Alarmed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement impact in their communities, Minnesota cartoonists have launched an effort to spread the word about ICE’s abuses and to call on other artists to share what they are witnessing in their own communities.The seed of this movement came from graphic novelist K. Woodman-Maynard after she created an editorial for […]
Visits with Dee Parson, Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, Tom Toro, John Rose, Charles Schulz, Mark Tatulli, Mort Gerberg, Garrick Tremain, and Jean Clude Block.Adventure Into The Unknown Title PanelOn his Facebook page Dee Parson admonishes his local newspaper for not publishing the entire Rosebuds Sunday comic strip: It’s unfortunate one of the local newspapers that carries […]
I wasn’t paying attention when I noted Emma Allen‘s article about Otto Soglow. It was only one small part of The New Yorker’s annual Cartoons & Puzzles edition for 2025.The highlight of the issue are the “comic strip” profiles of a half dozen former New Yorker cartoonists by current New Yorker cartoonists. Michael Maslin offers […]
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 […]
It’s that time of the year again, Thanksgiving is over and all of your Christmas/Hanukah shopping is done, the only thing left to do, other than drawings your daily editorial cartoons, is to go through your 2025 archives and decide which ones should be sent for consideration to the various award committees.Here is a list […]
FranceInfo has announced their 10 finalists for their Prix de la bande dessinée d’actualité et de reportage (award for current affairs and reportage comics AKA graphic journalism). The prize has been awarded since 1994.This year’s finalists (with Google translation)The winner will be announced in mid-January.
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for October 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Our mid-month October Hey Kids! Comics! list had scores of books. When we started getting news […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for October 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Drift Marlo: The Space Race Comic Strip by Phil Evans, I. M. Levitt, and Tom Cooke […]
The August 31, 2025 issue of The New York Times For Kids will be the last print edition the paper announced. The supplement first appeared on May 14, 2017, eventually moving to the last Sunday of every month.From Vivian Ewing’s New York Times communiqué (or here): Beginning with that very first issue [or here], members […]
ImageText, a web-based journal from the Department of English at the University of Florida with free and full public access, has released their most recent and very interesting issue (Vol15 #3) with four feature articles.The articles are: Chris Ware’s New Yorker Covers and American School Shootings by Ryan Banfi The New Yorker commissions and accepts […]
There is a “Why all the surprise?” element to our current situation. A large part of it has to do with siloing, with the fact that, in today’s media market, there are a good number of people who only take their information from partisan sites, and I’ll admit that most of what I see from […]
The National Cartoonists Society is honored to announce that Art Spiegelman will receive the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his extraordinary and lasting impact on the art of cartooning. Named for Terry and the Pirates creator Milton Caniff, this award is bestowed by unanimous vote of the NCS Board to recognize a lifetime of outstanding and accomplished work. The Milton Caniff Lifetime […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection, vol. 11 (1945) by Milton Caniff It’s a […]
Letters to the Editor: Praise and Religion, and The 4th of July; Government Censorship; The Ducktown Weekly; The New York Times For Kids; and more Mafalda.LoC: Praise for Some and Objections to Religious ComedyA letter writer to The Daily Hampshire Gazette: Now, more than ever, when the Gazette arrives each morning, I skip the headlines […]
Featuring Jules Feiffer, Jane Rosenberg, Quino and Mafaldo, Lynda Barry and other autobiographical cartoonists, Steve Bonello. Cyril Tighe, Matt Groening, and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes on sale.Jules Feiffer, PlaywrightCartoonist Jules Feiffer was the author of Little Murders (1967), Feiffer’s People (1969), Knock Knock (1976), Elliot Loves (1990), among other plays and was remembered in […]