Continuing our roundup of items from Friday with The Return of Jimmy Johnson; FurBabies, FDR, and Fala; L.A.Times’ op-comic by Teresa Wong; Travels with Hilary B. Price; The Wizard of Goldberg Machines; Jules Feiffer takes us to other dimensions; Jack Chick tracts re-engineered; Sandra Bell-Lundy sets the girls free; last chances for Smercomics 2024 and How Comics Were Made books.
Jimmy Johnson Returns!
After three years Arlo & Janis cartoonist Jimmy Johnson returns to blogging!
No promises on the regularity of updates, but it’s a start and it’s promising.
True Fact Funnies!
Nancy Beiman celebrates FDR’s fur baby Fala in today’s FurBabies.
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary!
The Los Angeles Times today presents an “op-comic,” or what The Pulitzer Board calls Illustrated Reporting and Commentary, as it excepts from author/cartoonist Teresa Wong‘s new book “All Our Ordinary Stories.“
Hanging Out with The Cartoonist Of The Year!
It was two hours before the big awards dinner, and I sat on the edge of my partner Kristin’s lounge chair at the hotel pool.
“Here’s what I want to say in my speech if I win,” I told her, throwing down my thoughts, “but I don’t know how to organize it.”
We travel with Reuben Award winner Hilary B. Price from the National Cartoonists Society banquet on the West Coast to the MAD exhibit and the home of Wallace the Brave on the East Coast.
Y’know, without the mustache it would hard to tell who is who between Alfred E. Neuman and Will Henry.
Hey Rube!
Before we leave the subject of Reuben Goldberg – today’s Wizard of Id.
From Reuben Award Winner to Pulitzer Prize Winner!
Scott Simon at NPR interviews Jules Feiffer about creating his new book Amazing Grapes.
FEIFFER: It’s what I do. I sit down at a table, and I make notes and scrawl things down. And suddenly, as a result of scrawling, a notion hits me. And I scribble that and then another notion and another notion, and suddenly, I’m on a track somewhere. The one thing I don’t want to know ever is where I’m going before I get there. I follow the orders of the book. The book tells me where it wants to go, and I write, and I draw accordingly.
Sacrilegious Satire!
JACKED TRACTS is a spirited satire of those notorious Christian comic tracts that thrilled and traumatized American kids throughout the late 20th Century. Its rollicking reexamination of these comics from a contemporary perspective is sure to delight believers and heathens alike! The 10 X 6 hardcover book is 148 pages long, and features work by 74 talented artists from around the world.
JACKED TRACTS is edited by cartoonist Danny Hellman.
Jacked Tracts is expected in the Spring of 2025 and is for mature audiences.
Best Seller? Bust Seller?
Sandra Bell-Lundy contemplates creating more greeting cards; in the meantime shares her best seller.
Booktober!
Time is running out. The Smercomics 2024 book of editorial cartoons has a deadline of October 7, 2024.
While Glenn Fleishman’s How Comics Were Made is expected to ship in October with a limited print run.
feature image from Teresa Wong’s All Our Ordinary Stories