It’s throw it out there Thursday – a gathering of gleanings. Editoons v. Memes; Newspaper Troubles; Battling Book Banners; and what your heirs will do with all those comics. EDITORIAL CARTOONS ARE NOT MEMES! Graeme MacKay, “One of the last staff editorial cartoonists still slogging away at a daily newspaper,” discusses the difference between editorial […]
The end of August will see the end of The Nib. But you can still give some love to The Nib cartoonists. Before The Nib closes down at the end of August, we are putting our sticker packs back on sale in the store one last time. We have a 5 pack featuring a Nib […]
Unlike the 2020s The Pulitzers had an Editorial Cartooning category in the 1920s. Rollin Kirby took three of the first seven Pulitzers awarded in that journalism division. The inaugural honor went to Rollin Kirby, who worked for an array of New York newspapers and magazines. He won the award for his depiction of the victims […]
Nope, don’t like it. Don’t like it a bit. Before last month gets too far away let’s bring up the major change to a comic strip in July. On July 10 Vic Lee changed the lettering font for his Pardon My Planet panel. Above left is the July 8, 2023 issue; above right is the […]
The National Cartoonists Society has issued a notice for ads in their 2023 Reuben Journal and Banquet Playbill noting the deadline for booking space in the program is August 7, 2023. Your ad will be included in the official Reuben Awards Playbill Magazine – with a feature on every nominee – which will be given […]
We’ll start with a small bit of news: Marvel Comics and King Features Syndicate are now rerunning the reruns. Above opening panels from left to right: November 16, 2014, March 24, 2019, and July 30, 2023. The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip is now on a four year, four month rotation. When the newspaper strip first […]
Let’s start with some nonsense. The Walt Disney Company is about to do the unthinkable: retire Mickey Mouse. Inside the Magic reports that Disney is bringing The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse animated shorts to an end with tribute to The Mouse’s first short Steamboat Willie: Since 2020, Mickey Mouse has starred in the animated […]
The Society of Illustrators has announced the artists entering their class of 2023 Hall of Fame. Among the inductees is New Yorker cartoonist Helen E. Hokinson. From the Society of Illustrators profile: Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (1893 – 1949) is best known for her New Yorker cartoons depicting the daily lives and social scenes of the […]
Disney and animation historian Jim Korkis has passed away. James Patrick (Jim) Korkis August 15, 1950 – July 28, 2023Mark Goldhaber reported the sad news today on Jim’s GoFundMe page: Friends, I am heartbroken to have to inform you that our friend Jim Korkis passed away this morning. He was unresponsive this morning at the […]
Northern California freelance cartoonist R. L. Crabb notes the recent actions of McClatchy newspapers, headquartered in nearby Sacramento: The editorial cartooning world was shocked a few weeks ago when McClatchy Newspapers announced the layoffs of three Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists… To those of us who follow the business end of cartooning, it wasn’t a complete surprise. […]
July 23, 2023 saw the beginning of a new story for The Sunday Phantom. (“The Commander Will See You Now”). That means a new Sunday title panel by Jeff Weigel! Gus Arriola is famed for his drawing on the Gordo comic strip. Todd Klein looks at another aspect of that cartooning art: GORDO is another […]
Another CBR Top Ten, this one purports to list the “most important” Eisner Award-winning comic books. Since 1988, the Eisner Awards have set the standard for widespread, critical recognition in the comics industry. In the 35 years since then, the Eisners have spotlighted dozens of artists, writers, and titles that stand on their own as […]
In April British editorial cartoonist Martin Rowson drew a cartoon that was deemed antisemitic. Since that time Rowson has not appeared in The Guardian newspaper, his newspaper, that published the cartoon. Until now. Martin apologized for the cartoon, as Mike Peterson said at the time it was “one of the most complete apologies and in-depth […]
A Kenyan politician underwent surgery dealing a blow to the country’s cartoonists and caricaturists. From Nairobi Wire: Former Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) secretary-general Wilson Sossion is having the last laugh following his recent surgery to eliminate fatty tissue (lipoma) from his forehead. Sossion had two trademark lumps on his forehead, which were often […]
In McCay, it was a combination of expansive imagination, multi-disciplinary eccentricity, and restless work ethic that set him apart. In 1905, after working on a handful of comic properties, he debuted what would become his signature strip, a sprawling full-page color adventure called “Little Nemo in Slumberland.” The series was an elegant fantasy in which […]