King Features Syndicate “announced a master publishing partnership with Mad Cave Studios to develop a full line of new narratives, comics reprints and graphic novels starring its iconic hero Flash Gordon. The initial Flash Gordon stories are slated to be released in 2024.” Read the news of the licensing agreement here. Under this partnership, expect […]

(photo: NBC)With all due respect, they got it wrong. When Cheers was taken over by a corporation, they brought in Rebecca Howe and she was the boss and eventually Sam bought the bar back and he was back in charge.Well, it was a comedy after all. In the real world, as in the show, Sam […]

That’s comic, I say comic strippin’ the Comic Con, son. Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis, both veterans of comic conventions, began preparing for the San Diego Comic Con last week as all true comic fans did. Sunday got the Crankshaft co-stars in their costumes and today to The Con. Tom and Dan are responsible for […]

The Associated Press drops the story of McClatchy ridding themselves of political cartoons and cartoonists. Here, via the Voice of America, is the AP article by David Bauder: The firings of the cartoonists employed by the McClatchy newspaper chain last week were a stark reminder of how an influential art form is dying, part of […]

I promised Suzi I wouldn’t get into any political rants on her birthday.Though I’m not sure she’d hear any stronger language than if I were Edison Lee (KFS)‘s dad and had just spent an entire story arc building a shed just to find this. But I’m blaming the lawn mower, since doors are more or […]

Back in May we noted that AdExchanger had lost Nate Neal as their weekly cartoonist, now, a month late, we note that Kevvo has been chosen as the new AdExchanger cartoonist after a month of rotating cartoonists. Kevin (Kevvo) Gierman has been creating the cartoons regularly for the past month.

(Adam Sacks)(Joy of Tech)So I got on Threads (comicstripoftheday) and yet, unlike Scrooge, my life has not been transformed. I don’t much like it, because it seems crowded, but maybe that’s because I don’t much like looking at things on my phone because they seem crowded. I’m assuming Threads will eventually come to desktops, and […]

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator! Big Nate: No Worries!: Two Books in One THIS IS IT, […]

Cartoonist David Illsley has passed away. From the obituary: David Avard Illsley, age 81, of Edgewater, Florida, passed away Tuesday, July 4, 2023, at Advent Health New Smyrna in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, after a long illness. David had been employed as an Artist/Cartoonist/Videographer, in TV, newspapers, and educational venues in various cities. David had […]

I don’t know if today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) counts as “fortuitous” timing, since nobody in Vermont or the lower Hudson Valley is calling much of anything “lucky” at the moment, but there’s certainly a load of synchronicity in it, since I’m sure Wiley did the strip some time ago but today a lot of people […]

In a career that’s spanned more than 40 years and included some 80 books, thousands of newspaper and magazine illustrations and many New Yorker covers, author and illustrator Bob Staake has never had a solo show of his work. Until now. “The Endless Imagination of Bob Staake” will be on exhibit at the Cape Cod […]

The San Diego Comic Con (aka: Comic Con International) returns for its 2023 engagement next week.It began as a comic book festival and evolved into a Hollywood hullabaloo, though that seems to have subsided a bit this year. Anyway, there is a long-time relationship between comic books and comic strips. So here is some comic […]

Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end.Dr. MacLeod piggybacks on the success of the new Indiana Jones movie — in which an 80-year-old proves he’s not too old to be a hero — by pointing out how things have changed not since World War II but far more recently. After all, […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (the renovated AAEC website will return soon) has opened the window for submitting cartoons for the 2023 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. The deadline to enter is Friday, August 25, 2023. The full notice as released by the AAEC: SACRAMENTO, CA — The Association of […]

On Tuesday, three Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists — Ohman of the Sacramento Bee, Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer [links added]— were all let go by McClatchy newspapers. Jack Ohman cannot recall another day like it, even amid decades of brutal cuts in the field of newspaper political […]