2025 brings with it a new batch of public domain creations, most famous among those from the comics are Popeye by E. C. Segar and Tintin by Hergé. I know little about Tintin so we’ll go with The Sailor Man. But first, as is our custom with public domain stories, we turn to the Duke […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2024 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. COMICS REVUE PRESENTS December 2024 by various; cover by Jeremy MacPherson America’s longest-running magazine of […]
Following Jack Davis and Sam Glanzman we have the centennial anniversary of Fran Matera. Unlike the other two Fran spent most of his comic career on the newspaper pages drawing a number of comic strips from 1946 to 2004. Beginning with comic books in 1941 WWII interrupted his career. Returning to civilian life in 1946 […]
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 […]
Strangely, for such a popular comic strip that appears in thousands of newspapers and has scores of book collections published, previous little-known miscellany about Garfield continues to surface. A few years ago the pre-Garfield Jon strip surfaced. Now another obscure set of Garfield comic strips are coming to the fat cat’s fandom. About two years […]
We’ll start with a pair of Thanksgiving family thoughts from Dennis the Menace and The Family Circus about the same relative that followed closely on the Comics Kingdom feed. One thankfully, one wistfully. Then the day after Thanksgiving came Flo and Friends and The Flying McCoys with one following on the heels of the other […]
In 1924 King Features Syndicate offered newspapers an illustrated column by cartoonists in their stable. With Fay King, Jack Callahan, James Swinnerton, Pat Sullivan, Walter Hoban, T. E. Powers, H. H. Knerr, Harry Hershfield, F. Opper, A. C. Fera, Al Zere, and Jack Lait.
In 1924 King Features Syndicate offered newspapers an illustrated column by cartoonists in their stable. With Jimmy Murphy, Billy DeBeck, Amram Scheinfeld, Charles Dunn, Winsor McCay, Darrell McClure, George Herriman, TAD, Cliff Sterrett, and George McManus.
Back before Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson became the mega comic strip hit it was to become the first appearance was seen in the Universal Press Syndicate press kit sent to newspaper editors. Connor Ratliff presents the entire Calvin and Hobbes press kit from the mid-1980s on his Bluesky page. Recently the 90th birthday […]
A bevy of New Yorker cartoonists turned out for the launch of Alen McWeeney and Michael Maslin’s new book At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker. And what better way to celebrate a book of photographs and profiles than with a collection of photos taken at the event by way of Michael Maslin’s Ink […]
After nearly a year Prince Valiant has once again gained possession of Flamberge, The Singing Sword! Or is it the other way around and Flamberge is once more in possession of Prince Valiant? It is not the first time the pair has been separated, but it is the longest. The fateful pairing of sword and […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2024 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. This is it! The Complete Library of Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse is complete!! For […]
Mark Parisi and Kim Tomsic, Rockwell Kent, Sarah Anderson, Barbara Shermund, Dick Brooks, Stevan Dohanas, and Jef Mallett and the class of 2002. above: The Jackson Twins cartoonist and Saturday Evening Post cover model Dick Brooks The daughter of a cartoonist, Virginia Brooks describes her childhood in Westport, Connecticut, as “hilarious.” The Carefree artist spent […]
Well, naturally you’ve read Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by John Rose, but odds are against you having read Billy DeBeck’s Bunky topper strip to Barney Google unless, like me, you were enjoying it in the 1930s. John and Sarah bring Bunky back after a long funny papers absence to be Li’l Sparky‘s jockey in […]
From thomasnast.com, where the cartoon is explained: As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant cartoon appeared in the Harper’s Weekly issue dated November 7, 1874, that edition of the magazine appeared on the newsstands 10 days earlier – on October 29, 1874. Like the Democratic donkey, Nast did not […]