NJ Advance Media has announced its intention of ending the print editions of The (Newark) Star-Ledger (the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey according to Wikipedia) and sister papers The Times of Trenton and The South Jersey Times. The newspapers will continue as daily online newspapers: The Star-Ledger will cease publishing a print newspaper and […]
Dogs and Halloween aren’t always a good combination, but today’s Bliss (Tribune) brought back a memory of a ridgeback who enjoyed dressing up. Some of my dogs have tolerated it, some haven’t, but he thought it was fun, so one time I put him in a Canadiens jersey, balanced a hockey helmet on his head […]
Dutch cartoonist René Uilenbroek, known best for his superhero parody comic strip Soeperman, has passed away. He was 63. René was born in 1961. According to Lambiek Comiclopedia, his career started in the mid-1980’s at Pinpoint productions in Amsterdam before joining Studio Arnhem. In 1986, he created his most famous comic Soeperman with screenwriter Willem Ritstier. […]
NEW YORK, NY — Doyle is MADly excited to offer the personal collection of the award-winning comic artist and author Al Jaffee. The auction of over one-hundred and fifty lots will be held at Doyle on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 10am. Doyle Auctioneers and Appraisers is listing original art and other ephemera of Al […]
Jack Ohman (Tribune) offers a combination of the mundane and the insightful. It seems 90% of the conversation about Trump’s rally was about the first tasteless joke by the first tasteless speaker. Not only did everyone ignore the parade of white supremacists and assorted bigots who followed Tony Hinchcliffe, but few of them bothered to […]
Comics Kingdom (CK) has issued submission guidelines for cartoonists attempting to get placed on the CK digital platform – a great step toward being distributed to print newspapers by King Features Syndicate. King Features Editorial Director Tea Fougner introduces the submissions guidelines with a few do’s and don’ts. Friends, we are so excited to introduce […]
Jack Ohman (Tribune) had this cartoon up before Jeff Bezos broke a pair of rules: Bezos has written a too-long piece for his newspaper explaining why he decided not to publish a presidential endorsement but not explaining why they earlier published congressional endorsements or why he waited until eleven days before the election to make […]
So when Garry Trudeau mentioned that “the last time a Doonesbury strip featured four near-identical drawings of the White House was in 1988” my OCD kicked and I had to find it. But first let me agree with the Joseph Nebus reply to the Trudeau comment: The four panel White House strips early on became […]
The Unwarranted hatred for Comic Sans; The Comics Courier, a tabloid comics criticism newspaper; a Bob Foster obituary; the Kansas City studio of Walt Disney; and an Amber Waves Comics Kingdom news item. New Comic Amber Waves Brings Heartfelt Tales of Childhood to Life This crisp fall week welcomes a new strip available on Comics […]
The Aragonese Association of Comic Creators (Asociacíon Aragonesa de Autores de Cómic) has called on European public institutions, governments, universities and libraries to stop using AI generated art in promotional material until European laws protect artists. They write (translated via Google) The platforms that use Artificial Intelligence to model and design images need three parts […]
How on earth did we get here? Robert Ariail notes the positive messages of past presidents, contrasting them with Trump’s declaration that we’ve become a “garbage can.” But how many times can you marvel over how, in the past, such-and-such an action would have ended a political career but those rules don’t apply to Donald […]
Below are the title panels of the Sunday Dennis the Menace comic strips for October. One is not like the others. “That’s different!” was my reaction to seeing today’s Dennis the Menace, and the difference continued beyond the title panel with the absence of those muted pastels of the past few years. Then toward the […]
Chef and cartoonist Phil “Bunk” Griffin has passed away. Philip M. (Bunk) Griffin June 17, 1940 – October 16, 2024 From the family obituary: A lifelong resident of [Saranac Lake], he was by professional cook, having worked in The Dew Drop Inn, Tyson’s, The Mar-Mac, and finished out his career at the Adirondack Medical Center, […]
This Buckets (AMS) is as close to the Washpo/LATimes thing as I’m getting today. As I wrote yesterday, I’m impressed that the Post has allowed so much pushback from staff, so it’s pretty clear that nobody in the front office feels they speak for the CEO. OTOH, I’m somewhat confounded by all the calls not […]
V. T. Hamlin’s Alley Oop; Bob Chambers’ Halifax; Pogo’s letterers Walt Kelly, George Ward, and Henry Shikuma; and a couple cartoonist self-portrait galleries. Sunday Adventures in History with Alley Oop Alley Oop portrays the exploits of a time-traveling caveman (yes, you read that correctly). The comic, which has been running since 1932, was created by […]