Licensing for New Yorker cartoonist Gahan Wilson is now exclusively available on Cartoon Collections! On CartoonCollections.com you can license Gahan Wilson cartoons for use in presentations, publications, web and classroom use, or buy prints and products featuring his cartoons.Details at Cartoon Collections.
NPR interviews a Genius. The site also features a short Yes You Can! Lynda Barry video. This Is How You Do It. Jim Keefe gives a video sketchbook inking tutorial. Arting in the 21st Century. Patrick LaMontagne shows how to draw on a Wacom. San Diego Comic-Con issues a kind of non-statement on the coronavirus.“Comic-Con is working with […]
Mike Peters might want to resurrect this 1973 cartoon, now that we have found peace in Afghanistan.That link includes the text of the agreement between the US and “the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which is not recognized by the United States as a state and is known as the Taliban.”Which terminology I guess saves all […]
Between Friends by Sandra Bell-Lundy begins running in The Tennessean on March 1.Tennessean reporter Rachel Wegner discussed with Sandra the strips’ origins… Three decades ago, Sandra Bell-Lundy was frequenting the office of a newspaper editor in Buffalo, New York, with her latest comic art in tow. And every time, she asked him to run her […]
There are a lot of coronavirus cartoons, but, while Mike Smith hasn’t taken the time to draw a virus or put a mask on anyone, I think he’s done the best job of capturing the issue.And I will defer the job of commentary to WashPost columnist Catherine Rampell, who begins a brilliant essay thus:It mattered […]
It says here that February 29 is the birthday of Superman, L.O.Annie, and Captain Marvel. I don’t know about that. But I do know that sixty years ago, Leap Day 1960, was the first public appearance of The Family Circle by Bil Keane! Jeff Keane celebrates that anniversary in today’s The Family Circus.Wait. The Family […]
Celebrating the 200th year since the birth of cartoonist/artist Sir John Tenniel, the Google Doodle for the day is an illustration of Alice and the Cheshire Cat from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.“‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ [said Alice]. ‘That depends a good deal on where you want […]
While everyone is freaking out over the coronavirus, Greg Cravens is adapting his own date with disaster as a story arc in Buckets, which begins here with the above strip, from which you can move forward, and it’s not over yet.I made a reference to Hong Kong Flu the other day which might have seemed […]
Famed editorial cartoonist KAL (Kevin Kallaugher) has signed with Andrews McMeel Syndication to distribute his impressive and popular political cartoons.Below is the Andrews McMeel press release:AWARD-WINNING EDITORIAL CARTOONIST KEVIN KALLAUGHER (KAL) JOINS ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATIONKANSAS CITY, MO (February 28, 2020) — Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) is proud to announce the addition of Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) to […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell will receive The Elzie Segar Award at the 2020 Reubens Banquet in Kansas City.From the NCS announcement: On behalf of the board of directors of the National Cartoonists Society, It is my great pleasure to announce that Patrick McDonnell will be awarded the Elzie Segar award at […]
Bob Andelman, aka Mr. Media, has passed away.Robert Stephen (Bob) Andelman October 9, 1960 – February 24, 2020journalist, author, talk show host From the St. Petersburg Catalyst obituary:Journalist and author Bob Andelman, a longtime presence in St. Petersburg media, died Monday after a short battle with a rare form of cancer. He was 59. A former […]
There is evidence to suggest that the minor King Features Syndicate – Tribune Content Agency relationship has just taken a major leap forward. Above is a screenshot of yesterday’s King Features Syndicate’s page listing of its syndicated comics, new to the page are placeholders for most of the comics features syndicated by Tribune Content Agency. Below […]
Ann Telnaes puts into graphic form something that’s been running around my mind, and one of the best things about political cartooning is how its boiling of complexity into a seemingly simple image can focus things.Trump has demanded two justices of the Supreme Court recuse themselves from any cases involving his administration because Sotomayor expressed […]
Well, this oughta bring a buck or two.The original art for the January 7, 1934 debut of Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond has come to light and will be offered for auction by Profiles in History.From Just Collecting news:The first-ever Flash Gordon comic strip drawn by Alex Raymond in 1933 is heading for auction, having […]
I’m thinking of doing an entire blog consisting of nothing but cartoons of the Wall Street bull statue wearing a surgical mask. At this stage, it’s still a coincidence, but time’s up, gang. If you would like to examine the coronavirus in more detail, I’d suggest you go to the Guardian and read the rest of […]