Sandra Bell-Lundy is a little coy about how successful Kim is as a writer, which makes this Between Friends (KFS) all the more fun. She’s successful enough to be able to stay home and write, and even to have deadlines, but she’s not working on the third novel in a multi-book contract. Rather, this novel […]
QUESTION: What happened to Leroy and Loretta in the Sunday comics? They were my favorites and I miss them. Thank you. A reader of The Longview News-Journal ask whatever happened to The Lockhorns and the answer is that when the panel left King Features the panel left The News-Journal (LNJ): ANSWER: We received several inquiries […]
Wick Communications, a media group with 24 newspapers mostly west of The Mississippi, will be consolidating their comics pages beginning in February 2024. The group has signed a deal with Andrews McMeel Syndicate. From The Fergus Falls Daily Journal: Beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 14, we will be introducing a new comics page that will still […]
In case you hadn’t noticed, Mike Smith (KFS) points out that the border has become a major campaign issue for the GOP, which is pushing the narrative of an “open border” despite the uncertain meaning of a record level of apprehensions. There’s little way to tell if the percentage of border-crossers being caught has gone […]
Sports and editorial cartoonist Phil Bissell has passed away. Charles Phillip (Phil) Bissell February 1, 1926 – January 2024 The New England Patriots announced the sadness yesterday. Phil’s big claim to fame came in 1960 when the new AFL team revealed that they would be called The Patriots and his cartoon in The Boston Globe […]
Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having burned out on the politics of the day, and finding nothing in particular amusing me anymore, I thought I would flail about a little and devote Fridays to the funny parts of the comics. I know that’s the wrong movie, but we don’t apologize […]
Out and about with Posy Simmonds, Bill Griffith, Gilbert Shelton, Walt Handelsman, Willard Mullin, Sarah Anderson, Alex Segura, Michael Moreci, Jim Keefe, and Greg Cravens. Posy Simmonds wins the Grand Prix British cartoonist Posy Simmonds has won Angouleme’s Grand Prix, considered one of the highest honors in comics worldwide. … she is the seventh non-French […]
The Jamestown Press talked to Will Henry about fans saving Wallace the Brave in The Providence Journal: A comic strip drawn by a Jamestown man will remain in the pages of Rhode Island’s largest newspaper following a response from fans to save the cartoon after the editor suggested scrapping the comic. “Wallace the Brave,” created […]
The whole world is watching, and Peter Schrank indicates what the whole world is thinking, or at least the whole world aside from Russia, Hungary and North Korea, and the world who thought he was going away. That narrows it down considerably, mostly leaving us to wonder if Shrank means “madder” in the American “angry” […]
Bayeux Tapestry as the first-ever comic strip The Bayeux Tapestry is considered one of the most famous and recognisable historical documents in history. Sprawled out across nearly 70 metres of fabric, in stunning detail, is an entire catalogue of the past. As well as offering future generations a full-bodied window into military, social and cultural […]
So this happened yesterday. You might have seen something about it on TV. They don’t really ask that question, but Christopher Weyant has the situation pretty well in hand, because voting in primaries is more tactical than voting in regular elections. That’s particularly true in states with open primaries, like New Hampshire, and it goes […]
Sage Stossel is an award winning editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe and other publications and is an award worthy children’s book author with her On The Loose series. Most recent in the series is On the Loose in New Orleans and Boston.com interviewed Sage about the book: Where in New Orleans do you take […]
Two time Pulitzer Prize Editorial Cartoonist winner (1966, 1980) and five time finalist for the Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer Prize (1982, 1984, 1988, 1993, 2005) Don Wright celebrates his 90th birthday today and in doing so becomes a member of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Stripper club (not quite the status symbol as is his Pulitzers). From […]
At the risk of sounding like an incompetent, unpatriotic university president, I think context matters, and Jefferson’s oft-quoted remark about government without newspapers versus newspapers without government deserves some. He was writing specifically about Shay’s Rebellion, but he might have been writing about January 6, except that, while Washington had political opponents, most hard-core Tories […]
Basil Wolverton gained fame through his strange and humorous comic book art from Spacehawk to Powerhouse Pepper to Biblical Armegeddon and a lot more. But like most comic artists of his time he tried to break into the syndicated newspaper comic strip market. Also like most comic artists of his time he failed. But he […]