In 1995 not-yet Prince Valiant scribe Mark Schultz partnered with never-official Flash Gordon artist Al Williamson to create a two issue Flash Gordon comic book for Marvel Comics. Though he was never the official artist of the comic strip Al Williamson famously drew Flash Gordon at various times from 1966 to 1995 for comic books, […]
Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: “How cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became a Rolling Stone writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has an opinion piece in today’s issue of Rolling Stone (non-paywall version) on his relationship with Charles Schulz and more so on why Snoopy is an enduring and endearing comic character. It was this haiku-perfect character humor that dazzled Schulz’s peers. In Snoopy, he had created an American archetype – the […]
This morning Kickstarter COO Sean Leow posted an apology and announced that the crowdfunding platform has reversed its week-old policy for projects with mature content. The controversial policy was more specific and detailed in what was no longer acceptable and caused outrage with creators who use the platform to fund their NSFW comics. Additionally, Kickstarter […]
Dave Brown, staff cartoonist for the UK’s Independent, has been let go from the newspaper after 30 years. From Dave Brown’s X/Twitter account: The final cartoon; after just under 30 years and something over 6,000 cartoons @Independent are letting me go to save a few quid! Thanks to everyone who followed me and for all […]
I wish more cartoonists had spoken up before Dear Leader reached his out-of-court settlement, but my impression is that it isn’t a done-deal yet, at least in part because his lawyers failed to file the appropriate papers. Which is the sort of thing that happens when you hire people who won’t tell you when you […]
Comic-Con International has responded to the discovery of an Eisner Award nomination that included generative AI work. According to the San Diego Comic Convention organizer, the editor of Stardust the Super Wizard Anthology has withdrawn their submission. The work had been nominated for Best Anthology.Additionally they say had judges known about the AI content they […]
There is an increasing pressure on newspapers to only print cartoons and opinions that are indifferent, mundane, noncontroversial. Cartoons otherwise get letters of disapproval from readers which, in a climate of shrinking subscription bases, scare editors and publishers leading to non-partisan, generic cartoons. Cagle Cartoons posts its best selling cartoons every week and for the […]
Over the weekend the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain posted their position on their member’s use of generative AI. The policy was originally printed in their July 2025 edition of The Jester. Earlier this spring the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation updated their FAQ page to include their policy.Both organizations take similar positions on the following: The […]
Byron O’Neal, Editor-In-Chief at Comic Book Yeti, has started a petition to change the submission guidelines for future Eisner Award nominations to disqualify any works that used generative AI in the creative process. The petition is in response to the inclusion of Stardust the Super Wizard Anthology in this year’s nominations for Best Anthology which […]
The Society of Illustrators has announced the 2026 Honorees entering their Hall of Fame. The 2026 inductees were announced on the Society of Illustrators’ Instagram account. The Honorees are Joe Ciardiello Miguel Covarrubias Maira Kalman Zelda “Jackie” Ormes John Tenniel This item will be updated once these inductees are featured on the Society of Illustrators’ […]
It is a truism that the deficit falls under Democratic administrations and rises under Republican administrations, and that the last three presidents to lower the deficit were Clinton, Obama and Biden.It is also a truism that if you laid every economist in the country end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. It’s a […]
Comics scholar and researcher John Lent has passed away.John Anthony Lent September 8, 1936 – May 16, 2026 From The International Comics Art Forum: Dr. John A. Lent is one of the leading proponents of the international study of comics, and of comics research within academia. Having lectured and taught on comics and mass communications […]
Curls, a Stone Age character from B.C., spent the week in The Middle Ages’ Kingdom of Id. While the Wizard Of Id spent time in prehistorical B.C. (supposedly). My biggest disappointment was that it didn’t turn in to a true crossover with the week’s B.C. comic strips showing The Wizard interacting with the cavemen. Though […]
The big news seems to be that the “gold” Trump phones are finally shipping, and, as Jones says in his commentary, that should bring down the curtain on the jokes about them, or at least on the jokes about them not existing. We can still joke about them not being made in the USA as […]