The Herblock Foundation has extended the deadline for accepting submissions. Cartoonists now have until February 5, 2024 to get submissions in for the Herblock Prize. Deadline February 1st, 2024: Extended until February 5th! After reviewing the eligibility rules below, please go to the link for our Entry Form to upload your submissions: https://www.herbblockfoundation.org/herblock-prize/entry-form
Ruben Bolling tells us that a comic strip he produces under a pseudonym has ended. From his newsletter: It is my sad duty to announce that The Comic Strip That Has a Finale Every Day has finally ended its eight-year run on gocomics.com on December 31, 2023. It has had its final Finale. Ruben added: […]
“Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” — Friedrich NietzcheBoth Nietzche and Joe Heller offer symbolic analogies; Heller’s is harder to misinterpret, but neither makes it easy to answer the […]
HENRY BARAJAS VOLUNTEERS AS PRESIDENT OF THE LOS ANGELES CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL CARTOONISTS SOCIETY Los Angeles, CA – Thursday, 02/01/2024 — The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society is proud to announce the appointment of Henry Barajas as its new Chapter Chair, effective immediately. “The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Cartoonists […]
Here is what we need more of – a newspaper ADDING to its weekend color comics section. The Danville (Illinois) Commercial-News has the good front page news: Commercial-News print subscribers will be treated to a new and expanded color comics section beginning with this Saturday’s weekend edition. Most of the comics previously published in the […]
My first reaction to this Non Sequitur (AMS) was that it’s impossible. We all know that the way you learn to check before sending is by sending before checking, a lesson gained through experience.It was a lot more fun back in the days of listservs, which, O Best Beloved, set up a little closed universe […]