Webtoon Entertainment, the New York-listed parent company of Naver Webtoon, said Wednesday it will adapt some of Disney’s most popular franchises — including Marvel, Star Wars and 20th Century Studios — into vertical-scroll webtoons for the U.S. market via a global content partnership with Disney. The company will launch a dedicated Disney section in its […]
A flashback from Dark Side. When I was 12 or so, I used to walk to the hospital each Friday to have my braces tightened and to get a Tommy Tooth lecture. Tightening the braces made my mouth ache for about six hours, but the lecture stuck with me a long time and, after high […]
Comic books have been a gateway to reading for generations. They combine colorful artwork with engaging stories that can pull even the most reluctant readers into the joy of books. Whether your child loves superheroes, fantasy adventures, or slice-of-life humor, there’s a comic out there for them. Jack Wilson at Nerdbot lists the 15 Best […]
A Duke’s Mixture of animators as book illustrators and magazine cover artists, the suppression of the prurient by the puritanical as not-safe-for-work internet cartoonists are being demonetized, and when newspapers flourished.When Animators Illustrate Many cartoonists famously illustrated books, as did some animation giants. Three famous animation talents who worked in book illustrations were Walter Lantz, […]
Ohman’s exaggerating, at least for the moment. There’s no telling how deep into the bag of distractions Dear Leader is willing to reach if this Epstein business doesn’t go away, and, after all, he did send a couple of nuclear subs to lurk off Russia’s coast. The first question is whether these “nuclear” subs are […]
Cartoonists Rights reports that Turkish prosecutors are appealing the July 24 acquittal of cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu. Zehra had been charged with “obscenity” for a 2020 cartoon that appeared on LeMan magazine. In July a court judged that no crime was committed and acquitted her of all charges.From Cartoonists Rights: After a slow and lengthy process of […]
Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill are jointly interviewed about their collaboration on the Gil Thorp comic strip and the Death to Pachuco comic book WILLIAM SCHWARTZ: How did you get the idea to make an “anti-celebration” strip like this? RACHEL MERRILL: From what I understand, our editor Carrie Williams was the one who suggested the […]
I could do an entire day of cartoons in which Trump and Putin discuss the Ukraine war while Zelenskyy remains out of the conversation. It seems nobody in the world thinks it’s fair or right for the invader and an outside party to determine some other nation’s territory and sovereignty.I like Royaards’ piece because he’s […]
The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz by Mark Evanier For many of us, the best part of waking up on Sunday morning wasn’t a cup of Folger’s, but the Sunday comics. My brother and I always fought over who got to read our favorite strips first, and that included Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz […]
Cuban cartoonist Humberto Lazaro Miranda Ramirez, better known as LAZ, has passed away at the age of 64 on August 4.From the Juventude Rebelde (translated) obituary: Known for his infinite ability to draw Cuban reality from a glance, above all, costumbrista, from a very young age LAZ he was attracted to the drawing and linked […]
I wonder if Buffalo is large enough that Trump’s secret police can get away with disappearing people without raising objections? It is, on one hand, New York’s second-largest city, but, on the other, it’s not quite 3.5% the population of Gotham and even less so if you include the entire NYC metro zone. NYS demographics […]
From Palgrave Macmillan comes Cartoon Conflicts: Contemporary Controversies and Historical Precedents Edited by Ritu Gairola Khanduri, Richard Scully, and Paulo Jorge Fernandes. This edited collection of new research highlights the way in which the cartoon – long regarded as a staple of journalism and freedom of expression – faces new challenges in the twenty-first century […]
Midweek Olivia Jaimes began what a series of Nancy strips riffing on her profession. While Richard Thompson in the throwback Cul de Sac show us how those unorganized underground cartoonists probably created those jam comix. Previewing next week’s Reuben Awards yesterday we had Intelligent Life, Macanudo, and Thatababy celebrating recognizable comic strips of the past […]
I was playing around in 1935 newspapers and came across this Art Krenz illustration with the tale of the tape for the upcoming fight between Max Baer (yes, Jethro’s father) and Joe Louis. Sports cartoons often had a lot of word balloons and commentary, but Krenz plays this straight because interest in the fight was […]
A new comic strip is appearing in the Sunday Santa Fe New Mexican! Pacheco Prairie Dog’s Southwest Almanac by Ryan T. Cook began appearing in The Santa Fe New Mexican on July 13, 2025, replacing a long-running column whose author retired. From the July 6 New Mexican: Alex De Vore at the Santa Fe Reporter […]