Peanuts and Beetle Bailey will be celebrating their 75th anniversaries next year, so here come the articles. In the Private Scrapbook chapter dedicated to Beetle Bailey, Walker discussed how a comic strip that – for most of its history – focused exclusively on the misadventures of a U.S. Army private, could win over the hearts […]
Robb Armstrong – An Appreciation of An African American Comic Strip Artist From Fisher Jack at Eurweb: I have followed Robb Armstrong creator of the comic strip series Jump Start, syndicated since 1989. … For Robb, Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts comic strips influenced him. I grew up a fan of Peanuts and am still […]
Yesterday was Factchecking Day, which makes me wish Steve Kelley (Creators)’s cartoon had run then, because it’s an easy one to fact-check: March 31 was established as International Transgender Day of Visibility in 2009, so there was no “blunder” in the White House issuing a proclamation saying so, as they issue proclamations for all sorts […]
Garry Trudeau, the writer and artist of Doonesbury, has dared to acknowledge a fact about the Hamas leadership that most of the mainstream news media prefer to ignore. Rafael Medoff for the Jewish Journal reports: In the latest Sunday installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury strip, a fictional anti-terrorist fighter—known as “the Red Rascal”—bursts into […]