I was surprised to hear yesterday’s news about the dip in NAEP reading and math scores over the past year, not because of the dip itself but because it was being discussed as if there were something surprising about it.Anyone who thought you could achieve the same results with 30 kids on Zoom that you […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonist announced today that Masha Zhdanova was named the winner of The 2022 John Locher Memorial Award.The John Locher Memorial Award is a contest for emerging cartoonists, ages 18-25, whose work demonstrates both clear opinions and strong artistry on political and social topics.The Judges statement: Masha’s appealing loose drawings blend […]

Underground/alternative cartoonist and editor Diane Noomin has passed away. Diane Noomin (née Diane Robin Rosenblatt) May 13, 1947 – September 1, 2022 The news of Diane’s passing is being shared on social media.From Charles Kochman on the afternoon of September 1:I am so sorry to share the news that Diane Noomin passed away earlier this […]

“The Catholic Cartoon” is an online comic strip written and illustrated by 19-year-old Joshua Masterson of Volo, Ill. A product of Catholic homeschooling, part-time produce clerk and the fifth of 10 children, Mr. Masterson has attracted tens of thousands of followers on Instagram since his first comic in April, with each post regularly getting hundreds […]

I take some comfort from Cathy Wilcox‘s cartoon, not because she’s a shining beacon of hope but because it’s good to know that so many of the problems we face are universal. In case you were thinking of chucking it all and moving to Australia.The most distressing part is that, as suggested, we can’t even […]

In August 1928, Philip Francis Nowlan published a short story called “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. Six months later, in March of 1929, he published a sequel, “The Airlords of Han”. The hero of both of these novellas was a man named Anthony Rogers. In between those two pulp stories […]

The National Cartoonist Society will hold its annual Reubens Convention in two weeks – on September 15th and 16th. The Reuben Divisional Awards and The Cartoonist of the Year winners will be announced the evening of September 16. 

What: The U.S. Postal Service will celebrate the centennial of the birth of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz with 10 new fun-filled stamps. The first-day-of-issue event for the Charles M. Schulz Forever stamps is free and open to the public.  When: Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, at 12 p.m. PDT  Where: Charles M Schulz Museum & Research […]

NEW ORLEANS (press release) – A special exhibit examining the work of artist and political cartoonist Arthur Szyk will be on public display at The National WWII Museum starting Sept. 2. In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art & Human Rights will showcase more than 50 of Szyk’s original works, which focus on humanitarian issues that the world faced in […]

The John Hart Studio produces three comic strips: B.C., Wizard of Id, and Dogs of C-Kennel, plus they are in charge of re-presenting the oldies of Back to B.C. and Wizard of Id Classics, so you can see they are a busy bunch.But they have found time to issue a new newsletter after a two […]

This week saw the return of Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s survey of newspaper comic strip trends of the past, this time he looks at the circulation figures of comics in 300 269 newspapers during the year of 1990 (in three parts). What strip were on the rise, which comics were losing clients. The end of Bloom County […]

Since we noted the beginning of a Comics Kingdom webcomic and the ending of a GoComics webcomic let’s also mention another webcomic that has nothing to with either of those sites, though it did have something to do with starting up Keenspot.After 25 years and seven months Darren Bleuel has brought his Nukees webcomic (which […]

Adam Zyglis makes a joke out of Trump’s call for a Special Master to review the documents the FBI took out of the cartons he didn’t have. Attorneys online and in the media seem to agree that he should have asked for a Special Master immediately following the search, not after DOJ had unpacked and […]

The government of People’s Republic of China has disciplined those it deems responsible for “tragically ugly” illustrations that appeared in an elementary school math book.In May of 2022,Photos of the pictures went viral on China’s social media. Related hashtags had been viewed more than 4bn times by Monday and millions of comments were left beneath […]

New Kid by Jerry Craft, Maus by Art Spiegelman, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, Anne Frank’s Diary (Graphic Adaptation) adapted by Ari Folman and David Polonsky, and, of course, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe are among the most challenged or banned comic books since the […]