Since it’s release in the Summer of 2023 The Talk by Darrin Bell has garnered nothing but praise.Lately it has been making the end of the year lists. Named one of Publishers Weekly‘s Top Ten Best Books of 2023. …a powerful and moving portrait of the experiences of racism across generations One of TIME Magazine’s […]

Graeme MacKay starts us off with something light: Canada has released its new money, with Charlie instead of Liz. You can argue with the kid who doesn’t know who King Charles III is, but MacKay is right that the relationship is somewhat vague and doesn’t come up very often. IIRC, the monarch still has to […]

The origin of National Sadie Hawkins Day: How a comic strip that saw a man desperate to marry off his ‘ugly’ daughter encouraged a generation of women to ‘chase’ men down for a date. © Al Capp Enterprises/UFS Sadie Hawkins Day is celebrated the first Saturday of November in parts of the US inspired by […]

The National Press Foundation has awarded Jen Sorensen the 2023 Berryman Award for editorial cartooning. The Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons is open to U.S.-based editorial cartoonists for work that exhibits power to influence public opinion, plus good drawing and striking effect. The cartoons should represent the highest standards of […]

Martyn Turner gets a gold star today, not for the intent of his cartoon, since I know nothing about David Cameron, who has replaced Suella Braverman, but for having correctly cited the old sailors’ myth of rats prophetically leaving a sinking ship.Cartoonists continually draw ships at sea, listing as they begin to sink beneath the […]

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.Macanudo: Optimism Is for the BraveMurray Ball A Cartoonist’s Life (author interview) Alley Oop and The Captive Prince The Life and Times of Betty […]

Back at the 2023 Reuben Awards convention in September it was announced that Karen Evans had been elected the new National Cartoonists Society president, replacing the termed out Jason Chatfield. Now the NCS has revealed the entire new Board of Directors for the 2023 – 2025 years:President: Karen Evans1st Vice President: John Hambrock2nd Vice President: […]

Let’s start with our latest and, one hopes, last Cruella update. As I was going through cartoons yesterday at about 4 am here and 9 am in London, I came across this Morten Morland panel with Home Secretary Suella Braverman hanging like the Sword of Damocles over the head of PM Rishi Sunak.I appreciated the […]

What better way to start Monday than with Garfield. He’s got a new movie coming out next year.Variety has some details and the just released trailer: Chris Pratt embodies the world’s most sarcastic yet endearing orange feline in the trailer for “The Garfield Movie,” premiering in theaters on Feb. 16, 2024. The new animated feature […]

The woman in this Steve Kelley (Creators) cartoon asks an excellent question. I blame the Civil Rights Movement. Once Black people began to speak up and assert their right to a place in society, all sorts of people began wondering why they needed to keep their eyes downcast and accept being either ignored or bullied.To […]

Hogan’s Alley and Tom Heintjes present nearly 200 of David Folkman‘s photos from the 2023 Reuben Awards get together in September – see cartoonists checking in, see cartoonists in black tie, see cartoonists having fun. The National Cartoonists Society offers us a digital copy of the 77th Annual Reuben Awards playbill.The National Cartoonists Society YouTube […]

But first, an update:No word at this hour on whether Suella Braverman behaved herself at today’s formal Remembrance Day ceremonies in London, though Morten Morland suggests she’s already ruined the weekend. Reports indicate that some 300,000 people turned out for the latest Saturday march, and there were 126 arrests for violent disruptions and attacks on […]

We mentioned Never Been Deader getting a newspaper taking it on here. Now King Features has released a digital press kit announcing its availability in print format. Following the skeleton Lifeless Carl in his daily grief of working a grueling office job, Never Been Deader creatively depicts how it feels to live the humdrum nine-to-five […]

Rob Rogers, Harry Harrison, Wiley Miller, Jeff Kinney, Michael Cavna, and Bob Englehart – cartoonists all. Enjoy a sampling of Bob Englehart’s cartoons created to provoke, anger, entertain, challenge and illustrate individuals, issues, events and change associated with politics and political elections…with a picture and in a few words. Okay, we missed the reception but […]

We’ll give the lead today to Dave Whamond’s Day by Dave (AMS), because he’s Canadian and the poem that inspired Poppy Day was written by a Canadian doctor during World War I, when thousands fell but the churned up ground proved a welcome environment for the bright red flowers. There’s a great deal more about […]