From the National Cartoonists Society Foundation: The board of the National Cartoonists Society Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2026 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship: Victoria Berrocales. Victoria was chosen from a field of talented applicants to receive this honor and a $5,000 scholarship grant. Victoria is an Illustration major at the Savannah […]
Prospect Magazine has a profile on R.E. Burke, the young British cartoonist who was picked up by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while on an extended visit to the U.S. and Canada. She spent 19 days in detention before she was released to return to the U.K. She’s close to finishing a 255 […]
Brigid Alverson over at School Library Journal is reporting that the first issue of Shrub, a graphic medicine series, will be made available via Hoopla and Comics Plus. The middle grade story is written by Shane Portman, drawn by Andy Alves, colored by Sophia Du and Celia Fitzgerald, and letterer by Oceano Ransford.There is a […]
Drew Litton gets more play time, Walden passes the baton to Steve Bissette, that G. B. Trudeau biography, and the question burning in me goes unasked in a Man Martin interview. Drew Litton Steps Up His Game Sports cartoonist Drew Litton started a non-sports three-times-a-week comic strip last December for The Vail Daily. This week […]
The monster at the start of this Humpday is Ulysses, and Ruben Bolling provides a chance for me to link to my classic examination of books everybody references and nobody has read. Twain wrote that a classic is “something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read,” which I would modify to […]