The 2023 Eisner Award winners were announced at the San Diego Comic Con. Below are a few of the winners that have comic strip connections and a couple others. Best WebcomicWINNER: Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON)Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)WINNER: The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! by Mo Willems […]
Editor’s Note: As part of the continued evolution of our business and due to changing reader habits, McClatchy will no longer publish daily opinion cartoons, including on the Herald-Leader’s Opinion page. The Herald-Leader has been proud to publish the work of Pulitzer Prize winner Joel Pett, who has contributed timely, thought-provoking, accountability-focused work to these […]
The 2024 season of KPBS’ Comics culture has kicked off by interviewing Heathcliff cartoonist Peter Gallagher.Famed for weirdness, Peter discusses how the weirdness must be a natural occurrence, not forced. Also Peter talks of cartoonists block, his preference to physical (pen and paper) over digital, his love of being able to draw backgrounds in the […]
Ill health took a toll on Walt Kelly and Pogo. By the early 1970s friends and family were pitching in more and more hoping the creator would recover enough to return to the strip full time. That, alas, did not happen. In 1973 Walt Kelly died. So widow Selby Kelly with Don Morgan, Henry Shikuma, […]
In places like New York City, papers were sold to the masses at a penny a copy. Thus this era is called the Penny Press. It’s also the era of what was called Yellow Journalism. The term arose out of a battle between newspaper barons Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst about a comic strip […]
A recent list of “10 Great But Forgotten 1990s Newspaper Comic Strips” includes current comics Zits, Mutts, Non Sequitur, Sherman’s Lagoon, Tom the Dancing Bug, and Agnes. Six of the ten 1990s comic strips tagged forgotten are still appearing in newspapers today. Their greatness can be debated (I see more than half as qualifying), but […]
King Features Syndicate “announced a master publishing partnership with Mad Cave Studios to develop a full line of new narratives, comics reprints and graphic novels starring its iconic hero Flash Gordon. The initial Flash Gordon stories are slated to be released in 2024.” Read the news of the licensing agreement here. Under this partnership, expect […]
That’s comic, I say comic strippin’ the Comic Con, son. Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis, both veterans of comic conventions, began preparing for the San Diego Comic Con last week as all true comic fans did. Sunday got the Crankshaft co-stars in their costumes and today to The Con. Tom and Dan are responsible for […]
The Associated Press drops the story of McClatchy ridding themselves of political cartoons and cartoonists. Here, via the Voice of America, is the AP article by David Bauder: The firings of the cartoonists employed by the McClatchy newspaper chain last week were a stark reminder of how an influential art form is dying, part of […]
Back in May we noted that AdExchanger had lost Nate Neal as their weekly cartoonist, now, a month late, we note that Kevvo has been chosen as the new AdExchanger cartoonist after a month of rotating cartoonists. Kevin (Kevvo) Gierman has been creating the cartoons regularly for the past month.
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator! Big Nate: No Worries!: Two Books in One THIS IS IT, […]
Cartoonist David Illsley has passed away. From the obituary: David Avard Illsley, age 81, of Edgewater, Florida, passed away Tuesday, July 4, 2023, at Advent Health New Smyrna in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, after a long illness. David had been employed as an Artist/Cartoonist/Videographer, in TV, newspapers, and educational venues in various cities. David had […]
In a career that’s spanned more than 40 years and included some 80 books, thousands of newspaper and magazine illustrations and many New Yorker covers, author and illustrator Bob Staake has never had a solo show of his work. Until now. “The Endless Imagination of Bob Staake” will be on exhibit at the Cape Cod […]
The San Diego Comic Con (aka: Comic Con International) returns for its 2023 engagement next week.It began as a comic book festival and evolved into a Hollywood hullabaloo, though that seems to have subsided a bit this year. Anyway, there is a long-time relationship between comic books and comic strips. So here is some comic […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (the renovated AAEC website will return soon) has opened the window for submitting cartoons for the 2023 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. The deadline to enter is Friday, August 25, 2023. The full notice as released by the AAEC: SACRAMENTO, CA — The Association of […]