Artist Mary Von Egidy has passed away. Mary Frances (Mae) Von Egidy (née: Boyd) March 9, 1921 – April 22, 2020 From the obituary: She was a talented artist and worked for Alex Raymond in her younger years painting backgrounds for the Rip Kirby and Flash Gordon comic strips. Couldn’t find anything else about […]
Comic book writer and artist Jason LaTour features Andrews McMeel Syndication’s Shena Wolf on the latest episode of his podcast “The Drawl.” Among the subjects covered, Jason and Shena talk about Phoebe and Her Unicorn, Wallace the Brave, Breaking Cat News, the new version of Nancy and racism in older comics. Jason’s bio from his […]
Talk about living in the past. The Red and Rover comic strip by Brian Basset began May 7 twenty years ago. Or maybe it was closer to fifty years ago. The first strip above establishes that cartoonist Brian is going through the past fondly with Red and Rover. The comic book Red buys off the […]
“Half Full” cartoonist Maria Scrivan’s debut YA novel has hit the New York Times best-seller list. “Nat Enough” (Graphix/Scholastic) breaks into the “Graphic Books and Manga” list at No. 11 with the story of middle-schooler Natalie “Nat.” From the book’s amazon page: Natalie has never felt that she’s enough — athletic enough, stylish enough, or talented […]
[O]n the funny pages of America’s newspapers … artists (and readers) wrestle with whether the comics should be an escape from the giant elephant in everyone’s living room, or a reflection of it. Reporter John Wilkens talks to some local comic strip cartoonists about the reality of the coronavirus: In the 35 years that Greg […]
So, since yesterday’s post, Dear Leader has changed directions, and the Task Force will no longer be disbanded at the end of this month and Dr. Fauci will be permitted to testify in front of Congress after all and Kevin Siers demonstrates how this flexibility has straightened things right out. It’s hard to comment on […]