With First Amendment Essay and Editorial Cartoon Contest young winners; half a billion views for animated feature K Pop Demon Hunters; Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra on the cover of the 2026 New Yorker wall calendar; Scott Adams waiting for his “come to Jesus” moment; and praise for a retiring cartoonist Walt Handelsman.2025 WNAF Editorial […]
$6 Dollars for 6 MonthsKing Features is playing Friday’s Child this weekend by giving a subscription bargain to their Comics Kingdom site. $6 dollars for 6 months! Scroll toward the bottom for the bargain. The NCS Gives Fair WarningThe National Cartoonists Society is giving advance notice that they will soon be opening the window for […]
Frew’s The Phantom reaches #2000, Walt Handelsman The Saints Caption Contest sets a record, a new Bob Staake book coming, news deserts and digitals – a report, Jason Chatfield on Substack as an alternative revenue stream, and The Kinks get a comic strip mention.The Phantom #2000Missed it. Frew Publications in Australia earlier this year published […]
The Failure of G. B. Trudeau My childhood dream, like the popularity of print newspapers, inevitably faded. I had long been bewitched by the comics pages folded into each edition of the Times-Picayune, the newspaper with which I grew up in my suburb of New Orleans. The pages stood out because of the implicit respect […]
A roundup of various news items about comic strips and comic strip cartoonists. Synchronous Syndicate Symposium First is Comics Kingdom throwing a spotlight on Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey. Seventy-five years. That’s how long Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey has been making readers laugh, wink, and occasionally nod in recognition at life’s small absurdities. From his very […]
A couple items I’ve been sitting on for too long.2025 Buffalo News Editorial Cartoon Contest WinnersFrom The Buffalo News and Adam Zyglis (or here): On June 23rd, we honored the winners of our annual Editorial Cartoon Contest with a wonderful ceremony at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site. Our local students always display such talent and […]
I’ve had enough reality lately, but it’s best to ease your way out of it gently to avoid getting the bends, and Sharon Murdoch’s reality-based take on an old Irish blessing is just what I needed. I hung around with Irish ex-pats for several years and never ran into this blessing except in gift shops. […]
Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar in San Diego; Wayno in Pittsburgh; Steve Bell in London; Bill Watterson in Amazon; High and Middle School Cartoonists in Wisconsin; Hilary B. Price in Massachusetts. While TDC’s Mike Peterson is giving us “live” reports from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists/ Association of Canadian Cartoonists convention (Day 1, Day […]
Louis M. Glackens, Benjamin Franklin, Rube Goldberg, Harvey Kurtzman, Homer Davenport. [Louis M.] Glackens was born in 1866 in Philadelphia and started drawing at an early age alongside his younger brother, William. While the latter went on to become a successful painter and prominent member of the Ashcan School, which focused on realistic portrayals of […]
Garfield, FurBabies, Calvin and Hobbes, Bliss/Not Bliss/Bob Mankoff Presents, The K Chronicles, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Popeye, caption contests, and Mike Peterson captioned.The LIFE Story of Garfield Ever since Garfield swaggered onto the pages of 41 American newspapers on June 19, 1978, the rotund feline famous for his love of lasagna, naps, and sarcastic asides […]
The 2023 Davenport International Cartoon Contest has opened the window for accepting submissions. Announcing the 2023 Davenport International Cartoon Contest! A festival that honors a famous Political Cartoonist seems almost naked without some kind of competition focused on that endeavor. To that end, the International Cartoon Contest has returned! Also, since we have not changed […]
Yes, Columbus is the place to be, but outside Ohio there is also news.© Nidhi Chanani; Peter Conrad; MariNaomiThe San Francisco Examiner has partnered with Andrew Farago of the Cartoon Art Museum. Twice each month, The Examiner’s Comix Showcase will highlight the art and artists of the Bay Area, with an emphasis on local comics […]
Announcing the 2022 Davenport International Cartoon Contest! A festival that honors a famous Political Cartoonist seems almost naked without some kind of competition focused on that endeavor. To that end, the International Cartoon Contest has returned! Also, since we have not changed either our entry fees or our prizes in over 30 years, we have […]
Cartoonist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq Honors The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) and the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will highlight the career and accomplishments of the renowned cartoonist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq during a ceremony at Belmont Park on Saturday, July 9 as part of the Stars and Stripes Racing Festival.In 2020, Bellocq […]
Sorry about the tight deadline (April 20, 2022) but here’s a fun project for the cartoonist in your family. RubeGoldberg.com hosts the famous annual Rube Goldberg Machine contest where building a physical Rube Goldberg contraption is the object. Now they have added a cartoon contest!Details and rules at RubeGoldberg.com New at GoComicsWhile Andrews McMeel Syndication is […]