RIP Johnny Hart
Famed comic strip artist Johnny Hart died yesterday the AP is reporting.
Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning "B.C." comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died at his home on Saturday. He...
Gasoline Ally’s Sunday Walks
Everyone has been linking to this, but we won't be left out of the fun: Rger Clark's gallery of the "Autumn Walk" strips from Gasoline Alley.
Appreciation of nature and the passing of the...
Cartooner searches for killer!
Opus's Berkeley Breathed is entering Dick Tracy territory as one of his drawings appears on America's Most Wanted to help track down the culprit in a 1979 slaying..
Authorities believe the killer may have...
Sanderson on Feininger, etc.
Peter Sanderson just doesn't get enough appreciation. There we've said it. One of comics' resident historians, he's been writing about this stuff long enough to know his facts, and he's one of the best...
Megan Kelso on “Watergate Sue”
Comics Book Bin briefly interviews Megan Kelso on the subject of her new strip for the Funny Pages in the New York Times:
"Watergate Sue" is about a woman who is the mother of a...
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE reprint details
More exciting strip reprint news, as we've received the official PR on IDW's upcoming LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE strip reprint series, the first volume of which is due in February, '08.
Tribune Media Services and IDW...
Lost Steve Canyon art found
Read it for yourself. A researcher working with the MIlton Caniff family has found a treasure trove of original Steve Canyon art!!
Archive supporter, John Ellis is working with the family of Milton Caniff...
Random quotes
§ Cartooner Keith Knight speaks of racism and humour:
Knight encountered a similar problem when trying to sell racial cartoons shortly after the Muhammad cartoons caused riots and controversy around the world in September 2005."Does...
Reuben Awards list
Tom has the complete list of Reuben Award Nominees, but until we find our own copy, we'll just send you there for the whole thing:
We Will note that the nominees in the Comic...
Kelso in NYT
Following Chris Ware, Jaime Hernandez and Seth, the next strip in the New York Times Sunday Magazine will be Watergate Sue by Megan Kelso. The strip will start on April 1 and run for...
Garfield looks funny, with or without a head — UPDATED
Had we not decided to "go fishing" today, surely we would have reported on this story with the dramatic headlineBeheaded Garfield statue had physical flaws.
Now that is a straight line that lends itself to...
Reuben nominees
E&P has A write-up on the Reuben Awards nominees, presneted each year to fine cartoonsits by the National Cartoonists Society, but we can't find the actual list online anywhere. Anyone have a link. Anyway,...
