In 2019, more Americans went to the library than to the movies.A Coronavirus Library Update from Publishers Marketplace:Overdrive tells libraries it is “assembling a series of digital content options to respond to the challenges your communities are facing.” For academic libraries and customers, Proquest issued a list of over 50 publishers that have joined in […]
Kal Kallaugher gets away with the tired iceberg metaphor for two reasons: One is his art, through which he can draw just about anything and make it fun and fresh, and the other is his ability as a storyteller.A couple of years ago, the featured speaker at the final banquet of the AAEC convention couldn’t […]
I’m going to try to be mostly critical in a literary rather than a social sense today, starting with Steve Breen’s simple expression of the situation.I had our next issue planned with a review of “My Spy,” but the reviewer dropped me an email to say she’d gone to the screening, but the release date […]
Tea Fougner is the Editorial Director for Comics at King Features Syndicate and joins [Graphic Policy] to talk about comics strips past and present. As Tea says, “Comics is a format, not a genre.”Tea has been with King Features for over 11 years and was promoted to Editorial Director of Comics about a year and […]
REMINDER: Only two days left for NCS members to vote for the Reuben Divisional awards. As conventions are being cancelled or delayed the National Cartoonists Society updates the current status of The 2020 Reuben Awards:We have received a number of enquiries about the feasibility of this year’s Reuben Awards weekend in light of the spread […]
Pros and Cons offers some math problems as well as questions of age. Samuel wants to be a kid, but this is a fairly simplified version of “Mr. Green lives in a red house” puzzle, given that 10 years ago he was 30 and now he wants to be 23 years younger.Which would make him […]
Al Jaffee, the cartoonist responsible for you not being able to find a mint condition copy of MAD Magazine, celebrates his 99th birthday on March 13, 2020. Happy Birthday Al! Thanks for the laughs.The Official Al Jaffee Website.Al Jaffee’s Twitter Feed. Al Jaffee’s comic book credits from 1942 up. A selection of Al Jaffee Tall […]
REMINDER: Four weeks to deadline for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning submissions. As conventions are being cancelled or delayed the AAEC discloses their current plans:At this point we are 10 weeks out from the gathering in Ottawa, and one month from the hotel and registration deadline. That’s still […]
Columbian cartoonist Andrés J. Colmenares’ heartwarming panel has made its debut on GoComics. Click here to see a collection of his work or here to see his GoComics page. Andres’ Instagram page is here.
Greg Kearney, cartooning for the Atchison (Kansas) Globe, offers a bit of nostalgia and regret for the days when world events happened “out there.”A whole lot has changed, much of it in the past half century but much of that has been a sudden acceleration of a developing trend.One of the things I used to […]
The March 10, 2020 edition of Jeopardy had Comics as a Double Jeopardy category.They seemed to be really easy “answers,” but we’re fans. (not the art used)The contestants pretty much avoided the category, and the last “answer” was left on the board.According to The Jeopardy Fan website apparently that last one was:THE COMICS: This comic […]
An informal poll of cartoonists taken in the early 1930s named Frederick Burr Opper the funniest man who ever worked for the American press.That is how The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum began their biography of F. Opper. It was backed up with over 50 years of hilarious cartoons, from the late 19th Century […]
Matt Wuerker suggests what we have to fear, though not only do we have to fear fear itself, but we also have to fear not fearing enough.It’s a particular challenge for cartoonists because commenting on the fear shouldn’t negate the need to be reasonably and sensibly cautious. It doesn’t help that Dear Leader has chosen not […]
The Wall Street Journal bought a cartoon from Pat Byrnes but changed the caption on publication.From Pat Byrnes Facebook posting: Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran the cartoon below on the right. On the left is the original caption. They bought it in November, 2017. I wrote it months before that. And I acknowledge […]
The student newspaper of University of Maryland, The Diamondback, has published its last print edition after 110 years. It will continue as online-only.From The Diamondback:After 110 years in circulation, The Diamondback will cease its weekly print publication in March, the newspaper’s parent company announced Monday… According to Tom Madigan — board president of Maryland Media […]