Mike du Jour by Mike Lester is doing “The Gender Mystery Date” series this week and GoComics apparently has had second thoughts on running the arc. The website began the week running the strips and then belatedly pulled them and replaced them with reruns from 2020. The strips originally scheduled for this week can be […]
Comic artist John Romita has passed away.John Romita, Jr. broke the sad news that his father had passed away: My father, John Romita passed away peacefully in his sleep this Monday morning. He is a legend in the art world and it would be my honor to follow in his footsteps. Please keep your thoughts […]
More comic strip stuff. Teaser Tuesday Curtis, Crabgrass, and Dick Tracy leave us on tenterhooks as to what will follow this week. As regular readers of Mike Curtis’s Dick Tracy know the Diet Smith resolution may take months.Also waiting to be resolved is the decision of what comic strip The Canberra Times will keep publishing. […]
Pearls Before Swine comic strip creator Stephan Pastis is returning to Spokane, Wash. and The Spokesman-Review is celebrating the imminent arrival with a series of article highlighting the cartoonist. Ed Condran speaks to Stephen: It’s about the past, present and future when Stephen Pastis returns Tuesday for a Northwest Passages Book Club event at the […]
As we reported a month ago Lee Enterprises newspapers are reducing their publication schedule to three days a week. We then didn’t know if other Lee papers would follow suit and jump in. Well, it seems the publisher is going into the pool one toe at a time. A few days after that first group […]
Cartoonist Ellen Keefe-Derby has passed away. From the obituary: Before Ellen moved to California from Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1952 … she worked as a cartoonist for the Elizabeth Woodward column of the Boston Globe and continued doing so for awhile after moving. From 1946 to 1957 Ellen provided header illustrations/cartoons for Elizabeth Woodward’s Column for […]
Darrin Bell plays with three of his young children as the family heads to the dinner table. As they sit to eat, though, Bell’s 6-year-old son looks up and asks out of curiosity: “Who’s George Floyd?” It is 2020, and Bell and his wife, Makeda, have wondered for several years when to have “the talk” […]
Juxtaposition The Grizzwells follows Grand Avenue in my GoComics feed. Non Sequitur started this week with Petey digging a hole, sequed into defining Occam’s Razor….with Saturday’s denouement going with the exception to the rule: Funny(?) because it’s true. Shoe earlier this week. Pluggers are getting younger. Today’s Pluggers features a song far too recent. Should […]
A memorial will be held for cartoonist Ted Richards tomorrow, June 10, at the S.F. Cartoon Art Museum. Details and registration here. 37½ Year in Private Eye: A Tony Husband Exhibit and Profile. “When I was a hippy I was beaten up by a gang of skinheads,” explained Tony Husband, sat in the bar of […]
Editorial Cartoonist David G. Brown and The Los Angeles Sentinel are celebrating a 20 year partnership. For the last 20 years, award-winning artist David G. Brown has enlightened and educated L.A. Sentinel readers with creative political cartoons. His humorous, yet insightful images offer thoughful commentary on pressing issues of the day. Reflecting on his newspaper […]
As Mike Peterson mentioned in his column today, cartoonist Pedro X. Molina has been awarded the Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent 2023 from the Human Rights Foundation (“promot[ing] freedom where it’s most at risk: in countries ruled by authoritarian regimes”). From the announcement: The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce the […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — An Italian company did not get away with contesting the copyright of the Caped Crusader on Wednesday, as the EU’s second-highest court rejected a claim the logo was too generic. Courthouse News Service reports on the win for the owner: The comic creator has held the rights to use the […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for the twelve divisional awards (aka Silver Reubens) for work produced in 2022. A few of the divisions are shown below. All nominees in all divisions can be seen at the National Cartoonists Society site. Award winners will be announced at the Reuben Awards in Jersey City […]
Veteran animator Nancy Beiman has retired from the animation industry and taken up comic stripping. Nancy retired last Fall and then when Winter came… In mid-December 2022 I got an idea for a comic strip, the only form of cartooning that I had never tried. On New Year’s Eve I put it aside assuming that […]
Last week CARTOONISTS RIGHTS presented the 2023 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award to Abecor at a private ceremony, held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Cartoonists Rights International Network awarded the biennial Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award to Abel Bellido Córdova (Abecor) who continues his crusade against corruption in spite of […]