A Brief History of Animating Comic Strips
The Garfield Movie, currently running on movie theaters (Rotten Tomatoes scoring much better by audiences than critics) prompted Cartoon Brew…
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Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story
Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts Comics site is promoting The Guard Dog Story for preorder. This book features the seven-week-long tale of…
Wayback Whensday – Centuries of Comics
Louis M. Glackens, Benjamin Franklin, Rube Goldberg, Harvey Kurtzman, Homer Davenport. [Louis M.] Glackens was born in 1866 in Philadelphia…
Julie Larson – RIP
Cartoonist and puzzle maker Julie Larson had passed away two years ago. Julie Christine (Harris) Larson September 20, 1959 –…
Jason Chatfield Reports from NancyFest
A VIP tour of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, a look at The Nancy Show, and a report…
Solve the Charles Addams Cartoon Mystery – Update: Cartoon Found
Original May 25 post: From a Witney Seibold article at SlashFilm about 1991’s The Addams Family film: On Christmas 1946,…
Olivia Jaimes to Take a Leave from Nancy
Olivia Jaimes appeared on video as a part of the recent Nancy Fest: The New Nancy Olivia Jaimes is the…
Sunday Stripping
Let’s start with three huzzahs to Comics Kingdom for including the title panels with the Sunday comics! We sincerely hope…
Evolution of an Editoon – Luckovich Style
Cartoonist Mike Luckovich takes us through some ideas to get to his Nikki endorses Trump editorial.
Yeah, I Don’t Get Around Much Any More; But If I Did… (updated)
Ernie Bushmiller, John Kascht and Bill Watterson, Steve Brodner, Drew Friedman, Jack Davis, Georgia Dunn, Maurice Sendak, Steve Breen and…
Bob Mankoff from the Queens Land
Becoming a great comedian or cartoonist doesn’t happen overnight. As with many professions, it takes tremendous commitment and practice, a…
Robert Ariail from the Low Country
By high school Robert Ariail was the school paper cartoonist, inspired by his 10th grade English teacher who introduced him…
Wayback Whensday – A Bagful of Peanuts
Charles Schulz and his Peanuts comic strip remains a topic of interest in news reports and the blogosphere. Let’s open…
What Newspaper Editors Want in a Cartoon – A TDC Short Take
Bob Englehart describes how to create an editorial cartoon that today’s newspaper editors will buy. Wonder if this will make…
Miss Cellany’s Suite
Terry Mosher (Aislin) receives the Michener-Baxter Award From the Michener Awards Foundation: OTTAWA, May 21, 2024 – The Michener Awards…