Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz birthday saw over 100 comic strips and panels pay tribute to the master cartoonist and creator of Peanuts. The Schulz Museum’s “A Cartoonist Tribute” page linked to 92 of them. Notable is Lynn Johnston coming out of retirement reworking a special For Better or For Worse and […]
Since we all went a little overboard yesterday I’ll follow Mike’s lead and start off with a Man Overboard strip. © Man Martin Moving on… The New Popeye Joining the new Popeye Sunday page by Randy Milholland and Randy and Shadia Amin’s bi-weekly Olive & Popeye strip is the new manga influenced Eye Lie Popeye […]
Man Overboard offered a familiar but important observation on Thanksgiving, which is, as widely known and often said, that history is written by the victors. It’s true, at least in terms of popular history, which is largely what matters, since popular history is how a nation establishes its identity. There’s probably no better example of […]
Comic book artist Vic Carrabotta has passed away. Victor Salvatore (Vic) Carrabotta June 24, 1929 – November 22, 2022 Vic’s family and friends are sharing the news of his death on Facebook and Twitter. From the CBR obituary: Victor “Vic” Carrabotta, one of the last surviving comic book artists to have worked for […]
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat features a special Peanuts section today celebrating the 100th birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. An added bonus for those of us not in the PD’s hard copy distribution area is they are making it accessible online for free today. Added bonus: every article has a slideshow. Among the articles […]
Pogo starts us off on Thanksgiving, 1972, with a typically backhanded bit of thankfulness from Porkypine, their opposite characters being a high point of the strip. I hadn’t remembered that Charles Barsotti, far better known for his New Yorker cartoons, had a strip back then, but this particular episode is also a reminder that Earth […]
Unlike partner Mike Peterson and apparently the majority of people on Planet Earth I have never signed up for a Twitter account. (I thought I had and even have a password listed in my Book of Getting onto the Interwebs, but am not allowed into that world wide public square.) So as an outsider I […]
UPDATE: Comics Kingdom has explained the change. There’s a crisis of toxicity online. The social platforms meant to bring us together are pushing us apart. It doesn’t have to be this way. Websites often have a love-hate relationship with their comment sections: on the one hand, they’re a sign of reader loyalty, a great way […]
It’s not always easy or possible or productive to separate comics into either humor or politics, and Prickly City (AMS) has always been a political strip. In this case, we see the Republican party gain nominal control of the house only to have the Freedom Caucus preparing to play the temper-tantrum gridlocking roles Democrats have […]
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More than 80 comic strips and comic panels will use their November 26, 2022 releases to honor the 100th birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts. From the AP story (via The Gazette): NEW YORK (AP) — Cartoonists across the nation are celebrating the 100th birthday of “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz as […]
Andrews McMeel Syndication has announced that beginning on the first day of 2023 the Crankshaft comic strip by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis will join the AMS roster. © Mediagraphics, Inc. From the Andrews McMeel notice: Kansas City, MO (November 17, 2022) Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) will assume sales and distribution of Crankshaft by Tom […]
Colombian cartoonist Raul Fernando Zuleta (Cartoon Movement) leads off today’s discussion of the 2022 World Cup: Qatar dangles money before FIFA and the TV networks, who in turn dangle money before the soccer clubs and TV viewers give the results to viewers, who don’t get so much as a taste of all that lovely baksheesh […]
From The Minot Daily News: Minot native Cord Scott’s latest book is titled “The Mud and the Mirth: Marine Cartoonists in World War I.” Scott, a professor with the University of Maryland Global Campus based in Okinawa, Japan, said the book “discusses the use of cartoons drawn by Marines in the early part of the […]
Comics Kingdom is now current. GoComics not so much. Yet.