The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award for 2024 … the recipients for 2024 are Dr. Safiyya Hosein and Dr. Jonathan Najarian. Dr. Safiyya Hosein is a lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University and holds a PhD in Communication and Culture. Her research focuses on […]
Dick Tracy, Rubes, Blondie, James Bond, Gil Thorp, Tarzan, plus Tom Toro, Laura Eggleston retires, and more. Dick Tracy begins a new story with Eric Costello continuing as “guest writer.” (Some commenters have suggested that Uncle Duke from Doonesbury is showing up here.) I know Mike Curtis has had some health problems over the years […]
Nick Anderson (Tribune) gently transitions us from two days of comedy to a day of politics. It’s appropriate, because RFK Jr, as it happens, seems to be a 2:1 mix of comedy and politics, in the same way that a (real) martini is a 2:1 mix of gin and vermouth, except that a lot of […]
One hundred years ago in the pages of The New York Daily News … The world, or New York anyway, was introduced to the spunky Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray. Not too far in the future Annie would meet “Daddy” Warbucks and, off and on, be a part of his household. Within a month […]
Fifty years ago today former football player Tank McNamara made his debut as a TV news sportscaster. Seven days later, August 12, 1974, Tank McNamara by Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds made his first Sunday appearance. Tank McNamara was one of the first dozen comics distributed by the new(ish) Universal Press Syndicate. Ten years ago, […]
French cartoonist André Juillard has passed at the age of 76. André was a prolific cartoonist and perhaps best known for his historical comic books. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la ville d’Angoulême in 1996. The prize is considered the most prestigious award in Franco-Belgian comics. According to Lambiek website, André was a […]
Our theme starts with today’s Baby Blues (AMS). My first impression was that it was another “overscheduled kids” gag, which is an okay issue in general but has been done and overdone and doesn’t make me laugh anymore. So I flipped past, but then “Wait till your dad gets home” pinged my brain and I […]
Some of comics’ most iconic characters found their homes in these long-running comic strips, from Dick Tracy to Beetle Bailey. In some cases, they’re icons from another era, but that doesn’t keep many of them from still appearing in newspapers today. The longest-running comics are a testament to the importance of including comic strips in […]
100 years ago The San Francisco Bulletin ran a series featuring editorial cartoonists from across the nation. From The San Francisco Bulletin of August 3, 1924: Below is the complete two week series. above: August 4, 1924 – William F. Hanny, The Philadelphia Inquirer (mis-identified as “Handy”) above: August 5, 1924 – William Norman Ritchie, […]
Today’s Brewster Rockit (Tribune) got a chuckle but it brings up a topic I’ve been meaning to raise. It’s no secret that newspapers are in deep trouble, in part because of changes in how people consume media but mostly because vulture capitalists decided to slaughter the goose so they wouldn’t have to wait for the […]
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Some editoons and editoonists not yet mentioned here. In Australia, where the Murdoch News Empire originated, cartoonist Mark David notes a worldwide situation involving partisan tv, newspapers, radio, blogs, etc., as a whole, not necessarily any one entity. Though it is followed by a few cartoons involving a specific world famous narcissist. One would think […]
There have been a number of chicken jokes about Trump backing out of his agreed-upon September 10 debate, but I like Adam Zyglis’s use of the “Cowardly Lyin’,” because he combines Trump’s unwillingness to step into the ring with a solid contender with his dishonesty in explaining his refusal. Trump claims that he won’t debate […]
The British Dennis; Garfield the new comic book; deconstructing tents illustrated; the Luann Mystery Museum; Bill Watterson and Berkeley Breathed; Colin Kaepernick gives cartoonists a knee; plus Curtis and Frazz. Blimey! The Three Generations of Dennis The Menace Dennis The Menace is the star of the UK’s longest running comic The Beano, which was first […]
After a troubled past, the comic strip not the character (well, maybe the character too), Alex Segura & Nickolej Villiger’s Mara Llave: Keeper of Time now will be released on a timely schedule. Or so it is now being promoted. We’ve got some fantastic news to make your Sundays even brighter! Starting this week, our […]