Storyboard artist and character designer Jerry Eisenberg has passed away. Jerome Theodore (Jerry) Eisenberg December 14, 1937 – February 11, 2025 Animation historian Jerry Beck’s post on the death of Jerry Eisenberg with a link to Mark Evanier’s notice: We lost a giant today – and I was a friend in his later years. He […]
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Maeve digs herself into yet another self-defeating romantic hole. This story arc actually began a few days ago, and now she has run into her ex, who is someone she can really talk to. I suspect that Simon is like a lot of the better exes in life, who […]
Charles Schulz was probably the most adored cartoonist ever and his Peanuts comic strip more loved than any other. Twenty-five years ago we lost both of them. Peanuts ending was front page news above the fold. Of newspapers not carrying the story on page one most that carried the strip at least had a notice […]
The Origins of Zzzz In the 1890s, a distinctly American art form emerged: the comic strip. But artists quickly ran into a particular difficulty. Some comic characters’ hijinks required a sleeping victim for full comedic potential. But how could an artist convince the audience that a character was asleep and blissfully unaware instead of merely […]
Prickly City addresses Dear Leader’s concentration camps, but whatever its lead time, it also sweeps in a few related issues, like the White House cutting off Associated Press access because they haven’t knuckled under to the “Gulf of America” nonsense. That seems petty and silly, but punishing the press for disobedience not only shows contempt […]
As it now stands the newspaper cartooning career of Darrin Bell has come to an end. The egregious charges against him resulted in papers carrying his comics to drop them as soon as they could, some in mid-week. The syndicate continued to distribute Candorville to newspapers willing to wait for a final verdict. But Bell […]
Exciting news: At the beginning of April you’ll be introduced to a brand-new GoComics with a host of upgraded features and improved functionality—and more will roll out throughout 2025! A year and a half after their last update, The GoComics Team announces some immediate changes and some still to come: Shall we assume that commenting […]
Friday on the comics page seemed to be a preview of National Cartoonists’ Day as a number of comic strips had guest appearances by other comic strip characters. Lio featured Snoopy, Over The Hedge guested Wednesday Addams, and Ziggy had Superman. Cartoonist Gary Varvel utilized a famed Charlie Brown image to represent the flurry of […]
A little bit of politics before we dive into humor: The NFL has removed “End Racism” from the endzone, not starting next season when most changes happen, but starting right now for the Super Bowl, which, completely coincidentally, will have Dear Leader in attendance. They’re replacing it with “Choose Love,” and just as taking “End […]
Over the course of his nearly 80-year career, Jules Feiffer tried his hand at everything–comic books, political cartoons, editorials, comics history, plays, films, animation, children’s books, graphic novels … and he was hard at work on his next book when he passed away on Jan. 17, just shy of his 96th birthday. In celebration of […]
It is looking more and more like the February 2, 2025 will be the last Candorville distributed to print newspapers. Stars and Stripes weekend edition for February 7, 2025 has been issued and the comics section does not include Candorville. The Stars and Stripes Sunday Comics is a strange animal. Starting with the masthead that […]
As I’ve mentioned before, Red and Rover takes place in an indistinct past, one evidence of which is that Red can throw a newspaper from the sidewalk to someone’s porch. Well, that and the fact that most newspapers quit hiring kids as carriers because afternoon papers switched to mornings and sending kids out in the […]
Some silly stuff and nutty nonsense in the comics world. The Far Side Teases a Three-Panel Comic “Coming Soon” Robert Wood at ScreenRant reports: In a now-deleted post on TheFarSide.com, Larson shared a mysterious image. Under the website’s ‘New Stuff’ tab, Larson posted an image of three tall, empty comic panels on a totally white […]
KFS has got their 2025 King Features Syndicate Directory up for viewing. Also included, along with the comic strips and panels and political cartoons, are King Features’ syndicated columnists and puzzles (Hey Joe!) and other promotions. The King Features 2025 Directory is available online as an Issuu edition or as a pdf. Notes on the […]
King Features Syndicate and Comics Kingdom are deleting any references to Darrin Bell. Mike Peterson gave notice that within a day of loading the February 9, 2025 Candorville comic strip Comics Kingdom had removed that strip and further everything Candorville on the site. Also disappeared was the Comics Kingdom page featuring Darrin Bell political cartoons. […]