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 […]
Scribble Through the StruggleHat tip to John Freeman over at Down the Tubes for surfacing the Scribble through the Struggle Instagram campaign initiated by Young Comics Laureate Mollie Ray (Giant) to motivate young artists to push through challenges.From Mollie: “As part of my time in the role I’m asking artists to take part in the […]
A Nebraska high school news site was ordered by school administrators to remove an editorial cartoon. From Ben Schneider for the Student Press Law Center: In February, Gretna East administrators told editors for Gretna East Media to remove from their website an editorial cartoon by student Aidan McClaren that was critical of ICE. Administrators then […]
Dear Leader will address the nation this evening, and Garth German has picked up on the timing. Apparently, the address will be about Iran, though it might also be about Sharpies or about the judge telling him to stop tearing down the White House. During the Vietnam War, there were people who suggested we just […]
Chilean cartoonist José “Palomo” Fuentes has passed away in Mexico where he spent most of his adult life in exile. He was 82.Palomo, born in Santiago, Chile in 1943, began his professional life in Chile. He contributed cartoons to El Pingüino, and La Nación during the 1960s. The 1973 coup d’état that brought Augusto Pinochet to power […]
Doonesbury, Hot Rods and Drag Cartoons, Climate Change Panels, and a return to Sally Forth. Smithsonian Reviews G. B. Trudeau Biography From the current issue of Smithsonian Magazine Brandon Tensley reviews Trudeau & Doonesbury. Trudeau has long managed to stay out of the public eye. In Trudeau & Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News […]
The Sydney Morning Herald media writer Calum Jaspan is reporting recent leadership changes at The Guardian is affecting contract cartoonists—specifically First Dog on the Moon. The change places First Dog on “rolling six-month contract.” The last 12 years of First Dog’s contract terms have always been a rolling one-year contract.First Dog tells us he has […]