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.
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 most prestigious comic festival in the world, the Angoulême International Comic Festival, has been cancelled by organizers after a sustained call for change by notable cartoonists and publishers from around the world. The event has been held annually in southern France since 1974 (omitting Covid-19 hiatus). According to Le Monde, Noémie de La Soujeole, […]
Cartoonists Rights is running its annual pledge drive to support its mission to defend cartoonists around the world who are threatened or persecuted for their cartoons. The free speech organization reports that as a non-profit they are facing several challenges this year: government withdrawals from humanitarian efforts, the Trump administration policies that create visa disruptions, […]
Kallaugher and Horsey on Editorial Cartooning Tomorrow Kevin KAL Kallaugher and David Horsey chat about the State of the Art and Cartooning the State: We will have a fun and free-wheeling conversation about cartoons, politics, commentary and creativity. We will welcome comments and questions from listeners. Kal talks with two-time Pulitzer winning cartoonist and columnist […]
The 70th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism was held on November 27, 2025 in Sydney. David Pope’s “Gaza” was awarded Cartoon of the Year at Australia’s national journalism awards. The Canberra Times noted Pope’s taking the honor for the third time (or here, kinda): David Pope and all the 2025 winners are listed […]
Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Omar has been referred to criminal court. Ashraf has been detained since July of 2024 on charges of joining a terrorist group, publishing false news, and misusing social media. The latest move advances Egypt’s effort to sentence Ashraf. Since his arrest Egypt’s State Security Prosecution has not provided evidence of his alleged […]
From the United Kingdom we have Modesty Blaise and Philip Sidney Woodford, from the USA West Coast we have new museums in Portland and Los Angeles, in Washington D.C. we have rumors of a Jake Tapper graphic novel, but we start with an update on the troubled Angouleme International Comics Festival in France. Angouleme Update […]
A Turkish court has ordered the release of LeMan satirical magazine cartoonist Doğan Pehlevan under judicial supervision in a case that had kept him behind bars since July on charges of insulting the president, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. From Turkish Minute: Last Friday an İstanbul court ordered Pehlevan’s release pending trial on the charges of […]
Webtoonist Jung Ji-hoon wins Yellow Kid Comic of the Year award for ‘The Horizon’ From Yoon So-YeonYOON at Korea JoongAng Daily: Korean webtoonist Jung Ji-hoon, who goes by the pen name JH, won the Yellow Kid Comic of the Year award at the Yellow Kid and Gran Guinigi Awards. “The Horizon” (2016) is a dystopian drama series […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for November 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. 12 by Milton Caniff The saga continues in Terry […]
Per Wikipedia: The Angoulême International Comics Festival (AICF; French: Festival international de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket of Japan. But from Humanity: The Angoulême Comic […]
Jeff Koterba shares a big announcement with us: Okay, so…cartoonists don’t get promotions. The great cartoonist and friend, Mike Peters (editorial cartoonist and creator of the comic strip, Mother Goose and Grimm), once said something like, “the only promotion a cartoonist ever gets is the day he’s hired.” There’s truth in that. I mean, when […]
Lotte Brundle for Country Life sat down with the very funny Daily Telegraph socio-political cartoonist Matt. Matt [Pritchett] has been the newspaper’s in-house cartoonist since 1988. He is better known simply as ‘MATT’ — the sign off he chose at the start of his career. Beloved for his daily jokes accompanied by characterful drawings… Matt […]
Bravo to Konopacki for making intelligent use of a moment in Casablanca that has become an insipid cliché in other hands. Saying “I’m shocked! Shocked!” merely makes the point that someone is pretending not to have known something they certainly did, which, most times, is obvious. (Yawn) But Konopacki uses it in perfect context: In […]