Comic Strip News ‘n’ Notes
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NCS Wear
Grab a piece of cartooning history!
We recently discovered a treasure trove of NCS exclusive t-shirts that had been tucked away in our storage facility in Florida and forgotten.
The annual NCS t-shirt has become a prized collector’s item at San Diego Comic Con, with a new design each year from cartooning’s biggest stars that features the most beloved cartoon characters.
The National Cartoonists Society shop has t-shirts emblazoned with art by famous cartoonists (Sergio Aragonés, Patrick McDonnell, Matt Groening, Graham Nolan, and a multi-cartoonist Batman tee) as created for past San Diego Comic Cons. Also the Greg Craven designed Tee for this year’s Boston Reubens bash.
Passing the Baton
It was 25 years ago this month (June 5, 2000 to be exact) that Leonard Starr ended his Annie run and passed the character of Little Orphan Annie onto Jay Maeder and Andrew Pepoy.
Unfortunately we never did get an Annie in Space story as visualized by Roger Langridge.
Juneteenth
Since only one syndicated comic strip celebrated Juneteenth today let’s take note that The Miami Times Real Toons! comic strip cartoonist Davian Chester released “The Tree That Splits: A Juneteenth Story” this month.
Artist Davian Chester, whose cartoons are regularly featured in The Miami Times, is launching a small comic book in honor of Juneteenth this year.
“The Tree That Splits: A Juneteenth Story” is now available for purchase on Amazon, just in time for the official holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. June 19 marks the day in 1865 that the news of freedom finally reached the last enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
“It’s something I’ve been developing to honor Juneteenth in a way that’s both meaningful and reflective of my style as a storyteller and cartoonist,” said Chester.
The Phantom Returns to Comic Books
The Phantom has a long history in comic books, in the U.S. alone Harvey, Gold Key, King, Charlton, DC, Marvel, Moonstone, and Dynamite have published The Phantom comic books. And the character has had extremely popular comic book series in Australia, India, and Europe’s Nordic region.
Now following up on their successful Flash Gordon comic book series Mad Cave and King Features will be issuing The Phantom comic books by Ray Fawkes and Russell Olson this Fall. From Graeme McMillan at Popverse:
The world’s first superhero is back — and Mad Cave Studios has him. The Phantom is returning to comics this September in an all-new series, reborn, renewed and with a new sense of purpose in a today’s world, almost a century after his first appearance.
Originally debuting as a newspaper strip from Lee Falk in February 1936 — which means he predated Superman as a costumed crimefighter by a couple of years — King Features Syndicate’s The Phantom wasn’t just the first comic strip hero to wear a skintight costume, as future superheroes would; he was also the first to wear a mask that hid his pupils from the world, as would also go on to become superhero standard. This pulp hero is closer to Batman than the Man of Steel however; he’s got no superpowers, instead relying on his wits, his natural physical abilities, and the two handguns he has attached to his hips. (So, not exactly like Batman, then.)
More Mafalda
First published in 1963, Mafalda follows the travails of a precocious, outspoken girl from a middle-class family in San Telmo while offering biting social commentary. The politically-aware humanist — and fervent Beatles-fan — Mafalda became an icon of Argentine progressive thinking at the height of the Cold War.
Originally conceived for a home appliances advertising campaign, Quino’s character became a phenomenon in the Spanish-speaking world, and has been translated into dozens of languages. While there had been previous English translations of Mafalda published by Argentina’s Editorial de la Flor, this is the first time the country’s irreverent school girl is published by a US house.
From the Buenos Aires Herald is a South American take on Mafalda being published in the United States.
Peanuts Trading Cards!
Take a trip down memory lane, to the neighborhood where the original Peanuts gang lives, with the red, Super7 exclusive Peanuts Wax Pack Trading Cards! Inspired by the vintage 1950’s Peanuts comic strip and classic wax pack trading cards, each Peanuts Wax Pack contains 5 trading cards and one sticker. There are 12 different black and white character cards to collect, as well as 12 full-color stickers with backing card art that joins to form a mosaic depicting the very first color, Peanuts Sunday comic strip from January 1952. Every card is a ticket to a little piece of nostalgia with the Peanuts Wax Pack Trading Cards, available exclusively from Super7!
I have to admit that if I saw a box of these Peanuts trading cards in my local five and dime or grocery store I would buy the whole box. You however can get ’em delivered to your doorstep by way of Super 7.
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