Miss Cellany’s Midweek Mash
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Free Comic Book Day this Saturday, Michael de Adder with another win, Silver Reuben nominees get pressed, R. Crumb gets swiped again, and a report on The Billy Ireland and why the museum and library should be a stop on your summer vacation.
May 2 is Free Comic Book Day
Let’s start this midweek roundup by reminding all that this weekend is Free Comic Book Day. Only two of the free comic books have a comic strip connection. Drop by your local comic book store, it may have them.
De Adder Wins Again
Michael de Adder went from national to local with the honors he has been receiving. After his National Newspaper Award for his 2025 output the Ontario Community Newspaper Association also listed him as #1 for 2025 in their Better Newspapers Competition. Richard Harley and Chris Whelan were also recognized.
Wait, has the judge awarded a second place honor to an a.i. generated image??!!
Cartoonists Get Press for Silver Reuben Nominations
The National Cartoonists Society’s Silver Reuben nominees are getting some local press. Jessica Matthews at WHMI-FM profiled Katie Cook, nominee in the “Online Comics – Long Form” category.
Cook grew up in Saline and graduated from Saline High School, before later graduating from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She’s a wife and mother of two, and a cat lover.
Per her website, Cook is the creator of the comic “Nothing Special” and has done projects with Marvel, Boom!, Star Wars, and more…
Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing notes Ruben Bolling‘s NCS nomination in the Editorial Cartoons division.
Tom the Dancing Bug, published weekly here at Boing Boing by Ruben Bolling, was nominated for a National Cartoonists Society Award for Editorial Cartooning. Congrats, Ruben!
More Unattributed Crumb
A week and a half ago we noted a Robert Crumb swipe without attribution (scroll to bottom of post). Not long after that Keep on Trucking reference cartoonist David Cohen also used the image without so much as a hat tip to Robert Crumb. Cohen also alludes to Crumb’s Mr. Natural character.
Peanuts, Superheroes, And Cartoon History Under One Roof
Yesterday we spread the news that the Billy Ireland Cartoon & Museum will be reopening next month after some renovations. So this is as good a time as any to direct you to Ever After in the Woods and Marcy Wynn’s deep dive into what the institution is all about.
Comic history has a way of pulling people in before they even realize it, and Columbus, Ohio, has a place that proves it. Inside one university building, Charlie Brown, Calvin and Hobbes, superheroes, and more than a century of cartoon art all share space in a way that feels surprisingly natural.
The real appeal goes beyond nostalgia. Original comic strip panels, rotating exhibits, and a research library that draws visitors from far beyond Ohio turn the visit into something richer than a quick look through display cases.
For anyone who has ever cared about cartoons, comics, or the artists behind them, this is the kind of stop that stays with you.
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