares some of his best stories… including that one time he tried using a Rumsfeld cartoon to negotiate troop withdrawals. Politico delivers […]
The Cartoon Art Museum is continuing its “A Boy and His Tiger” fundraising auction with two sought-after items. A Bill Watterson signed print of the last Calvin and Hobbes … And original art from Patrick “Mutts” McDonnell …
Advertising artist and executive Don Schnably has passed away. Donald James (Don) Schnably September 12, 1936 – April 20, 2020 From the obituary: He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art and went on to have a highly successful career in advertising, winning countless CLIO and Addy awards. He has a TV commercial […]
I try to avoid politics on Friday, but when La Cucaracha, working in advance, manages to hit the timing jackpot, it’s worth a mention. The latest bit of presidential quackery seems almost as if someone at Fox & Friends was working for the opposition: “I know! Let’s say shooting up bleach will cure it!” Sure […]
Tim Menees and Rob Rogers have been announced as finalists for the 56th Golden Quill Awards. Judging has been completed for The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania‘s 2020 Tri-State Golden Quill Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Media and Communications in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia. The 56th competition recognizes professional excellence in […]
While Cathy hasn’t returned to syndicated comics, she has returned. Cathy Guisewite features the cartoon Cathy in her book Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault, Guisewite also features cartoon Cathy in a series of panels on her Instagram account. And these days the topic is “sheltering in place.” As Heather Schwedel at Slate explains: Though […]
Jason Chatfield the National Cartoonist Society President (as well as the cartoonist for syndicated comic Ginger Meggs, The New Yorker, others) has published a comic journal detailing his journey with Coronavirus (and his better half Sophie). Check it out here.