Heritage Auction is auctioning off a rare pre-Peanuts original created by Charles Schulz in the 1940’s. Auction ends May 5 and is expected to go for more than $20,000. Current bidding is just over $2,000.

I knew there was an organization that collected and distributed orphaned royalties, but wasn’t aware of the legal tussle between the Graphic Artists Guild (GAG) against the Illustrators’ Partnership of America (IPA) – both trying to control the $1.5 million of royalties. A New York Supreme Court has dismissed the case brought by GAG against […]

Wiley Miller does everything right with today’s Non Sequitur. He starts with a nice variation on the familiar line of increasing-sized fish eating each other and updates the metaphor so that all the victim fishes are much smaller than the big fish who is eating them.Then he uses the bogus claim that it’s going to […]

The Eisner Award ballot was released last week for eligible cartoonists to vote for their favorites picks, but Shannon Wheeler?s I Thought You Would Be Funnier, was accidentally left off the ballot. The glitch has been fixed and those who have already voted are encouraged to go back and revote if necessary. I Thought You […]

Bill Blackbeard, founder of the San Francisco Academy of Cartoon Art, has passed away at the age of 84. From Digital Spy:Born in Indiana in 1926, Blackbeard’s fascination with comics began after the discovery of a large collection of old newspapers in a neighbor’s garage. He acquired the bound copies of old newspapers kept by […]

Ted Rall, a cartoonist who needs no introduction, is auctioning off his cartooning services to the highest bidder. Ted posted himself on eBay stating that he’ll draw the auction winner a cartoon on any subject they want – with some caveats. The winner picks the topic, but Ted is free to approach the topic any […]

Scott Dikkers, founding and longtime editor of The Onion, is bringing back his classic comic strip Jim’s Journal to GoComics.com. Jim’s Journal ran in 200 or so college papers in the 1990s. The Chicago Tribune called it “fabulous,” and described the offbeat strip: “There are no punch lines, no sight gags, just quirky observations and […]

Tina’s Groove on the intersection of nostalgia and dementia. The popularity of A&E’s “Hoarders” is based on how much better we feel about our own clutter when we watch it.  This theory also covers “The Biggest Loser” and “The Dog Whisperer” and any number of other shows featuring people whose lives have hit the wall, […]

I’m sure there are many worthy artists and writers who are up for this year’s Hugo Award, but I wanted to give a shout out to my friend and Schlock Mercenary creator Howard Tayler who has been nominated in two categories: Best Related Work for his podcast called Writing Excuses that he does with Brandon […]

Last week I directed readers to Anton Emdin’s inking tutorial, but he had to pull the post due to a conflict. That tutorial is now back online. Below is his warm up video:

Politico has written a pretty good profile of Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles. Turner hired him part time as a caricature artist and, after a few months, started nudging him toward editorial cartoons. “I said ‘No, I don’t want to do that,’” Toles recalled. “‘I don’t have the skills. I don’t have the interest. […]

Movie crittic Roger Ebert, who has entered the New Yorker caption contest regularly since it began, has finally won. Robert Mankoff writes about the win on his blog. Roger was being a bit hyperbolic when he claimed to have entered practically all of the contests since its inception. Out of a possible two hundred and […]

Women’s Voices for Change has profiled Nina Paley and discusses her film “Sita Sings The Blues: The Greatest Break-Up Story Every Told.”Kicked to the curb by a beloved husband, many women would turn off the phone, grab the H”aagen-Daz and crawl under the covers. But Nina Paley channeled her own sorrow and rage into a […]

I’m not trying to shift into all-politics all-the-time; that’s just what seems to be hot the past few days.And this Jeff Danziger cartoon is irresistable. There was a point in this war where the escape of 500 prisoners would have felt like a disaster, but that point has passed. It seems like just one more […]

I’m reminded that Eisner Award voting is now open.If I understand the criteria – voting is open to: Comic book/graphic novel/webcomic creators (writers, artists, cartoonists, pencillers, inkers, letterers, colorists) All nominees in any category Comic book/graphic novel publishers and editors Comics historians and educators Graphic novel librarians Owners and managers of comic book specialty retail […]