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 […]
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 […]
That two panel Nancy/No Ice in context, Revolutionary War comix, Bootleg Calvin and Hobbes, 2026’s Free Comic Book Day. Comic Giveaway Day (it’s complicated), 2026’s Best Picture Oscar eligible animation, powerhouses Disney and Webtoon partner.The Nancy NoticeAnyone with access to social media has seen those Nancy “Notice/No Ice” panels, it is ubiquitous. What may surprise […]
Todd Spangler for Variety reports: Sony is paying more than a few peanuts to get majority ownership of Charles M. Schulz’s beloved Peanuts franchise featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown and more. Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) announced that they entered into a definitive agreement with Canadian media company WildBrain to indirectly acquire all […]
Almost two months ago, October 2, Peanuts celebrated the 75th year since it debuted. Late this month Peanuts is again in the news as Charles M. Schulz‘s birthday, November 26, 1922, and, of course, the re-airing re-streaming of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving both occurred recently. Following are some news stories covering both events and more. […]
Steamboat Willie in court; Watership Down in France; Patron the Dog out in Ukraine; and a brand new “Cartoonist” fragrance joins Journalist and Editor-in-Chief.Law Firm Takes Disney to Court over PD Steamboat Willie Use Mickey’s century-old steamboat finds itself in hot water, as Orlando-based law firm Morgan & Morgan has filed a lawsuit (published online […]
The Walt Disney Co. will acquire a 2% equity stake in Webtoon Entertainment Inc., a digital comic and novel platform operator owned by South Korea’s internet giant Naver Corp., as they team up to build a new digital comics platform featuring the US entertainment giant’s marquee brands, including Marvel and Star Wars. Sookyung Seo at […]
While Peanuts celebrates its Diamond Anniversary Hallmark marks a 65 year partnership with the comic strip.My Facebook has been inundated with ads for unlicensed Peanuts shirts – it didn’t help that I clicked on one of the links, ensuring even more intrusions. This stuff is “not sold in stores” and “only available for a limited […]
With: Joe Caroff and 007; Kevin Kalluagher (KAL) and The Economist; Bill Maher and National Lampoon; TYove Janssen and The Moomins; Doris Carr and Marmaduke; the U. S. Mint and Superman; Joe Staton and Dick Tracy; and Carole Curtis.Joe Caroff – RIPFrom Jeré Longman at The New York Times the Joe Caroff obituary (or here): […]
Webtoon Entertainment, the New York-listed parent company of Naver Webtoon, said Wednesday it will adapt some of Disney’s most popular franchises — including Marvel, Star Wars and 20th Century Studios — into vertical-scroll webtoons for the U.S. market via a global content partnership with Disney. The company will launch a dedicated Disney section in its […]
Daryl Cagle proudly notes that his syndicate is the exclusive image provider to Cartoons for the Classroom: You may remember Newspapers in Edication (NIE) from decades ago when they would deliver stacks of newspapers to classrooms across America; they are still around and have been partnering with the AAEC (Association of American Editorial Cartoonists) for […]
Revealed is Peanuts merchandise debuting at this month’s San Diego Comic-Con and some exclusive Peanuts products available only at the SDCC. Plus other Peanuts collectibles coming your way. Peanuts is celebrating its 75th anniversary in a big way at San Diego Comic-Con with a booth, a nostalgic pop-up shop, and a Friday afternoon panel — […]
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 […]
Following up on our report of Peanuts trading cards (scroll to the bottom) comes news of The Phantom trading cards. And like those Peanuts cards with Schulz art The Phantom cards have art by Sunday Phantom artist Jeff Weigel, but in this case it is new art. From Frew Publications in Australia: The Phantom Generations […]
The latest GoComics update from mid-June 2025 tells us of improvements to the site.Visit the twice monthly updated *What’s New on GoComics* page for continued news.NCS Wear Grab a piece of cartooning history! We recently discovered a treasure trove of NCS exclusive t-shirts that had been tucked away in our storage facility in Florida and […]