From Mark Evanier: My New Book Tomorrow, a fine publisher will be announcing the new book I’ve authored about a great creator of comics. If you were like me you thought Mark’s long-awaited biography of Jack Kirby was on its way, instead… Mark surprised us with The Essential Peanuts, “a deluxe edition celebrating the 75th […]
Count Me Out/In After 11 and a half years cartoonist Graham Nolan has moved his weekly Sunshine State comic strip from GoComics to his own Compass Comics site. It sounds as if the archives at GoComics will not be there for long: To have it in two places is to fracture the audience. I want […]
Jeanne Young O’Neil obituary; USPS postage stamps for 2025; Famous Cartoonists School course art; Garry Trudeau versus Mort Drucker and Jerry Dumas; Peanuts collectibles; 2024 children and young adult bestsellers. Jeanne Young O’Neil – RIP Jeanne Young O’Neil, the daughter of Blondie creator Chic Young, the sister to current Blondie producer Dean Young, and the […]
Charles Schulz was probably the most adored cartoonist ever and his Peanuts comic strip more loved than any other. Twenty-five years ago we lost both of them. Peanuts ending was front page news above the fold. Of newspapers not carrying the story on page one most that carried the strip at least had a notice […]
Friday on the comics page seemed to be a preview of National Cartoonists’ Day as a number of comic strips had guest appearances by other comic strip characters. Lio featured Snoopy, Over The Hedge guested Wednesday Addams, and Ziggy had Superman. Cartoonist Gary Varvel utilized a famed Charlie Brown image to represent the flurry of […]
In two weeks, on February 13, it will be twenty-five years since the last new Peanuts comic strip appeared. Later this Fall, on October 2, everyone will be celebrating the debut of cartoonists’ cartoonist Charles M. Schulz‘s magnum opus seventy five years earlier. So these collections of Peanuts and Charles Schulz items may very well […]
We’ll begin gently. The sheet with all the eye-holes was Linus’s costume, not Charlie Brown’s. I don’t have an exact date for this strip, because I encountered it in a collection, not the newspaper. But it ran in the late 50s, when Linus was still a toddler. I bring it up now because the Peanuts […]
I’m mostly sharing this week’s Mo because if Ann Telnaes is going to stick me with this earworm, I’m gonna pass it along like mumps. I’m sympathetic to vegetarians, but I’m unconvinced by the faux hamburger everyone’s going on about. It’s not a luxury, but it’s not cheap. I suppose if we all bought it, […]
I give up. I’ve been waiting for a period when nobody had used the Humpty Dumpty/Wall idea for a while, so that I could say “Ferchrissake quit using the Humpty Dumpty/Wall idea!” without it seeming like a personal jab at a particular cartoonist. There will apparently be no such moment of Dumptylessness, and at this […]