ASIFA-Hollywood will present the 53rd Annual Annie Awards for excellence in animation on February 21, 2026. That is when the winners in the 32 categories will be handed their awards, but a few special “Juried Annie” have been announced in anticipation of the big night. Among the special honorees are… Presented by ASIFA-Hollywood, the Ub […]
Italian activist/artist Gianluca Costantini will be attending and live-drawing this year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC) to distill complex geopolitical issues into a “visual language that can engage a wider audience.” This year’s MSC will be held February 13-15. Over a thousand dignitaries and heads of state will attend. This is Gianluca’s second MSC. He hopes […]
A collection of newsy items and comic strip commentary featuring Tayo Fatunla, Jason Chatfield, Alex Hallatt, and Charles M. Schulz; with Our Roots return to a New York newspaper, The Bobby Fuller Four, the end of the line for Peanuts, peeing in the comics, babysitting and babies, and tributes to St. Valentine. Tayo Fatunla reports […]
In case you missed it, Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday in order to throw an astonishing Mean Girl Hissy Fit because Representatives had the gall to ask her questions she didn’t want to answer. In another era, it would have been the end of her days in government, but she was […]
with Dr. Sheena C. Howard, The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, King Features Syndicate Production Chief Frank Chillino, Daryl Cagle Selfies, and Professor Sterling Haynes Awarded Emerging Artist Honor. Dr. Sheena C. Howard, Black Comics Writer and Researcher Dr. Sheena C. Howard is an author and researcher of Black culture. Here she is known […]
The world’s oldest continuously published newspaper comic is 125. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Weatherbird first appeared on the paper’s front page on February 11, 1901. Created by staff cartoonist Harry B. Martin a prototype first appeared in The Post-Dispatch’s classifieds on February 2 before debuting on the front page as The Weatherbird nine days later. […]
We’re coming up on another obligatory non-holiday which you have to observe but for which you don’t get time off. Blazek is right that the apostrophe belongs before, not after, the S, though if you poke around in the origins of the day you might stumble across more than one St. Valentine, and, besides, as […]
The Simpsons first appeared on TV in 1987 and a few years later became a long-running (still-running) weekly animated sit-com. As was the custom in the 1990s popular cartoon shows became fodder for syndicates to develop them as newspaper comic strips – think Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rugrats). By 1999 was so popular King Features […]
Croatian cartoonist Damir Novak was shot and killed by a neighbor after an alleged years-long property border dispute came to a deadly end on February 6. The neighbor committed later committed suicide. Damir was 66.Damir’s first cartoon was published in 1982 in the weekly Međimurje. In the following years he became one of the most prominent […]
Australian editorial cartoonist Jon Kudelka has passed away. Jonathan Oscar (Jon) Kudelka February 22, 1972 – February 8, 2026 Jon Kudelka’s family has announced the passing of the cartoonist: We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday 8 February 2026, surrounded by his family […]
I don’t know that Loper has pinned down the entire Bad Bunny controversey, but he made me laugh and that’s a good thing. Certainly, in the days after the Super Bowl, I’ve seen lots of praise and support for Bad Bunny’s half time show and only general whining from supporters of the Kid Rock alternate […]
The National Cartoonists Society has officially announced the time and place of this year’s Reuben Awards. The 2026 NCS Conference and 80th Annual Reuben Awards Dinner will be held on August 6-8, 2026 in Columbus Ohio, the home of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum and the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival. I’m sure there […]
At the close of this year’s Le Grand Off, the festival awarded the Prix Charlie Schlingo to French cartoonist Guillaume Bouzard for his album Les Vacances chez Pépé-Mémé. The album is described as a short, gag-driven comic about childhood holidays with grandparents, rendered in Guillaume’s trademark crude, elastic offbeat drawing style.The other prize of the night: The “Couilles […]
I hit “record” and shut off the Super Bowl last night, knowing I’d wake up to a bunch of spoilers. However, as I write this, I don’t know who won because as I went through social media picking out cartoons, I saw a lot about how great Bad Bunny’s halftime show was and very little […]
Newspaper illustrator and animated sports cartoonist Grey Blackwell has passed away. Nelson Grey Blackwell, Jr. November 19, 1969 – February 4, 2026 From the obituary: Nelson Grey Blackwell, Jr., lovingly known as Grey, age 56, of Oxford, North Carolina, passed away on February 4, 2026, in his hometown of Oxford. He went on to earn […]