Posted on: September 9, 2013

Ed Vebell, a cartoonist for Stars and Stripes during World War II talks about sharing an office with Bill Mauldin. The vignette below runs 4 minutes.Via Mike Lynch

In the strip the characters have lived in a fictional suburban town of Three Rocks, but yesterday’s Nancy Sunday comic reveals that Three Rocks is a suburb of the not-so-fictional Nashville, TN. The comic was part of a Nashville anti-littering campaign and Nancy is the spokesperson. From Nancy writer/illustrator Guy Gilchrist’s blog: The upcoming Sunday […]

Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett will have an exhibit of his work at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, KY. The exhibit opens September 18 and runs through the end of October. The opening reception features Signe Wilkinson (Philadelphia Daily News), Jack Ohman (Sacramento Bee), Rob Rogers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and William Hamilton (The New Yorker). […]

Michael Kandalaft’s That Monkey Tune is now on GoComics. Michael’s strip started as a webcomic in 2006 and started appearing in newspapers in 2010.

DC Comics is holding a contest to find an undiscovered talent, but what they’re asking aspiring artists to draw is shocking some.Here’s what they want drawn: Harley sitting naked in a bathtub with toasters, blow dryers, blenders, appliances all dangling above the bathtub and she has a cord that will release them all. We are […]

This weekend the Harvey Awards were given out during the Baltimore Comic Con. The winners are: BEST LETTERER – Chris Eliopoulos for “FEAR ITSELF”, published by Marvel Comics BEST COLORIST – Dave Stewart for “HELLBOY: THE FURY”, published by Dark Horse Comics BEST SYNDICATED STRIP – “Dick Tracy” by Mike Curtis and Joe Staton BEST […]

Kevin Kallaugher neatly explains what’s going on. It is a riff, of course, on one of the absolute classics of The Far Side, which was followed by a second take, both of which adorned the bulletin board in my kitchen until they were quite yellow and curled, or possibly until I moved, I forget which.And […]

The inaugural Salt Lake Comic Con has set the record for the largest opening comic con in the nation with over 90,000 tickets sold for the three day event. 70-80,000 were estimated to have attended Saturday alone stretching the convention center to capacity and requiring the fire marshal to limit entry. That action barred even […]