Tag Comic Strips
FunkyWatch: January’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ and ‘Crankshaft’ Strips
Filed under: Humor, Comic Strips Thanks to Josh Fruhlinger at the Comics Curmudgeon, I started reading Tom Batiuk's long-running newspaper comic strip, Funky Winkerbean. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, what started as a strip full of wack... [read more]
Aaron McGruder of ‘Boondocks’ on Working with George Lucas and His Future In Comics
Filed under: Movies, Television, Interviews, Anime, Animation, Comic Strips, Culture
Red Tails, the George Lucas action adventure about the Tuskegee Airmen, opens this weekend after twenty years in development. The project features a cast and crew... [read more]
NCS snnounced first Reuben Award for webcomics
National Cartoonist's Society president Tom Richmond announces a major, inevitable evolution of the comics strip with a new webcomics division for the Reuben Awards. The Reubens have traditionally honored the best in comic strips and illustration -- two artforms now mostly associated with Madmen era martinis and horn rim [read more]
FunkyWatch: December’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ and ‘Crankshaft’ Strips
Filed under: Humor, Comic Strips, Opinion Thanks to Josh Fruhlinger at the Comics Curmudgeon, I started reading Tom Batiuk's long-running newspaper comic strip, Funky Winkerbean. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, what started as a strip ful... [read more]
Nice Art: Tony Millionaire’s Griffith Observatory
Tony Millionaire reposts this full page wonder from the LA Weekly when alt.comix strips were an important feature and people actually read alternative newspapers. [read more]
Gil, A New Strip by Norm Feuti, Debuts Nationwide
A new comic strip debuts nationwide (yes, newspapers are still being sold) and it's quite good! [read more]
The Perfect Cartoon?
New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff asks cartoonist Michael Maslin and the result are two by James Thurber, a man who created many perfect cartoons. Although one of the picks is one of Thurber's best known, we'd like to spotlight the above, along with Maslin's analysis -- of [read more]
Coming Attractions: Fall 2011: Miscellaneous
Looking for the unusual? The overlooked? Something a bit different? Take a look here! [read more]
Russ Cochran launches SUNDAY FUNNIES
Russ Cochran, a pioneer of deluxe comic reprints through his past efforts reprinting classic comics of the 50s, has just launched a new publication called Sunday Funnies which will reprint classic Sunday comic strips in full color:
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Reconciling Strip, Film and Cartoon: Reviewing Flash Gordon Zeitgeist #1
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Flash Gordon is a media property has been around long enough that people know it from a few different sources. The original comic strip, may be the least common exposure. You’ve got the 1936 movie serial which has been rerun on TV at regular [read more]
PREVIEW: IDW to publish SKIPPY
Okay you can mark off one more from the list of great comic strips without a deluxe reprint series: Percy Crosby's SKIPPY is getting the Library of American Comics treatment. The whimsical childhood strip was immensely popular in its day -- the film version starring Jackie Coogan was nominated for [read more]
FunkyWatch: November’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ and ‘Crankshaft’ Strips
Filed under: Humor, Comic Strips Thanks to Josh Fruhlinger at the Comics Curmudgeon, I started reading Tom Batiuk's long-running newspaper comic strip, Funky Winkerbean. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, what started as a strip full of wack... [read more]
‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Announces He’s Running For President
Filed under: Humor, Comic Strips, Culture
Even though it's a solid year away, the 2012 Presidential Campaign is already heating up, and with it, the same complaints about our electoral system that crop up every four years. Voters often say that th... [read more]
Bil Keane remembered
Following the death of Bil Keane yesterday, remembrances are coming out. In a widely linked to piece, Lynda Barry explains how the idyllic family served as an inspiration for her growing up in a broken home: [read more]
‘Family Circus’ Creator Bil Keane Passes Away at 89
Filed under: News, Comic Strips
Bil Keane, creator of the long-running syndicated comic strip The Family Circus, has passed away at the age of 89 from congestive heart failure according to The Associated Press. Appearing in more than 1,500 newspaper... [read more]
Coming Attractions: Fall 2011: Fantagraphics
Mark Twain and Flannery O'Connor! Estonia and the Andes! Armed Gardens and Treasure Island! Joe Kubert, Tony Millionaire, Jack Davis! Old Comedians and Young Romance! And Gahan Wilson's Nuts! [read more]
FunkyWatch: October’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ and ‘Crankshaft’ Strips
Filed under: Humor, Comic Strips, Opinion Thanks to Josh Fruhlinger at the Comics Curmudgeon, I started reading Tom Batiuk's long-running newspaper comic strip, Funky Winkerbean. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, what started as a strip ful... [read more]
Nice art: Garry Trudeau draws Cul-de-Sac
Team Cul-de-Sac launched as a fundraising effort for Parkinson's Disease Research after Reuben award-winning cartoonist Richard Thompson was diagnosed with the disease. The plan is to publish a book next spring and auction off some of the all-star art. Along the way it's featured art by [read more]
IDW to publish Otto Soglow collection
Another cartoon luminary of the past has joined IDW's Library of American Comics with the announcement of Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow and The Little King, a survey of Otto Soglow, the New Yorker minimalist who created The Little King, a much-admired character that influenced such design-heavy cartoonists as Ivan Brunetti [read more]
FunkyWatch: September’s Most Depressing ‘Funky Winkerbean’ and ‘Crankshaft’ Strips
Filed under: Humor, Comic Strips Thanks to Josh Fruhlinger at the Comics Curmudgeon, I started reading Tom Batiuk's long-running newspaper comic strip, Funky Winkerbean. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, what started as a strip full of wack... [read more]