When Jeff Koterba isn’t drawing editorial cartoons, he’s collaborating with adult son Josh on the antics of Cat, Dog and Turtle. The critters are the stars of the Koterbas’ feel-good comic strip, “Chirpy.” It debuted online in April, inspired by COVID-19 and self-isolation. Jeff and Josh took a few weeks off from their Chirpy comic […]
Kevin and Kell began 25 years ago as a five day a week online comic strip. The first daily was September 4, 1995 (below).But Bill Holbrook, being Bill Holbrook, began the strip with a Sunday page on September 3, 1995:Bill was, at the time, doing his On the Fastrack (1984) and Safe Havens (1988) when […]
The National Cartoonist Society has released its schedule for the September 12, 2020 NCSFest and Reuben Awards. Streaming broadcast begins at10am Saturday, September 12 at NCSFest.com Official Welcome to NCSFest 2020 from NCS President & thank you’s. From Panels to Publishing (90 mins)Guests: Mark Tatulli, Terri Libenson, Maria Scrivan, and Rob HarrellHosted by: Jason Chatfield 74th Annual Reuben AwardsJoin […]
Sean Martin, faithful CSotD supporter and brilliant creator of the “Doc and Raider” web strip, died Monday morning, a little over two weeks after ringing down the curtain on his strip.Randy Riddle reports on Facebook:I’m sorry to say that our dear friend Sean Martin passed away this morning about six am. Sean had been suffering from […]
Since March, [Cathy] Guisewite has been capturing our collective pandemic anxieties and ack-worthy quarantine moments in a series of daily “Cathy” posts called “Scenes From Isolation.” Erica Pearson, for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, interviews Cathy Guisewite. Or read the interview via MSN. Q: So is Cathy back in your life for good now? A: It’s […]
With the country slowly reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic one very important organization has decided to return to an active status: Popeye’s Cartoon Club.Popeye and Comics Kingdom are announcing that beginning Thursday May 28 Popeye’s Cartoon Club will return with a series of Randy Milholland comic strips. From Popeye’s Twitter account: @PopeyeTweetsk‘s Cartoon Club […]
Bill Bettwy, creator of Take It From The Tinkersons, has created a new comic strip that will be web-only (I think) at the Comics Kingdom site. The new comic will be concerned with “horrible tales from the miserable world of sales.” #Sales will join just a couple other online comics on the Comics Kingdom site […]
It’s been quite a spring, and few of the events of the past two months have offered much reason to smile. Sometimes we all wish there was something – anything – to take our minds off of it all. We feel it too, and we hear you. Today, I’m happy to announce that the St. Cloud Times […]
From The National:Jenny Hefczyc didn’t know if she could change the world with her art, but she knew she wanted to try. As a talented illustrator and artist based in Germany, she draws under the name Jenny-Jinya, and she’s taken social media by storm with a series of comics she’s created that focus on animal […]
While Cathy hasn’t returned to syndicated comics, she has returned.Cathy Guisewite features the cartoon Cathy in her book Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault, Guisewite also features cartoon Cathy in a series of panels on her Instagram account. And these days the topic is “sheltering in place.”As Heather Schwedel at Slate explains:Though the syndicated newspaper […]
Tales from the Slush Pile by Ed Briant has gone on hiatus.Every Thursday, for over 14 years, Publishers Weekly has featured the comic strip “Tales from the Slush Pile” in their Children’s Bookshelf. There is now a hiccup in that schedule as the March 26, 2020 installment of the strip (above) reveals.Publishers Weekly tells The […]
Your submissions must be delivered to their respective locations by January 23, 2020 for consideration The National Cartoonists Society website has the entry forms and details.You DO NOT have to be a member of the NCS to have your work considered for a divisional award.
December 20, 2019 Letter from the National Cartoonists Society calling for submissions. Note that membership is not a requirement to submit and be considered for the divisional awards and the submissions deadline is January 23, 2020.
Vancouver Is Awesome, a part of the vast Glacier Media empire, has hired Geoff Coates as their weekly editorial cartoonist for the website.From V.I.A.’s introduction by editor Bob Kronbauer:I’m extremely proud to introduce you to our new (and first ever!) editorial cartoonist, the amazingly talented and witty Geoff Coates! If you recognize his name that’s either […]
Dozens of New Jersey towns have found too much lead in their drinking water. More than 1.5 million are affected. Cancer-linked chemicals have also been discovered around the state. This year, Newark found itself consumed by a lead water crisis — one that a new NJ Advance Media investigation finds may have been preventable. The […]