Creative Loafing Tampa reinstated Bob Whitmore today as staff cartoonist after hundreds of readers flooded the email inboxes of corporate and local publishers over their decision to fire him last week over a cartoon that two readers complained was “anti-Semitic.”The saga began after the paper published Bob’s cartoon criticizing Israel’s food blockade to Gaza. Within […]
Mellor sets the stage for last week’s Alaskan summit meeting with an homage to David Low’s classic Rendezvous. There are differences between Hitler and Stalin meeting over the corpse of Poland and Trump and Putin meeting over Ukraine, with the major difference being that Ukraine is not only still alive but defiant.The other difference is […]
The Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan is dropping a couple comics. (Or here.) Some changes are coming to our daily ‘Toons page, and here’s the plan: To make those changes, we must drop TWO of the current comic strips/panels from the page. And that’s where you come in. We want you to tell us what […]
Nancy has taken a strange turn lately. Not in a historically strange Nancy comic strip way, but in a strange for cartoonist Olivia Jaimes way. Since Olivia started riffing on cartoonists and comics a couple weeks ago (the change struck even earlier in July) it seems she has taken to emulating the prime Ernie Bushmiller […]
Just got an update on my computer, but I haven’t yet figured out what it changed. I don’t recall the last time an update made a drastic change; they usually save those for new versions of the basic program, like when Windows 11 added a thingie so that people with Photoshop disks couldn’t install it […]
Liza Donnelly is on a streak profiling cartoonists as part of her Women Laughing documentary.Among the cartoonists are Bishakh Som She was trained at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Architcture, but always drew comics and incorporates architectural ideas in her graphic novel work. In 2018, she sold her first drawing to The New […]
The National Cartoonists Society announced the winners of their Reuben Awards for the year 2024 in Boston on Friday August 15, 2025. Below are the nominees and the winners.*Still trying to suss out all the winners, help would be appreciated The National Cartoonists Society has posted the list of Reuben Award winners. The 79th National […]
A bit of odd timing at work here: Tank McNamara offered a gag about Trump clapping yesterday, and, by yomping yiminey, we got an example as he applauded an arriving Vladimir Putin in Alaska. There was not so much applause later, as they cancelled today’s luncheon and ended things early with nothing to show for […]
Small Press Expo (SPX) has announced its 2025 Ignatz Award nominees. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning and honors “exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression.”Voting is open to anyone — even those not attending SPX. You […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. With the post title and the opening strip I guess I’d best start off with […]
Starting things off with a surprising strip from VJ Day, August 15, 1945. Given the normal distribution channels of the time and the fact that there’s no day specified in the margins, I’m going to assume that, with the war winding down, Roy Crane recognized the strong possibility of a Japanese surrender before his story […]
The Harvey Awards have announced the 2025 nominees. The Harvey Awards honors books and creators working in sequential art. Winners will be announced Oct. 10 at New York Comic Con.The nominees are:Book of the YearDigital Book of the YearBest Children’s BookBest Young Adult BookBest MangaBest International BookBest Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel
The corporate owners of the alternative paper Creative Loafing Tampa fired Bob Whitmore, the local political cartoonist, over what a couple saw as an antisemitic cartoon he drew and the paper published.From WNFM-FM radio: A political cartoonist at Creative Loafing is out of a job because of criticisms the paper got after it published his […]
Here’s the solid base on which to build what is to come: The President is desperately tossing out distractions to keep his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein from coming out. Some of the distractions are things he wanted to do anyway, but much of it is like the chaff bombers used to toss out during WWII […]
The National Cartoonists Society’s 79th Annual Reuben Awards weekend starts tomorrow and syndicates are proudly highlighting the cartoonists from their stables that have been nominated for awards and honors. Comics Kingdom Proudly Celebrates our 2025 Reuben Awards Honorees and Nominees From King Features Syndicate/Comics Kingdom: In this post, we’re spotlighting our Reuben Award nominees and […]