The 86th Peabody Award nominees have been announced. The Art Spiegelman documentary “Art Spiegelman Disaster Is My Muse” made the list of 20 films up for the award in the documentary category. From the nomination description: This documentary explores the life and work of Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus,” […]
Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco‘s Never Again!..And Again…And Again…And Again three page graphic documentary on the Gaza tragedy issued earlier in 2025 will go on exhibition in Paris with the original art and preliminary drawing to sold with moneys going to UNICEF for the aid on the ground to Palestinian children.From La Galerie Martel Paris […]
October 2, 1950, 75 years ago today, began what is inarguably one of the greatest comic strips of all time.Charles M’ Schulz’s Peanuts is celebrating its 75th anniversary and some publications are taking notice.How Charlie Brown Captured the American PsycheCatharine Hughes at The New Statesman gives a brief history and social impact of the comic […]
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 […]
The National Cartoonist Society will be celebrating their 79th Annual Conference and Reuben Awards in two weeks on August 14 and 15, 2025 (with a little wrapping up on the 16th) in Boston, Massachusetts. The biggest part of the “weekend” is the awards which will be handed out on Friday night, the 15th. There be […]
The National Cartoonists Society is honored to announce that Art Spiegelman will receive the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his extraordinary and lasting impact on the art of cartooning. Named for Terry and the Pirates creator Milton Caniff, this award is bestowed by unanimous vote of the NCS Board to recognize a lifetime of outstanding and accomplished work. The Milton Caniff Lifetime […]
With Russell Myers, Wayno, Trygve Olson, Lee Mendelson, Mark Pett, Mr. Fish and Art Spiegelman.Russell Myers As a boy, Russell Benton Myers was fascinated by the comic strips in the newspaper. The family subscribed to two newspapers, the Tulsa World and the Tulsa Tribune. That gave him two sets of Sunday comics sections — a […]
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 […]
An affecting work of literary art and discovery whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women – the author, her mother and grandmother, and the experience of trauma handed down with family histories. The Pulitzer Prizes have two divisions – Journalism and Arts & Letters (Books, Drama & Music).In that second division Tessa […]
Jim Keefe remembers Jay Kennedy; Jay Kinney recalls his underground comix days; Rick Marschall presents W. C. Fields, cartoonist; Allan Holtz present W. C. Fields the comic strip; Brian Walker of The Cartooning Walker Family profiled; and the Art Spiegelman documentary; and Randy Milholland honors Hy Eisman in today’s Popeye.Jay Kennedy I first met Jay […]
Sergio Aragonés, Chad Nichols, Bob Mankoff, Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, Rozalia Finkelstein, Duane M. Abel, Mark Knight, Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud, Ian Jones, and Liana Finck.Sergio Aragonés The NCS is proud to Present: Show and Tell with Sergio Aragonés Join us for a captivating two-hour LIVE show from the art studio of master cartoonist Sergio […]
We’ll touch on something vaguely political before moving on into folly. Or, that is, intentional folly.I have nothing, theoretically, against brokers except a general prejudice that they should set you up with a portfolio that works and then leave you, and it, alone, barring some major change, like having the President say “Now is a […]
Art Spiegelman biography and career timeline As a prelude to their airing of the Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse documentary on April 15, 2025 PBS presents a “timeline [that] explores Art Spiegelman’s life and the major milestones in his career” from his birth in 1948 to 2025’s collaboration with Joe Sacco on “Never Again […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman will headline Rice University’s upcoming conference, “Comics Sans Frontières: Border Defiance in Graphic Narratives.” The four-day event will explore how comics challenge artistic, national, and cultural boundaries. Art, often credited with raising the graphic novel as a serious literary work, will deliver the keynote address on March 20. He will […]