Fleischer Cartoons: The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer at MoMA March 7 – 14, 2024 More information and a screening schedule at Fleischer Cartoons: The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer ********** Ohio State U. and The Billy Ireland present Mexico and Comics March 4, 2024 In celebration of our current exhibit, Depicting Mexico and […]
Saga is the story of a Viking named Brann Bjornson and his large family as they cope with the modernization of their Nordic medieval world. Some things, such as mead, magic, and horned helmets, have remained. But now, rather than fight dragons, Vikings, such as Brann, work for them. Trolls work in the IT department, […]
Paul Fell lays out one of the major issues in the upcoming elections, which is that a significant portion of the electorate is being fed a steady diet of, at best, downer takes on everything and, at worst, lies. I understand the concept of spin. When I first began teaching high school kids about editorial […]
Cartoonist Kevin Fagan grew up idolizing Charles M. Schulz and “Peanuts.” Now that his own comic strip, “Drabble,” is turning 45 this week, Fagan is contemplating his long run in the funny pages and once again has Schulz on his mind. “I knew Charles M. Schulz pretty well,” Fagan says from his home in Mission […]
Dale Hale takes on Peanuts; George Lichty Grins and Bears It; Burne Hogarth becomes king of Tarzan’s jungle jive. Dale Hale, cartoonist and Charles M. Schulz Comic Book Ghost When Dell Comics took over the [Peanuts comic book] line in 1957, however, they chose a completely different direction. Instead of reprinting and re-reprinting newspaper strips, […]
Frazz (AMS) starts us off with a head-scratcher. I think the observation is right, but it comes from a direction I hadn’t explored, so it set me back a bit. There are those who object to fans using “we” at all, but that’s nonsense. Why bother having uniforms or selling gear if you don’t want […]
As was reported the National Press Foundation (NPF) awarded Jen Sorensen the 2023 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons. Her four-panel approach has criticized how society worships wealthy people with “big” ideas, satirized the doubling of “frontover” deaths as vehicle height increases, and explored the evolution of Twitter, from the early […]
Tomorrow King Features Syndicate is scheduled to launch an all-new Comics Kingdom. Our new website will boast a unique visual identity and an optimized user experience designed with you in mind. From front-end wireframes to a streamlined user interface, our focus has been creating an attractive and user-friendly platform. Our commitment to a clean and […]
One of the arguments against impeaching Trump, Drew Sheneman reminds us, is that it threatened to make impeachment a weapon for trivial partisanship. Or maybe they started it. After all, if, after the 1968 elections, we’d learned that Richard Nixon collaborated with the North Vietnamese to stall LBJ’s peace moves, we might have impeached him […]
Charles Ettinger begins today (February 26) as the regular, signed Dick Tracy artist (2024-present). He follows… Shelley Pleger (2021-2024), who followed… Joe Staton (2011-2021), who followed Jim Brozman (2009-2011), who followed Dick Locher (1983-2009), who followed Rick Fletcher (1977-1983), who followed Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould (1931-1977). Yes, there have been other signed “guest artists” […]
The South bookstore is full of people. Almost all of them are there for the same reason: to get a dedication from the famous cartoonist Ricardo Liniers. Various books are seen on the tables and some even wear t-shirts with the Argentine illustrator’s characters. I ask him more about the illustration part, I tell him: […]
I’m not sure when Brewster Rockit (Tribune) takes place, but it’s not now, or, at least, not here, and even here and now, we’ve outgrown Sadie Hawkins Day, when women were allowed to propose to men or at least to invite them to sock hops. Any woman still sitting around wishing some guy would take […]
Featuring Lalo Alcaraz, Julia Wertz, Flash Gordon, Herblock Anissa Rivera for The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports on Lalo Alcaraz’s three month project. ********** Cheryl has a cartoonist daughter of considerable renown. Publishers pay to print her books. Several have been translated into French. She appears regularly in The New Yorker. Julia Wertz is probably […]
Comic book and comic strip artist Ramona Fradon has passed away. Ramona Dom (née Domboorajian) Fradon October 2, 1926 – February 24, 2024 Yesterday Ramona’s agent Scott Kress of Catskill Comics made public her passing: It comes with great sadness to announce that Ramona Fradon has passed away just a few moments ago. Ramona was […]
A happy ending for this Stephen Collins cartoon: Liz Truss did indeed come up with a title, and, though her book hasn’t been published yet, she did get to speak to a half-empty room at CPAC, which seems like an unnecessary effort, since she could have stayed home in Britain and spoken before a group […]