V. T. Hamlin’s Alley Oop; Bob Chambers’ Halifax; Pogo’s letterers Walt Kelly, George Ward, and Henry Shikuma; and a couple cartoonist self-portrait galleries. Sunday Adventures in History with Alley Oop Alley Oop portrays the exploits of a time-traveling caveman (yes, you read that correctly). The comic, which has been running since 1932, was created by […]
Billy Ireland & Jenny Robb, Marshall Ramsey, Ernie Bushmiller, Ward Sutton & Stan Kelly, Paul Gilligan, and Mort Walker, Bill Hoest, & Bil Keane. Chillicothe, Columbus, and the World — A boy who grew up in Chillicothe and then worked for the Columbus Dispatch to became a world-famous cartoonist was part of the focus of […]
There have been a number of cartoons responding to Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos having spiked an endorsement for Kamala Harris, many of them playing on the Post’s motto “Democracy Dies in the Dark.” Ann Telnaes gets the top spot in part because she works there and her cartoon joins with 16 Washington Post columnists […]
Cartoonist Charles Fredrick has passed away. Charles Wright Fredrick November 3, 1942 – October 4, 2024 From the obituary: Charles attended Springfield, Missouri schools, graduating from Parkview in 1960, before heading to Texas to attend Baylor University and graduating in 1964. The beginning of his adult work life took him for brief stints in federal […]
It is late October in The Year of Our Lord 1968, a Presidential Election year. The election is two weeks away and Walt Kelly, as is his wont, has decided to satirize American politics. Kelly’s subject is third party outlier George Wallace, most famous for his performance of blocking a schoolhouse door in 1963 to […]
We’ll get to knaves and fools in a minute, but first a salute to unintentional genius, as The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee (KFS) magically riffs on the McDonald’s e coli outbreak despite having been scripted and drawn well before it happened. Sometimes the Fates smile and make you look really smart, but, alas, there […]
Auctions featuring original comic and cartoon art and comic books. Occasionally a comic book collection of immense value goes public. Such is the case up Mike Peterson way. From Seven Days last month: Following the death in April of Vermont comic book retailer and collector Christine Farrell, her legendary collection is about to go up […]
Featuring Bianca Xunise, Chip Beck, Alan Hardman, Eli Valley, Patrick McDonnell, Herblock, Larry Todd, Matt Wuerker, Ann Telnaes, Michael Ramirez, Pedro Molina, Vladimir Kazanevsky and Rachita Taneja. Bianca Xunise is the Ignatz Award-winning author of comics including GothThrob, Imaginary Boyfriends, Keep Out, and Say Her Name. She is one of the authors of the daily […]
I don’t know the lead time for Prickly City (AMS), but it’s been a very long time since Harris began a whirlwind of appearances and interviews. There was a fair amount of whining from the Usual Suspects that she wasn’t sitting for interviews with them, but she’s hardly been invisible. What I will grant is […]
Palestinian artist/cartoonist Mahasen al-Khateeb died in an Israeli airstrike in Jabalia on October 18. She was 32. Mahasen was a popular digital illustrator, storyboard artist, and character designer for domestic and international clients. Two weeks before the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, she had opened a private studio. During the Israeli response, she lost […]
President Joseph R. Biden presented the 2022 and 2023 National Humanities Medals, in conjunction with the National Medals of Arts, on Monday, October 21, 2024, in a private ceremony at the White House. The 19 distinguished medal recipients include writers, historians, educators, and filmmakers. And a cartoonist! Cartoonist and author Roz Chast was among those […]
Ninety years ago yesterday one of the greatest 1930s adventure strips debuted in the New York Daily News It would be the following day when we would learn the full title of Milton Caniff‘s new comic strip. Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff would catapult the cartoonist to fame and fortune. Peter Bosch at […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) indulges in some theological speculation. It’s inappropriate to tell other people how to mourn, and while there is a point at which it becomes obsessive, that point is different for everyone. Still, Rat has a point and I can’t think of a source that suggests we age in heaven, while, although […]
Ripley’s Believe It or Not details the hierarchy of artists and Kieran Castaño shows, by drawing four claws, that cartoonists are in The Upper Class. Well. maybe not all of them: Cartoonists working on the Super-Fun-Pak Comix, edited by Ruben Bolling, are from a more common class. Along with (some) cartoonists the Prince of Thule […]
Pro-Kremlin media outlets are circulating a fake cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an effort to smear Ukrainian President Zelenskyy peace plan according to the National News Agency of Ukraine. This story (screenshot below) was posted last week on Pravda depicting a October 11 edition of Charlie Hebdo. There is no October […]