“Paintoonist” Jerry Moriarty has passed away. Jerome Brien (Jerry) Moriarty January 15, 1938 – March 25, 2026 Chris Ware has called Jerry Moriarty “one of the great geniuses of the comic strip.” Michael S. Rosenwald at The New York Times is reporting the death of Jerry Moriarty. Jerry Moriarty, Painter Whose Brushstrokes Elevated Comics, Is […]

The nearly 18 year old Comics Kingdom, launched November 2008, had its “most profitable year on record” last year. Tamara Blazquez at NetInfluencer talks to CJ Kettler and Alex Garcia and reports on the success of the platform. Comics Kingdom is the direct-to-consumer platform operated by King Features, a Hearst division founded in 1915 to […]

There’s a lot to grouse about these days, and Wiley does a nice job of summing it up: We’ve got people regretting previous statements and people boasting over their insights, and a significant amount of it all is unearned. I wouldn’t attribute it all to podcasters, but they’re about the only commentators who revisit past […]

From GoComics: “What’s Changing and What to Expect” As of June 24, 2026, the GoComics commenting system has been upgraded. This article covers what’s new, what’s going away, and answers to the most common questions about the transition. Past experience teaches us what to expect – a rough transition. Some of the changes include: About […]

The Black drought in mainstream awards, ten years of the Comics Studies Society, cartoonists critiquing cartoonists – good or bad, mastercraft workshop NY cartoonist – that’s good, 30 years as a cartoonist in a specialize area, and more with the new cartoonist and the old(er) cartoonist.Stephanie Williams Breaks Through the Black Barrier In 1995 Dwayne […]

Katie Cook is a comic artist, illustrator, and a writer. She created the webcomics Gronk (2010-2015) and started a weekly comic called Nothing Special in 2017 that is still going string. You can read a new comic each Tuesday over at Webtoon. Nothing Special has also been printed in three volumes (I, II, III) by […]

A commenter responded to my recent complaint about Facebook postings of vacation photos by saying “On Facebook, everybody who is going on a vacation gets snoozed by me for 30 days.”This is such an excellent idea that I’ve begun doing it myself, and this Flying McCoys happens to have appeared just in time to serve […]

Earlier this month we reported on the Australian Press Council (APC)ruling that Cathy Wilcox “breached its Standards of Practice” when she published a cartoon in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Now University of Technology Sydney publishes Centre for Media Transition fellow Alena Radina’s “Too Hot to Handle,” a deeper dive into “the contemporary conditions […]

The Berkeley Scanner is reporting that former museum curator and comics historian Andrew Farago was arrested. A prominent member of San Francisco’s cartoon community was arrested earlier this month after recording birthday party guests, adults and children, using the bathroom at his Berkeley home, according to court papers. Andrew Farago is a pop culture writer […]

There is not a whole lot more to report from our first post about the Big Nate newspaper replacements. Adding to that list in the link above is Wallace the Brave – Minnesota Star-Tribune, The Boston Globe, and the Sunday Washington PostThe Grizzwells – Dallas Morning News Rosebuds – The Kokomo Tribune, Logansport Pharos-Tribune****Brevity – […]

The jokes write themselves, and the cartoons likewise. I’ve lost track of how many candidates have promised to drain the swamp only to find, once in office, that they kinda like it, but this is the first time I remember one of them building an actual swamp.This is a bookends juxtaposition: Venables posted his piece […]

The Boston Globe had a space open up on their comics page and chose to fill it with the pre-adolescent children of nearby Snug Harbor. Carlos R. Muñoz at The Boston Globe introduces Bostonians to Wallace the Brave (or here): When cartoonist Will Henry was a teenager pitching comic strips to local newspapers, an editor […]

It is becoming increasingly likely that the 70-80 newspapers that make up the CNHI (formerly the Community Newspaper Holding Inc.) are all dropping the comics page from their newspapers. Earlier this month we reported on the North of Boston Media Group, a subdivision of CNHI, dropping the comics (second item). 1800 miles southwest of Boston […]

There’s so much Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose going around that there’s a danger of things not being seen as news anymore. This is not to be confused with Steve Bannon’s “flood of sh*t” policy, in which each new outrage drives the previous outrages from sight, though that is a related factor.We’re […]

It is two and a half months before the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip will come to an end. It’s 1995 and Watterson is thirty-seven. He’s sitting at the desk where he’s worked for the last ten years, drawing the adventures of Calvin and his maybe-real or maybe-stuffed-toy tiger, Hobbes. Calvin and Hobbes runs in […]