Creative spelling, as seen in this Moderately Confused (AMS), is an editor’s nightmare, but one that fortunately has morphed out of control in tune with the technical revolution. I used to run honor role listings in the paper, and, for a while, I’d come across some ridiculous version of a common name and call the […]

With Brenda Starr, Girl Reporter; 19th Century Haitian caricatures; PS: The Preventive Maintenance Monthy magazine; and The U.S. Army Air Force and Warner Bros and Private SnafuCommercial Article 16 – Dale Messick and Brenda Starr: Breaking Barriers and Hitting DeadlinesSteven Heller interviews James Sholly about the latest issue of Commercial Article, which “explores design figures […]

Always enjoy Robb Armstrong featuring Klondike Ike in JumpStart. For some reason I identify with Frank Cobb, maybe because I’m the only one in comics fandom who has a liking for the David Lettick version of Little Orphan Annie. The most recent short, three strip, Klondike Ike sequence starts here.Sticking with comic strips about comic […]

Morten Morland, who has been drawing covers for The Spectator magazine for the last 15 years, announced on Twitter that he was leaving the weekly magazine. On X/Twitter he wrote: It’s been a fabulous gig, working with great people. It’s been increasingly hard to fit the job in around my commitments for The Times, so […]

Gary Varvel (Creators) offers a sensible if not groundbreaking reminder that democracy belongs to the voters. Such messages don’t need to plow a whole lot of new ground, but they have value, particularly in a bizarre world in which people are being urged to distrust the system.We’ve seen school budgets get shot down by crabpatches […]

An anonymous complaint about a Mark Knight editorial cartoon published May 21, 2024 in the Herald Sun has been deemed “offensive and prejudicial” by the Australian Press Council.The cartoon (below) was drawn in response to an increase of immigration into Australia. The complaint argued that the immigrants in the cartoon were depicted as “mostly Muslims from […]

The 2024 European Cartoon Award finalists have been announced. The finalists are Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands), Steven Lectrr Degryse (Belgium) and Victor Solís (Mexico).The European Cartoon Award was started by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht in 2019 after the New York Times announced it would no longer run editorial cartoons. The purpose of the prize is to […]

Being the anniversary month of when Peanuts (and Snoopy) first appeared in 1950 there is a plethora of news items about the comic strip and its characters, and that is not counting the multitude of stories about local corn mazes. On Oct. 2, 1950, “Peanuts” made its comic strip debut. Featured in seven newspapers, the four […]

Hard on the heels of our discussion of the topic, xkcd weighs in on the matter of college commas.To be finicky, there probably is a University of Chicago comma, but it may manifest itself in its absence. They have plenty of rules about commas, but since I don’t care enough to become a member and […]

Having read about the combined Association of American Editorial Cartoonists – Association of Canadian Cartoonists convention from a Yankee’s perspective, I think it well worthwhile to read about the combined Association of Canadian Cartoonists – Association of American Editorial Cartoonists joint conference from a Canuck’s frame of reference. Montreal recently hosted a dynamic convention that […]

The Townsend Award (“the Townsie”) is a two-fer from the Association of Canadian Cartoonists one for the best Anglophone cartoon of the year and one for the best Francophone cartoon of the year. As Mike Peterson reported (and, again, we’re setting this up as a stand-alone item): Mike also lists two other awards that were […]

After an absence of three days, I expected to have to catch up with things this morning, but I didn’t expect to walk in on thisJuxtaposition Without JustificationLisa Benson — CounterpointDana Summers — TribuneMike Lester — AMSBob Gorrell — CreatorsI was too busy at the combined American/Canadian editorial cartoonists’ convention to keep up with the […]

Mike Peterson mentioned this, but we’re going to give it a stand-alone article too. About the Babin Award: The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning is given each year to an editorial cartoonist who focuses on state and local issues, and whose work has had an effect on their community. From the […]

Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar in San Diego; Wayno in Pittsburgh; Steve Bell in London; Bill Watterson in Amazon; High and Middle School Cartoonists in Wisconsin; Hilary B. Price in Massachusetts. While TDC’s Mike Peterson is giving us “live” reports from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists/ Association of Canadian Cartoonists convention (Day 1, Day […]

Day Two of the AAEC/ACC Conference in Montreal began with the Americans conducting a business meeting while the Canadians held a panel on digitization and conservation, apparently in both languages, unless the Billy Ireland’s Jenny Robb is fluent en francais, since she was one of the presenters.After lunch, we were reunited and began a full […]