Comics writer and editor and comic strip historian Alfredo Castelli has passed away. Alfredo Castelli June 26, 1947 – February 7, 2023 Several comic sites have reported the death of Alfredo Castelli. On February 7, Aldredo Castelli died in Milan, at the age of 76. Since 1965, his name has been linked to the history […]
Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) says that we’ve suddenly turned into a nation of legal experts, though, to be fair, he didn’t say “suddenly.” Rather, the sudden part is how we’ve focused our usual kibitzing on a particular legal question. There are only a handful of cartoonists and columnists who have been to law school, which perhaps […]
Presenting a duke’s mixture of cartoonist and comics related news items. With Lent and a period of self-sacrifice quickly approaching we feast on a glut of funny as New Orleans cartoonist Walt Handelsman and The Times-Picayune present a selection of Fat Tuesday cartoons Walt has drawn through the years. ********** When the News-Sun announced it […]
The big news this morning is about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin last night. It was so predictable that cartoonists weighed in days before it happened, which would normally be dangerous but, well, not always. Bill Bramhall widened his vision to take in the international significance, as Carlson’s fawning is tied into Republican refusal […]
Although the entire run of Calvin and Hobbes is available both online and in print, many fans are interested in finding other comic strips that are similar to Calvin and Hobbes. Thanks to the amazing quality of Calvin and Hobbes, finding a worthy successor is a challenge. There are several comic strips, however, that either […]
Cartoonist, illustrator, and painter Frank Renlie has passed away. Frank Hanson Renlie April 17, 1936 – September 10, 2023 From the obituary: Frank Renlie graduated from the Burnley School of Professional Art (currently known as The Art Institute of Seattle). His early work was particularly inspired by his instructors William Cumming and James Edward Peck. […]
A local cartoon, certainly, but one that will amuse people far from Glasgow. Steven Camley notes that police there are beginning to enforce a new national law against parking on sidewalks or at curb cuts as well as double parking. Or, as he has Lovely Rita explain things in the best possible way, you can […]
It has been nearly a month since Michael de Adder‘s last weekly cartoon for The Washington Post. Three years ago Michael, after freelancing for the paper, was signed as a contract cartoonist to The Washington Post and charged with supplying three cartoons a week. Over the years that was dropped to two cartoons a week. […]
Capp, Kitchen, and Comix; Hal Foster’s medieval masterpiece; The making of Wednesday Comics, DC’s weekly broadsheet comic book; Charles Dana Gibson educates Mr. Pipp; Flash Gordon and beautiful women. When Dennis Kitchen tried to get Al Capp to draw an underground comix cover. It’s hard to name an institution that represents the golden age of […]
David Rowe picks up on both themes for today: King Charlie has been diagnosed with cancer, and so has Uncle Sam, at least in the John Dean sense of there being a cancer on the presidency. We’ll get back to that second part. As for the King’s cancer, Matt is refreshingly sarcastic about the vague […]
So who came out ahead with the recent spat of newspaper groups standardizing their comics pages? Gannett/USA TODAY Network with around 200 newspapers, Lee Enterprises with more or less 70, McClatchy‘s 30 or so, PostMedia‘s three dozen dailies(?), and Wick Communications’ 10 papers comes to about 350 newspapers whose parent companies have determined what comic […]
I cobbled this photo together in the early days of Comic Strip of the Day, but, as the blog turns 14, I am pleased that, while a few people have felt stung by criticism, nobody has ever asked me to stop using their work here. However, before I launched things on Feb 6, 2010, I […]
Comic book and comic strip artist Jose Delbo has passed away. Jose Delbo (José María Del Bo) December 9, 1933 – February 5, 2024) His family shared the sad news: Today we lost a legend of a father, grandfather, husband, and artist. [Jose Delbo] was as kind and as noble a man as there could […]
It’s been a while since I shared some current comic strips, so let’s do some catching up. I’m a sucker for cartoonists playing with the format. Breaking the panel borders is nothing new, but Tatulli playing havoc with the copyright notice hooked me. And the five panel staging struck me as odd for the strip, […]
Nick Anderson makes an interesting observation: There has been a constant drumroll from the right publicizing the idea that the border is open. Maybe that encouraged more people to try, despite the Obama administration’s publicity warning them that it was too dangerous and unlikely to succeed. I’m not convinced either stands up to much scrutiny. […]