MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond posts details on how to enter into the National Cartoonist Society’s annual division awards. You don’t have to be a member of the NCS to receive an award for excellence in your field. Categories include: television animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, greeting cards, newspaper comic strips, newspaper panel […]

Drawn & Quarterly has secured the North American rights to publish a new book collection of Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant. Chris Oliveros, Editor-in-Chief and Acquiring Editor and Publisher at D+Q:“To say that the meteoric rise of Kate Beaton’s popularity is nothing short of a modern-day cartooning tour-de-force is not hyperbole,” said Oliveros. “Her comics […]

The Latin American Herald Tribune reports that several best known Mexican cartoonists will inscribe “No + sangre” and “Basta de Sange” (“no blood” and “enough blood”) in their comics on Monday to call attention to the drug-related violence in their country. The idea is to use “a common cartoon that calls on people to join […]

  Rina Piccolo has been pursuing this story of failing love over at Tina’s Groove for awhile now, but here’s a punchline that is linked to today’s business page, and I’m not using “today” in any sort of metaphorical sense. A funny gag becomes much funnier when the world pitches in to cooperate, but this […]

Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has posted the last of his 20 part holiday interview series. He does it every year and from experience – these kinds of things take A LOT of effort to coordinate, transcribe and link up – especially so because these are not simple 5 question interviews.This year’s interviewees included: Joe Casey, […]

Cool idea. I wished I lived near Pittsburgh. The ToonSeum welcomes bloggers, tweeters, podcasters, and local media for a special evening event. As a museum of cartoon and comic art we recognize the important role both traditional and new media play in creating a fan based culture. We want to recognize your contribution to our […]

I’ve written about this back in December. Put it on the calendar if you’re in the Bay Area.From Bloom County to Mars: The Imagination of Berkeley BreathedCartoon Art Museum exhibition: February 5 ? June 19, 2011 Opening Reception Friday, April 1, 2011; details to be announcedThe Cartoon Art Museum is pleased to present From Bloom […]

Excellent retrospection by Ed Stein regarding the challenges of editorial cartooning in our hyper-partisanship climate. Editorial cartooning is a funny business (no pun intended). The best cartoons are the strongest, most aggressive, least ambiguous ones. We want to say things as pointedly as possible, yet many of us are extremely uncomfortable with what has become […]

I found Axe Cop in the news just before going into my holiday hiatus. For those new to the webcomic – it’s created by two brothers – one does the writing one does the art. What is unique about the collaboration is that the writing is done by the six year-old Malachai Nicolle and the […]

The ever changing date for the launch of Ruport Murdoch’s iPad only “The Daily” has changed once again, but The Cutline is reporting that its sources are saying it will launch on the 19th with both Murdoch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs together on stage at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.I’m sure

Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson’s affinity for nibs is no secret. Unfortunately he’s on the wrong side of America to witness and try out the new giant seven-foot nib pen created by Seattle Cartoonist Jim Woodring.From Comic Book Resources:The nib is sixteen inches long and made of brass-pated, hand-engraved cold-rolled steel. The handle is […]

There are a number of cartoons about the Tucson shootings, ranging from “weepers,” which serve the important purpose of informing people that death is sad, to those suggesting a direct, specific correlation between the rhetoric and the action, as if the right wing had purposefully delivered a detailed “to do” list into the hands of […]

Comics Alliance reports that in a blog post entited, “1 down, 534 to go” Travis Corcoran, the president of Heavy Ink (online comic book retailer) rejoiced in the shooting in Tucson, AZ that injured Congress Woman Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others including a federal judge.He writes on this blog that it was unacceptable that […]

United Media is premiering Dude and Dude today on Comics.com. The strip is by Keith Poletiek about the eternal question of why we can’t all just get rich by sleeping in, flirting with “the honeys,” and hanging at the beach. But while most people eventually succumb to the pressures of “real life,” the two twenty-somethings […]

Not sure how to gauge who was first to post/publish a cartoon reaction to last weekend’s deadly shooting in Tucson AZ that injured Congress Woman Gabrielle Giffords. There are two staff cartoonists in Arizona Steve Benson at the Arizona Republic and David Fitzsimmons so we’ll start with them first:This is David’s first cartoon:See all of […]