Update: Gary and Lance returned for one final original cartoon to say goodbye to their fans on November 17. original November 12, 2023 article:From the Cleveland Plain Dealer comes news that Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich will come to an end at the end of this week: Not even a month […]
Kansas City, MO (November 16, 2023) – Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) will assume sales and distribution of The Lockhorns panel by Bunny Hoest and John Reiner, announced Brent Bartram, Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager of AMS. The effective date is January 1, 2024. The witty banter and sometimes-prickly exchanges of Loretta and Leroy Lockhorn […]
Since it’s release in the Summer of 2023 The Talk by Darrin Bell has garnered nothing but praise.Lately it has been making the end of the year lists. Named one of Publishers Weekly‘s Top Ten Best Books of 2023. …a powerful and moving portrait of the experiences of racism across generations One of TIME Magazine’s […]
The origin of National Sadie Hawkins Day: How a comic strip that saw a man desperate to marry off his ‘ugly’ daughter encouraged a generation of women to ‘chase’ men down for a date. © Al Capp Enterprises/UFS Sadie Hawkins Day is celebrated the first Saturday of November in parts of the US inspired by […]
The National Press Foundation has awarded Jen Sorensen the 2023 Berryman Award for editorial cartooning. The Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons is open to U.S.-based editorial cartoonists for work that exhibits power to influence public opinion, plus good drawing and striking effect. The cartoons should represent the highest standards of […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.Macanudo: Optimism Is for the BraveMurray Ball A Cartoonist’s Life (author interview) Alley Oop and The Captive Prince The Life and Times of Betty […]
Back at the 2023 Reuben Awards convention in September it was announced that Karen Evans had been elected the new National Cartoonists Society president, replacing the termed out Jason Chatfield. Now the NCS has revealed the entire new Board of Directors for the 2023 – 2025 years:President: Karen Evans1st Vice President: John Hambrock2nd Vice President: […]
What better way to start Monday than with Garfield. He’s got a new movie coming out next year.Variety has some details and the just released trailer: Chris Pratt embodies the world’s most sarcastic yet endearing orange feline in the trailer for “The Garfield Movie,” premiering in theaters on Feb. 16, 2024. The new animated feature […]
Hogan’s Alley and Tom Heintjes present nearly 200 of David Folkman‘s photos from the 2023 Reuben Awards get together in September – see cartoonists checking in, see cartoonists in black tie, see cartoonists having fun. The National Cartoonists Society offers us a digital copy of the 77th Annual Reuben Awards playbill.The National Cartoonists Society YouTube […]
We mentioned Never Been Deader getting a newspaper taking it on here. Now King Features has released a digital press kit announcing its availability in print format. Following the skeleton Lifeless Carl in his daily grief of working a grueling office job, Never Been Deader creatively depicts how it feels to live the humdrum nine-to-five […]
Rob Rogers, Harry Harrison, Wiley Miller, Jeff Kinney, Michael Cavna, and Bob Englehart – cartoonists all. Enjoy a sampling of Bob Englehart’s cartoons created to provoke, anger, entertain, challenge and illustrate individuals, issues, events and change associated with politics and political elections…with a picture and in a few words. Okay, we missed the reception but […]
Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez spoke to Fox News Digital about The Washington Post pulling his Hamas cartoon and revealed some details of his contract with the paper, and if that relationship will continue. From Fox News Digital about the cartoon: The conservative-leaning Ramirez shed light on his working relationship with Post opinions editor David Shipley, […]
The first 24 hours after The Washington Post printed a Michael Ramirez cartoon about Hamas tactics saw a liberal flood of reaction calling the cartoon “racist” and “despicable.” The past 24 hours has seen conservative media blast the liberal Washington Post for deleting a cartoon the newspaper belatedly deemed inappropriate. Caution: Clicking on more than […]
It began with Kayliegh McEnany, former spokeswoman and still disciple of Donald Trump, in her current role as a Fox TV talking head, being unhappy with the courtroom sketch of her leader: Asked about what advice she would give him during the trial, she said: “Keep doing what he’s doing. Look, I would advise him […]
Comiclicious by Olivera (“Liv”) Vukovic began as a webcomic in July 2017. In April of this year Comics Kingdom picked it up. In June the Comics Kingdom blog gave us a nice introduction to the strip.Now King Features Syndicate has released a press kit announcing that the strip is available to print newspapers. What we […]