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A Stan Mack interview; a Milton Caniff profile; a Tim Jackson appreciation; a John Rose video interview; a visit with Rob Moreland; and a Colin Whittock obituary.
Funny Friends: an interview with Stan Mack
Funny TimGreg Lynch for The Dayton Daily Newses’ Mia Beach presents a short interview with cartoonist Stan Mack.
You originally had a career as an art director for print publications, including The New York Times. From there, you changed course and began cartooning- how long until that move “made sense” to your family?
for eight years, i was an art director at the new york herald tribune and the new york times. i was the a.d. of the ny times sunday magazine when i decided to quit and go back to free-lance illustration. wherever they are, my folks are still in shock.
Dayton native Milton Caniff
In the eighth grade in the 1920s, he took a correspondence course with the Landon mail-order cartoon school and volunteered drawing for the Boy Scout page in the Dayton Journal. As a result of his volunteer work, Caniff was offered a job as a office boy in the Journal art department.
By the end of his career, Caniff was one of the few surviving writer-artists [of adventure comic strips] left in the comic strip field.
Greg Lynch of The Dayton Daily News profiles local boy made good Milton Caniff on the date of his birth.
Tim Jackson– pioneering cartoonist of Color
Tim Jackson made his transition very recently in late 2024; he was truly a great man. In addition to his special ability to draw cartoons that made people smile and think, he was an advocate for Black cartoonists everywhere. His website featuring Black cartoonists was awesome, and he did a fantastic job in making us all aware of the existence and importance of cartoonists of color. His book, “Pioneering Cartoonists of Color,” published by the University Press of Mississippi, was, itself, a pioneering classic. In that book he gave a shout-out to his mentor, friend, and cheering section, Morrie Turner, and documented the work of Black cartoonists far and wide.
As a great cartoon artist himself, he unselfishly served as an advocate for others…
A very brief look at Tim Jackson, cartoonist and comic historian, by Dr. Yaounde Olu for Chicago Crusader.
The Dollar Bin Bandits Welcome John Rose
John Rose has been breathing new life into the iconic comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith for over two decades. After joining as an inking assistant to Fred Lasswell in 1998, he took over the strip following Lasswell’s passing in 2001. John has published several collections, including The Bodacious Best of Snuffy Smith and Snuffy Smith in His Sunday Best. He also illustrated the children’s book The Dogwood Tales and regularly appears at cartooning events, offering live chalk talks where he demonstrates his craft. John’s distinctive hillbilly characters have earned him the National Cartoonists Society’s Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith cartoonist John Rose is interviewed for a 40 minute comic youtube show.
Reflections from cartoonist Rob Moreland
Before the propagation of online news, opening the Sunday newspaper and seeing a fresh, full page of color cartoons was the highlight of any weekend for many kids. Today, only 26 percent of U.S. adults regularly read print news. As a result, comic strips are rapidly fading from public view, despite their long history of social and political significance.
During his time at the College, Robert Moreland ’87 produced a weekly comic strip titled Pep. For Moreland, creating and developing Pep was an integral part of his College experience. Moreland’s nearly four-year-long career as a cartoonist began with an early and eager request to the Record board. “There had been a strip before I was at Williams, and the person [who wrote it] graduated,” he said. “And [I was] like, ‘Well, I want to do that,’ and, like so many things at Williams, they actually let [me] do it!”
Tahlia Gerger for the Williams (College) Record pays a visit to Rob Moreland, now an animator.
In Memoriam: Cartoonist Colin Whittock
We’re sorry to report the passing of cartoonist and caricaturist Colin Whittock, who died on 14th February, aged 84. Colin worked for Birmingham’s newspapers for 40 years, drew cartoons for a huge variety of titles until recently, and, between 1971 and 1989, comic strips for titles such as The Beano and Whizzer and Chips.
In a tribute, the Mail notes that, during that time, he wrote cartoons about moments as relevant today as they were 20 years ago, such as spiralling gas prices and charging for green waste.
John Freeman at downthetubes writes an obituary for British cartoonist Colin Whittock (1940-2025).
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