Trending up as the No. 3 video on all of YouTube.com, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah covers the 50th Anniversary of Franklin’s first appearance in “Peanuts.”     

The recently opened National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., has reconstructed Brad “Marmaduke” Anderson’s studio and create an interactive exhibit.From Brad’s son Paul:They had contacted us with a request to donate as much of Brad’s studio as we could.  Drawing board, light board, chair, materials, items on walls, papers as they were about the office.  […]

Wiley Miller is in the midst of an impressive run of news/deadline synchronicity, with this Non Sequitur appearing just as Laura Ingraham announces on national television that she is not the unwitting victim of some subconscious prejudice but is, in fact, a fully intentional white supremacist who wishes to have our government enact blatantly racist […]

An international line-up of Americans Ward Sutton, Matt Bors, Brian Fies, and Rob Rogers;Canadians Terry Mosher, Wes Tyrell, and Graeme McKay;New Zealanders Sharon Murdoch, Toby Morris, Rod Emmerson, and Nigel Buchanan.Hosted by Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Jack Ohmanand Salt Lake Tribune cartoonist and AAEC President Pat Bagley.Plus seminars, exhibits, business meetings, and the crowning of […]

If you are heading to get some book bargains at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, you may want to arrive earlier and visit the current MAD magazine exhibit before hitting the book sale.Artistically MAD: Seven Decades of Satire is on display until late October. This comprehensive exhibition will showcase original drawings and paintings […]

Tom Spurgeon over the Comics Reporter has a small piece on The Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State University holding their first annual duplicates sale on August 30th. And you ask: What in heaven’s name is a duplicates sale? Well, keep reading …From their site: Calling all collectors, book worms, scholars and fans!The Billy Ireland will hold its […]

(Signe Wilkinson)Well, thanks for coming. That’s all for today.———–Okay, perhaps a little commentary, though I think Wilkinson’s pen drop pretty much says it.There’s some argument to be made that these aren’t Trump’s lawyers but Manafort’s, but that seems like a distinction without a difference.As Dear Leader said, Manafort is being treated like Al Capone: You […]

Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon #236 (on sale now) has a few pages of the kids’ adventures drawn as tribute pages to Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.Of course tributes to the genius that is Bill Watterson is not uncommon.Some years ago Dan and Tom Heyerman did Calvin and Hobbes some years later. Locust Moon Comics’ Little Nemo: Dream […]

“Jane’s World” was the first gay-themed work to receive online distribution by a national media syndicate (United Features/Comics.com). Paige Braddock is the cartoonist behind the long-running comic strip and TDC interviewed Paige as she prepared for the August 21st launch of her 20th Anniversary “Jane’s World” book from Lion Forge. TDC: Forgive the ignorance, did Jane’s World first debut in […]

From the story:The August 20, 1913, edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (subscription required) reprinted a cartoon from the London Chronicle about the newspaper of the future. And it serves as a fascinating snapshot of an era when automobiles were still relatively new, powered flight was just a decade old, and broadcast radio was still for early adopters. 

After reading the write-up for Colonial Comics: New England, 1750-1775 at Comics Worth Reading, I made a mistake that has both positive and negative outcomes for readers here: I accidentally ordered the Kindle version instead of the paperback.The positive is that I was able to sit down and read it sooner and can report that […]

Cartoonist John Blair Moore has passed away.JOHN BLAIR MOORE 1948 – AUGUST 5, 2018 From John’s autobiography:Born in Tibet in the 1880’s, John Blair Moore was raised by a family of iternant(sic) Yak herders high in the Himalayas, where he spent years perfecting his skills in animation and narrative cartoon strips. Unfortunately, being about forty […]

There are three sketch artists in the courtroom for Paul Manafort‘s financial crimes trial.Reuters is using the artwork of William (Bill) Hennessy, Jr. The Associated Press is going with Dana Verkouteren. NPR has the talents of Art Lien. Network and cable news seem to be gravitating toward the Hennessy drawings.Hennessy was the artist Stephen Colbert used for an […]

Over on reddit.com, this post getting some love.Twitter: @Garfield

Berkeley Breathed restarted “Bloom County” in 2015 and he’s now onto his third collection of those new strips. IDW will release “Bloom County: Best Read on the Throne” this September. It’s available for pre-order here.From the IDW site:Collecting year three of the Bloom County relaunch begun in 2015! The stakes are higher, the punchlines are sharper, and […]