Hearst’s International Feature Service The history of newspaper syndication — and specifically the distribution of cartoons and comic strips — is a story yet to be told, and told well. Rick Marschall at Yesterday’s Papers shares a booklet with us about a Hearst/Koenigsberg side hustle. By 1917, Hearst’s lieutenant Moses Koenigsberg split up the syndicate […]
With Barbara Shermund, Edward Gorey, Stan Mack, Dan Tyree, and courtroom sketch artists Art Lien, Cedric Hohnstadt, and Christine Cornell. The Trailblazing Cartoon Art of Barbara Shermund We began today watching Jane Pauley and CBS Sunday Morning and a segment about a cartoonist: Artist Barbara Shermund (1899- 1978) was one of the first women cartoonists […]
Some things noted of recent comic strips. From the last few days of Dan Schkade’s Flash Gordon … comes a sequence that reminded me of another scene: While as 9 Chickweed Lane kicked off a week of definitions I’m reminded that Brooke McEldowney cut off comments on his strip because he could brook no opposing […]
Yeah, your potrzebian correspondent is most of the way through “The MAD Files”, a book collecting essays from various sources about the famed satirical magazine. Which is how this post will be – collecting news items related to cartoonists and cartooning from veeblefetzers near and far. HooHah! How Tom Richmond joined The Usual Gang of […]
Cartoonist Robert Crumb profiled; cartoonist Dan O’Neill and the Air Pirates collective of cartoonists; and cartoonist and publisher Denis Kitchen and Kitchen Sink Press. The Daily Cartoonist goes underground. R. Crumb If acid expanded Crumb’s consciousness, his discovery of underground comics in late 1965 was the real epiphany. Underground newspapers—The East Village Other, the Los Angeles […]
It has been revealed that the recent documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse was edited before PBS allowed it to be aired as part of their American Masters series. From Documentary Magazine: Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part […]
The big comics celebration this year is the Diamond Anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. And it is certainly worthy of all the acclaim and hoopla and licensing. But it has some tough competition in the Best Humor Comic Strip of All Time ranking. Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Gary Larson’s The Far Side, E.C. […]
Throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early years of the Gilded Age, Thomas Nast used his political cartoons published in Harper’s Weekly to satirize current events, expose corruption, and even influence elections. Kaleena Fraga for All That’s Interesting (ATI) takes a positive look at cartoonist Thomas Nast and his career. Nast’s career began in […]
Dick Tracy, Mutts, Macanudo, Moomin, Marmaduke, and 2025 Eisner Award nominations and a bunch of cartoonists associated with the aforementioned. Mike and McDonnell Return (briefly?) Today ends Eric Costello‘s seven month “guest writer” stint on Dick Tracy as Mike Curtis returns as the credited writer beginning Sunday, May 18, 2025 (no “guest writer” insert). We’ll […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 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. Let’s start with one I just learned about that should have been on the February […]
A Newnan Times-Herald comics page survey; Mara Llave, Keeper of (No More) Time; Pope Leo XIV and Peanuts; Russ Manning’s Star Wars; The Phantom and Advance Local; and a Comics Kingdom Survey (what!? when?). Newnan Times-Herald Comics Page Change As part of a planned revamp of its comics page, The Newnan Times-Herald (locally owned, not […]
The Born Loser, Frank and Ernest, Calvin and Hobbes, Frazz, Bizarro/Bizarfield, Tom the Dancing Bug, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Big Nate, Eye Lie Popeye, Mutts and, of course, more. The Born Loser archive at GoComics only goes back to 1994, so those of you who didn’t see the debut strip from May 10, 1965 […]
Sidney Strube Before the great Carl Giles was employed to entertain and delight readers with his cartoons in the Daily Express, his predecessor at the paper had been just as prodigious in the years preceding him. Sidney Strube first joined the Express in 1912 and would remain one of its superstars for more than 35 […]
The New Yorker, The Lockhorns, Flash Gordon, Phil Miller, Jim Steranko. Yaakov Kirschen, and John Donohue are in the spotlight. Since Mike ends with a video I’ll start with a video. N.Y.C.’s ROOF Studio partnered with Le Truc, the creative collective within Publicis Groupe, alongside The Condé Nast Creative Marketing Team and Human, to create […]
So yesterday was National Cartoonists Day chosen to be celebrated on May 5 because … Daily Kos for May 5, 2025: May 5 was chosen because it was the first publication of the comic-strip character called The Yellow Kid. No, and that is not what the Wiki page Daily Kos linked to says. Here is […]