Cartoon Brew remembers those from the animation industry who passed away in 2021. In a year already saturated with tragedy, news of yet another passing in the animation world was often the last thing we wanted to hear. Yet we covered more deaths in 2021 than in any previous year: 35 in all. This isn’t […]
Up, up, and away as comic book auction results reach – biff! zow! – incredible prices. A decent grade issue of Superman #1 (1939) auction at over two and a half million dollars, while a not-so-great condition of Action Comics #1 (1938), Superman’s first appearance, went for more than one and a half million. A […]
On Monday, Dec. 13, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in downtown Chicago launched a virtual experience of its popular museum exhibit: “Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin and the Art of War.” The live exhibit, currently on display at the museum through April 2022, features nearly 150 of the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist’s original drawings and […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) addresses the crucial question of life on Earth being obliterated by a meteor, the odds of which, I would note, have not changed simply because we are better at tracking space objects. Though they may become slightly lower, since we’re working on ways of dealing with it.Not that we haven’t been thunked […]
Gannett has begun their 2021 political cartooning year in review series and they have begun with Nathan Archer toons from The Tallahassee Democrat. © Tallahassee Democrat/Nathan Archer
Early next year the Sally Forth comic strip will celebrate 40 years.And it looks like Francesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe have something special planned.© King Features Syndicate
San Francisco Bay Area public TV and radio station KQED challenges schools and teachers to get their students involved: Join a Youth Media Challenge to engage student voice and choice and foster civic engagement. Challenges are open to middle and high school students across the U.S. Challenge your students to share their voices beyond the […]
Marc Murphy warns that it is late, though perhaps not too late.But it is certainly too late to sit and watch and wonder and hope.Like the man in the joke, God has sent us a canoe, a rowboat and even a helicopter, yet here we are, sitting on the roof watching the waters rise and […]
Pat Bagley has been sketching political cartoons at the Salt Lake Tribune since 1979. That makes him… “the longest continuously employed full-time editorial cartoonist in America” (beating out Steve Sack of The Minneapolis Star Tribune).Jeff Tiberii of North Carolina Public Radio station WUNC goes long distance to talk with Utah’s Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist […]
After charges of antisemitism from the Anti-Defamation League Fox News deleted an A. F. Branco cartoon from its social media platforms.From The Daily Beast: After the Anti-Defamation League called out Fox News on Wednesday, the cable giant deleted its social-media posts portraying Jewish philanthropist George Soros as a “puppet master”—a common antisemitic trope. Posted to […]
To celebrate the 230th anniversary of The Bill of Rights we travel back thirty years when cartoonists and syndicates collaborated with The Newspaper Features Council to mark the bicentennial of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. So, from The Iola Register of 1991, we present The Art of Democracy. Charles M. Schulz […]
The misadventures of Big Nate are coming to Paramount+. The all-new animated series from Nickelodeon Animation Studio is based on the best-selling children’s books and comic strip written and drawn by acclaimed author and cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Big Nate © Lincoln Peirce The show will feature a brand new story set in the ‘Big Nate’ […]
Frazz (AMS) brings back one of the more delightful memories of college this time of year: The first wisps of snow that brought out the freshmen from Florida and California decked in every stitch of winter parkas, hats and mittens they had brought to Indiana.At which those of us who had, perhaps, put on a […]
Ellwood Atfield, the communications and advocacy headhunter, was delighted to host again the Political Cartoon of the Year Awards. We are delighted to announce the 2021 winning Political, Pocket and COVID Cartoons and Cartoonist’s. The winners for this British award were announced December 9, 2021. The Low Trophy for the Political Cartoonist of the YearBen Jennings […]
A few of the delightful comics today.Occasional daily cartoonist Ron Ferdinand, he’s the regular Sunday comic strip artist, drew Dennis the Menace creator Hank Ketcham in today’s panel as Henry Mitchell’s boss. © North America Syndicate Liniers pays tribute to another classic cartoonist in Macanudo. © LiniersPerhaps Winsor McCay‘s most famous Little Nemo episode. As Richard […]