J.R. Williams’ “Out Our Way” was a daily panel with a number of themes, including family comedy, sibling rivalry, factory doings and events on a ranch out west. Williams had worked both in a factory and on a ranch and he’d evidently once been a little boy, judging from how well he depicted little boys.It’s […]

Yesterday, I mentioned the idea that cartoonists probably do the medium no favor with cultural references that you have to be 50 years old to get.I have no idea how “Star Wars” references fit into that concept, since, on the one hand, it seems to be an eternal classic while, on the other, the constant […]

“Sally Forth” used to be one of those strips that you only read because it was almost entertainingly bad. Then, in 1999, Francesco Marciuliano took over the writing and gradually transformed it into something so odd that it has climbed to the top tier of my favorites.Sally herself has always been a traffic cop character, […]

I reported a while back that Mike Lester was moving to The Washington Post Writers Group. The move has kicked off a bit of a chain reaction. Rick McKee of the Augusta Chronicle is moving to Mike’s former syndicate, Cagle Syndicate. Taking Rick’s place at King Features is Glenn Foden who is syndicated through Artizans.com.

Great video of Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich. Via Mike Lynch

Illustration by Stephane Peray (Stephff) of the Nation, Bangkok.I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frownAnd wrinkled lip and sneer of cold commandTell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, […]

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer interviews Jerry Craft, creator of Momma’s Boyz, about his comic and his new book Mama’s Boyz: Home Schoolin, Because Learning Shouldn’t Stop at 3 O’clock!First let me thank you for taking time to do this interview. You have a very vibrant and fun illustration style. Where did the style for Mama’s Boyz […]

The Washington Post is commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the passing their editorial cartoonist Herb Block (or Herblock) who drew for the paper for 55 years before passing in 2001. Donald E. Graham remembers visiting Herblock in the hospital in August 2001. Block was 91 and still drawing five cartoons a week. The publisher […]

Aside from a bit o’ controversy regarding the film itself by Europeans, the opening credits are kinda cool.

From the Daily Caller:President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is asking artists to design promotional posters that convey a message: “support American jobs.” The brutal irony for artists, however, is that they will receive no payment for their work. The campaign, which has $61 million on hand, will reward only the three artists whose work is […]

Randy Glasbergen, one of the most prolific cartoonist in America, has signed a contract with the Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion to provide weekly cartoons for their Sunday magazine. The single-panel cartoons will be on a variety of subjects and will begin appearing in December. The cartoons will be translated by the newspaper.

From Contactmusic.com:Typical of the fury ignited by the movie, Nicholas Lezard, the literary critic for Britain’s Guardian newspaper, said that when he left the theater showing the Tintin film, he founding himself “too stunned and sickened to speak; for I had been obliged to watch two hours of literally senseless violence being perpetrated on something […]

Here’s a heads up to a potential development over at Baby Blues: The impending arrival of a puppy at the MacPherson household.The strip began when Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman were attempting to brainstorm some kind of collaboration and Rick, a new father for the second time, became somewhat sidetracked by his other collaboration, as […]

Several cartoonists will be featured in the Library of Congress’ new exhibit “Timely and Timeless” opening on September 15. Artist listed on the website include James Gillray and Honoré Daumier, as well as modern and contemporary creators such as Jazz Age cartoonist John Held, Jr.; African American artist Oliver Wendell Harrington; New Yorker cartoonists Charles […]

I mentioned this before, but now I’ve received the official press release. On November 12 the Savanna College of Art and Design and the Southeast Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society will present a panel discussion entitled, “A SCAD, MAD, MAD, MAD Discussion” featuring famed MAD Magazine cartoonists: Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Paul Coker, Jr., […]