The news worthy cartoonists this round are Dan Martin, Dale Messick, Bret Juliano, and Alan Dunn. Dan Martin Lecture on St. Louis Cartoon History & Weatherbird Weatherbird cartoonist and St. Louis cartooning historian Dan Martin will expound on both next Sunday. By Tribune Staff • Join the Madison County Historical Society at 2 p.m. on […]
Some notes on newspaper comic strips from the past week. King Features Gets Into the Foodservice Business It is not unusual for Zippy to visit a diner, though he did so in five of the six dailies this week. And the Motel Cafe has been the center of the Rex Morgan universe for three months […]
I like Chilton’s art (which comes from the New Cartoonist), but both the subject matter and the setting are a reminder that the Whole World Is Watching, and it isn’t cheering us on. There are worse things to export than Disney films, but this is still an indication of how much our culture, such as […]
It is the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. The treasury of illustration art was years in the making and is scheduled to open next week on June 5, 2026. Stuart Hertage for The Guardian reports: Spread across a sprawling 17th-century industrial complex in London’s Clerkenwell, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, which opens next month, […]
Each week my ADHD brain finds some comic-related things on social media that must be chased down. There were several this week. Due to scheduling conflicts with some subject matter experts, I had to push two topics to next week. This week we chase two rabbits: how do artists draw character’s mouths based on the […]
“New comics to start in June” When I saw the headline for The Sharon (Pa.) Herald article about their comics pages I thought it just the first of what will be a number of newspapers explaining why Big Nate will no longer be appearing daily. Turns out it was something else. From The Sharon Herald […]
Indeed c’est le weekend, and while there are a lot of very important political issues to address, to quote Shakespeare or possibly Harold Pinter, “Tragedy tomorrow; Comedy tonight.”Besides, I don’t have enough information about the president’s physical beyond the release from the White House, where they report that he’s 6’3″ and weighs 238 pounds, so […]
Cartoonist Anthony Haden-Guest sues socialite to get art back; NYC’s Museum of Modern Art to display their animation cels collection; the MAD King and the MAD Mascot; ASIFA-East Awards for 2026 includes the inaugural Cartoon Brew Award. Anthony Haden-Guest Sues to Get His Cartoons Back Peter Senzamici reports for The New York Post that cartoonist […]
Golding channels Groening with this commentary on the upcoming 250th celebrations. I have been hesitant to comment because, while I’m astonished that anybody watches some of the braindead programming on TV, apparently they do.It seems elitist to mock people for not having your own refined sense of style, but that’s another chance to say, “Seems,” […]
Jack Ohman at The Herblock Prize PresentationFrom Bruce Guthrie comes 150+ still photos of Jack Ohman receiving The Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress event from May 26, 2026. Mr. Guthrie has a photographic archive of Herblock Prize presentations going back 12 years featuring Jen Sorensen, Kevin Kallagher, Mark Fiore, Ruben Bolling, Ward Sutton, […]
A years-long, physically-enforced sabbatical ended for Steve Sack last year when he returned to cartooning. Rob Tornoe at Editor & Publisher tells of Steve Sack’s Comeback. Journalists are used to overcoming adversity, but what if you’re a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and you suddenly can no longer hold a pencil? That’s the situation Steve Sack faced […]
Horsey may be exaggerating the infantile tantrums of our leader, but he’s reporting Jeff Bezos’ analysis accurately. Bezos genuinely told CNBC “I think he is a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term.”Bezos went on to say “I’ve worked with all the presidents, I will work with all the […]
From the National Cartoonists Society Foundation: The board of the National Cartoonists Society Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2026 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship: Victoria Berrocales. Victoria was chosen from a field of talented applicants to receive this honor and a $5,000 scholarship grant. Victoria is an Illustration major at the Savannah […]
Prospect Magazine has a profile on R.E. Burke, the young British cartoonist who was picked up by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while on an extended visit to the U.S. and Canada. She spent 19 days in detention before she was released to return to the U.K. She’s close to finishing a 255 […]
Brigid Alverson over at School Library Journal is reporting that the first issue of Shrub, a graphic medicine series, will be made available via Hoopla and Comics Plus. The middle grade story is written by Shane Portman, drawn by Andy Alves, colored by Sophia Du and Celia Fitzgerald, and letterer by Oceano Ransford.There is a […]