Cartoonist, illustrator, artist Dave Kirwan has passed away. David Michael (Dave) Kirwan June 15, 1951 – April 4, 2026 From the obituary: It was during his childhood spent watching late-night monster movies and creating scenery for summer theater productions that his love for drawing and painting first took hold, as did his eternal fervor for […]
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 […]
Sports cartoonist and caricaturist Jerry Dowling has passed away. Jeremy John (Jerry) Dowling November 16, 1939 – March 7, 2026 Friends of cartoonist Jerry Dowling are reporting on social media that he died Saturday night. Jerry had entered hospice care in the past week. We had profiled his career, mostly with The Cincinnati Enquirer, just […]
Starring Lynda Barry, Jon Kudelka, Paul Noth, Amy Kurzweil, the dynamic dou of Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy, and an A.I. Scott Adams! Let’s start this post off with a smile. Lynda Barry If you are anything like me just the sight of the lovely Lynda Barry makes you smile. And if can see her […]
Newspaper illustrator and animated sports cartoonist Grey Blackwell has passed away. Nelson Grey Blackwell, Jr. November 19, 1969 – February 4, 2026 From the obituary: Nelson Grey Blackwell, Jr., lovingly known as Grey, age 56, of Oxford, North Carolina, passed away on February 4, 2026, in his hometown of Oxford. He went on to earn […]
Jamar Nicholas, in his role as National Cartoonists Society vice-president, interviewed a trio of NCS members: Andrew Farago, Bill Hinds, and Milburn Taylor. Though the interviews were recorded a year and a half ago they were just recently uploaded to the NCS YouTube channel.NCS Studio Visits: Member Spotlight on Andrew Farago Andrew Farago is the […]
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 […]
In the Denis Kitchen, the MADness of Tom Richmond, a Jules Feiffer rarity, the last Scott Adams obituary, and Stephan Pastis as prophet. Publisher, Editor, Free Speech Advocate, and Cartoonist Ruben Bolling reviews Denis Kitchen‘s interview with Kim Munson at The Society of Illustrators. Kitchen has had a fascinating and extensively influential career. He started […]
It’s National Popeye the Sailor Man Day; Alison Bechdel on the what is needed to start a commune; the complete (not an exaggeration) history of the Museum of Cartoon Art by Brian Walker; and the Society of Illustraor’s 2026 Hamilton King Award goes to The BalbussoTwins. The 2026 Hamilton King Award The Society of Illustrators […]
The 2026 Garry Trudeau designed Saranac Lake Winter “Cartoonival” buttons and posters are out in the wild, as is a new G. B. Trudeau interview.Aaron Marbone at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports: SARANAC LAKE — Good news, everyone! The posters and buttons for the 2026 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival, themed “Cartoonival” this year, have hit […]
Mike Lynch, Jim Keefe, Patrick McDonnell, Steve Brodner, and David G. Brown talk the about the art.Mike Lynch Interview Eerie Rottica, burlesque performer and cartoonist, interviews Mike Lynch cartoonist and arts teacher. EERIE: In my burlesque acts I rely on a formula of setup & reveal. So far, I’ve been comparing this to the formula […]
This is an installment of 2025 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: The Dearly Departed) THE DEARLY DEPARTED These North American newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2025. David LynchJanuary 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025movie and […]
From Il Post (via Google Translate from the Italian): On Christmas Eve 1925, 100 years ago, the London newspaper Evening News published a children’s story it had commissioned from the English writer Alan Alexander Milne. In a short introduction, Milne described his five-year-old son, Christopher Robin, coming down the stairs dragging a large teddy bear […]
As Linda Matchan of The Boston Globe tells it (or here): Peter Hotton, a beloved editor at The Boston Globe for half a century and the writer of a popular column, was a newspaperman of the old school. Hotton loved Globe history. He loved old news photos. He loved bringing his kids to Morrissey Boulevard […]
The top tier of Jeff Mallett‘s treatise on Christmas traditions in today’s Frazz hits on the American Santa Claus as a long-standing part of Yuletide season, ending with Thomas Nast‘s personification of the elflord.The Birth of a Holiday and the American Santa ClausYesterday Talmadge Boston for The Dallas Morning News told us the story of […]