December 20, 2019 Letter from the National Cartoonists Society calling for submissions. Note that membership is not a requirement to submit and be considered for the divisional awards and the submissions deadline is January 23, 2020.
Ye Gods! There’s some synchronicity among today’s comic strips. Dick Tracy The Phantom Mark Trail Curtis Pearls Before Swine Overboard
Vancouver Is Awesome, a part of the vast Glacier Media empire, has hired Geoff Coates as their weekly editorial cartoonist for the website.From V.I.A.’s introduction by editor Bob Kronbauer:I’m extremely proud to introduce you to our new (and first ever!) editorial cartoonist, the amazingly talented and witty Geoff Coates! If you recognize his name that’s either […]
Publishers Weekly has named Dav Pilkey their 2019 Person of the Year. Dav is the author/illustrator of the hugely successful Captain Underpants series, and has moved on to the just-as-successful Dog Man graphic novels. Pilkey’s Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers, the ninth book in his popular children’s novel series, published in […]
Sally Forth specializes in bizarre takes on holidays, but they get special credit for last Sunday’s take, which kept me wondering what the hell was going on until the last panel.A lot of their weirdness relies on your being familiar with the characters, but this is an excellent standalone — anybody could stumble into this […]
Dozens of New Jersey towns have found too much lead in their drinking water. More than 1.5 million are affected. Cancer-linked chemicals have also been discovered around the state. This year, Newark found itself consumed by a lead water crisis — one that a new NJ Advance Media investigation finds may have been preventable. The […]
Slate and the Center for Cartoon Studies are now receiving entries for their 2020 awards. The two award categories for the Cartoonist Studio Prize are Print Comic of the Year and Web Comic of the Year.Eligible print comics must be written in (or translated into) English and published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of 2019. Creators or publishers […]
Phil Hands is the editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal and the only political cartoonist on staff for a newspaper in the state.Phil explains that his cartoon mind doesn’t stop when his 37 hour work week does.Wisconsin Public Radio interviews Phil Hands and supplies a slide show of cartoons discussed.
From ABC7:It’s not your average suspect sketch, but Riverside police are hoping a drawing will help them find a man who is suspected of robbing a caricature artist. Police say the suspect approached the victim at the Festival of Lights event in downtown Riverside on Dec. 5 and asked him for a portrait of himself. […]
A 45 minute podcast interview with political cartoonist Clay Jones while on his book tout.Clay talks of his shift from leaning right to leaning left, his obsession with Trump (he doesn’t hate Trump, Clay hates that Trump is president), being a freelancer and losing clients by remaining true to himself (and gaining some papers), and […]
In [E&P’s] featured “E&P Reports” interview this week, Dennis Draughon talks to E&P contributing writer Rob Tornoe about what it means to be a political cartoonist … for Capitol Broadcasting/WRAL. Draughon, incidentally, is the 2019 EPPY Award winner for Best Editorial/Political Cartoon with under 1 million unique monthly visitors.Dennis Draughon discusses being downsized out of […]
Mo Willems is the winner of multiple Caldecott Awards. His kids books are very popular. The other week I took a Little One to the bookstore and said she could get two books. She picked the two Biggie books, though she has at least half of the collected stories in individual editions.Every one of my […]
This is going to look like a short entry, but I’ll be sending you lots of worthwhile places, so pay attention to the links and you’ll have enough cartoons to keep you happy.The thing is, everyone saw this half of the process coming, so they’ve had plenty of time to come up with a commentary. […]
A fellow named Rickey Scott got in touch with me at CSotD and offered to compile a list of Patreon and other support sites.I’ll be putting this on a website in the future; if you are a cartoonist with a support site not listed here (or you spot a typo in yours), put it in […]
The Thimble Theatre celebrates the centennial of its opening today.The Thimble Theatre opened on December 19, 1919 with the premiere of “From Cabaret to Country,” starring Olive Oyl (headliner) and Harold Hamgravy; written and choreographed by E. C. Segar. Thimble Theatre followed a dozen years of comic strip melodramas, beginning most famously with Hairbreadth Harry […]