It’s hard to write about current events when you’re scared to check your news sources in the morning because you recorded last night’s US/Paraguay game and fear coming across spoilers. Fortunately, there’s enough that hasn’t likely changed overnight, and the real issue here is admitting that, despite the combined character flaws of FIFA and one […]
With John Rose and Tom Heintjes, Jim Keefe and L.K. Hanson, Mo Willems and Jerry Craft, Pat Rosenkranz and Don Donahue, Charlotte Beach and Ivan Ehlers. John Rose and Tom Heintjes On Stage A really late notice that if you are at Heroes Con or near Charlotte N.C. tomorrow try get to the panel featuring […]
Penguin Random House India is demanding changes to renowned graphic journalist Joe Sacco‘s latest book before it is willing to publish the graphic non-fiction The Once and Future Riot for its Indian audience. Shahana Yasmin for The Independent reports: Penguin Random House India has withdrawn Joe Sacco’s latest book on a 2013 episode of sectarian […]
I choose “Neither.” There’s a lot of news today, but it’s extensions of yesterday’s news and I had enough of that yesterday. Though, to contradict this cartoon, there are politicians trying to do something to stop it, but their legal cases are all pending at the moment, and it’s not clear that Dear Leader has […]
I had seen on the news that Glenn Close will be receiving an Honorary Oscar this Fall, but more importantly for us Jamie Lang at Cartoon Brew reports animator Floyd Norman will also be so honored. Animation icon and Disney legend Floyd Norman [link added] will receive an Honorary Oscar at this year’s Governors Awards, […]
Following the decision by the Australian Press Council (APC) to censure The Age and Sydney Morning Herald because they printed a Cathy Wilcox cartoon which “was likely to cause or contribute to substantial offence, distress and prejudice particularly to those who are Jewish,” Charlie Lewis for Crikey (registration required) takes a look at some past […]
In what would normally be great news for Archie Comics—a Hollywood deal to bring the Archie to the silver screen—has opened up a legal can of worms for co-CEO Jonathan Goldwater. Raven Capital Management claims that Goldwater defaulted on a loan in 2024 giving them control of the intellectual property and the deal with Universal […]
I had been looking forward to the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, but it seems to be falling flat, and Anderson pinpoints the issue. It doesn’t seem to be widely known, but there are two very different groups set up for the commemoration: America250 is a non-partisan group set up by Congress to […]
Envisioning Consumer Culture: Comic Strips, Comic Books, and Advertising in America, 1890 – 1945 by Ian Gordon In the late nineteenth century American newspaper owners and comic strip artists transformed European traditions of visual humor and graphic narrative into a new commercial form of leisure, the Sunday color comic strip. These strips focused on continuing […]
Last weekend the Doug Wright Awards at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. The awards recognizes excellence in the field of Canadian comics. Below are the the 2026 winners. For full full list of nominees, read our prior coverage.Best BookCannon, Lee Lai (Drawn & Quarterly)The Nipper (Emerging Talent)Lis Xu for Layover & Mad (Self-published) and Raccoon Rescue […]
The Australian Press Council (APC) has ruled that a Cathy Wilcox cartoon published in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in January of this year showing Australian leaders being directed by Benjamin Netanyahu overstepped the bounds of the Council’s standards. From Natasha Lee at Media Week: The Australian Press Council has found The Age […]
Garry Trudeau didn’t plan on being a cartoonist. But he quickly became one of the most influential cartoonists in modern cartooning with his comic Doonesbury. Launched in 1970, Doonesbury quickly became a must-read for fans, politicians, and journalists. In the new Trudeau biography, Joshua Kendall writes, “at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television […]
We’ve seen a plethora of Timmy-in-the-Well cartoons, despite the fact that, while Timmy had a whole lot of scrapes, that wasn’t one of them. However, the jokes have replaced the reality to the point where Jon Provost’s biography is titled Timmy’s in the Well. It’s like that old saying, “It ain’t what you don’t know […]
While I haven’t delved deeply into the history books I do think that the past seven days saw a record. Within a week, six days actually, four different cartoonists signed the Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoon feature. For June 1-4, 2026 there was the mononymous DeJoy signing the panel. June 5-6, 2026 saw the […]
A roundup of stories tangentially connected to comic strips. A history of the Jeep that brings to mind Mort Walker’s army, a non-cartoonist barber creating comic strip promo with a.i., a real cartoonist who has moved on to using skin as his canvas, a comic stripish font for official documents, and a 1960s Saturday Morning […]