2024 Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award to Safiyya Hosein and Jonathan Najarian
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research…
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A Classic’s Centennial: Little Orphan Annie
One hundred years ago in the pages of The New York Daily News … The world, or New York anyway,…
Retiring at 50? Not Tank McNamara
Fifty years ago today former football player Tank McNamara made his debut as a TV news sportscaster. Seven days later,…
A List: “15 Longest Running Comic Strips” – Naturally We Quibble and Correct
Some of comics’ most iconic characters found their homes in these long-running comic strips, from Dick Tracy to Beetle Bailey….
1924 Symposium by American Cartoonists
100 years ago The San Francisco Bulletin ran a series featuring editorial cartoonists from across the nation. From The San…
Wayback Whensday Gerrymandered
August Froehlich, Bill Watterson, Lynn Johnston, Elkanah Tisdale, Charles Schulz, Garry Trudeau. Nazi Death Parade From The Smithsonian Magazine of…
First And Last: Tim Tyler’s Luck
Among the comic strips that became public domain this year was Tim Tyler’s Luck by Lyman Young. From Don Markstein:…
Comic Strips and Cartoonists in the News
Bob Eckstein is a prolific cartoonist, illustrator, best-selling author, and humorist who has been contributing to The New Yorker since…
Australian Cartoonists Association is 100
The world’s oldest cartooning organization, the Australian Cartoonists Association, celebrates 100 years of existence today. (Well, yesterday because, you know,…
Hey Kids! Comics! Maybe a NYT Top 100?
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2024 release. Images and links from a variety of…
Miss Cellany Tours the British Isles
First stop is Galway Ireland where she will return in a few months for The Galway Cartoon Festival. According to…
A Peanuts Gallery
Peanuts Worldwide is getting an early jump on the comic strip’s 75th anniversary: In honor of the 75th anniversary of Charles…
Malcolm Bridgewater’s Working Daze History (Revised and Expanded Edition)
About ten years Working Daze artist Scott Roberts (as Malcolm Bridgewater) gave us an in depth look at the history…
Revolutionary Era Political Cartoons
An exhibit of political cartoons in part from the last half of the 18th Century in (where else?) Philadelphia is…
Wayback Whensday – I Was Just A Child Then
Among the newly added journals at newspapers.com is a 10 month run from May 1880 to February 1881 of The…