WEBTOON, the giant South Korean webcomics publisher, has released its annual report. WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Financial Results: Junkoo Kim, Founder and CEO said, “We are pleased to report solid fourth quarter results, with revenue in line with our expectations and Adjusted EBITDA above the top end of our […]
Glenn Marshall reports that members of the British Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation visited the House of Commons to urge Members of Parliament to pass the “Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act”. The act would “prohibit the sale and promotion of tourist activities abroad where animals are kept or treated in ways that would be illegal in the […]
And with Stephen R. Bissette, Steve Nease, Dennis the Menace. Jason Chatfield, Mickey Mouse, others. Stephen R. Bissette is Sixth Vermont Cartoon Laureate Mary Ann Lickteig for Seven Days reports on the honor and profiles Stephen R. Bissette: Windsor cartoonist Stephen R. Bissette has been named Vermont’s sixth cartoonist laureate. The artist — renowned for […]
Lakes International Comic Arts Festival (LICAF) has announced a number of updates head of this year’s festival. The British festival launched a new website, logo, poster, and this year’s special guest Bill Sienkiewicz.Bill, a classically-trained painter, is a multi-Eisner Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated artist. His career includes creating work for both Marvel and DC, Disney, […]
Ninety years ago Oor William and The Browns started appearing in their separate comic strips for The Sunday Post’s Fun Section under titles in their native Scottish dialect Oor Wullie and The Broons. Both comic strips were by the same creative team of writer Robert D. Low and artist Dudley Watkins. The BBC celebrates the […]
A new 52-page report documents a troubling rise in threats against cartoonists worldwide has been published. The report finds threats are extending beyond arrests, imprisonment and censorship to include legal harassment and prolonged court battles. It also raises awareness that these threats are not longer confined to authoritarian regimes but are increasing in free-speech friendly […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last April we reported that Solidarity and AfriForum had filed a complaint with the Press Council South Africa against the Daily Maverick after a Zapiro cartoon was published that suggested that AfriForum and Solidarity were claiming there as a genocide of white farmers in South Africa. The Deputy Ombudsman initially ruled against the paper, but […]
Italian activist/artist Gianluca Costantini will be attending and live-drawing this year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC) to distill complex geopolitical issues into a “visual language that can engage a wider audience.” This year’s MSC will be held February 13-15. Over a thousand dignitaries and heads of state will attend. This is Gianluca’s second MSC. He hopes […]
Croatian cartoonist Damir Novak was shot and killed by a neighbor after an alleged years-long property border dispute came to a deadly end on February 6. The neighbor committed later committed suicide. Damir was 66.Damir’s first cartoon was published in 1982 in the weekly Međimurje. In the following years he became one of the most prominent […]
Australian editorial cartoonist Jon Kudelka has passed away. Jonathan Oscar (Jon) Kudelka February 22, 1972 – February 8, 2026 Jon Kudelka’s family has announced the passing of the cartoonist: We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday 8 February 2026, surrounded by his family […]
At the close of this year’s Le Grand Off, the festival awarded the Prix Charlie Schlingo to French cartoonist Guillaume Bouzard for his album Les Vacances chez Pépé-Mémé. The album is described as a short, gag-driven comic about childhood holidays with grandparents, rendered in Guillaume’s trademark crude, elastic offbeat drawing style.The other prize of the night: The “Couilles […]
UK’s Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation (PCO) handed out their annual Splats Awards a few days ago. The only place I’m finding the results of The Splats Awards is on the PCO Bluesky account where they also post photos of the event. The winners are… Kevin Wells for Best Caricature Grizelda for Best Current Affairs Grizelda again […]
If you think that headline is confusing, buckle up. Today, on the first day of the new indie Angoulême festival, Le Grand Off (organized to replace the canceled 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival), the Association FIBD, along with disgraced 9e Art+ festival manager Franck Bondoux, announced they will sue the Association for the Development of […]