Rea Irvin, the [New Yorker]’s first art editor, is best known for creating Eustace Tilley, the monocled dandy whose upturned nose has graced our pages for a hundred years. Irvin established the stylish and refined look of The New Yorker, brought in countless new artists, and also penned many early covers that display his graphic […]
NPR has released their list of Best Books published in the year 2025. The Graphic Novels category includes a few books whose authors have comic strip credentials. J vs. K by Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander – – – Buy the book Two bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning kids’ book authors and friendly rivals team up to […]
“From the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush.” […]
An(n) Award As reported earlier this month Ann Telnaes was to receive the 2025 William Randolph Hearst Award. And so she did. Ward Sutton posted a picture with Ann holding the award, with Mark Fiore also in attendance. Wuerker Related Also this month Mike Rhode visited editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker and took a baker’s dozen […]
It’s All in the Timing That was some timing for Zippy to mention Superman #1 at the same time as a near mint issue sells for $12,200,000. What are the chances that Griffy was aware of the auction deadline a month earlier when he created the strip? Much less likely is that Dave Whamond would […]
I got a laugh out of this, though my current dog is quite neat and would only have rumpled blankets, since she buries herself in them. But the timing is nice because it made me think about coming home from college for Thanksgiving, which I only did once. I came home completely changed and it […]
Graphic Novelist Stamps, Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award, Honorary Degree for Bruce MacKinnon, and An Ode to Speech Bubbles. Graphic Novelists Featured on Stamps from Canada Post From Canada Post: Canada Post has unveiled the second in a two-part series celebrating Canadian graphic novelists. Canada has produced several prominent graphic novelists, and this stamp issue […]
The annual Guest Jumbler Week with six cartoonists, all syndicated comic strip artists this year, taking over for the regular creators David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek on the very popular Jumble puzzle. Is there a daily newspaper that does not run the feature? The Jumble Facebook page ran the puzzles and short profiles of […]
This time of year invariably produces a flood of turkeys attempting to avoid the ax, but Hands breaks tradition and makes an actual point, based on Dear Leader’s pardoning of those who worked to overturn the legal results of the 2020 election, which matches the pardons he provided for the rioters who stormed the Capitol […]
The Lake County Journal/Shaw Local touted their cartoonist Tom Beck sweeping the recent 2025 Northern Illinois Newspaper Association Awards. show (or here): Lake County Journal cartoonist Tom Beck recently swept the Best Use of Humor category at the 2025 Northern Illinois Newspaper Association Awards. Beck has placed in this category in years past, but this […]
Michael Maslin links to a few original art auctions from classic New Yorker contributors. One being a ca. 1937 Peter Arno College Humor cartoon, another being a 1941 Charles Addams New Yorker cartoon. The former went for $506 the latter for $24,381. A third original art from a Barbara Shermund Pictorial Review cartoon sold for […]
It’s come to this: The President has declared any opposition to him as “sedition” to be punished with execution. My own Congressional Representative is on the list of people Donald Trump has said should be hanged for having said that members of the military are not required to follow illegal orders. Advocating the law and […]
Cartoonist and graphic artist Dick Weidman has passed away. Richard Kenneth (Dick) Weidman July 13, 1930 -November 8, 2025 From the obituary: In late 1948, Dick eagerly joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where his talent contributed to mapping the South Pacific, Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, and Southern California. He drew cartoons for several Army […]
After a month off Rachel Merrill returned as Gil Thorp artist for only two weeks before handing it off to Kit Mills again for an undetermined guest artist run. While Guest Jumbler week at Jumble keeps rolling along. Loose Parts this week brought back memories for old Marvelmaniacs. New GoComics Standards GoComics has published their […]
This may seem like an odd place to start, but it’s actually perfect. In case you missed it, FIFA, the organization that runs the World Cup tournament, recently announced that it has a brand-new Peace Prize and strongly hinted that it will present it to Donald Trump on December 5 when they draw the matches […]