above: Blondie by Chic Young (1930) Chic Young’s Blondie comic strip first appeared on September 8, 1930. above: the debut of Blondie and Dagwood In 2012 R. C. Harvey informed us of the history of the strip and it’s creator. The authorized Blondie backstory via The Wayback Machine. It took a walk down the […]
Catherine Gong has won the 2020 Locher Award. The John Locher Memorial Award is a contest for aspiring cartoonists, ages 18-25, whose work demonstrates both clear opinions and strong artistry on political and social topics. Read the 2020 announcement. Thomas Coute is Runner Up
It’s Spring 1982 and The Legend of Bruce Lee by Sharman DiVono and Fran Matera has debuted on the comics pages. But five years earlier the legendary comic masters Milton Caniff and Noel Sickles had joined forces to prepare samples of their version of the comic strip Bruce Lee. Noel Sickles revolutionized daily black and […]
Signe Wilkinson provides nearly the only Labor Day cartoon I was able to find this morning. Her lament over the lack of jobs is an implicit criticism of the current administration, but I like the fact that she focuses on the economic displacement caused by the pandemic and the plight of workers. It’s certainly not […]