Filed under: Comic Books

For reasons unexplained I have dozens of cartoonist self-caricatures. Before deleting them thought I’d share ’em. So… Not enough? Hundreds more at…

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2025 release (or so).Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Hägar the Horrible: The First 50 Years by Dik Browne It’s time to set sail with the […]

George Herriman and Krazy Kat! Richard Felton Outcalt and The Yellow Kid! Frank Frazetta and Buck Rogers!The surreal brilliance of George Herriman It was sheer coincidence that led to the intersecting of reading “Which Language Is the Richest in Words?,” an article from Interpreters & Translators, full-page Inc. by Toni Andrews, followed by an engaging […]

Joann Mackenzie for the Gloucester Daily Times talks to local cartoonist Mark Parisi (or here), nominated for the National Cartoonists Society’s 2024 Cartoonist of the Year aka The Reuben Award. Now in its 38th year and distributed daily by United Press Syndicate [sic] to some 100 newspapers, “Off The Mark” [link added] has been described […]

I admit that I don’t follow Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane religiously due to the weird (to me) arcs. But this week’s amusement with Edda and Amos is sweet and endearing (so far). We’ll see if Brooke can keep it on course, meaning the course I want. Though my favorite individual comic of this week […]

Before the Golden Age comic book size of 7½” by 10½” became the accepted standard there were various sizes. What some consider “the first American newsstand comic book of all original material,” The Funnies, was published in the tabloid dimensions of 10.5″ x 15.5.” By the late 1930s the size of stapled comic books were […]

Guilford College’s Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR) program is receiving more national recognition. Only this time the attention is coming from an unexpected source: a comic strip. Josh Neufeld, a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times, published a comic strip earlier this month in The Boston Globe that […]

Comics artist Tod Smith has passed away. Tod Garfield Smith October 4, 1952  –  April 4, 2025From the Providence Journal obituary: Tod Garfield Smith, 72, of Rocky Hill, CT, passed away on April 4, 2025, after a long illness. Throughout his childhood, Tod was a fan of comic books and comic book heroes and was […]

Yeah, your potrzebian correspondent is most of the way through “The MAD Files”, a book collecting essays from various sources about the famed satirical magazine. Which is how this post will be – collecting news items related to cartoonists and cartooning from veeblefetzers near and far. HooHah! How Tom Richmond joined The Usual Gang of […]

A few days ago we reported on Scott Adams making public his terminal prostate cancer condition.That was naturally big national news. Here are the Associated Press and United Press International reports. Closer to Adams’ home was the San Jose Mercury-News story of their local(ish) cartoonist’s announcement. Later it was revealed that President Trump called Trump […]

Cartoonist Robert Crumb profiled; cartoonist Dan O’Neill and the Air Pirates collective of cartoonists; and cartoonist and publisher Denis Kitchen and Kitchen Sink Press. The Daily Cartoonist goes underground.R. Crumb If acid expanded Crumb’s consciousness, his discovery of underground comics in late 1965 was the real epiphany. Underground newspapers—The East Village Other, the Los Angeles Free […]

Dick Tracy, Mutts, Macanudo, Moomin, Marmaduke, and 2025 Eisner Award nominations and a bunch of cartoonists associated with the aforementioned.Mike and McDonnell Return (briefly?)Today ends Eric Costello‘s seven month “guest writer” stint on Dick Tracy as Mike Curtis returns as the credited writer beginning Sunday, May 18, 2025 (no “guest writer” insert). We’ll see how […]

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Let’s start with one I just learned about that should have been on the February […]

Eye Lie Popeye by Marcus Williams debuted on Comics Kingdom today (ignore that Friday May 9 date). While the official story of this Popeye story claims that “the series has already made waves since debuting during Free Comic Book Day [of 2024]” it had partially appeared earlier episodically as a webcomic preview in late 2022. […]

The New Yorker, The Lockhorns, Flash Gordon, Phil Miller, Jim Steranko. Yaakov Kirschen, and John Donohue are in the spotlight.Since Mike ends with a video I’ll start with a video. N.Y.C.’s ROOF Studio partnered with Le Truc, the creative collective within Publicis Groupe, alongside The Condé Nast Creative Marketing Team and Human, to create an […]