At last weekend’s 2025 CXC festival honored a few comics creators with their annual awards. For 2025 awards were handed out to Charles Burns, Matt Feazell, Gigi Murakami, and Bud Plant. From Total Apex Entertainment: CXC 2025 Master Cartoonist: Charles Burns Charles Burns, whose name is virtually synonymous with boundary-pushing graphic novels, was awarded the […]
With Phil Hands, Jack Compere, A. F. Branco, Alexandra Bowman, and the Chicago Library system.Phil HandsWisconsin State Journal cartoonist Phil Hands got sports in his political cartoons and Badger of Honor, the Wisconsin Badgers news and opinions site, appreciates it: Even though three Power Four head coaches have been fired before the end of September, […]
Future Funnies The Ghost Who Walks is back, this time, in a future that feels all too close. This week, Comics Kingdom launches Phantom 2040: A New Shadow—a brand-new webcomic that reimagines the world’s first costumed hero for the fractured year of 2040. If you know your comics history, you already know The Phantom’s pedigree: […]
Steamboat Willie in court; Watership Down in France; Patron the Dog out in Ukraine; and a brand new “Cartoonist” fragrance joins Journalist and Editor-in-Chief.Law Firm Takes Disney to Court over PD Steamboat Willie Use Mickey’s century-old steamboat finds itself in hot water, as Orlando-based law firm Morgan & Morgan has filed a lawsuit (published online […]
A couple hundred photos of this year’s 79th Reuben Awards weekend have been posted. David Folkman and Robert Pollack through Hogan’s Alley present about a hundred pictures.And the National Cartoonists Society has dropped another hundred or so to Dropbox and want more.
Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday night after being briefly suspended by Disney last week, a decision celebrated by many on Monday night, including Jake Tapper. But the CNN host doesn’t expect President Trump’s attacks on free speech to end with Kimmel, and Tapper’s got a contingency plan for when he himself becomes […]
Annie Tempest, Edward Gorey, Beth Wolfensberger Singer, Glenn Fleishman, and Brian Walker.Jackson-Stops and Annie Tempest and Tottering by Gently Estate agency Jackson-Stops has unveiled a new advertising campaign with the strapline “Whether country or town, Jackson-Stops is the national estate agent locals recommend” featuring an animated cartoon starring the much-loved Tottering-by-Gently characters created by Annie […]
The Society of Illustrators’ 2025 Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony & Dinner is coming up on October 9, 2025. Society of Illustrators Hall of FameThe Daily Cartoonist noted the Hall of Fame Laureates back in April when they were first announced. Recently The Society has announced other awards for 2025. Whether these will be presented […]
David Haldane, One of the World’s Best Cartoonists David Haldane is set to appear at The Word, in South Shields, on Wednesday, September 24, as part of the venue’s WRITE Festival. Ryan Smith at The Shields Gazette proudly announces the appearance of their homegrown cartoonist David Haldane, who became “one of the world’s best cartoonists,” […]
Remember 60, 70 years ago when annotated collections of Mauldin and Herblock cartoons were published with appreciated regularity? Truth be told I got most of mine later on from used bookstores. But I was reminded of those when the Tribune Content Agency offered up a pdf of Kevin Kreneck‘s “Dangerous Days and Really Long Nights: […]
Editorial and alternative cartoonist Tim Eagan has passed away.Timothy Charles (Tim) EaganMay 31st, 1944 – August 25th, 2025From the obituary: …The Government major carried him to Hastings College of the Law and to a brief career of practicing law, most notably as a Deputy District Attorney in and around San Jose, California. But he was […]
NEW YORK (PIX11) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams took jabs at Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a political cartoon posted on his X account Saturday evening. Matthew Euzarraga for PIX11 reports that NYC Mayor Eric Adams and his team has posted a (what looks to be an AI generated Joseph Nebus, below, has […]
[Jerry] Dowling was The Enquirer’s sports cartoonist from 1967 to 1995, covering the best period of Cincinnati sports. The Reds of the 1970s, the Bengal’s beginnings and two Super Bowls, the rise and fall of Pete Rose. At 85 he’s still drawing. I noticed on his drawing table unfinished caricatures of Courtis Fuller and the […]
A roundup of various news items about comic strips and comic strip cartoonists. Synchronous Syndicate Symposium First is Comics Kingdom throwing a spotlight on Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey. Seventy-five years. That’s how long Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey has been making readers laugh, wink, and occasionally nod in recognition at life’s small absurdities. From his very […]
Before we get too far away from last Sunday… WallpaperA few “wallpaper” (where the image remains the same) strips Sunday with Macanudo, Slylock Fox, and Doonesbury. The Slylock Sunday included the above Two Scenes Alike feature plus Spot the Differences and How to Draw components so it had a lot of sameness on their Sunday […]