Cartoonist Robert Crumb profiled; cartoonist Dan O’Neill and the Air Pirates collective of cartoonists; and cartoonist and publisher Denis Kitchen and Kitchen Sink Press. The Daily Cartoonist goes underground. R. Crumb If acid expanded Crumb’s consciousness, his discovery of underground comics in late 1965 was the real epiphany. Underground newspapers—The East Village Other, the Los Angeles […]
We’ll start with an editorial cartoon that uses a comic strip character of a Pulitzer Prize-wining cartoonist. Dave Whamond does a very good Opus, created by Berkeley Breathed whose Bloom County won a Pulitzer. Dave has also used Charlie Brown and a psuedo-Dennis the Menace lately. The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, has joined a small […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2025 release (or so). 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. Thinking About Thinking: Impossible Thoughts and Complicated Feelings by Grant Snider A playful examination of […]