Christina “Steenz” Stewart‘s Heart of the City comic strip has been collected in a book. The Riverfront Times features a story on local cartoonist Steenz and their book. St. Louisan Steenz Stewart finds inspiration everywhere — from the moment they wake up till the moment they fall asleep — they’re finding ideas for their […]
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports on the offense. Metroland Media’s seven Simcoe County newspapers ran a cartoon last week that pictured the Pope saying “I’m sorry” to what appears to be an Indigenous woman and man, who respond “How $orry?” Metroland Media is a subsidiary of the Torstar Corporation, and has newspapers in the Simcoe […]
Comic strips yesterday and today seems to have jumped the gun on National Cartoonists Day.Superheroes were the theme for today’s comics.Rex Morgan, M.D. has recently started a story about a costumed vigilante, but today Terry Beatty took it a step further showing a trio of self-appointed cos-playing do-gooders. © North American SyndicateTom Batiuk and Chuck […]
Comics Kingdom picked April 20th to add Legalization Nation to its lineup. (Unknown if they added it at 4:20 a.m. this morning.)© Brian Box BrownLegalization Nation is a pro-cannabis comic strip by cartoonist Box Brown. When it was first announced earlier this year Comics Kingdom said it would be a weekly strip. It was also […]
2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Winners The Beat and The Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to reveal the winners of the tenth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize Award in both the Print Comics and Webcomics categories. Each of the 2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award winners will receive a $1000 prize and a Wacom One Creative Pen […]
According to Lewiston (Maine) Sun Journal columnist Mark LaFlamme: So, I was just hanging around, minding my own business, when I started to notice a new cartoon populating the Sun Journal pages. In one of them, the proposed Lewiston homeless shelter and the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department building were presented as homeless people on a […]
Comic strip historian Allan Holtz is moving his Stripper’s Guide blog to Comic Strip History website. Hello, fellow strippers. After a decade and a half hosting this blog here on Google’s Blogger interface I have decided that it is time we graduate to adulthood, taking the training wheels off. I have been working with a […]
“An Easter Egg is a term used to describe a hidden detail …” Today’s Sally Forth has an obvious homage to The Killing Joke comic book. © King Features Syndicate © DC ComicsBut as Francesco Marciuliano points out Jim Keefe goes far beyond that one panel. Terry Beatty hid an easter egg in last Sunday’s […]
Those Disney and Newspaper Enterprise Association Christmas strips get all the fame and glory, while the Easter strips get forgotten. But there were special daily comic strips created for the weeks leading up to Easter. For a short while in the 1950s they were an annual tradition for NEA and the cartoonist was the same […]
We have previously mentioned Nunavut’s young cartoonist Ayla Kreelak and her comic strip Smidge and Friends who got a short run in The Nunatsiaq News.The strip was popular enough to warrant a return engagement. Smidge and Friends, an original comic strip drawn by Baker Lake artist Ayla Kreelak, has returned. Nunatsiaq News will publish a […]
PEN America has published a report on the rise of books being banned in public schools. Book bans in public schools have recurred throughout American history, and have long been an issue of concern to PEN America, as a literary and free expression advocacy organization. Over the past nine months, the scope of such censorship […]
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, known for her groundbreaking, richly layered depictions of queer life and family relationships, will receive the 2022 International Humanities Prize from Washington University in St. Louis. Awarded by the university’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, the biennial prize honors the lifetime work of a noted scholar, writer or artist […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Famous, Infamous, and Forgotten The Art of Living: Reflections on Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life Birth of a Beetle: The Magazine Cartoons of Mort Walker Unicorn Selfies: […]
Sorry about the tight deadline (April 20, 2022) but here’s a fun project for the cartoonist in your family. RubeGoldberg.com hosts the famous annual Rube Goldberg Machine contest where building a physical Rube Goldberg contraption is the object. Now they have added a cartoon contest!Details and rules at RubeGoldberg.com New at GoComicsWhile Andrews McMeel Syndication is […]
Comic book and comic strip artist Angelo Torres joins our Senior Strippers as he turn 90 years old, having a birth date of April 14, 1932. Early on in his career Angelo became a member of what Harvey Kurtzman (or Nancy Gaines) dubbed The Fleagle Gang – Roy Krenkel, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, […]