Long time St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial cartoonist Tom Engelhardt has passed away. Thomas Alexander (Tom) Engelhardt December 29, 1930 – July 28, 2024 From the family obituary: Tom was a lifelong learner and attended many schools along the way, including St. Louis University High School, University of Denver, Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University, […]
Origins of the comic strip gutter?; MIckey Mouse’s Friends; More about Han Ola og han Per; Future Funnies; and pre-Tiger Bud Blake. Did Photo Journalism Invent the Comics Gutter? The most defining layout quality of the photo-based pages is the rectangular shape of the images (many cropped to suit page proportions) and the resulting white gutters […]
Newspapers From this past weekend’s Albany Times-Union: On April 4, 1924, the Times Union told its readers it had officially became a Hearst publication, ending its years as a privately owned newspaper under the stewardship of publisher and former New York Gov. Martin H. Glynn. But the article noting the sale pledged there would be […]
Loose Parts (AMS) hits at a good moment. I tried a hole-in-the-wall pizza place yesterday, and when I paid, got one of those screens. I don’t believe in tipping counterhelp and you’re not supposed to tip the owner, so I hit “No tip.” Again. Again. Again. Finally. “I’ll bet the 25% one goes right through,” […]
Bob Weber, Jr., he of Slylock Fox fame, and Gary Hallgren, he of Air Pirates Funnies fame, have been friends and coworkers for going on forty years. Their latest partnership has been Hägar the Horrible for the past decade. Bob Weber, Jr. began writing gags and scripts for the Hägar comic strip in 2014 and […]
Tank McNamara cartoonist Bill Hinds to be honored. From the National Cartoonists Society: Bill Hinds will be presented with the Gold T-Square award at the 78th Annual Reuben Awards in San Diego, August 23rd. The Gold T-Square is awarded for 50 years as a professional cartoonist. So far, four have been presented: to Rube Goldberg […]
Editor & Publisher will open the window to submit entries to their annual EPPY™ Awards on August 1, 2024. The EPPY™ Awards include two Editorial/Political Cartoon divisions. Some frequently asked questions and information about the rules: The EPPY™ Awards are open to all media and media-affiliated websites. Entries for 2024 will begin on August 1st, 2024 […]
Steve Brodner offers an affectionate portrait and tribute to his friend and mentor, Lewis Lapham, a legendary editor at Harper’s who died last week at 89, an age at which one is permitted to die but which gave him a good, long opportunity to influence the world, though, as Brodner’s words indicate, he still left […]
E. S. (Everett Samuel) Glenn is a comic creator and a New Yorker cartoonist, and soon he will be a regular presence on Comics Kingdom with his New Tricks, subtitled Remixed New Yorker Cartoon Rejects. From the Comics Kingdom New Tricks “about” page: E. S. Glenn spent many years in New York, deeply embedded in […]
From the AP news story: Cartoonist Roz Chast will receive the [Brooklyn Book Festival’s] annual BoBi (Best of Brooklyn) award, given to those who best exemplify the spirit of the New York City borough. About Roz Chast from The Brooklyn Book Festival: Roz Chast‘s cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978, where she […]
The recent CrowdStrike debacle gives lessons for all of us in how to (and how not to) communicate in a crisis… While an extreme case, CrowdStrike illustrates some of the tensions at play in any brand crisis — trying to balance responsibility and mitigate liability with incomplete information while still trying to fix the issue. […]
Randall Munroe imagines himself in the Olympics in today’s xkcd, and I notice that the funniest places he’d expect to find an unqualified amateur are in the sports in which style is the deciding factor. Which evokes a 1959 Peanuts that has always been close to my heart and which, apart from my extensive history […]
Here’s an oddity: A Garfield Sunday where everyone is happy about everything. Just a coincidence that it is Jon Arbuckle’s (and Jim Davis‘s) birthday? Some comic strip ephemera. MIke Lynch posts a circa 1973 Courier Journal/Louisville Times comic strip promotional pamphlet featuring comic strips with creator profiles. Ten of the seventeen comics are still around […]
Lalo Alcaraz Tommy Siegel Clay Jones And so on and so forth. The Internet is full of jokes about JD Vance masturbating with a sofa, and the cartoons are nearly as plentiful. It’s a lie. Or, as the Fact Check sites say, it “Originated as Satire.” We see stories from time to time about foreign […]
Fridays at the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) is Eisner Award night, this year that was last night July 26, 2024. The SDCC posted the results with some introduction, but we like Comics Beat reporting ’cause they got the introductory stuff and the results like SDCC along with reminding us of the nominees in each […]