Cartoonist, illustrator, and musician J. D. King has passed away. John David (J.D.) King May 3, 1951 – early November 2025 Word spread on social media that illustrator J. D. King had passed away. From Thurston Joseph Michael Moore’s Facebook page of November 6: J.D. King, comics illustrator, and founder of 1979 NYC art rock […]
The deadline for teenagers to enter the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards may be as little as one week away. Though January 6, 2026 is the deadline for my Zip Code and probably yours. The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers in association with The Herblock Foundation is again offering “$2,000 scholarships for three teens […]
Rea Irvin, the [New Yorker]’s first art editor, is best known for creating Eustace Tilley, the monocled dandy whose upturned nose has graced our pages for a hundred years. Irvin established the stylish and refined look of The New Yorker, brought in countless new artists, and also penned many early covers that display his graphic […]
NPR has released their list of Best Books published in the year 2025. The Graphic Novels category includes a few books whose authors have comic strip credentials. J vs. K by Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander – – – Buy the book Two bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning kids’ book authors and friendly rivals team up to […]
An(n) Award As reported earlier this month Ann Telnaes was to receive the 2025 William Randolph Hearst Award. And so she did. Ward Sutton posted a picture with Ann holding the award, with Mark Fiore also in attendance. Wuerker Related Also this month Mike Rhode visited editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker and took a baker’s dozen […]
It’s All in the Timing That was some timing for Zippy to mention Superman #1 at the same time as a near mint issue sells for $12,200,000. What are the chances that Griffy was aware of the auction deadline a month earlier when he created the strip? Much less likely is that Dave Whamond would […]
Graphic Novelist Stamps, Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award, Honorary Degree for Bruce MacKinnon, and An Ode to Speech Bubbles. Graphic Novelists Featured on Stamps from Canada Post From Canada Post: Canada Post has unveiled the second in a two-part series celebrating Canadian graphic novelists. Canada has produced several prominent graphic novelists, and this stamp issue […]
The annual Guest Jumbler Week with six cartoonists, all syndicated comic strip artists this year, taking over for the regular creators David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek on the very popular Jumble puzzle. Is there a daily newspaper that does not run the feature? The Jumble Facebook page ran the puzzles and short profiles of […]
The Lake County Journal/Shaw Local touted their cartoonist Tom Beck sweeping the recent 2025 Northern Illinois Newspaper Association Awards. show (or here): Lake County Journal cartoonist Tom Beck recently swept the Best Use of Humor category at the 2025 Northern Illinois Newspaper Association Awards. Beck has placed in this category in years past, but this […]
Michael Maslin links to a few original art auctions from classic New Yorker contributors. One being a ca. 1937 Peter Arno College Humor cartoon, another being a 1941 Charles Addams New Yorker cartoon. The former went for $506 the latter for $24,381. A third original art from a Barbara Shermund Pictorial Review cartoon sold for […]
Cartoonist and graphic artist Dick Weidman has passed away. Richard Kenneth (Dick) Weidman July 13, 1930 -November 8, 2025 From the obituary: In late 1948, Dick eagerly joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where his talent contributed to mapping the South Pacific, Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, and Southern California. He drew cartoons for several Army […]
After a month off Rachel Merrill returned as Gil Thorp artist for only two weeks before handing it off to Kit Mills again for an undetermined guest artist run. While Guest Jumbler week at Jumble keeps rolling along. Loose Parts this week brought back memories for old Marvelmaniacs. New GoComics Standards GoComics has published their […]
From the United Kingdom we have Modesty Blaise and Philip Sidney Woodford, from the USA West Coast we have new museums in Portland and Los Angeles, in Washington D.C. we have rumors of a Jake Tapper graphic novel, but we start with an update on the troubled Angouleme International Comics Festival in France. Angouleme Update […]
An addition to your “Complete” Calvin and Hobbes to make it complete, the Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, and the Deer Hunting sports cartoons of Gregg Klees. Let’s start off with a reminder that there is only one day left to be a part of the Kickstarter that guarantees you receive volumes one and two […]
Saran is concentrating her monthly Substack newsletter this year on The New Yorker and recently it involved interviewing Emma Allen the New Yorker cartoon editor for the past eight years. The introduction to Saran Wrapped Letters inteview with Emma Allen: I am thrilled that Allen took the time to answer my questions so thoughtfully, despite […]