Some marginal items related to comics and cartooning. Johnny Hart Enters the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame Cartoonist Johnny Hart has been inducted into the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame. From WICZ: The latest inductees to the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame have been announced as three new members will be inducted into the Hall […]
French artist Julien “Jul“ Berjeaut was commissioned to illustrate an modernized version of Beauty and the Beast, but the French Education Ministry cancelled the order citing minor children characters using social media and Belle’s father depicted as inebriated and holding a bottle. However, Algerian born Jul, suggests that his depiction of Belle as “brown skin […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Barnaby Volume Five by Crockett Johnson and Jack Morley Volume Five collects the final two-plus […]
Jeanne Young O’Neil obituary; USPS postage stamps for 2025; Famous Cartoonists School course art; Garry Trudeau versus Mort Drucker and Jerry Dumas; Peanuts collectibles; 2024 children and young adult bestsellers. Jeanne Young O’Neil – RIP Jeanne Young O’Neil, the daughter of Blondie creator Chic Young, the sister to current Blondie producer Dean Young, and the […]
EDWARD ST JOHN GOREY, a drawer of eccentric illustrations and a writer of peculiar stories, was born 100 years ago today on February 22, 1925. Unsurprisingly The Edward Gorey House is having a centennial congregate the evening of the 22nd which, unfortunately for most of us, is sold out. (I really want to see the […]
Editorial cartooning, caricaturing, graphic noveling, webcomicing, comic stripping – we cover the bases. Martin Rowson, British cartoonist for The Guardian who occasionally shows up in Mike Peterson’s columns, has deceided to celebrate his 66th birthday by reducing his output to once a week: Just so you know, from 15th February 2025 I’m cutting back to […]
Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud are co-chairs; Connie Zeigler on Brenda Starr and Dale Messick; Phil Witte – counsellor, cartoonist, critic; Barbara Shermund biographer Caitlin McGurk; Terry Laban – graphic novelist; Beginning: Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon. Telgemeier, McCloud chosen as National Library Week honorary chairs From the American Library Association: CHICAGO — Award-winning author and […]
Playboy cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Don Madden has passed away. Donald Lewis (Don) Madden October 14 (24?), 1927 – June (9? 10?), 2024 Don’s brother Tom revealed the death of the cartoonist and paid tribute to him: Don Madden Left This Week for Studio in Heaven, But My Brother’s Cartoons Will Live on Forever. […]
From Interviewer William Schwartz: From 2006 to 2020, Norm Feuti wrote and drew Retail, a syndicated strip surprisingly low on wacky antics, preferring to deal with the mundane farce of retail employees stuck between intractable corporate policy and arbitrarily unreasonable customers. Feuti spoke with me about this and the other comics of his career. The […]
Children’s author-illustrator Mike Thaler has passed away. Michael Charles (Mike) Thaler October 8, 1936 – March 23, 2024 From the obituary: Mike Thaler’s creative genius captured the imaginations of millions of children with a story called The Teacher From the Black Lagoon. It blossomed into a favorite Scholastic series consisting of 66 titles and selling […]
Sage Stossel is an award winning editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe and other publications and is an award worthy children’s book author with her On The Loose series. Most recent in the series is On the Loose in New Orleans and Boston.com interviewed Sage about the book: Where in New Orleans do you take […]
The Society of Illustrators announced William Joyce and Dahlov Ipcar winners of Lifetime Achievement Awards. The Lifetime Achievement Awards were established in 2005 by past chairs of The Original Art. Nominees must be judged to have a body of work that documents an innovative and pioneering contribution to the field of children’s book illustration, and […]
(Adam Sacks) (Joy of Tech) So I got on Threads (comicstripoftheday) and yet, unlike Scrooge, my life has not been transformed. I don’t much like it, because it seems crowded, but maybe that’s because I don’t much like looking at things on my phone because they seem crowded. I’m assuming Threads will eventually come to […]
Famed British illustrator Sir Quentin Blake has many honors – as detailed in his entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia: Throughout his career, Blake has been covered in prizes. His illustrations for Russell Hoban’s ‘How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen’ won the Whitbread Award (1974), while his work in Michael Rosen’s ‘Sad Book’ […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. It appears a few books were missed last month so we’ll start with November releases. The Art of C.C. Beck: […]