An addition to your “Complete” Calvin and Hobbes to make it complete, the Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, and the Deer Hunting sports cartoons of Gregg Klees. Let’s start off with a reminder that there is only one day left to be a part of the Kickstarter that guarantees you receive volumes one and two […]
A wonderful and much needed comics information source is now available to the public at large! Years (decades) ago Ray Bottorff, Jr. began compiling a list of comic-related mass market paperbacks, for which he coined the term ComicBacks™, and sharing his findings with others interested in that specialized field. What Exactly Is a ComicBack? Basically, […]
Artist, illustrator, and cartoonist Charles Criner has passed away. Charles Criner November 27, 1945 – September 17, 2025 From the obituary: Charles Criner, renowned African American artist, master printmaker, and beloved Houston cultural figure, passed away peacefully on September 17, 2025, surrounded by family. He was 79. From Black Art in America: During his years […]
Here we will identify the tenth artist to draw baseball card cartoons for Topps who is now known by name. As was the case for the cartoonists featured in Part II, the artist in question here is known to have worked for Topps in other, non-sports capacities – for what it’s worth, the assertion that […]
Featuring Lorenzo Mattotti, Sergio Aragonés, Jason Chatfield. Rick Stromoski, Drew Litton, MAD, Arch Dale, and Mark Knight. Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art The National Cartoonists Society and Lakes International Comic Art Festival have announced Lorenzo Mattotti as the winner of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art. The Sergio Aragonés International Award […]
[Jerry] Dowling was The Enquirer’s sports cartoonist from 1967 to 1995, covering the best period of Cincinnati sports. The Reds of the 1970s, the Bengal’s beginnings and two Super Bowls, the rise and fall of Pete Rose. At 85 he’s still drawing. I noticed on his drawing table unfinished caricatures of Courtis Fuller and the […]
The Chinese have their water torture and the Australians, well the National Cartoon Gallery anyway, have their own form of torment. This year’s Rotary Cartoon Awards were held two weeks ago but the disclosure of the winning cartoonists and the runners-up were announced one day at a time since the ceremony. But we finally have […]
Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons? Part III Here in Part III, we will identify the last of the three contributors to the 1960 set. My identification will be based entirely on stylistic comparisons, as I do not have any external corroboration that the artist I will name ever worked in any capacity for […]
In “Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons, Part I“, we examined the cartoons made by the small number of artists for whom we possessed prior documentation of their work on baseball cards for Topps. In that introductory article I also announced that subsequent installments would provide identifications of five previously anonymous Topps baseball cartoonists. […]
Bazooka Brands has teamed up with a dozen professional athletes for a new series of bubble gum comic strips. NEW YORK, Sept. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire: Bazooka Brands™ is introducing a bold, new, limited-edition comic series including some of the biggest sports stars that begins rolling into retail this September. Consumers will enjoy their favorite athletes […]
None of the many cartoonists who worked on Topps baseball cards from the 1950s into the 1980s was credited on the cards, in the packaging, or in the marketing materials. Part I of this multi-part article surveys the cartoons of five artists whose names have been mentioned in conjunction with Topps baseball cards in the […]
featuring Sir Quentin Blake, Gluyas Williams, Doug Marlette, Dirk West, Helen Hokinson, and William Hogarth. Quentin Blake Ask ChatGPT to create a portrait of Quentin Blake in the style of Quentin Blake and the results are so preposterously bad, it’s tempting to think that artificial intelligence might not be the death of everything that is […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Drew Litton, 67, wanted to be two things when he grew up. He yearned to shoot like “Pistol Pete” Maravich and to play the guitar like Eric Clapton. “I instead ended up playing basketball like Eric Clapton and guitar like Pete Maravich,” said Litton, laughing as he sat in his studio chair […]
The Doug Wright Awards were held Saturday night in Toronto. A part of the ceremony there are cartoonists inducted into The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame. After 20 years of seating cartoonists into the Hall of Fame they finally got around to installing Lou Skuce, aka “Canada’s Greatest Cartoonist,” as […]
Featuring a Peter Brookes print and President Trump; Harry Harrison and The Year of the Snake; Steve Hill and the Dallas Stars; Martha Rosenberg on Food, Clothes, Men, Gas and Other Problems; and Eli Valley as The World’s Most Dangerous Comic Artist. President Trump Presented With a Framed Peter Brookes Cartoon Former hostage Eli Sharabi […]