Folktales are told and retold through the generations with each adding its own twist. The story of Cinderella is one that cartoonist Charles Plumb brought into the 20th century with his newspaper comic strip he called “Ella Cinders.” Charles Plumb was born in 1899 … He worked as an artist on Chautauqua circuits before finding […]
Mason Mastroianni, who draws the B.C., Wizard of Id, and Dogs of C-Kennel comic strips and is also the co-writer on B.C., was interviewed by Tom Ward for The Sports Page Weekly. TW: You work on B.C. and Wizard of Id. How do you divvy up your time to work on each strip? MM: I […]
Rifling through the newspaper to dig out the comic strips will soon be a thing of the past. News Corp Australia has announced it will be dropping cartoon strips from all its mastheads from September 11. The decision by News Corp has disappointed cartoonists who said comic strips were relevant and a way for generations to […]
A day for catching up on various things, and we’ll start with today’s Zits (KFS), in which it turns out Jeremy’s podcast was everything I thought it would be and less. I have no idea how much pain is yet to come, because some threads become part of the strip and others drop and disappear, […]