Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for January 2026 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.Silly Symphonies Collector’s Box Set by Ted Osborne, Merrill De Maris, Al Taliaferro, Earl Duvall and others […]
Cathy Commiserations, Thatababy, Archie, Baseball America, Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Andy Capp, Rosebuds, and For Better or For Worse; plus Awards – The Splats, The Eisners, and Graphic Medicine. Including a 1950-2023 timeline of The Most Widely Circulated Syndicated Comic Strips.Cathy Guisewite, who took an extended sabbatical, has returned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of […]
We mentioned in passing the intellectual comic properties from 1930 that entered public domain status on January 1, 2026. Here we’ll take a deeper dive into those newspaper strips. Arguably the most famous of the comics is the Mickey Mouse comic strip that began on January 13, 1930. Of the tens of thousands of comic […]
There’s so much truly awful, frightening stuff going on that taking a day off to be silly seems, well, absolutely necessary. Maybe it’s the residual Yippie in me, but I think that, just as an army marches on its stomach, resistance needs a few laughs to keep everyone from sinking into the Slough of Despond.We […]
That two panel Nancy/No Ice in context, Revolutionary War comix, Bootleg Calvin and Hobbes, 2026’s Free Comic Book Day. Comic Giveaway Day (it’s complicated), 2026’s Best Picture Oscar eligible animation, powerhouses Disney and Webtoon partner.The Nancy NoticeAnyone with access to social media has seen those Nancy “Notice/No Ice” panels, it is ubiquitous. What may surprise […]
We got Big Nate, Bazooka Joe, The Family Circus, Channel Chuckles, FurBabies, The Ducktown Weekly. The Comics Paper, B.C., New Adventures of Queen Victoria, and Doonesbury.Missed it by two days. Big Nate debuted in newspapers on January 6, 1991 and Lincoln Peirce celebrates at GoComics Blog by ignoring the original core cast, instead profiling a […]
The Phantom is 90, Modesty Blaise is 63, Hugo Hercules is 123. and the 100 year old cartoons of Billy Bornes.The Man Who Cannot Die is BornNext month is the 90th anniversary of Lee Falk and Ray Moore‘s The Phantom.The Phantom Fan begins their celebrations early: In February of 1936, a young writer named Lee […]
13 months ago Liniers delighted us with a weeklong adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.” I expect to be as thoroughly enamored with his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream” this week in Macanudo.Guest CreatorsDeeper in 2024 we saw the retro-stylings of Howie Noel as he drew the adventures of Dick Tracy […]
Was distracted by some other projects lately and fell behind on opining and reporting comic strip news.New Year New ArtCaroline Cash took on the Nancy comic strip on Thursday January 1, 2026 and in showing Nancy through the ages, or artists if you prefer, nailed her opening show.An Old Year’s Day AnniversaryDecember 31, 2025 marked […]
This is an installment of 2025 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: The Dearly Departed) THE DEARLY DEPARTED These North American newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2025. David LynchJanuary 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025movie and […]
It was thirty years ago today that, after a ten year odyssey, one of the greatest comic strips ended its run. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson ceased appearing in newspapers on December 31, 1995.Bill Watterson had sent newspaper editors a letter notifying them of the decision to end the strip. As a thank you […]
From Il Post (via Google Translate from the Italian): On Christmas Eve 1925, 100 years ago, the London newspaper Evening News published a children’s story it had commissioned from the English writer Alan Alexander Milne. In a short introduction, Milne described his five-year-old son, Christopher Robin, coming down the stairs dragging a large teddy bear […]
Recommended Reading, Public Domain 2026, Cartoonist Writes, Recommended Reading PEN America has released the Longlists for their 2026 Literary Awards The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. The only comics-related book on the various lists is Dan Nadel‘s Crumb: A Cartoonists Life. Filled with comics is […]
As Linda Matchan of The Boston Globe tells it (or here): Peter Hotton, a beloved editor at The Boston Globe for half a century and the writer of a popular column, was a newspaperman of the old school. Hotton loved Globe history. He loved old news photos. He loved bringing his kids to Morrissey Boulevard […]
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