From Techdirt: By way of a throat clearing, there are a couple of things you need to know about Hergé, the nom de guerre for the artist behind the well-known Tintin comics of yore. First, Hergé’s estate has found its way onto Techdirt’s pages before and has a reputation for being wildly restrictive and litigious […]
© King Features Syndicate Hermes Press interviews Sy Barry on his years as The Phantom comic strip artist. In a way I got to feel that the way [Lee Falk] tried to minimize my impact on the strip every turn he could find. I began to get more and more turned off to him. […]
May 13, 1991 saw the first Sherman’s Lagoon appear in newspapers. It first appeared in 1991 in the Escondido Times-Advocate and was self-syndicated by Jim Toomey under the name of “Pacific Press Features.” If that comic strip seems strange for a debut, understand that Jim Toomey had planned on the strip to appear a couple […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) reflects my own mood after today’s morning dip into Facebook and Twitter, which I take in part to make sure the world hasn’t ended but also because a lot of cartoons appear there before they show up on official sites. Though yesterday I had a pleasant conversation with a Gen-Z woman […]