The Secretary of Greasy Kid Stuff is hardly the first leader to pervert the message of Christ into a call for killing. As noted here before, while in the West the word “crusade” has come to mean pursuing a goal, in the days of the Iraq War we discovered that, in the Middle East, it […]
The Invention of the Mass Media, a Printing Revolution; Resizing Newspaper Comic Strips; The Tradition of Comic Art Satire; and Leo Baxendale. The Invention of Mass Media The Grolier Club’s The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Media exhibit ends in a week: This exhibition tells the story of the second printing revolution that took […]
The annual Christmas comic strips from Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) that ran from 1936 to 2010 are well-known, not so well-known are the Easter comics strips that ran for a few years in the 1950s.We turn to The Little Blue Duck by Walt Scott that ran in the two weeks leading up to Easter 1955.
We’ll warm up this morning with this NYTimes gem that’s been going around social media for the past 24 hours. It’s a reminder once again that reporters don’t write headlines but eejits sometimes do.Much of my work as a reporter was large Sunday business features, and I took to dropping by the paper Saturday to […]
New(ish) Flash Gordon Artist Monday, March 30, saw Dan Schkade share creator credits with artist Sandy Jarrell on Flash Gordon. Sandy was one of the guest artists last year in the Lowland Station Tales, now he has returned as the daily and Sunday artist for the foreseeable future – meaning at least through next week. […]
Colorado cartoonist Matt Scharf has passed away. Matthew J. (Matt) Scharf August 21, 1961 – March 30, 2026From the obituary: Matt J Scharf died suddenly on March 30th at his home in Steamboat. Matt was a proud long-time local, sharing his cartoons and graphic design through his publication, “The Valley Voice”. He was also a […]
Famed French cartoonist, comic writer, and illustrator Jean-Paul Krassinsky has passed away. He was 52 years old. He was known for blending satire, fantasy, and visual storytelling across comics, illustration, and design.Notice from his publisher Éditions Dupuis (translated): There are authors we love through their books, and others we love through their way of being […]
This is as political as I’m going to get today, and I often have to decide whether Venables belongs in humor or politics. Here’s some of both. Maybe I’ll do a whole page of Pam Bondi cartoons later, but I’m not in the mood this morning.If nothing else, I remember endless Good Friday services as […]
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) has named the nominees for the 2025 Cartoonist of the Year Award otherwise known as The Reuben Award. The nominees are: DAVE BLAZEK Loose Parts TAUHID BONDIA Crabgrass WILL HENRY Wallace the Brave DAV PILKEY Dog Man/Captain Underpants DANA SIMPSON Phoebe and Her Unicorn MARK TATULLI Liô RAINA TELGEMEIER The […]
The new studio Underneath the Umbrella has secured the right to produce animated movies featuring the Johnny Hart and Brant Parker characters from The Wizard of Id and the Johnny Hart B.C. characters.From Mercedes Milligan at Animation Magazine: Goodman Pictures and Tim Johnson (Over the Hedge, Home, Antz) today announced the formation of their new […]
Ron Hill has been a comic artist (caricature quick-sketch entertainment, freelance humorous and fantasy/science fiction illustration work, and graphic design work) since 1983. At the end of the last century Ron began a career as an editorial cartoonist. From The Ron Hill LinkedIn page: In 1999 I began providing editorial cartoons to The Chagrin Valley […]
Bagley and Telnaes are rarely this far apart politically, but that’s not the factor here: Bagley posted his cartoon prior to SCOTUS hearing the birthright citizen case, and Telnaes posted hers afterwards. It’s the difference between anticipation and realization, though I suppose what looks like an 8-1 or 7-2 victory for the plain-text of the […]
On April 1, 2026 Dennis the Menace, the 75 year old five year old, is showing up in random comic strips as seen on the Comics Kingdom site (not in the strips and panels actually syndicated to newspapers). By my count he appeared in at least 30 Kingdom strips not counting his own.As seen in […]
Small Press Expo has opened up submissions for nominees for its Ignatz Award categories. Submissions will be open starting today through end of May. This year’s SPX will be September 12–13.Ignatz Award categories include:Nominees will be announced in Mid-August.
The Graphic Medicine International Collective has been announced for this year’s conference dates and keynote speakers. The annual conference will be July 23–25, and the keynote speakers will be Dr. Nathan Gray and Meredith Li-Vollmer. The theme this year is: Drawing Perspectives: Health Graphic Narratives Under Pressure.From their website: We will explore this theme broadly to include […]