Friday’s Comics Child
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$6 Dollars for 6 Months
King Features is playing Friday’s Child this weekend by giving a subscription bargain to their Comics Kingdom site. $6 dollars for 6 months! Scroll toward the bottom for the bargain.
The NCS Gives Fair Warning
The National Cartoonists Society is giving advance notice that they will soon be opening the window for the Divisional Reuben Awards submissions for work published in 2025:
In January, the NCS will announce Call For Entries for our annual Divisional Awards. These awards recognize artistic excellence for work that debuted in 2025 across a wide range of cartoon arts.
We hope you will submit! It is FREE and you do NOT need to be an NCS member.
Call for Entries will go live early in January 2026: watch our website and social media accounts for dates and submission details.
Another Call for Entries – UK Young Cartoonists
Over in Great Britain, where the sun rises earlier, The Cartoon Museum is inviting young cartoonists to enter the British Cartoonists’ Association competition for their Young Cartoonist Awards.
The Cartoon Museum has announced that submissions are now being taken for the Young Cartoonist Awards 2025. Breaking down the information from the poster image below this initiative from the British Cartoonists’ Association consists of two categories – one for under 18s and one for 18-30 years [emphasis added].
Submissions (one entry per person) of pocket cartoons, political cartoons or short strip cartoons should be sent along with your name, age and contact details to: The Cartoon Museum, 63 Wells Street, London, W1A 3AE or via e-mail at the link here.
The deadline is January 31, 2026.
Sea Shanty Funnies
Because the six Popeye comics at Comics Kingdom isn’t enough (Ryan) Scott McCullar gives us another.
As Scott explains his version is based on various public domain Popeyes:
DISCLAIMER: “SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™” uses the public domain comic strips “THIMBLE THEATRE” (1919-1929) and “THIMBLE THEATRE STARRING POPEYE” (1929), as well as later lapsed strips (i.e., 1931) in the public domain as basis and inspiration, as well as all public domain “POPEYE THE SAILOR” cartoon shorts from Fleischer Studios, Paramount Studios, and/or Famous Studios , including but not limited to “Lets Sing with Popeye: I’m Popeye the Sailor Man” (1934), “Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor” (1936), “Little Swee’Pea” (1936), “Me Musical Nephews” (1942), and “Spree Lunch” (1957). This is a derivative work of a public domain work and is a parody that also uses satire.
I Was This Many Tears Old When I Learned
So I probably saw this two years ago but didn’t take note that Hustler magazine stopped accepting cartoons. I’ve been following Dan Collins‘ Looks Good on Paper for at least that long.
There was a time, back in the 70s and 80s when I would buy the cartoon “bookazines” of Hustler Humor (and Playboy and Penthouse). I went onto the interwebs to try find out about them no longer soliciting cartoonists for gags but couldn’t find any notices of that. (My Facebook page will now be inundated with Hustler type stuff – the price I pay to keep you all up-to-date.)
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