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To a standing ovation, Universal Uclick’s Lee Salem accepted the National Cartoonist Society’s Silver T-Square award. Introduced by Cathy Guisewhite.

Funny story by one of this year’s Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year Rick Kirkman, co-creator of Baby Blues, whose fortune cookie weeks before his Reuben Award win predicted “Many successes will accompany you this year.” I can’t even remember the last time I’d had a fortune that actually told a fortune. Most have been cheesy […]

Great news about Diesel Sweeties’ R. Stevens. From Boing Boing To help prevent lymphedema or control the swelling if it does happen, many doctors recommend we use compression sleeves. It used to be that the only kind of sleeves available looked like big ugly bandages, but LympheDIVAs, a company started by two women with breast […]

MAD Mag cartoonist and National Cartoonist Society President Tom Richmond posted a recap of the Reuben Award weekend. The interesting part to the tie for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year was that the votes were tallied twice and still ended up in a tie. The big surprise of the night was that there were TWO […]

Johnny Hart Walk of Fame star missing; foundBC comic creator Johnny Hart was honored with a star on the Sidewalk of the Stars in 1991 in Bingingham, NY, but that star went missing recently. Fortunately the star wasn’t stolen, but had come loose during snow removal and the city removed it for safe keeping until […]

The portrait of Calvin discoverying Hobbes again by comedian Craig Mahoney is said to induce uncontrollable tears by the Huffington Post. Stuff says it was the number one story on Huff Post.I count myself as a Calvin & Hobbes fan, like most, but Mahoney’s work just doesn’t stir any emotion from me. Now had the […]

Another great video by Tom Gammill produced for this year’s Reuben Awards.

Amazon has announced that one of the five pilots that will be developed into a series is Garry Trudeau’s Alpha House.Michael Cavna reports that Garry will be taking a summer sabbatical to work on the shows. The show features four big name actors such as John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson and Matt Malloyand, The […]

The Washington Post pulled Monday’s Barney & Clyde. I don’t think they’re issues of taste would change based on who created the strip, but I always find it interesting when the Post pulls comics it is related to. Barney & Clyde is WP humor columnist Gene Weingarten and is syndicated through the Washington Post Writers […]

For the second time in National Cartoonist Society history, two of the outstanding cartoonists of the year nominees are sharing the Reuben Award. Last night, the award was given to Brian Crane, creator of Pickles and Rick Kirkman, co-creator of Baby Blues. The only other time the award has been shared was back in 1968 […]

Lynn Johnston has posted several strips that never hit the newspaper – or some that did after getting reworked. Several times she notes that some strips should have run, but sometimes she was just too hard of a self-editor and othertimes, the gag was okay by today’s standards, but not so much for the early […]

Part of the National Cartoonists Society Reuben awards weekend is a panel entitled Women in Cartooning. Panelists will include Hilary Price (Rhymes with Orange), Cathy Guisewite (Cathy), Lynn Johnston (For Better or Worse), Terri Libenson (Pajama Diaries) and Jen Sorenson (Slowpoke). The event is presented by Carlow University and the National Cartoonists Society Foundation.From the […]

Robot 6 reports that Frank Cho was blocked from Facebook for 14 hours after someone took offense to one of his drawings. His access was finally restored 14 hours later.From Robot 6: After 14 hours of hell, my Facebook account is working again with no explanation,“ the artist wrote. ”Every time I login, my screen […]

CNN’s Jake Tapper has a sits down at the drawing table with ‘Doonesbury’ creator Garry Trudeau to talk about Doonesbury…and about supporting wounded warriors…and about his show Alpha House?

So you couldn’t afford an original Bill Watterson oil painting of Cul de Sac character Petey, or any of the two original strips that went to auction earlier this year. But maybe you can afford to buy one of five autographed Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Watterson or maybe even one of the five Watterson […]