Michael Maslin links to a few original art auctions from classic New Yorker contributors. One being a ca. 1937 Peter Arno College Humor cartoon, another being a 1941 Charles Addams New Yorker cartoon. The former went for $506 the latter for $24,381. A third original art from a Barbara Shermund Pictorial Review cartoon sold for […]
The Harvey Award winners were announced tonight at the end of the New York Comic Con. The Harvey Awards honors books and creators working in sequential art. Additionally, six individuals were inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame. Here are the inductees and the category winners. Harvey Awards Hall of Fame Inductees Book of […]
The New York Comic Con weekend begins today (Comics Beat covers it in full). Mostly comic books but as usual there are comic strip related projects taking place. Like the Comics Kingdom booth. The National Cartoonists Society will also be there with members showing up throughout the run. The New York Comic Con also issues […]
From Little Orphan Annie (Harold Gray) to The Toxic Avenger (Matt Bors) with Molly and the Bear (Bob and Vicki Scott), Spongebob Squarepant (U.S. Postal Service), Chris Ware (USPS again), Barbara Shermund (Liza Donnelly), and Goofus and Gallant (Garry Myers and Marion Hull Hammel) From Little Orphan to Just Plain Annie A few days over […]
Dick Tracy, Mutts, Macanudo, Moomin, Marmaduke, and 2025 Eisner Award nominations and a bunch of cartoonists associated with the aforementioned. Mike and McDonnell Return (briefly?) Today ends Eric Costello‘s seven month “guest writer” stint on Dick Tracy as Mike Curtis returns as the credited writer beginning Sunday, May 18, 2025 (no “guest writer” insert). We’ll […]
Deon Parson, Kate Beaton, Barbara Shermund, Art Spiegelman, Colin Whittock, Alison Bechdel, Clay Jones $upr Dee Parson Parson, 29, is the creator of multiple comic strips, including “Life With Kurami” (debuted in 2015); “Pen and Ink” (debuted in 2017); and “Rosebuds” (debuted in 2019). “Rosebuds” has been Parson’s biggest financial success thus far in his […]