Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2020 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. DC Goes to War Big Nate Stays Classy Scary Godmother Omnibus Speed Bump: A 25th Anniversary Collection The Tea Dragon Society (paperback) Jake […]
A rash of newspapers are being taken to task by their readers for printing cartoons that are objectionable to some. The Roxboro Courier-Times is the latest to sever ties with a cartoonist over an editorial cartoon the newspaper freely chose to publish. We have decided to cut ties with the editorial cartoonist who provided the […]
On June 11 the Florence Morning News editor chose and published a controversial Gary McCoy editorial cartoon. After receiving negative feedback the newspaper apologized two days later: The Morning News erred badly in its choice for a syndicated editorial cartoon that was published Thursday on the Opinion page. The cartoon was in extremely poor taste […]
Happy Birthday Frank Thorne, born June 16, 1930! Stroud: You’ve done syndicated strip work on Perry Mason. How did that come about? Thorne: I was 20 years old and walked in to King Features with my samples, they gave me the Perry Mason Daily and Sunday. Stroud: Was it a good gig? A strip seemed to be the […]
Steve Sack gets the lead-off today because he nailed the target amid a forest of lukewarm rainbows. It’s all well and good to draw a rainbow flag or show the Supreme Court building or the nation or whatever swathed in rainbows, but Sack makes two critical points: First, by using Justice hugging that rainbow flag, […]