The National Cartoonist Society is finalizing plans for its Reuben Award events being held September 6 – 8, 2023 in Jersey City, New Jersey and has released the schedule (subject to change) for the annual convention. Nominees for the Reuben Award and Divisional Awards had been announced, as had Brian Walker receiving the Silver T-Square, […]
Seven Days presents their 11th Annual Cartoon Issue!From Seven Days editor Dan Bolles: Seven Days prides itself on being a writers’ newspaper. That is, a publication that devotes as much energy and resources into the craft of writing as it does into sourcing, reporting and all other aspects of news gathering. How we tell stories […]
Dale Messick and Brenda Starr, J.C. Leyendecker and the Arrow Collar, Rudolphe Töpffer and the first comic book. [F]or a strip that famously broke a major gender barrier, Brenda Starr spends an inordinate amount of time policing the boundaries of traditional femininity … However pioneering Brenda’s careerism may have been, it would be a mistake […]
Original July 3rd post –This is a really late addition to our 2022 Departures list. Agnes by Tony Cochran has been in rerun status all this year, since January 1, 2023. Fans of the comic strip became aware of the lack of new material early this year and when “pschearer” inquired about the circumstances he […]
Bill Griffith’s Fancy for Nancy Bill Griffith‘s graphic biography of Ernie Bushmiller Three Rocks will be released next month. So it is a fine time for The New Yorker to review and preview the book and interview the author. My first exposure to Nancy was in the funny pages of the Sunday newspaper delivered to […]
Ithaca N.Y.—“My country is under a dictatorship, so even if you don’t want to talk about politics — politics is everywhere.” Pedro X. Molina, renowned Nicaraguan cartoonist, has been awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent for his work as a political cartoonist. That work has continued since Molina fled his home during a […]
Thirty years ago, mid-1993, a Flash Gordon story comes to an end. And with the end of the story comes the end of the daily syndicated Flash Gordon comic strip. So on July 3, 1993 the daily Flash Gordon by Thomas Warkentin and an Argentina Art Studio ended: (note: Argentina Art Studio = Andrés Klacik; […]
Cartoonist Clay Butler has passed away. From the obituary: Clay [David Butler] was diagnosed with Ocular Melanoma, a rare aggressive eye cancer in January 2022. It metastasized to his liver in September. He died on June 13th 2023 at home with the support of hospice, 17 ½ months after the original diagnosis. Clay became a […]
Rob Harrell in Adam @ Home reminds some of us that we have a daily duty to perform, and my duty to The Daily Cartoonist is getting later in the day than usual. Lincoln Peirce’s Big Nate explains why. Summer has arrived in The Big Valley and errands are being run in the morning while […]
Linda Walter, cartoonist for the Susie Q. Smith comic panel and strip among others, died 14 years ago and since then she had been kept at a funeral home without getting a proper burial. From WTEN-TV: WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (NEWS10) — After going unclaimed for many years, the cremated remains of 1950s comic strip illustrator Linda […]
Reuben Award nominee Jeff Smith, Reuben Award nominee Bill Griffith and Reuben Award-winner Ernie Bushmiller, Zapiro, courtroom sketch artists Bill Hennessy and Christine Cornell, Darrin Bell, Alison Bechdel, and Dale Hrabi & Kagan McLeod are among the cartoonists in the news in today’ weekend roundup.Reuben Award nominee Jeff Smith‘s college comic strip Thorn is being […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for their 77th annual Reuben Award which celebrates and honors The Cartoonist of the Year for 2022. The nominees are: Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead) Will Henry (Wallace the Brave) Hilary B. Price (Rhymes With Orange) Jeff Smith (Bone) Mark Tatulli (Liò) Henry and Smith are freshman […]
The Minnesota History Center will host a year-long exhibit of Peanuts and Charles M. Schulz. The event is covered by local and national news. KSTP-TV: A museum exhibit set to open next month aims to teach visitors something new about Minnesota’s most famous cartoonist. The Minnesota History Center is celebrating St. Paul native Charles Schulz, […]
Way back one hundred years ago The Los Angeles Times produced a Sunday supplement for and by younger readers it called The Junior Times. That entertainment and educational section ran from July 23, 1922 – July 15, 1934 and our interest in it is that it ran comics by aspiring cartoonists. One such Junior Times […]
The boys are prepubescent, but their exact age is unclear, as is their relationship to each other … Are they twin brothers? Friends? The same kid in alternate universes? Or is it more of a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation? It doesn’t really matter. Goofus and Gallant are symbols more than characters. In every issue, they play out […]