Last week The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) held their 2021 convention and among the panels was one devoted to editorial cartooning. Four of America’s top political cartoonists gathered in a virtual room during the 2021 Society of Professional Journalists online conference. The topic? The perils of working in visual satire in the age of […]
Heidi MacDonald, at The (Comics) Beat, reviews the new comic strip(?) Batman: Wayne Family Adventures that debuted today on the vertical Webtoon platform. As reported earlier, the first Webtoon/DC collaboration debuted this morning, and unsurprisingly, it’s Batman. Specifically Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, by CRC Payne, Maria Li, Lan Ma, Starbite, Jean Kim and Keilamel Sibal. […]
Everyone knows that the orange tabby Heathcliff appeared five years before that other orange tabby Garfield. And the subsequent massive popularity of Garfield was probably a bit of a sore spot with the Heathcliff creators. These days current Heathcliff cartoonist Peter Gallagher pretty much takes it in stride, though he still feels the urge to […]
Okay it’s a local not national but Stephan Pastis was the number one best selling author at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma last week on two different lists. In a rare feat of cross-audience literary popularity, cartoonist and author Stephan Pastis (“Pearls Before Swine”) has the No. 1 book on both Petaluma’s Fiction & Nonfiction Bestsellers […]
Zits (KFS) reminds me that I’m old enough to remember when Frosted Flakes, Sugar Smacks and Sugar Corn Pops seemed to be about the extent of morning junk food. The first fruit-flavored cereal, Trix, appeared in 1954, the year I started kindergarten. But let’s not pretend to be pure: We poured plenty of sugar onto […]