A few things that stood out this week. Scott Ketcham‘s wildly off-model Dennis the Menace and Joey didn’t bring about the amount of comments I thought it would. Though it sticks out like a sore thumb I am not bothered by it. For those who are there’s another Scott Ketcham panel coming next week. Will […]
Today is May Day, which is International Workers Day, aka Labour Day, marking the Haymarket Square Riots, which began May 1, 1886, and culminated in the explosion four days later.Whamond notes the calls this year for a general strike, but I don’t think America is a general-striking sort of country. I recall that the Mai-Juin […]
Comics and Libraries, Mafalda and Montreal, and N.Y. Times on Gerry Conway.A Digital Catalog for Libraries I’m sorry to say it has been a long time since I regularly patronized my local libraries. It seems they are far more modern than what once was and comics are a large part of that new century look. […]
When cartoonists get together they talk about any number of things: non-Euclidean geometry, post-Rawlsian public reason, the price of tea in China, etc. GoComics has taken that idea and narrowed it down to comics.Kathy Hilliard tells us: GoComics is rolling out a new feature that might be of interest: “Cartoonist to Cartoonist” – in which […]
Acclaimed editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes offers a razor sharp critique of American political hypocrisy. Can the nation preserve its democratic ideals, or will it fall prey to an authoritarian takeover? For four days, beginning May 1, 2026, Ann Telnaes and Friends are making the Laura Dix documentary Democracy Under Siege available in the United States. […]
The familiar expression is that even a broken clock is right twice a day, but I’d add an amendment to point out that some clocks are cuckoo all the time. Ohman makes a vital distinction, in that although it is paranoid and foolish to see a conspiracy in the attempted shooting at the WHCA dinner, […]
The discovery of an old coverless book leads David Geffen on a quest for the cartoonist who chronicled Israel’s formative years through his cartoons. The Jerusalem Post carries the profile. The opening drawing in the book shows Mr. Yisrael wearing the military-folded cap of the Israeli soldiers and holding a dumbbell high up in the […]
Cartoonist Ashraf Omar will be tried in Egyptian court beginning May 10. He’s been detained since July 2024 on four charges. According to his lawyer, three charges have been dropped but the prosecution added a new charge and will move forward to charges related to terrorism.The Initial charges are:Charges 1, 3, and 4 have been dropped […]
From Guy Badeaux’s (Bado) blog we learn the winners of the 26th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon award. The theme this year was “Times are tough.” Taking the top first, second and third place are: Darko Drljevic of Montenegro, Joel Pett of USA, and Patrick Lamontagne of Canada.Ten cartoonists were honored with an Awards […]
Scottish cartoonist Tom Gauld is the first non-French cartoonist to be honored with the Le Prix Gotlib (The Gotlib Prize) for humorous cartoon book. Until this year, the prize for humor has been awarded solely to a French cartoonist or French language book of humor. His book “Physics for Cats” was originally published by Drawn […]
Free Comic Book Day this Saturday, Michael de Adder with another win, Silver Reuben nominees get pressed, R. Crumb gets swiped again, and a report on The Billy Ireland and why the museum and library should be a stop on your summer vacation.May 2 is Free Comic Book Day Let’s start this midweek roundup by […]
We missed all the speeches the other night — okay, we didn’t miss them, but we didn’t get to hear them — but here’s the speech you should have heard at graduation but didn’t.I realized halfway through senior year that the campus placement bureau never had anyone there interviewing for Philosopher Kings, and started thinking […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will reopen on May 23 after building and HVAC improvements and a redesign of the layout of the exhibition areas. Chris Ware’s international exhibition Life is Complicated, will headline the reopening.From the Billy Ireland website regarding the changes to the exhibit areas: At the heart of the enhanced museum […]
The National Headliners Awards have announced the winners for 2026 and Jeff Koterba took the winning prize in the Editorial Cartoons category. Said the judges: Jeff’s cartoons capture what people are thinking, feeling, suspecting … and do so in a clean, clever way. Donald Trump skiing around the truth, leaving a woman’s outline in his […]
I came across a half-dozen or so cartoons about adding ballrooms to elementary schools, and it’s a fair point but I gather one of those fair points so obvious that it occurred to everybody. As noted yesterday, the ballroom is an absolutely stupid idea and the events at the WHCA dinner didn’t change that.But McKee […]