Jeff Koterba trades his pencil and ink for pad and apple. For three years, artist Jeff Koterba’s new iPad and Apple pencil sat unused and unloved. “My son encouraged me to use it and I tried to, in fits and starts. I just could not get the hang of it,” said Koterba, who has been […]
First, a big congratulations to all the cartoonists who managed to participate given the tight timeline! Also thanks to the syndicates who helped, I’m sure, most of the cartoonists juggle their already scheduled strips to swap in the “Thank You” strips.Most of you have probably seen today’s strips, if not check out the June 7 […]
Matt Wuerker sums things up.I don’t suppose there are very many people who want either of these to be America, because both images suggest that there is a problem, and wouldn’t it be nice if there were not?But there always is, and the question is whether you repress discontent or hash it out openly, and […]
After putting in a mere 79 years as a professional cartoonist Al Jaffee is retiring.From Michael Cavna: Al Jaffee, officially the longest-working comic artist ever, has decided to retire at age 99. So to mark his farewell, Mad’s “Usual Gang of Idiots” will salute Jaffee with a tribute issue next week. It will be the […]
Clay Jones got caught in a bit of changing-story whiplash, which happens.New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees made a stupid statement about kneeling for the anthem, saying that protest was okay but that disrespecting the flag was not.He was immediately slapped down by most of the NFL, including teammates, and issued an apology that was […]
All of us, at one time or another, have written in the margins of our books. I continue to do it (e.g., my copy of Allan Holtz’s American Newspaper Comics). Not as many of us doodle in the margins, though at least one person has made a career of it.But centuries before Sergio Aragonés the […]
It takes courage to speak out against racism, bigotry in all its ugliness, especially if you live in regions dominated by Trump extremism. Take Greg Kearney. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas, a town he describes as “a little dot of blue in a sea of red.” Yet Kearney, a political cartoonist, uses his pen to […]
Comic Con International: San Diego has announced the nominees for this year’s Will Eisner Awards. Like most of this year’s conventions and gatherings the San Diego Comic-Con will take a different format, but some things remain – award presentations among them. Mostly comic book related this year has a number of comic strip and more […]
Rex Morgan took a serious step through the fourth wall Sunday, wrapping up a story that had begun with a singer with a bad cough, written in part before bad coughs were a thing, and now to be followed by a storyline that wouldn’t be overshadowed by current events.So now l’il Grundoon has asked a […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world. The 2020 RFK Award for Cartooning is presented to JD Crowe of the Alabama Media Group “for his use of […]
NCS President Jason Chatfield has just sent an email to the members regarding this Sunday’s “Big Thank You Search of 2020” that will feature syndicated and web cartoonists including various hidden objects inside their comics as a way to salute first responders in these crazy, crazy times. Here’s the email in its entirety:Dear NCS Members,Thank […]
above: “We could say he threatened us with a knife… If we had a knife!”The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has posted a blog entry featuring original art of cartoonists looking at police brutality. Mostly from the 1980s and 1990s with a couple recent ones and a couple from The Sixties. That Billy Ireland post […]
Ruben Bolling the cartoonist behind the award-winning weekly comic “Tom the Dancing Bug” has launched “Tom the Dancing Bug for Justice Fundraiser.” Ruben is promising perks to the top donor and to two random donors that include recreation of “Dancing Bug”-related art and/or even customized art.For more info: https://gocomics.typepad.com/tomthedancingbugblog/2020/06/the-tom-the-dancing-bug-for-justice-fundraiser.html
Steve Sack threads the needle, speaking from Minneapolis where the whole thing started and carefully making the memorial for George Floyd substantially larger than those of other factors in the city.That seems to be well-earned, by the way: Floyd is very warmly remembered in his hometown of Houston, where he was a standout athlete and […]
Bianca Xunise is the newest member of the Six Chix group, but that is a small part of her cartooning. In fact this profile doesn’t even mention her newest gig. Xunise was never really aware of the concept of being an artist. It was merely an extension of how she communicated to the people around […]