Hey(th and Begorrah) Kids! Comics!
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2024 release. Images and links from a variety of…
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CSotD: TikTok Timeout?
I gather, from the flood of cartoons on the topic, that I’m the only person in America who doesn’t watch…
Newspaper Cartoonists Use Digital Tools, but Not as You’d Expect
I spent dozens of hours last fall interviewing newspaper cartoonists about how they draw their work, assuming that many would…
Pia Guerra/WaPo Kate Cartoon Goes Viral
Apparently Pia Guerra‘s cartoon on yesterday’s The Washington Post site (in the hard copy?) referencing the recent Royal photo fail…
CSotD: Friday the 13th come on a Thursday!
Asked and answered. Thanks, Frazz (AMS). One thing I learned by interviewing politicians and celebrities is that luck and talent…
Alan Hardman – RIP
British socialist cartoonist Alan Hardman has passed away. Alan Hardman 1936 – January 18, 2024 From Left Horizons: Internationally renowned…
Whatnot Wednesday – Stuff On The Edges
Universal’s Toon Lagoon, Dav Pilkey’s Free Little Library, Trina Robbins’ Fashions, and Snoopy’s Diet. If you think your daily newspaper’s…
CSotD: Phun with Photoshop
Nobody is better at making too much of something that doesn’t really matter than First Dog on the Moon, and…
Comic Arts and Letters to the Editor(s)
Another round of newspaper editors getting letters about the cartoons and comics they run. We start with The Oregonian’s Editor…
Newspaper Deathwatch: SaltWire Network (Cartoonists MacKinnon and de Adder)
From The Toronto Star report: HALIFAX – A private equity fund is initiating insolvency proceedings against Atlantic newspaper owner SaltWire…
CSotD: Retouching Reality
The Big Story today is that Princess Catherine, who seemed to disappear after a mysterious abdominal surgery of some sort,…
King Features Promotes Carla Silva
King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst and home to some of the world’s most popular entertainment characters, has promoted…
Patrick McDonnell, Guard Dog Guardian (Also: Meet Krazy Kat)
From Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts blog: Have you seen? Sparky (formerly known as Guard Dog) is the cover story for the…
CSotD: Monday Mix
Wilbur gets as political today as I want to, given that I’m recovering from that lost hour of sleep and…
Cartoonists – – Gag and Op-Ed, Old and New
A Profile of Gag Cartoonist Jeff Keate (1912- 1995) Robert Jefferson Keate, who signed his work Jeff Keate, was a…