Comic strip and magazine cartoonist Bob Weber, Sr. has passed away. Robert P. (Bob) Weber, Sr. June 26, 1934 – October 17, 2020 It is being reported on social media that Bob Weber has passed away: Just heard that gag cartoonist and longtime King Features’ Moose and Molly comic strip artist Bob Weber, Sr. passed […]
Publisher Nat Gertler is a go-to guy for Peanuts trivia. He recently published a new edition of Miss Caroline, and while doing so he noticed our obituary of Miss Caroline creator Gerald Gardner. Again, go-to guy for Peanuts trivia. Our obituary reproduced an October 6, 1963 Gerald Gardner article from The Chicago Tribune about mass […]
Rick Edmunds at Poynter is reporting: Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper company with more than 250 daily titles, will begin offering another round of newsroom buyouts next week. It has not yet said how many…. The changes were announced by CEO Mike Reed during a companywide virtual town hall Wednesday, two Gannett journalists told me. […]
Tea Fougner, Editorial Director of Comics for King Features Syndicate, was recently interviewed by Heidi MacDonald on the Publishers Weekly Comics World podcast; and they covered a lot in the 30 minutes. Ecomics – Tea, the guiding force behind Popeye’s Cartoon Club, discusses King Features recent dive into webcomics (Rae the Doe, #Sales). Career – […]
Apparently, Minnesota is where we’re at in New Hampshire, because this Steve Sack (Star-Tribune) cartoon pretty much sums up our world, too. Despite the horrors that surround us politically and socially, the leaves are lovely, which is almost, as the fellow here says, enough to send you into an Anne Frankian optimistic view of most […]
original October 12 post: Five weeks after The Atlantic article detailing alleged remarks by President Trump where he is unable to fathom military service, Garry Trudeau featured the contents of that article in his October 11, 2020 Doonesbury. Because the article has been disputed, or because of the last two panels (“Nobody wants to see […]