As noted here yesterday Lee Mendelson Film Production is suing entities that illegally used recordings of Vince Guaraldi music specifically created for Peanuts specials. Part of Stephen Colbert’s finale last night included his band playing Peanuts music with Colbert then worrying whether that would incite a lawsuit against CBS. At the three minute ten second […]
Boris sums up a truly wretched week and my morning perusal of the news made me angry enough that I decided maybe we need a second Humpday today. But the good news, and there is some, is that people don’t seem to be taking it all lying down, as indicated by this series of quotes […]
After six months of renovations and upgrades the Museum part of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will reopen Saturday May 23. Madeline Bradshaw for Ohio State University’s The Lantern reports: Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, home to the world’s largest cartoon and comic collection, will turn a new page and […]
This August the National Cartoonists Society will present their Silver T-Square to caricaturist and cartoonist Ed Steckley for “outstanding dedication or service to the Society or the profession.” From the National Cartoonists Society’s announcement: The National Cartoonists Society is proud to honor Ed Steckley with the Silver T-Square Award at the80th Annual Reuben Awards, held […]
According to The Independent, Lee Mendelson Film Productions has filed four lawsuits against for entities who allegedly violated copyright in using music without permission. The four entities are the Interior Department, Heritage Auctions, Buckle-Down Inc., GameMill Entertainment. According to the lawsuits, the Interior Department allegedly used Vince Guaraldi’s O Tannenbaum in social media posts and […]
With ComicStripLand citizens John Rose, Lincoln Peirce, Ray Billingsley, Jef Mallett, Will Henry, Harry Bliss, Andy Marlette, Georgia Dunn, and Bill Watterson. John Rose Celebrates 25 Years Drawing Barney Google and Snuffy Smith We start by toasting John Rose who is celebrating a quarter of a century of being in charge of Barney Google and […]
In an effort to promote himself, French National Assembly member and 2027 candidate for President François Ruffin, published a comic book earlier this month but it has come under attack by critics and former allies calling it “uninhibited racism.”From le HuffPost, translated via Google Translate we get a description of the troubling storyline. In one […]
The last turn in events with the Angoulême festival drama is news that the former organizer, 9eArt+, has been placed in judicial liquidation by the Commercial Court of Angoulême. 9eArt+ also reveals that it is €1.6 million in debt. This development is not related to the legal battle between 9eArt+ and l’Association pour le développement […]
I’m getting a “shut up and hand over your wallets” vibe from this one, for a number of reasons.One is that nobody voted for this war, and, in fact, Trump was elected on a pledge to keep us out of foreign wars. Not only did the people not vote for it, but their legislators didn’t, […]
The Bryn Mawr-New Yorker Connection Cartoonist Maggie Larson contributed a cartoon to her alma mater’s Bryn Mawr Bulletin and they included a brief profile and an addendum noting Bryn Mawr past cartoons in The New Yorker. Letting Go Jonny Manning for the BBC tells of Peter Hansen thinning his comics collection. Many children collected comic […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization has named Beth Wolfensberger Singer of The Boston Globe winner of their 2026 Cartoon Award as part of this year’s Book and Journalism Awards. In praise of the cartoonist the organization said (at the 23 minute, 20 second mark): Beth Wolfensberger Singer’s work is equal part sardonic and […]
An opinion piece about Prime Minister Narendra Modi (“A clever and slightly annoying man”) in Aftenposten, Norway’s largest daily newspaper, was accompanied by a cartoon that is considered degrading and racist by Indian politicians and citizens. From India’s The Week: A leading Norwegian newspaper is now under fire after it published a cartoon depicting Prime […]
I met my newest granddog yesterday, a little King Charles who is very friendly and has the exuberance of a six-month-old. My own dog, who is not much bigger but is about five years older, at one point told him to cool his jets, which is how puppies learn, but he is a delight and […]
We got Heathcliff and Garfield, Dan Dare and Lance McLane, Detective Dick Tracy and Fred the Clown, and Calvin and Hobbes. Garfield or HeathcliffWizards of the Coast has announced a superdrop of Garfield Secret Lairs. (I have to admit I have no idea what any of that previous sentence, other than Garfield means.) But Peter […]
Apple TV has announced several new upcoming Peanut features. Season two of “Camp Snoopy” will debut in June, a new special “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy,” will premiere at the end of July, and the Peanuts classics “This Is America, Charlie Brown” and “The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show” will debut in […]