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On This Day: Milton Caniff and Gaston LaGaffe

On This Day: Milton Caniff and Gaston LaGaffe

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  • February 28, 2008

In 1907 Milton Caniff was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. Caniff was best known for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon cartoon strips. He helped found the National Cartoonists Society and received its first Cartoonist of the Year Award in 1947. He was entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1988.

 

In 1957, issue #985 of Le Journal de Spirou introduced a new cartoon character, a bumbling young man named Gaston LaGaffe. Created by André Franquin, Gaston was a popular character and strip for almost forty years.

 

Comics Links

Comics Links

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  • July 12, 2007

What all the cool kids are linking to: A Hole in the Head has scanned a feature () from a 1947 issue of Life magazine in which major strip cartoonists of the day (Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, etc.) first draw their most famous characters normally…and then try it again, blindfolded.

Comics Reporter tries to explain how Stan Lee Media came to sue Stan Lee, and who else is suing whom and about what.

Comics Reporter also reviews Rick Geary’s latest entry in his “Treasury of Victorian Murder” series, The Saga of the Bloody Benders.

Graeme McMillan, of The Savage Critic, finishes up his reviews of last week’s comics.

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Reuben Awards announced

Reuben Awards announced

The National Cartoonists Society handed out their 61st annual Reuben Awards at their dinner in Orlando, Florida this weekend. The winners of this

year’s awards are:

NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIP: Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine

COMIC BOOK: Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese

GAG CARTOONING: Drew Dernavich

MAGAZINE FEATURE/MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION: Steve Brodner

BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Mike Lester

NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION: Laurie Triefeldt

TV ANIMATION: Craig McCracken

FEATURE ANIMATION: Carter Goodrich

GREETING CARD: Carla Ventresca

ADVERTISING & ILLUSTRATION: Tom Richmond

EDITORIAL CARTOON: Mike Ramirez

NEWSPAPER PANEL CARTOON: Hilary Price, Rhymes With Orange

Bill Amend (Foxtrot) won this year’s overall Reuben Award. The Reuben was named after comic strip legend Rube Goldberg, creator of the wacky sequential invention strips, among many other features. Previous recipients have included Milton Caniff, Al Capp and Alex Raymond.

Artwork from yesterday’s Over The Hedge by Michael Fry and T Lewis. All rights reserved.

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