Aussie caricature artist Brett Bower announced he’s launching AI ‘caricature bots’ in Sydney Australia, and San Diego, CA. These mechanical arms use AI to draw a caricature in front of individuals on cruise ships, attending corporate events, or special events.This technology isn’t new. Bot staff take a photo of an audience member which is loaded […]
The San Diego Comic Con opens today, July 22, and runs through Sunday, July 26. It is of course a major celebration of comic book creators, role-playing games, and information on new and upcoming Hollywood films and TV. Here we highlight some of the other panels and events more in our bailiwick. Animation History with […]
Over at The Library of American Comics Newspaper Strip Appreciation Facebook Group David Brown noted that the recent Nancy For All Seasons was missing some strips from the otherwise complete 1951-1952 run. Said David: I got this Fantagraphics collection of Nancy daily strips the other day … there were several strips missing: from looking through […]
To call Lynn Johnston a legend would undersell her influence on newspaper comic strips. Her strip For Better or for Worse launched in 1979 and quickly became one of the most widely syndicated comic strips with a client list rivaling those of Peanuts and Garfield. FBoFW was one of the few comic strips whose characters […]
I haven’t decided whether to go see the Odyssey, but I did decide to go ahead and review the spoilers by reading a Guardian piece about what they changed. The point is, if you’ve read the Big Three — the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid — you know the story and the “spoilers” become […]
Profiling Florida cartoonist Ron Bates, Matt Wuerker and Kevin ‘KAL’ Kallaugher and The Founding Fathers, and Pedro X. Molina on the state of the art he is proudly a part. Ron Bates Nicole Stitz for The Port Charlotte Sun profiles Ron Bates a muralist, set designer, commercial artist, illustrator and, once he moved to Florida, […]
First Dog reminds us that Big Brother isn’t the only one watching, and he’s not making up that bit about self-driving cars, because a Waymo taxi snitched on some drunken teenagers who were shooting plastic pellets out its windows.Which is one of those things where maybe it’s good that kids can’t get away with anything […]
VeeFriends by Gary Vee and D.J. Coffman began its Sunday run in Lee Enterprises newspapers on February 23, 2025 and while still running in those papers it hasn’t been original material since January 18, 2026. Beginning January 25, 2026 the VeeFriends began running reprints from the VeeFriends comic book. During the year of original material […]
Tonight! Monday, July 20 @ 7pm ET via Zoom Free and open to the public. Come one, come all! Join us for a special NCS Open House with a live screening of “Reuben Legends,” a video created and narrated by Brian Walker — a loving look back at 80 years of National Cartoonists Society history, […]
President Trump’s speech last week has drawn poor reviews, which is an unusual response to presidential addresses, though in this case, the message was so clearly partisan that ABC and NBC declined to cover it except on their online news channels, and CBS and even Fox cut away and downplayed it when it became obvious […]
The United Kingdom will soon have a new Prime Minister so Jason Arunn Murugesu at the BBC went to award winning political cartoonist Graeme Bandeira to talk about caricaturing the new PM. Grame spoke to Burnham’s physical characteristics and cartooning politicians in general. A political cartoonist has said he is looking forward to spending more […]
Delayed Gratification I sent my RSVP to the Thorp/Healy wedding and showed up on time. Here it is a week later and the couple has yet to say their vows. Yeah, I understand it is still the same day in comic strip time, but maybe Henry Barajas should have put July 20 or whenever they […]
I don’t know that people overseas have a clearer view of our situation, but perhaps it’s easier to laugh at existential dread when you’re observing from afar. Not that there isn’t concern about the effects, because what happens in the United States certainly doesn’t stay in the United States, but what distance there is between […]
For reasons unexplained (greed?) Lee Enterprises is insisting on unheard of compensation from any library that will accept David Fitzsimmons’ editorial cartoons archive. From David Fitzsimmons Substack comes the details: For years, Lee Publishing, owner of The Arizona Daily Star, has been blocking me from donating my professional life’s work to my hometown Alma mater, […]
The death of Pat Oliphant brought immediate tributes from friends and colleagues. Those very early first responses have been followed with an astounding amount of words or pictures or both honoring the master of editorial cartooning. An outpouring of respect, appreciation, and love unseen since the passing of Charles Schulz. Michael de Adder brought a […]