The winners of the 90th National Headliner Awards have been announced. The annual contest honors the best print, radio, television and online journalism in the United States published during 2023. The Press Club of Atlantic City has announced the winners of their 2024 National Headliner Awards. Clay Bennett of The Chattanooga Times Free Press won […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the finalists for their 2023 Reuben Divisional Awards. The nominees in the 12 categories are…Variety Entertainment = Kieran Castano; Chuck Dillon; Bob Weber, Jr. Advertising/Product Illustration = Chuck Dillon; Sam Grinberg; Pashur House Book Illustration = Landis Blair; Danesh Mohiuddin; Tom Richmond Online Comics: Short Form = Sarah Anderson; […]
A collection of some Peanuts/Snoopy/Charles Schulz items from April 2024. The 2024 Major League Baseball season brings with it Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Woodstock bobbleheads in in team colors and names. Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, and St. Louis Cardinals have promoted their flavor of Peanuts bobbleheads. The images I chose are from […]
And we’ll start with the For Better or For Worse rerun that went through the after effects this week of Farley’s death that was shown the week before (originally from April 1995). Even after occasional readings over the 30 years since it first happened it is still a touching story (start here). Touching enough for […]
The Texas Observer is celebrating it 70th year and the most recent issue covers its skewering of Texas politicos by way of editorial cartooning.Gayle Reaves at The Texas Observer regales us with tales of Observer cartoonists from the first Don Bartlett cartoon to the current Loon Star State cartoons of Ben Sargent. At the Observer, […]
The National Newspaper Awards are being presented at The Chelsea Hotel in Toronto tonight and the portfolio from Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald has been judged the winner of the Editorial Cartooning category. Bruce is repeating his win of last year and it is his ninth winning year overall. Congratulations to Bruce! Bruce had […]
A hodgepodge of recent comic related items featuring Jules Feiffer, David Potter, the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, Ed Steckley, Joel Priddy, William Hennessy, Allan (Sols) Salisbury. HarperCollins Publishers has announced the forthcoming publication of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer Jules Feiffer’s first graphic novel created for young readers. Amazing Grapes is scheduled for publication on […]
The satirical news website The Onion, and by extension cartoonist Stan Kelly, has been sold to Global Tetrahedron. From The Wrap: The Onion has sold to a new Chicago-based firm called Global Tetrahedron, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced [in a memo] Thursday, TheWrap has learned. TheWrap obtained Spanfeller’s memo in full below: “As I […]
Raw Story reports on a Rolling Stone article: Former President Donald Trump is enraged about how he looks in the courtroom sketches at his Manhattan trial — and thinks that the sketch artist is trying to make him look bad on purpose. According to Rolling Stone‘s Ryan Bort, Asawin Suebsaeng, and Catherina Gioino, the former […]
Some more thoughts on the lovely life of Trina Robbins from Andrew Farago at The Comics Journal, John Lent of the International Journal of Comic Art, and a few dozen more short remembrances from cartoonists and friends.Andrew Farago at The Comics Journal has a wonderfully detailed (halfway between profile and biography) obituary. Andrew and TCJ […]
A couple Sundays ago we noted Bob Weber, Jr.’s use of Lucky Bucks and crediting Paul Fung. We also linked to Mark Johnson’s thoughts on the origins of such comic ephemera: If I recall it right, it was Jimmy Murphy who started the extras like comic stamps, play money and cut-out dolls in Toots & […]
From Radio Free Europe: PEN America, along with a group of organizations that support cartoonists and artists, has condemned the violent arrest of Atena Farghadani, an Iranian cartoonist currently being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for attempting to hang one of her drawings on a wall near the presidential palace. Farghadani’s lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, […]
The National Cartoonists Society will have a booth at the Chicago Comic & Enterrtainment Expo on April 26 – 28. If you are in Chicago this weekend visit NCS member cartoonists at Booth 848. Several members of the NCS will be tabling over the weekend, including: Brian Gordon, George Gant, Harold Bucholz, Dee Fish, Johnny […]
Editorial cartoonist Bob Lynch has passed away.Robert Emery (Bob) Lynch April 15, 1933 – April 6, 2024From the obituary: He was eventually deployed to Korea and was a veteran of The Korean War. After his discharge, he attended The Cooper School of Art in Cleveland and spent the next ten years employed by various advertising […]
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have chosen 16 nominees from whom voters will select 4 to be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer. These 4 will be joining the 19 individuals that the judges have already chosen for the Hall of Fame. The 16 nominees are […]