Barney and Clyde I like the slow creep of the color into the Sunday Funny partnered with the script. Of course it is no longer applicable since B & C dailies are in color; even in their “home’ paper now – though this may have been written and drawn before The Washington Post went color […]
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 […]
Andertoons (AMS) takes a daring step, making a joke based on the reader having a good vocabulary, but which is funnier if the reader has just enough of a good vocabulary to know what the word means and to feel somewhat proud of that. That is, if ubiquitous/ubiquity were more common words, there’d be nothing […]
There are “third rails” that must be avoided in the world of comic strips. One of them is religion and specifically talking to God would be a major no-no. So naturally this past week saw RJ and God having a conversation. Michael Fry and T. Lewis risk retribution from, not God, but newspaper readers in […]
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.
When I first saw Nick Anderson (Tribune)‘s latest, I thought it was another slightly-late Thanksgiving piece, since it seemed half the cartoons yesterday depicted people gathered around a spread board, and half the cartoons today seem like Thanksgiving gags that should have run yesterday. However, he offers a solid hit on Trump’s War Against Fairness, […]
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.
Monty’s right. Nobody’s reading the paper today, and it’s only in relatively recent years that they’ve even bothered to print on holidays, which, by the way, had a lot to do with not being able to get them delivered because the kids were at Grandma’s. So you have your characters wish readers a happy whatever […]
Soft-spoken cartoonist historian Tim Jackson, who died on Nov. 3 of complications from Lewy Body disease, was best known for his 2017 Eisner-nominated book Pioneering Cartoonists of Color, which put the history of African-American editorial cartoonists and comic-strip artists in high relief. But Jackson didn’t just write about pioneering cartoonists of color; he was a […]
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 […]
That time Bill Watterson wrote Mike Lynch a letter Six months into Bill Watterson’s comic strip launch, I wrote him a letter. I asked probably what many people were asking: How do I do what you do? What’s the path? And then I suggested we meet. (I had learned he lived nearby. How I got […]
Scott Underwood has been living his childhood dream. He contributes the art and colour for the Sunday pages of Slylock Fox, a comic strip aimed at kids. For the last four years, Underwood has been living his childhood dream. He contributes the art and colour for the Sunday pages of Slylock Fox, a long-running comic […]
Garfield gives us a laugh to start the week, and we’re probably going to need it as family gathers later on. Carol Lay and Lay Lines starts me off on a bit of a rant about people who watch “if it bleeds it leads” television and then write letters to the editor about what a […]
King Features Syndicate has misplaced the proof sheet of Quincy daily comic strips by Ted Shearer for the week of April 1 to April 6, 1974. TDC presents them below – we apologize for them not being of proof sheet quality. Ted Shearer and His Visual Masterpiece, Quincy – R.C. Harvey’s appreciation of cartoonist Ted […]