After six months of renovations and upgrades the Museum part of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will reopen Saturday May 23. Madeline Bradshaw for Ohio State University’s The Lantern reports: Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, home to the world’s largest cartoon and comic collection, will turn a new page and […]
One my favorite artists, Florian Satzinger, has an exhibit translated into English as “Ducks, who save themselves in rocket ships” about a Florian’s work as a character designer. The exhibit runs Jun 3–Jul 26 at the Comic Museum in Erlangen, Germany.Florian is a character designer heavily influenced by Carl Barks, Bruno Bozzetto, André Franquin and […]
Baseball fan (Yankees and Phillies) Howard Goldstein has spent the better part of a lifetime collecting baseball memorabilia concentrating on the subject of Jewish participation. Parts of his collection have been spotlighted in museums around the nation including Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of Fame.The last few years saw Mr Goldstein get serious about exhibiting his collection […]
The Invention of the Mass Media, a Printing Revolution; Resizing Newspaper Comic Strips; The Tradition of Comic Art Satire; and Leo Baxendale. The Invention of Mass Media The Grolier Club’s The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Media exhibit ends in a week: This exhibition tells the story of the second printing revolution that took […]
2026 Lucy Caswell Research Award winners, the art of Peanuts by painter Tom Everhart, finalists in the new science fiction Nebula Award comics category, and a new James Bond comic strip collection (again). Billy Ireland 2026 Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award Winners: Dr. Standford Carpenter and Sebastian Martinez! The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum […]
With Alexis E. Fajardo, Randy Glasbergen, Amy Kurzweil, Mikke Stratton, Brian Fies, and Tom Toro. Kid Beowulf moves from GoComics to Patreon Kid Beowulf has finished running Book Four on GoComics and creator Alexis E. Fajardo has decided Book Five will be featured on his Patreon site rather than GoComics. Rachel DeSchepper interviews the cartoonist […]
Jason Chatfield tours The New Yorker exhibit and we tag along; The Funday Times returns to The Sunday Times; Bob Eckstein on Books and Bookstores; Old Animated Cartoons were Better than their Modern Counterparts (opinion); Healthy Graphics with Gillian Levine; and William Henry Jackson by William Henry Jackson (Bill) Griffith. A Tour of The New […]
With John “Front Page” Rose, New Yorker cartoonists Lynn Hsu and Brendan Loper, Ed Fischer, Jeff Koterba, Zander Cannon in Minneapolis, and Ron Coleman on pricing cartoons.John Rose is Up to SnuffSnuffy Smith and Barney Google cartoonist John Rose gets a page one, above the fold article in his local Ogden newspaper! John is profiled […]
Steve Sack returns to the drawing board, KAL shows how he creates and provides a flow chart, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Tessa Hulls is interviewed, Freebies: Comics Research Bibliography and Addenda and The Blue Road to Trump Hell, American Library’s list of Youth Media Awards (the Newbery, the Caldecott, the Alex for Peter Kuper, and […]
The Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman exhibit “Never Again!.. And again… And again…” currently at the Paris Galerie Martel art gallery has been extended another week. Originally scheduled to close tomorrow, visitors can view Joe and Art’s “graphic and political dialogue around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” on Gaza until January 17.Additionally, €80,000 was raised off of selling […]
The Comic Art Museum in Brussels features an exhibit called “The nature of Wauter Mannaert” featuring the work of Wauter Mannaert. From the exhibit website: Enter the universe of Flemish comic book author Wauter Mannaert: a world where ancient myths are crossed with today’s problems, where the city really begins to live and the personal […]
Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco‘s Never Again!..And Again…And Again…And Again three page graphic documentary on the Gaza tragedy issued earlier in 2025 will go on exhibition in Paris with the original art and preliminary drawing to sold with moneys going to UNICEF for the aid on the ground to Palestinian children.From La Galerie Martel Paris […]
An exhibit entitled “Faces of Peace” in the Church of the Holy Spirit (Bern, Switzerland) is being criticized as anti-Semitic for displaying portraits of journalists killed in Gaza. The artwork was created by Italian free-speech activist Gianluca Costantini.From Der Bund (translated with Google): The Jewish author Hannah Einhaus is always outspoken when she suspects antisemitism . She […]
The Museum of Australian Democracy has named Matt Golding its 2025 Political Cartoonist of the Year.MoAD’s announcement states: Golding was clear winner in the voting for this year’s award. A master of the pocket cartoon, in 2025 he created work that was funny, poignant and constantly inventive. His cartoons covered the big themes of the […]
New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Campbell comes to BoiseBoise Weekly spotlights Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell prior to her meet and greet at Pengilly’s Saloon. Hilary Campbell is a cartoonist for The New Yorker, comedian and author whose latest project blends humor with vulnerability. Her newest graphic memoir, “The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir About Food, Love […]