Multiple sources including Deadline are reporting that Aaron McGruder’s “The Boondocks” is being rebooted and has been given a two-season (24 episode) order from HBO Max.    

I’ve got nothing against Steve Breen and am only using his cartoon because he makes a specific claim that can be argued against.The more-than-half-a-dozen other cartoons on the topic simply accuse the New York Times of being incompetent and rushing to be unfair to Brett Kavanaugh without actually explaining how.When someone screams “I hate you! […]

Word on the street is that the National Cartoonists Society 2020 Reuben Awards Weekend will be held the first weekend in June 2020 and in Kansas City, Missouri. (A cautionary note: neither the date nor the place has been confirmed.)The 2019 NCSFest and Reuben Awards Dinner broke the recent tradition of holding the convention on […]

The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards is an annual celebration of the creativity, skill and fun of comics. The nomination ballot is determined by fans and pros alike. The third annual awards return as part of the fan- and pro-favorite convention, The Baltimore Comic-Con. Top honors will be announced Saturday, October 19, 2019.As the […]

Cartoonist Emil Abrahamian was featured on the local news back in July 2019 when he was 92, since that time he has celebrated his 93rd birthday.Watch via YouTube.Looking Good, Emil! Below: Emil’s National Cartoonists Society mini-bio card.    to the NCS Twitter feed.    

A small nook — only three books — but you wouldn’t like a large nook and I’m not sure there’s any such a thing anyway. But first, the weather, and Speed Bump captures the moment, because we seem to have a boatload of monarchs here all of a sudden, and while most of them don’t seem […]

Lee served as editor and then president of Universal Press Syndicate, now called Andrews McMeel Syndication. In his nearly four decades at Universal, he is credited with editing and developing some of the iconic comic strips of our time, including Calvin and Hobbes, Cathy, Cul-de-Sac, Doonesbury, The Far Side and For Better or for Worse. […]

Literally – a 90th anniversary Popeye wristwatch.Bamford London is celebrating the 90th anniversary of Popeye with the release of a new collaborative watch. The watch is made alongside the cartoon’s owner King Features, which has graced Bamford London’s GMT model with Popeye motifs throughout its design. Channeling the nautical theme synonymous with Popeye, the duo […]

Wallace the Brave is off to have a terrible picture taken of himself. I remember having a school photo taken and then, two months later, getting to see how horrible it was.School photographers now offer “retake days” for those whose pics were truly ghastly, and I can pick out three or four of my school […]

Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.  Snug Harbor Stories: A Wallace the Brave Collection!   Silly Symphonies Volume 4: The Complete Disney Classics 1942-1945 (the last volume)    Pickles Tails: The […]

 Saturday September 14, 2019: Keith Knight has spent the past week hinting that he was ending his The Knight Life daily strip. Beginning the week with a fortune cookie, and ending the dailies with fulfilling a Make-A-Wish type grant on Saturday September 14, 2019 (above).It was probably inevitable, what with Keith heavily involved in his […]

Starting with a blank panel this morning because I don’t want to single anyone out, nor do I want to run a half-dozen or more cartoons all pointing out that Bernie Sanders sure does talk loud.I guess they hadn’t noticed before.When I moved back East a little over 30 years ago, Bernie was already mayor […]

 Artist and cartoonist Mary Zins has passed away.Mary Catherine (MC) Zins ?June 2, 1964? – August 22, 2019 From the obituary:…our sister will always be remembered as a gifted and talented artist that eventually blossoms into an outstanding, Internationalist Fine Art Cartoonist e.g., cartoonmovement. Whom mimicked her father, Chuck Zins, a great commercial illustrator with an […]

Editor and Publisher recently asked a couple of young editors for their thoughts on the recent firings of editorial cartoonists by a few newspapers.Firing editorial cartoonists for their controversial art not only violates their right to free speech, but it robs the public of the full story. What newspapers choose to publish, or not to […]

From Fine Books & Collections:Washington, D.C. — A new exhibition at the Library of Congress explores the fascinating evolution of visual storytelling styles in comic art – from panels in early newspapers to contemporary images of some of the most famous and funny characters in print. Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages opened […]