Marvel legend Jack Kirby will be honored on May 11 in New York City with a new street sign designating Essex Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets as “Jack Kirby Way”. The effort was spearheaded by author, writer, and pop culture historian Roy Schwartz who shepherded the application, a resident petition drive of support, several […]
Playboy has announced that New Yorker cartoonist Asher Perlman will be their Cartoonist in Residence for their Spring 2026 issue. Playboy noted in their announcement that this is the first edition to only feature a single cartoonist. Asher says he will be providing 10 cartoons. When asked who approached who, Asher says that the magazine […]
Art professor, artist, and underground cartoonist Frank Stack, aka Foolbert Sturgeon, has passed away. Frank Huntington Stack (aka: Foolbert Sturgeon) October 31, 1937 – April 12, 2026 From the obituary: Frank Stack, artist, cartoonist, educator, and pioneer of underground comics, passed away on April 12, 2026, at MU’s University Hospital. Stack is widely recognized as […]
I’m a recovering Catholic and have been for half a century or so, but it happens that even before I saw Necessary’s cartoon, I was thinking that they never should have stopped burning heretics at the stake. Not all heretics, mind you. Not me, certainly.I’m not Torquemada and I don’t insist on everyone becoming Roman […]