The Angoulême International Comics Festival is largest comic festival in the world. It has been held annually in January in Angoulême France since 1974. The conflicts that are unfurling now in the news were sown in the early ’00s. This article tries to encapsulate the pivotal moments that led to the cancellation of the 2026 […]
Cartoonist Don Simpson steps on a third rail of comics research – he criticizes esteemed comics historian David Kunzle‘s use of the phrase “comic strip” in Kunzle’s various pre-histories of the 20th century comics.In “Kunzle’s Pre-History of Comics: But Is It Really? (A Snobbish 2014 Essay Reposted From Another Platform)” Simpson marks Kunzle’s bona fides: […]
Yesterday’s news about the Angoulême International Comics Festival selecting a new organizer left one question unanswered: will there be a festival next January? The contract for 2027 is held by the former organizer, 9eArt+, who is currently in litigation over their contract. Another hurdle is the mere logistics of organizing the biggest comic festival in […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies have announced their 14th annual Studio Prize winners. In the Long-Form category the award goes to Mimi Pond, and Suerynn Lee took the prize in the Short-Form category. The prize goes to cartoonists whose work “exemplifies excellence in cartooning.” The judges wrote that Mimi’s biography of the Mitford Sisters: Pond […]
The Oklahoman art director, illustrator, cartoonist Todd Pendleton has passed away. Todd Bryan Pendleton September 7, 1963 – March 20, 2026 From Caroline McCone and Josh Kelly at The Oklahoman (or here): The Oklahoman’s Todd Pendleton has highlighted local and national issues through his editorial cartoons, illustrations and data graphics for nearly 40 years. Pendleton […]
I’m always pleased when I can start Humpday with a cartoon that reflects something I was just thinking of, and I’ve been amused lately by old retired guys grocery shopping with their wives when it’s obvious that she’s been doing the task for decades and he’s wandering through Wonderland. She’s explaining the different kinds of […]
One my favorite artists, Florian Satzinger, has an exhibit translated into English as “Ducks, who save themselves in rocket ships” about a Florian’s work as a character designer. The exhibit runs Jun 3–Jul 26 at the Comic Museum in Erlangen, Germany.Florian is a character designer heavily influenced by Carl Barks, Bruno Bozzetto, André Franquin and […]
The Hugo Award nominees were announced today. Of note to our readers is the inclusion of cartoonist Dave Kellett creator of the Sheldon webcomic and his sci-fi webcomic Drive which debuted in 2009. He is nominated in the Best Professional Artist category.From a statement on his Patreon page Dave says that he knew about the Hugo […]
The Association for the Development of Comics in Angoulême (ADBDA) has announced it has selected the Morgane group as their new festival organizer for the Angoulême International Comics Festival. The Morgane group will replace the controversial 9eArt+ whose mismanagement resulted in the boycott and cancellation of the festival due to the protests of hundreds of […]
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 […]
In his long lifetime Pe‘l Schlechter has been graphic designer, illustrator, author, poet, and cartoonist. Marc Thill at the Luxembourg Times celebrates the artist turning 105: Over the years, graphic designer, illustrator, newspaper designer and poet Pe‘l Schlechter, who turned 105 on Monday, has had a hand at everything. His portfolio ranges from posters and […]
I’ve been feeling sorry for Tom Tomorrow and other deep-digging satirists lately, in part because the real world is becoming so ridiculous that it doesn’t give satire anywhere to go, but, particularly in his case, because Steve Bannon’s ongoing flooding of the zone makes multi-panel humor hard to sustain. At any given moment, something may […]
Lincoln Peirce has announced that beginning June 14, 2026 the Big Nate comic strip will run Sunday only. From Lincoln Peirce’s Instagram page: Here’s part of the final Big Nate daily comic strip, which will run on June 13th. No more Nate on Monday thru Saturday, but there’s still going to be a Sunday page. […]
Yesterday’s comic strip roundup got cut short as I had an “Appointment With Danger Dinner.” Let’s continue with the news that… Terry Beatty has returned to drawing Rex Morgan, The Daily Bugle has dropped its Comics Section, and Andrews McMeel has stopped syndicating Ginger Meggs to newspapers. Terry Beatty is Back! Terry Beatty has returned […]
Weyant keeps it simple and gets it right. I’ve used the term “The whole world is watching” often, in the shame-building sense in which demonstrators chanted it at the Democratic Convention in 1968 when the Chicago police were beating the crap out of them on national television.Weyant suggests it by drawing the World as the […]