Mr. Walker worked with associates Jerry Dumas, Bob Gustafson and Bud Jones as well as several of his children to come up with ideas for gags. In addition to “Beetle Bailey”, he created “Hi and Lois”, starring Dik Browne, based on the lives of Mr. Walker’s family members; “Boner’s Ark,”Read More →
Born more than a century ago in Pittsburgh, Zelda Mavin Jackson went by her married last name in 1937 when she became the first African-American woman to create a comic strip for a syndicated newspaper. She’s been a trailblazer for decades, starting with the debut of “Torchy Brown in ‘DixieRead More →
The newspaper comic ‘Arctic Circle’, by environmentally conscious cartoonist Alex Hallatt, is about talking penguins and their northern kin. Starting Monday, under a caption that reads ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, the menagerie will see its world shrink and its conversations center around global warming. Readers will see the drawings come toRead More →
Readers love their comics. When the Chronicle ceased publication “Get Blurry” at the end of March, the emails started almost immediately: “What happened to Get Fuzzy? Bring him back please.” “No. You can’t get rid of ‘Get Fuzzy.’ It’s one of my favourites.” “There are several awful tapes…you could haveRead More →
When Trina Robbins was around 11 or 12 years old, her mother, a schoolteacher, brought home reams of paper and lots of number two pencils. After carefully folding the sheets in half (and diligently gnawing at the pencil erasers), Robbins would draw four-page comic strips for himself. She remembers oneRead More →
If you look Neal Warner on IMDb, you’ll find references to animated movies and TV shows he worked on, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rugrats and heavy metalbut there is no mention of his 1970s underground comic strip, The pizza guy. “It was from and about Los Angeles in theRead More →
One of the most thought-provoking cultural critiques of recent times, Kevin Wong’s “How Snoopy Killed Peanuts” on the classic American comic Peanuts went viral this weekend on gamer site Kokatu. Indeed, we are likely to see many more Peanuts-linked dialog leading to November release of 3D animation Peanuts movie information-or,Read More →
Chris Ware first discovered the work of the late cartoonist Frank King in the 1980s, in the seminal anthology “The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics”. Alley,” King’s long-running comic about the Chicagoan Walt Wallet and his adopted son, Skeezix, a baby left behind in 1921. Ware, an art student inRead More →