This week’s rabbit hole technically started last week. Whilst scrolling on Bluesky, I noted Mark Kaufman had reposted a video animation of Nancy dancing to a song on a record player. Since I follow current Nancy cartoonist Caroline Cash and the Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller Bluesky accounts seeing Nancy on my feed is not […]
I’ve cited this anecdote about Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator, in the past, but it’s been awhile since we’ve found ourselves confronted with quite so many “false facts.” Today we call them “alternative facts” and they have become fundamental to our current reality.The latest bit of alternative reality is, in fact, true: The Reflecting Pool on […]
French-Iranian artist, author, and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has passed away at the age of 56. Marjane is perhaps best known for her autobiographical graphic novel “Persopolis” and the film she directed by the same name.The family released a statement announcing the death to AFP: Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after […]
Suggestions for June tripping. Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2026 The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is taking place this weekend among the many special events will be the presentation of The 22nd Annual Doug Wright Awards. Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration holds its grand opening tomorrow June 5, 2026. We […]
Growing up in remote Nova Scotia, Kate Beaton may not have a wealth of comic art surrounding her, but as you’ll read below, she found inspiration from a variety of sources. And that foundation has served her well as she’s become an award winning cartoonist, children’s book author, and non-fiction graphic novelist.For those not familiar […]
Bennett specializes in understatement, using bland illustrations that force the reader to fill in the meaning. It’s dangerous in that some readers have problems understanding even clearly stated messages, but you can dismiss that crowd for just that reason: They aren’t going to get it anyway.For those able to process subtlety, this type of messaging […]
This week saw Marshall Ramsey officially take on the writing chores of the Prickly City comic strip. From Prickly City creator Scott Stantis: The extremely talented and very nice Marshall Ramsey, the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, is taking over Prickly City. It has been a grand 22 years, and I know I am leaving Carmen […]
The second day of the National Cartoonists Society’s 80th Annual Reuben Awards and Conference will culminate in, as an Oscar winner once said, the night of nights. But there are a couple activities before the show. Mostly for NCS members. From the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) newsletter: FRIDAY, AUGUST 7THFriday’s programming is all at our […]
Having deleted several cartoons, both strips and political, that referred to Dear Leader’s now-moribund slush fund, it was a surprise to find a case of coincidental timing that did apply to something in the news. Not that it’s all that encouraging, but these days you have to take whatever you can get. Enough politics: It’s […]
Sour Grapes is new at GoComics, sour grapes is an old story with newspapers, The Singh Brotherhood vexes the olde and the new Phantom, Henry Barajas presents good trouble, bad trouble for Scott Adams and revolutionary trouble with Sam Adams, MAD memories with John Ficarra and Gerry Gersten, and Keith Knight about That One Black […]
This Thursday cartoonists and illustrators will meet to commemorate the life of Chilean-Mexican cartoonist José Palomo who passed in March and attend the opening night of the Palomo: Papel, tinta y memoria (Palomo: Paper, ink and memory) exhibit.From Aristegui Noticias, cartoonist Arturo Kemchs, speaks of his friend: Palomo proved himself to be a comedic genius with […]
Bone creator Jeff Smith will receive the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s National Cartoonist Society’s annual Reuben Conference. And he’s being recognized as one of “seven books you’ll never outgrow” and Ruben Bolling reports the honor for Boing Boing.The Atlantic’s Rafaela Jinich included Bone series in an article of Seven Books You’ll […]
Following the success of the softcover editions of The Amazing Spider-Man Newspaper Comics 1977-1980 Clover Press is planning to release the next four years in four softcover volumes.The Amazing Spider-Man Newspaper Comics 1980-1984 will be in the same format as the previous slipcased issues.From Clover Press: Between killer robots, Doctor Doom’s flying saucer, the rise […]
I’ve often observed here that it’s tough to do multi-panel political cartoons because the news rarely cooperates by producing enough examples to fit the format. Granted, Tom Tomorrow generally does better than average at it anyway, but here’s an example of the subject matter cooperating with plenty of material that only needed a clever twist […]
The rate at which the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is setting up and staging events indicates they are aiming for 80 celebratory gatherings during their 80th Annual Reuben Conference and Awards season. Many have already been held such as yesterday’s “studio visit with Bunny Hoest and John Reiner, co-creators of the beloved The Lockhorns,” which […]