Jeff Knurek is the cartoonist behind the Jumble puzzle. Jesse Morton has posted a video of him drawing and explaining his work with the puzzle.Untitled from Jesse Morton on Vimeo.

Chris Sparks who is heading up the Team Cul de Sac project raising money for a Parkinson’s cure has announced that they are extending the deadline for cartoonists still wanting to contribute to the cause. He writes:We have extended the deadline until June 17th! we did this for a couple of reasons. Lee Salem, Caty […]

Sarah Laing, whose personal blog has been featured here, has now started “44 ways of looking at an apple,” which presents small, well-crafted cartoons illustrating small moments involving, yes, apples. It is a lovely venture.Having spent a little more than a dozen years in apple country myself, I’ve got nothing against her stated goal: “I’m […]

The Cartoonist Studio’s Cartoon Contest has yielded a winner. Daniel Beyer is the winner and takes home a development contract with Creators Syndicate. Daniel isn’t new to cartooning. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Reader’s Digest and he has a single panel feature on Comics Sherpa called Long Story Short.Daniel works in […]

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) was last weekend and with it the results of the Doug Wright award to honor the best of Canadian cartoonists. The three winners are:Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (BEST BOOK) Alex Fellows for Spain and Morocco (BEST EMERGING TALENT) Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (PIGSKIN PETERS AWARD for experimental and […]

Lee Judge who is the Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist and blogs about the KC Royals recently wrote:About a month ago, I wrote that Wilson Betemit should be willing to get hit by a pitch (it was an 81-mph slider) with the bases loaded in a tie game. Then I started thinking ? what if […]

Jeff Danziger smacks one over the wall in deep centerfield.The sports analogy is not inappropriate, because young goofballs often celebrate championships by rioting in the streets, which might be understandable if they were overturning cars, starting fires and smashing store windows in their opponent’s city. Seems kind of bizarre to shout “Hurray for us!” and […]

Piranha Club comes close enough on gas prices, given the necessary delay. Four dollars a gallon, five dollars a gallon, the point remains the same.I went to a children’s book fair yesterday. It was free to get in, but it wasn’t local, so it cost me about fifty bucks to get there. I can write […]

Wiley Miller weighs in on the Huffington Post issue.For those who don’t hang breathlessly on this stuff, the Huffington Post has had (and still has) a policy of inviting people to write for free on their web site. The most visible takers have been Ariana’s Hollywood buddies, who blog about their favorite charities or their […]

Not sure how I missed this one, but a hearty congrats to Mike Peters nonetheless. Mike was honored with the 72nd annual Overseas Press Club’s Thomas Nast Award for best editorial cartooning on international affairs. This is the second big prize of the year. He was honored with this year’s National Headliner Awards. In an […]

University of New Mexico African-American students are demanded and received an apology from the student paper, The Daily Lobo, after it ran a cartoon depicting the scene from The Lion King where the monkey Rafiki holds up the young Simba lion cub, but in the drawing President Barak Obama was the Rafiki character holding Osama […]

Ah, brave new world that has such comics in it!Today’s Arlo & Janis is potentially confusing because neither character is regularly the fall guy. Sometimes Arlo worries too much about things that shouldn’t bother him and sometimes Janis is innocently clueless about technology. In this case, however, I don’t see how Jimmy Johnson can be […]

Phil Hands, editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal, was featured on a local news segment about his work and process. Runs about 5 minutes.

Yesterday’s post regarding Bill Watterson’s Mark Twain cartoons caught the eye of Nevin Martell, the author of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip (my review of Nevin’s book). He passes a long a few more of the cartoons that he’s collected. He notes that the […]

  Okay, first of all, Hilary Price is completely wrong about my mom. And I met her mom at her open studio, and I’m pretty sure she’s wrong about her, too. In fact, I have no idea who she’s talking about.And that wasn’t me laughing, either.Oh boy.I have a feeling that this year’s Mother’s Day […]