The Bryn Mawr-New Yorker Connection Cartoonist Maggie Larson contributed a cartoon to her alma mater’s Bryn Mawr Bulletin and they included a brief profile and an addendum noting Bryn Mawr past cartoons in The New Yorker. Letting Go Jonny Manning for the BBC tells of Peter Hansen thinning his comics collection. Many children collected comic […]
With Frank Stack, David Oskow, Peter Kuper, Jeff Koterba, Adam Zyglis, Rick McKee, and Daryl Cagle. Frank Stack, NY Times Obituary Apparently The New York Times didn’t have an obituary for Frank Stack “in the can.” A month after Stack’s passing we finally get a notice of death from the paper of record by Michael […]
Featuring George Gant, Gerald Vreden and Hakim Rafai, Mason Mastroianni, Howie Noel, Kieran Castaño, Paul Noth, and Bill Schorr.The Glyph AwardsThe East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) has announced the winners of their Glyph Awards, honoring “outstanding achievements in comics made by, for, and about people of color.” George Gant, the Beware of […]
A roundup of good tidings about comic strip and magazine cartoonists feauring Wayno®, Lincoln Peirce, Sy Barry, Liza Donnelly, Gideon Smiley, Harry Bliss, and cartoonists from The Saturday Evening Post of the 1950s and 1960s. Wayno’s Reuben Portfolio As noted here Wayno® is a finalist for this year’s Silver (divisional) Reuben as Best Newspaper Panel […]
Alan Dunn architectural cartoonist; Brian Fies graphic medicine artist, U of Missouri cartoon archives.Alan Dunn Architectural CartoonistLast year we noted a Gabriele Neri article for Architectural Record about cartoons relevant to that magazine and the profession it spotlights. There was a note mentioning New Yorker cartoonist Alan Dunn. Little did we suspect that Neri was […]
The National Cartoonists Society has revealed the nominees for their 2025 Divisional Reuben Awards. ADVERTISING / PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION Pat Higgins – Liniers – Pashur ART FOR ANIMATED MEDIA Gogopedro – Chari Pere – Mike Salva BOOK ILLUSTRATION Jason Chatfield – Mike Deas – Chuck Dillon COMIC BOOK Jackie Musto – Eric Powell – Stan Sakai […]
With Greg Evans, Paul Noth, Howie Noel, Sandra Bell-Lundy, Matt Kindt, and Keith Frady and Phillip Ginn. Evans’s English Greg Evans has written letters to The San Diego Union-Tribune column Lederer on Language questioning the use of English. Richard Lederer has recently collected and printed a few of them. Greg writes, “I stumble on (and […]
Featured in the parade are Luke McGarry, Gary Varvel, W. Heath Robinson. Joe Long, Steve Brodner, John Cuneo, and Tom Richmond with gags, books, lectures, awards, carucatures, and returning to a first love. Luke McGarry Picks a Weird Hill to Die On Luke McGarry, the famous co-cartoonist of KidTown, was interviewed by Comic Beat’s Diego […]
The Museum of Wisconsin Art, following the lead of Vermont, has launched a Cartoonist Laureate of Wisconsin program and named Paul Noth as the first recipient of the honor in their Summer 2026 newsletter. The Museum of Wisconsin Art is pleased to announce Paul Noth as the first Cartoon Laureate of Wisconsin. One of the […]
A few cartoonists, past and present, are spotlighted. Vaughan Tomlinson Magazine cartoonist Vaughan Tomlinson (Readers Digest, Airmail, Alta, Private Eye, The Oldie, Weekly Humorist, etc.) has been contributing panels to Comics Kingdom for a year now and The Kingdom’s Alex Garcia has now gotten around to interviewing him about how Vaughan goes about creating Oddly […]
With Patrick McDonnell, Emma Allen, Jim Keefe, Patrick O’Connor, Tatiana Gill, Dan Dare, and the NCS. A Note from Patrick McDonnell In anticipation of a new MUTTS Treasury being released later this month Patrick McDonnell sends a note: There’s something special about sharing our precious time with the beings we love… That spirit is at […]
Featuring John Rose (and Fred LAsswell), Liana Finck, Rob Rogers, Liza Donnelly, Amy Kurzweil, Kate Isenberg, and Polly Lou Adams. John Rose Keeps ‘Snuffy Smith’ In The Funny Pages West Virginia Public Broadcasting interviewed cartoonist John Rose: The hillbilly stereotype is frequently used to shame mountain people, but there are gentler versions, like Snuffy Smith, […]
British cartoonist Glen Baxter has passed away. Glen Baxter March 4, 1944 – March 29, 2026 From WePresent in 2020 comes a wonderful account of the life and times of Glen Baxter by Liv Sidall: Confusing us, forcing us to question our relationship with words, pictures, or even the format of books, makes him happy. […]
Showcasing the talents of Harley Schwadron, Jeff Koterba, Maximilian Uriarte, Medar de la Cruz, Sydney Lindstrom, Tony Millionaire, and Barbara Shermund. Harley Schwadron Claudia Capos for Michigan Today profiles Harley Schwadron their Wizard of Wit alumni. Schwadron is an internationally acclaimed freelance cartoonist and illustrator whose work has been published seemingly everywhere: The New York […]
Françoise Mouly on Roz Chast’s new New Yorker cover and Bob Eckstein interviews Grant Snider. Roz Chast Block Printing Françoise Mouly calls it “block printing,” I have always called it “woodcuts,” I guess it is also called “wood engraving.” It there a difference? Anyway here is Roz Chast‘s New Yorker cover for March 30, 2026. […]