Premiering at Comics Kingdom, in the middle of the night with no advance notice, isBob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The Funny (Animal Edition). >edited to add< and Bob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The Funny. © Matthew DiffeeFrom the ‘About’ page: This anthology series presented by Bob Mankoff and the cartoonists of CartoonStock promises a best-of […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Ballard Street Redux: The Comic Art of Jerry Van Amerongen Victorian Comics (re-issue of 1976 edition) Big Nate: Destined for Awesomeness The […]
Grotesquerie is Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher’s bread and butter. For fifty years the cartoonist has rendered newsmakers in a fleshy museum of knobbly noses, splayed teeth, dewlaps, wattles, and vast foreheads. He’s produced some 10,000 cartoons for the Baltimore Sun and The Economist—in 1978 he became the first cartoonist hired by the latter—and his work is […]
I won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights journalism award for cartooning last May… The check for winning arrived a couple of weeks ago and last night, or sometime during the day (I’m not sure when), the trophy arrived. A couple days ago Clay Jones received his RFK Award trophy. © Kevin Fagan Kevin Fagan is […]
Henry Barajas, new writer of the Gil Thorp comic strip, was kind enough to have a chat (via email) with The Daily Cartoonist on taking over as offensive coordinator for the long running (sixty-four years) Tribune Contents Agency daily a month ago. First, let’s have Henry introduce himself: Hello, I’m Henry Barajas, and I write […]
Classic comics compiler, editor, and publisher Ron Barlow has passed away. Ron Barlow January 1, 1949 – August 9, 2022 The news broke on Ron’s Facebook page:I just found out that an old friend has passed from cancer. This saddens me more than I thought it would … Rest in Peace Ron Barlow. He was […]
This 830-page biography contains 1,000 Nast cartoons, illustrations, sketches, and paintings. 800 from Harper’s Weekly, the balance from other rare publications including Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (25), New-York Illustrated News (47), Phunny Phellow (19), a comic paper that Nast contributed to from 1859-1873 100 cartoons on related topics by 20 other artists like Joseph Keppler […]
Let us present to you Sofia Warren, a talented cartoonist, writer and animator from the United States! She’s been a cartoonist for The New Yorker since 2017 and has also contributed to MoMA magazine, Narrative Magazine, and Catapult, to name a few. Her illustrations catch attention with beautiful drawings as well as clever and witty […]
There has been an unfortunate rash of deaths in the comics world lately. After The Daily Cartoonist’s initial reports other memorials and tributes have appeared. Here is a collection of those eulogies. Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist known in America for children’s book illustrations and for covers for The New Yorker portraying tiny, gentle people with […]
A promo on the Heathcliff Facebook page gave a start to some fans: “Heathcliff: The work of George Gately and Peter Gallagher 1973 – 2022” A first impression could be that the Heathcliff comic was ending this year. Turns out that it is a promo for Heathcliff original art going to auction. About that other orange […]
French cartoonist and New Yorker cover artist Jean-Jacques Sempé has passed away. Jean-Jacques Sempé August 17, 1932 – August 11, 2022 From The Guardian: Jean-Jacques Sempé, who illustrated the much-loved Little Nicolas series of French children’s books, has died aged 89. “The cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé died peacefully [on] Thursday evening, 11 August, 2022, in his […]
Bill Baron, who has contributed editorial cartoons and comic strips to The Taos News for more than 20 years, has decided to retire from being a regular part of the newspaper. Bill Baron drew his first cartoons for the Taos News more than 20 years ago, and this week we publish his last (regularly scheduled) […]
Posting an Aislin (Terry Mosher) political cartoon to her personal Facebook page cost a flight attendant her job. A former Delta Air Lines flight attendant is suing the Atlanta-based carrier after she was sacked for posting a cartoon of then President Donald Trump wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood on her Facebook profile. Taylor was […]
A bit more than a month away we get a look at Ed Steckley‘s official poster showcasing the Reuben nominees for this year’s The National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards.The NCS Facebook page has a couple versions of Ed’s caricatured nominees.This offers us the opportunity to again show Tom Richmond‘s poster of the special award recipients […]
Author-illustrator-cartoonist Raymond Briggs has passed away.Raymond Redvers Briggs January 18, 1934 – August 9, 2022 “iconoclastic national treasure”From The Guardian: Raymond Briggs, the writer and illustrator who delighted children and inspired adults with bestselling cartoons and picture books, died on Tuesday morning aged 88, his publisher Penguin Random House has said. Ranging from the enchanting […]