Boston University Radio, WBUR, talks about the 75th anniversary of Peanuts, with the Washington Post’s Michael Cavna.
Category: Cartooning
My Half-Life
Thanks for remembering me, cartoon Donald, but it was half my life, 35 years ago, that my cartoon Donald called you a freak.
More Ape Art
A 1991 Frazetta drawing depicting Tarzan doing the Dum-Dum with his dance buddies.
The Conan painting by Frazetta that was up for auction recently, sold for twelve MILLION, five hundred THOUSAND dollars, when including the Heritage “Buyer’s Premium.”
A President at War With America
Trump takes the next step towards declaring martial law to prevent the midterm elections.
“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”
If that latest outrage makes it difficult to relax, watch this.
One of those may not be enough, if you’re trying to get to sleep.
Cartoonists Eat Dinner! Give Awards!
Now you can experience what I did at the National Cartoonists Society Awards Dinner. Minus the dinner. 😉
The video will start when Colleen took the stage to present two awards. As Colleen correctly implied, comic book people are typically more familiar with comic strips than comic strip people are familiar with comic books.
What’s All the Hoopla?
Last Monday, I was on a ZOOM call with members of the National Cartoonists Society. One of the participants was MAD Magazine artist Sam Viviano. Seeing Sam reminded me of this new documentary about MAD.
It’s currently available on Amazon to rent for five bucks, or purchase for only $7. CHEAP!
https://www.amazon.com/When-Went-MAD-Alan-Bernstein/dp/B0F22GNGJ5
But it’s also available to view for free on Hoopla.
https://www.hoopladigital.com/
Hoopla is an online digital library that requires just three things to join:
- A library card with an affiliated institution
- An e-mail address
- An interest in free access to books, magazines, audio and video material
Early in the documentary, the claim is made that M.C. Gaines, father of MAD publisher Bill Gaines, had a hand in how Superman was first published. Here is some historical background.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/maxwell-charles-gaines-the-man-who-rejected-superman-in-1936/