The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) travelled to Broom-Hilda country last November to deliver their Gold Key award (scroll down), signifying induction into the Society’s Hall of Fame, to cartoonist Russell Myers. National Cartoonists Society President Karen Evans and Mark Habegger traveled to Oregon to deliver the NCS Gold Key and record a wonderful interview with […]
Illustrator and cartoonist Brad Holland has passed away.Bradford Wayne (Brad) Holland October 16, 1943 – March 27, 2025From Steven Heller: Brad Holland died on Thursday March 27 at 2 a.m. after heart surgery. He was 81. He was my first professional friend, critic and inspiration when at 17 I stumbled into the worlds of satiric […]
We’ll start the week with a dose of politics and the gift of seeing ourselves as others see us. Depending on how you feel about our chocolate, there’s not much here that seems outlandish or surprising. The humor, rather, is in listing it without choking in horror, as if it were all perfectly normal.Let’s hope […]
A New York Times obituary for John Peck and a King Features remembrance of Hy Eisman have appeared. John Peck, a cultural omnivore known as The Mad Peck whose dryly humorous style as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic, disc jockey and record collector was accompanied by an ornate eccentricity, died on March 15 in Providence, […]
A new Sunday story in The Phantom means a new title panel by Sunday artist Jeff Weigel. A big, wonderful Prince Valiant panel by Thomas Yeates as Val and company begin their own new adventure.Current Popeye cartoonist Randy Milholland has some fun with the present status of the comic strip of new Sundays and daily […]
Rain dampened, but did not discourage, demonstrators in White River Junction, where we lined the road through town and across the bridge into New Hampshire. The larger crowds were, naturally, in the larger cities, Montpelier and Burlington in Vermont and Concord, Manchester and Portsmouth in New Hampshire, but there were good turnouts even in the […]
Art Spiegelman biography and career timeline As a prelude to their airing of the Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse documentary on April 15, 2025 PBS presents a “timeline [that] explores Art Spiegelman’s life and the major milestones in his career” from his birth in 1948 to 2025’s collaboration with Joe Sacco on “Never Again […]
With the stock market, and more importantly GoComics, crashing we could use some laughs. Magic Bus Gracie gets on the bus that takes her to school. Too much the Magic BusHector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos offer an alternative reality in this past week’s Baldo.Reality Checking Reality CheckReality Check misses it by thaaat much. In […]
Lucky timing from RAM: This strip ran the morning after Dear Leader announced the tariffs, before the markets could react — Trump had delayed his announcement until after closing — and so was drawn even earlier than that.The markets were already shaky, but nowhere approaching the thundering crash we’re still experiencing, thanks to the jaw-dropping […]
Illustrator Robert McGinnis has passed away. Robert Edward (Bob) McGinnis February 3, 1926 – March 10, 2025From the obituary: Renowned painter/illustrator Robert E. McGinnis (those who knew him firsthand called him Bob) died at the age of 99 in Old Greenwich on March 10, 2025. Bob was one of the most prolific illustrators of the […]
Searching for Hy Eisman at newspapers.com Newspapers.com doesn’t carry the Newark News so I can’t get It Happened in New Jersey from there, but here’s a February 20, 1955 story from the New York Sunday News about Hy’s comic being exhibited. After years of ghosting comic strips for Alfred Andriola (Kerry Drake) and Vern Greene […]
Jen Sorensen starts us off with a plain statement: The Bill of Rights is no longer part of our government, or of our daily lives. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press can be restricted if people speak or write things that go against official policy, and freedom of religion means the freedom to […]
With cartoonists Carol Lay, Ali Fitzgerald, Andrea Beizer, Bill Bettwy, Colleen Doran, G. B. Trudeau, Paul and Brad Anderson, Jeff and Bil Keane, Larry Lieber, and Gilbert Shelton and Ted Richards (with Willy Murphy and Gary Hallgren).Reading Room: Comics For Earth In 1952 the lead character in cartoonist Walt Kelly’s popular “Pogo” comic strip found […]
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. ICYMI, our president actually said “An old fashioned term that we use — groceries — I used it on the campaign. It’s such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. ‘Groceries.’ It’s a bag with different things in it.”This is, of course, the same president who believes that […]
(April 2, 2025) — Haddam Killingworth News has announced that the work of cartoonist Robert Summers will appear in the weekly print edition of the paper, which is delivered on Thursdays. His cartoon strip, called “Shiver Me Timbers,” is about the lighter side of the life and times of those who enjoy the water, boats, […]