Cartoonist Ashraf Omar will be tried in Egyptian court beginning May 10. He’s been detained since July 2024 on four charges. According to his lawyer, three charges have been dropped but the prosecution added a new charge and will move forward to charges related to terrorism.The Initial charges are:Charges 1, 3, and 4 have been dropped […]
From Guy Badeaux’s (Bado) blog we learn the winners of the 26th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon award. The theme this year was “Times are tough.” Taking the top first, second and third place are: Darko Drljevic of Montenegro, Joel Pett of USA, and Patrick Lamontagne of Canada.Ten cartoonists were honored with an Awards […]
Scottish cartoonist Tom Gauld is the first non-French cartoonist to be honored with the Le Prix Gotlib (The Gotlib Prize) for humorous cartoon book. Until this year, the prize for humor has been awarded solely to a French cartoonist or French language book of humor. His book “Physics for Cats” was originally published by Drawn […]
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 […]
We missed all the speeches the other night — okay, we didn’t miss them, but we didn’t get to hear them — but here’s the speech you should have heard at graduation but didn’t.I realized halfway through senior year that the campus placement bureau never had anyone there interviewing for Philosopher Kings, and started thinking […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will reopen on May 23 after building and HVAC improvements and a redesign of the layout of the exhibition areas. Chris Ware’s international exhibition Life is Complicated, will headline the reopening.From the Billy Ireland website regarding the changes to the exhibit areas: At the heart of the enhanced museum […]
The National Headliners Awards have announced the winners for 2026 and Jeff Koterba took the winning prize in the Editorial Cartoons category. Said the judges: Jeff’s cartoons capture what people are thinking, feeling, suspecting … and do so in a clean, clever way. Donald Trump skiing around the truth, leaving a woman’s outline in his […]
I came across a half-dozen or so cartoons about adding ballrooms to elementary schools, and it’s a fair point but I gather one of those fair points so obvious that it occurred to everybody. As noted yesterday, the ballroom is an absolutely stupid idea and the events at the WHCA dinner didn’t change that.But McKee […]
The prolific Dutch comics artist Dick Matena passed away yesterday. He was 83 years old. He also published under the pseudonyms A. den Dooier, John Kelly and Dick Richards.Dick was born and raised in The Hague in Amsterdam. Not one who did well in school settings, he dropped out of school at age 15 and worked odd jobs. […]
The National Cartoonists Society has revealed the nominees for their 2025 Divisional Reuben Awards. ADVERTISING / PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION Pat Higgins – Liniers – Pashur ART FOR ANIMATED MEDIA Gogopedro – Chari Pere – Mike Salva BOOK ILLUSTRATION Jason Chatfield – Mike Deas – Chuck Dillon COMIC BOOK Jackie Musto – Eric Powell – Stan Sakai […]
Comic book writer and editor, author, TV writer and producer Gerry Conway has passed away.Gerard Francis (Gerry) Conway September 10, 1952 – April 2026 Gerry Conway’s family requested Marvel Comics to release the news that Gerry Conway has died. On behalf of his family, we are sad to share that writer and former editor-in-chief Gerry […]
The Museum of Caricature and Cartoon of Vianden, Luxembourg has announced the winners of their annual International Caricature and Cartoon Contest of Vianden 2026. Taking the top prizes are Angel Boligan (Mexico) with second and third place going to Olena Tsuranova (Ukraine) and Heibat Ahmadi (Iran) respectively. This year’s theme was “Democracy (popular sovereignty, rule […]
You do understand, O Best Beloved, that people in developed nations don’t live like this, right? Morland sums up how we’re viewed from abroad, and if you pay any attention to life in other countries, you should find it hard to argue with him.Guardian writer Rachel Leingang wrote “Instead of a speech stacked with heated […]
Terry Mosher has twice won the National Newspaper Award and is a member of The Order of Canada. Michael de Adder has twice won the National Newspaper Award and is a member of The Order of Canada. Terry Mosher aka “Aislin” showed Pierre Trudeau tripping Brian Mulroney when the latter retired. “The Tories denounced me […]
With Greg Evans, Paul Noth, Howie Noel, Sandra Bell-Lundy, Matt Kindt, and Keith Frady and Phillip Ginn. Evans’s English Greg Evans has written letters to The San Diego Union-Tribune column Lederer on Language questioning the use of English. Richard Lederer has recently collected and printed a few of them. Greg writes, “I stumble on (and […]