Bill Amend’s FoxTrot was one of the great successes of late-twentieth-century newspaper comics. At the end of its run as a daily feature in 2006, the strip was running in over 1000 papers, had published over 30 book collections, and Amend was a runner-up for the National Cartoonist’s Society’s title of Cartoonist of the Year1….
Where Barbara Brandon-Croft is Coming From
At this year’s MoCCA Arts Fest, cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft sat down to discuss her groundbreaking career as the first syndicated Black woman newspaper comics artist in the US. She talked about the origins of her weekly strip, Where I’m Coming From, its growth and reception, and its contemporary resonance and recent recognition as historically important.
ECCC 2023: An Interview With Steenz About That Washington Post Gig
Between my turning in a draft for last week’s Previously and the article’s running, Scott Adam’s fall from grace escalated, with Andrews McMeel Syndication dropping the creator entirely. Subsequently came the announcement that the vacated position formerly occupied by Dilbert at the Washington Post would be filled instead by Heart of the City, the strip created…
[EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW] Pop Icon Popeye the Sailor Man Is Back in Popeye Variations
Clover Press is teaming up with Yoe! Books to bring us Popeye Variations. Fans of the spinach-loving strong man will enjoy a 10×10 hardcover book featuring over 75 underground and mainstream artists and cartoonists with their own takes on the muscly-armed sailor man. WWAC is pleased to share an exclusive preview of the series art, featuring…
Previously on Comics: On Dilbert and Coincidences
Good morning! We’re nearly to the end of September, can you believe it? Pretty soon it’s spooky season.
INTERVIEW: Lela Lee Is Back With Angry Little Asian Girl: Moments with My Mother
After 12 years, writer and illustrator Lela Lee returns with a new collection of Angry Little Asian Girl comics. Adding to the six previous books, along with an animated series, Angry Little Asian Girl: Moments with My Mother lets us in on the frustrations, misinterpretations, and expectations that come with navigating life as a grade-school…
Death Watch for Wilbur Weston: A WWAC Mary Worth Roundtable
The comic strip Mary Worth has over 80 years of archives you could read, a nebulous origin story, and an enormous rotating cast. But today’s roundtable is focused on its current villain: Wilbur Weston. Introduced in 1993 by the creative team of writer John Saunders (the son of Allen Saunders, potentially the first writer of Mary…
Previously on Comics: This is the May
Hello brave readers! Kate here again for your post May the Fourth Be With You/Mother’s Day comics news you may have missed last week because, hoo boy, did it feel like a week. And a weird one, at that. On Monday the news broke that legendary comics artist John Paul Leon had passed away. He…
A Fistful of Comics: Crowdfunding Roundup, April ‘21
Happy April! After a full 13 months of half-lockdown, the United States is finally on its way to getting folks vaccinated and, perhaps, in a position where we can see our friends in person without being afraid of causing a biological incident. I’m planning on using the few remaining months I have of not having…
REVIEW: Fanlee and Spätzle Make Something Perfect is an Imperfect Delight
Fanlee and Spätzle Make Something Perfect is anything but what its title claims. The collection of webcomics from cartoonist Pseudonym Jones published by Silver Sprocket, is messy, inconsistent, and wildly leaps from comedic to tragic sometimes within the same strip. Thankfully, this is precisely what makes the collected five years of comics special, raw, and…
Webtoon’s Susan Cheng on the Heartwarming Kind of Love Anthology
At the beginning of the month, Webtoon introduced the Kind of Love Anthology, which features a series of original stories around the theme of love. New stories will debut every Wednesday over a six-week period, featuring three to five episodes in typical Webtoon fashion. The first story is called The Breakup, illustrated by Rhett Bloom and…
The Nib: An Outstanding Series
At the Ignatz Awards this year, The Nib’s print magazine won the prestigious award for Outstanding Series, and both the Death issue (published September 2018) and the Family issue (published January 2019) were individually nominated in the category Outstanding Anthology. They were both strong contenders for the prize, as they offered a wide range of…