The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration will host a first of its kind exhibit called “Queer as Comics” showcasing “strip cartoons, graphic novels and zines that have represented LGBTQIA+ perspectives since the 1940s.”The exhibit includes the artwork of Alison Bechdel, Kate Charlesworth, Jason Chuang, Burton Clarke, Howard Cruse, Leo Fox, Diana Green, Roberta Gregory, Rachael […]
It’s National Popeye the Sailor Man Day; Alison Bechdel on the what is needed to start a commune; the complete (not an exaggeration) history of the Museum of Cartoon Art by Brian Walker; and the Society of Illustraor’s 2026 Hamilton King Award goes to The BalbussoTwins. The 2026 Hamilton King Award The Society of Illustrators […]
NPR has released their list of Best Books published in the year 2025. The Graphic Novels category includes a few books whose authors have comic strip credentials.J vs. K by Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander – – – Buy the book Two bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning kids’ book authors and friendly rivals team up to write […]
Dykes to Watch Out For, a widely syndicated strip cartoon series, ran from 1987 to 2008, ending only after [Alison] Bechdel achieved success with her first graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragic Comedy, later made into a Broadway play. Fun Home was followed by Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2013), then The […]
Navied Mahdavian, Tom Gauld, Alison Bechdel, Michael Maslin, and Jason Chatfield with Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher.Navied Mahdavian Navied Mahdavian [link added] is a former 5th-grade teacher who is currently working as a full-time cartoonist. His work has been featured in The New Yorker [link added], The LA Times, NPR, Reader’s Digest, and Wired. He moved to […]
Molton’s Mettle So we got more mean insensitivity via Molton’s cartoon, mocking our North Carolina state elected representatives being nervous about their personal safety [“Government Grit,” July 30, Xpress]. Political violence has boomed against elected Democratic representatives and others who take an unfavorable stand to the current Republican regime, and that violence has directly been […]
Nearly 400 artists and 12 associations are signatories to a petition threatening to boycott the 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival. The petition accuses the festival’s contracted management company, 9eArt+, of retaliating against a female employee who reported a rape at the 2024 event and criticizes the festival’s organizers (FIBD) for not only resisting efforts to […]
Seven Days Cartoon Issue; The Duckton Weekly #12; Alley Oop new and old; all-new Bloom County; where, oh where, has my Zoolies gone; Ed Steckley caricatures the Reuben Award nominees.Seven Days Cartoon Issue Seven Days has published their annual Cartoon Issue for 2025 with a charming When Harry Met Ali jam cover by Harry Bliss […]
featuring Bill Watterson, Frank Frazetta, Rama Duwaji, Bob Fingerman, Alison Bechdel, Peter Kuper, Joe Dator, Charles M. Schulz, Shel Silverstein, and Art Spiegelman.Updates The original art by Bill Watterson for the first appearance of Spaceman Spiff in Calvin and Hobbes sold in a Heritage Auctions sell-off for nearly half a million dollars. A record for […]
For reasons unexplained I have dozens of cartoonist self-caricatures. Before deleting them thought I’d share ’em. So… Not enough? Hundreds more at…
Featuring Jules Feiffer, Jane Rosenberg, Quino and Mafaldo, Lynda Barry and other autobiographical cartoonists, Steve Bonello. Cyril Tighe, Matt Groening, and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes on sale.Jules Feiffer, PlaywrightCartoonist Jules Feiffer was the author of Little Murders (1967), Feiffer’s People (1969), Knock Knock (1976), Elliot Loves (1990), among other plays and was remembered in […]
The folks at the San Diego International Comic Con are beginning to feature profiles of guests scheduled to appear during the gathering next month. Some have comic strip bona fides.This list of Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For), Eddie Campbell (The Goat Getters, Kate Carew), Greg Evans (Luann), Karen Evans (Luann), Chip Kidd (Peanuts […]
Seems the cartoonists in the news these days are the ones making the rounds promoting their latest books, but that does offer us a chance to read interviews and profiles of those cartoonists.And unlike some book lists you may have read the books listed here are all real. Peter Kuper Insectopolis: A Natural History Peter […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Let’s start with one I just learned about that should have been on the February […]
Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes; Bill Papas’ Semana Santa; Chic Young’s Blondie; Charles Sculz’s Peanuts; and Kirkus Reviews’ best “comic’ books of the 21st Century.Calvin and Hobbes Hand-Colored Daily Comic Strip Original Art Heritage Auctions will be putting up for bid a very early Calvin and Hobbes comic strip “inscribed to artist Jim Borgman and […]