I usually rely on Red and Rover for my nostalgic trips back into childhood, but today’s Soup to Nutz, though the strip is ostensibly set in the present, brings up a memory from the Olden Days.For those too young to know, comic books in them thar days were partially supported by advertising, and the advertisers […]

Liza Donnelly posted this to her blog. I like it because it is open-ended, which goes back to last week’s rant that included an anecdote in which Ezra Pound (I think) snaps “It’s a poem. It doesn’t mean anything, lady. It’s just a goddam poem.”Well, this is just a goddam cartoon, but it’s brilliant and I’m […]

Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean is no stranger to heavy topics such as teen pregnancy, suicide, and cancer. Starting on April 30th, Tom’s strip will launch into a month long story-line about two high school teens wanting to attend prom together.The idea for the story was sparked after Tom read an article […]

Ben Wade, a student at Indiana University – Bloomington, will be award this year’s AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award. Second place this year is a tie between Phillip Henry and Sam Reveley. I’m told the voting this year was very close.The John Locher Memorial Award was established in 1986 to honor the best college editorial cartoonists. […]

One of my favorite parts of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee is the stunned incomprehension on the faces of his contemporaries. They’re not hostile to him; they just can’t figure out what this kid is talking about, except that it isn’t what they’re used to.And the realistic part — and, in the creative arts, […]

Drew Friedman posted this wonderful Hershfeld classic on his Facebook page:And my immediate reaction was that it looked like a contest waiting to be launched. So here’s an annotated version:Make your best guesses. Here’s my list, and it is not complete or at all canonical. Please add, or disagree.

Farhad Manjoo, writing on Slate.com, isn’t impressed with the Pulitzer Prize going to editorial cartooning and argues that the award should go to really good political infographics. The backwardness of political cartoons is especially evident when you compare them to the bounty of new forms of graphical political commentary on the Web. My Facebook and […]

The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and the Mellon Residential Fellowship Program for Arts Practice and Scholarship will be presenting an academic conference with some of the biggest names in comics: Lynda Barry,Alison Bechdel, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Justin Green, Ben Katchor, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, […]

As I mentioned on Tuesday, Ann Hambrock is going the route of Kickstarter to raise money to fund her second annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. Today that Kickstarter project opens for funding. Please head over and pledge.

FoxTrot Pad PacksFoxTrot creator Bill Amend recently released three short ebooks with about 100 curated FoxTrot strips through the iTunes Book Store. He’s getting a lot of attention from Mac blogs such as The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MacGasm, and even a mention by the venerable John Gruber of DaringFireball.One of the latest is from TechCrunch: […]

Yesterday, I added little to Darrin Bell’s cartoon because it would have dulled the point of his commentary.Today, I can add little to Mike Baldwin’s Cornered because there’s nothing much to add except that it really, really cracked me up in the best possible way … after a pause.And then every time I looked at […]

Time Magazine’s latest issue names 100 of the most influential people in the world. Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat is named on the list. Matt Wuerker writes why: Ferzat wasn’t intimidated. His hands have healed and are back to cartooning ? drawing sharp, vivid pictures and wry observations on his people’s plight. In the end, the […]

Dave Kellett’s Coffee: It’s What’s For DinnerSheldon creator Dave Kellett has once again been nominated for Eisner award in the Best Humor category for his book “Coffee: It’s What’s For Dinner.” As he did last year, he’s releasing the book as a free download. My thinking is: I may not be represented by a big […]

Robert Crumb’s Fritz the Cat,The largest exhibit of Robert Crumb’s work is now on exhibit in the Paris’ Museum of Modern Art. From Liveauctioneers.com: Many of the 600 works on display are original drawings shown for the first time, loaned by a handful of private collectors in Europe and the United States. “It’s a big […]

The Antler Boy and Other StoriesJake Parker has launched a Kickstarter project to fund a collection of comic short stories that he’s created over the last eight years. The project has already met its funding goals with 28 more days left, but donors can still contribute and receive signed copies and other incentives.Part of his […]