Call for Reuben Divisional Award Entries
The National Cartoonists Society has begun its annual call for entries for consideration for the NCS Divisional Reuben Awards recognizing…
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Tomorrow, or The Near Future (Maybe the Recent Past)
Brent Dyer, Douglas Coffin, Tom Batiuk, Keith Knight, Leigh Rubin, Ron Campbell, Norman Thelwell – Cartoonists on display. Brent Dyer…
The 2023 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Button & Poster by G. B. Trudeau
“Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau has released his button design for the 2023 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. Using the Winter Carnival’s…
CSotD: The Amazing Day With No Celebrations
In today’s Frazz (AMS), Caulfield asks an important question: Why do we celebrate Groundhog Day? More to the point, do…
R.F.D. Ends
Rural Free Delivery continues for those of you in the hinterlands, but the R.F.D. comic strip by Mike Marland has…
Barbara Brandon-Croft is Getting Noticed
Cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft and the collection of her comic strip Where I’m Coming From has been getting some rave reviews…
CSotD: Kids, Parents, Work, Play
In these fraught times, silly humor is doubly welcome, and educational as well: Bizarro (KFS) also offers a new-to-me term…
Wallace the Brave Scavenger Hunt
Andrews McMeel and Will Henry have devised a contest with the reward being a print of the very first Wallace…
Yesterday, When I Was Young
Okay, it was only a day ago but I was younger. And some cartoonist were also younger, or their surrogates…
CSotD: Generation Gaps
I don’t know how things are working in Ireland, but the couple in this Graeme Keyes cartoon would have to…
Mark Schultz in the Comics of Hal Foster
The Scranton Sunday Times features a profile of current Prince Valiant writer Mark Schultz on the front page (but below…
Paper Reduces Sunday Funnies to Four Color Comics
That’s four color comics, not four-color comics. The Prescott Daily Courier will shrink its Sunday Color Comics print section to…
CSotD: Complaint Dept.
Adam Zyglis explains the ongoing outrage factor, in which the Republicans work to rile up the public over dubious threats…
Comic Criticism is Friday’s Filing
I wonder how he did it. How did Brian Crane, creator of the comic strip “Pickles,” sneak into our house…
First and Last: Rusty Riley
By 1948 Frank Godwin (b. 1889) had spent a good 40 years as a respected and requested illustrator for newspapers,…