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Cartoonist and comics historian Tim Jackson has passed away.Timothy Lee (Tim) Jackson January 16, 1958 – November 3, 2024Social media was sharing the sad news of Tim’s passing yesterday: Comics community–I am very sorry to report that the cartoonist Tim Jackson has passed away. Tim, cartoonist for the Chicago Defender as well as many other […]

Editorial cartoons are being seen by more people than ever, but the income that supports them is drying up. Fresh after being let go from his 30-year newspaper job, renowned editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder talks to The National’s Ian Hanomansing about the perils of his profession in the age of social media. Ian Hanomansing […]

For the penultimate Fort Knox Sunday comic strip cartoonist Paul Jon Boscacci told us, “I have a special collaboration with Marvel/Pixar/Disney artist, Norman Felchle, on the upcoming November 3rd Sunday.” Norman Felchle does the Memorial Day Fort Knox Sunday page, but not the Veteran’s Day Sunday. So I assumed that the “special collaboration” would be […]

The mission of editorial cartoons — afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted — has been compromised. In recent years, cartoons, (thankfully not at the Hamilton Spectator) have been diluted to fit corporate partisan agendas, reduced to humour that avoids controversy, or worst of all, eliminated from newspapers altogether. Editorial cartoonists have not done their […]

With Steve Breen, Wayno, Glenn Fleishman, Ruben Bolling, Paul Robinson, and Jimmy Johnson.By Appointment Only – A migrant family waits for the chance of safety in the United States. At inewsource Sofía Mejías-Pascoe reports on a family seeking safety; in a sidebar Steve Breen illustrates it.Update: Apparently Mike Peterson entered the high bids on the […]

Pat Oliphant lost his eyesight a few years ago, but his blue-green eyes still search my face when I sit beside him and introduce myself. He says I speak too fast and that I have an accent and that it’s from Texas. I correct him (not from Texas) and point out that he’s got one […]

Fantasy artist Greg Hildebrandt has passed away.Gregory J. (Greg) Hildebrandt January 23, 1939 – October 31, 2024Greg’s wife Jean Scrocco posted to social media about her husband’s passing: The light has gone out in my life. At 12:36 pm this afternoon the love of my life, my best friend and soulmate passed away. Greg was […]

I was going to let Mike Peterson handle all this foofarah over newspapers not endorsing Presidential candidates, but I’ve got too many links and it’s either delete them or share them. So here’s a few. Dan Kennedy for Commonwealth Beacon offers some background on the movement toward non-endorsing: At both the Post and the LA […]

NJ Advance Media has announced its intention of ending the print editions of The (Newark) Star-Ledger (the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey according to Wikipedia) and sister papers The Times of Trenton and The South Jersey Times. The newspapers will continue as daily online newspapers: The Star-Ledger will cease publishing a print newspaper and […]

NEW YORK, NY — Doyle is MADly excited to offer the personal collection of the award-winning comic artist and author Al Jaffee. The auction of over one-hundred and fifty lots will be held at Doyle on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 10am. Doyle Auctioneers and Appraisers is listing original art and other ephemera of Al […]

Comics Kingdom (CK) has issued submission guidelines for cartoonists attempting to get placed on the CK digital platform – a great step toward being distributed to print newspapers by King Features Syndicate.King Features Editorial Director Tea Fougner introduces the submissions guidelines with a few do’s and don’ts. Friends, we are so excited to introduce our […]

So when Garry Trudeau mentioned that “the last time a Doonesbury strip featured four near-identical drawings of the White House was in 1988” my OCD kicked and I had to find it.But first let me agree with the Joseph Nebus reply to the Trudeau comment: The four panel White House strips early on became iconic, […]

The Unwarranted hatred for Comic Sans; The Comics Courier, a tabloid comics criticism newspaper; a Bob Foster obituary; the Kansas City studio of Walt Disney; and an Amber Waves Comics Kingdom news item.New Comic Amber Waves Brings Heartfelt Tales of Childhood to Life This crisp fall week welcomes a new strip available on Comics Kingdom […]

Below are the title panels of the Sunday Dennis the Menace comic strips for October. One is not like the others. “That’s different!” was my reaction to seeing today’s Dennis the Menace, and the difference continued beyond the title panel with the absence of those muted pastels of the past few years. Then toward the […]