A program of nine restorations, titled Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts, will premiere at the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival on Saturday, April 20 at 6:30pm, with an in-person introduction by MacFarlane. Seven shorts directed by Dave Fleischer will be screened: Koko’s Tattoo (1928), Little Nobody (1935), The Little Stranger (1936), Greedy Humpty […]
This Far Side sure seemed funny in 1984, but that was 40 years ago and times change. Also, it’s based on a janitor’s innocent error, not on the irresponsible, egotistical jackassery of editors and reporters. It came immediately to mind yesterday when two jurors dropped off the Trump trial because of having been effectively doxxed […]
From Interviewer William Schwartz: From 2006 to 2020, Norm Feuti wrote and drew Retail, a syndicated strip surprisingly low on wacky antics, preferring to deal with the mundane farce of retail employees stuck between intractable corporate policy and arbitrarily unreasonable customers. Feuti spoke with me about this and the other comics of his career. The […]
Tim Jones, who lives in Smithfield with his wife, Kathy, daughters, Eily and Jillian, and large dog, Ezzy, has spent the past decade developing and refining “Sour Grapes,” a self-syndicated comic strip featuring “Aesop,” a miserable flying dog, living in a strange, problematic and troubled world along with his odd family and pet cloud, “Ominous.” […]
There are enough cartoons about Trump falling asleep in court, and, while they say nothing about his guilt or innocence, they make a reasonable argument about his overall fitness for office. From the earliest days of his administration, we heard about him coming to work in the late morning and being unwilling to sit through […]
Signe Wilkinson, Anne Morse Hambrock, Zach Hansen, NCS Reubens, AAEC/ACC Conference, George, John, and Peter – the Gallaghers of Bergen County Signe Wilkinson retired a few years ago but returns occasionally when issues dear to her heart arise. Signe reacted when recently in Philadelphia: With the death of another toddler who accidentally shot themselves after […]
Louis M. Glackens: Pure Imagination April 14, 2024 through March 30, 2025 Louis Glackens was a trailblazing figure who became one of the first illustrators of animated cartoons from 1915-1920, creating characters for production houses such as Baré, Pathe and Sullivan Studios. His fantastical depictions of mermaids, anthropomorphic beasts and pie-faced grown-ups carved a path […]
Cartoonists are focusing on a few major stories and therefore everything today could be a Juxtaposition. For instance, Michael Ramirez mocks the notion that Israel is being urged not to set off a major war in the Middle East by responding to Iran’s launching of missiles and drones. Added to some similar expressions from other […]
Though in my mind Rose Gumbo is around thirty years of age, she turns forty today. At least her comic strip does. above: the first three dailies and the first Sunday Rose Is Rose began on April 16, 1984 with the title character portraying the life of a homemaker. Within a couple years creator Pat […]
Rabbits Against Magic is swimming upstream against a rapid current, because whatever idiotic thing Elon Musk says today, he’s bound to exceed tomorrow. His latest brainstorm is that he wants new Xitter members to pay for each posting, which would discourage bots, his announced intent, but would also discourage people from signing up at all. […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2024 (and some March) release.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. American Comic Book Chronicles: 1945-1949 by Richard Arndt, Kurt F. Mitchell, Keith Dallas At long last, […]
Beginning April 15, 2024 The San Luis Obispo Tribune will reduce the frequency of it print edition, from six days a week down to two days a week. The paper informed readers Sunday (also at Yahoo): Tribune readers will notice several major changes beginning Monday. Print schedule: Starting this week we will publish print newspapers […]
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill Ann Telnaes declares wake-up time, and I like the substitution of an alarm clock for a sword, because we’re not sure of the outcome but it seems that the […]
Let’s start with some King Features funnies … oh, wait it’s been two days since the last time and I have to log in, again, and check off my favorites, again. So, again, I will plead for Comics Kingdom to put a “select all” box on their favorites page that would automatically check all the […]
One hundred years ago one of the greatest adventure comic strips by one of the greatest cartoonists debuted – Washington Tubbs II by Roy Crane first appeared on April 14, 1924. While the promo above tells us to “Watch For The Adventures” there was no thrilling action at the start. Don Markstein explains that Washington […]