Everywhere around the world… Zehra ÖmeroğluIt was back in May we reported: Cartoonists Rights has bestowed the 2025 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award 2025 on Zehra Ömeroğlu, a Turkish cartoonist, who has been the target of criminal prosecution for a cartoon that was published in 2020 and faces a three year prison sentence. Well […]
Al Hirschfeld, Ann Telnaes, Keith Knight, Floyd Norman, Pat Oliphant and thousands, well hundreds anyway, more (like Gilbert Shelton and Jeff Danziger) at the AAEC Convention, the Small Press Expo, and the Galway Cartoon Festival.Strokes of Genius: Hirschfeld at the Algonquin From Art News Now: New York, NY – The Al Hirschfeld Foundation will join […]
The Galway Cartoon Festival, held annually in Ireland, is open for submissions for this year’s event. This year’s theme is “Danse Macabre”—think the mysterious, the seasonal and supernatural, the liminal and grotesque, witches, monsters, mythologies, life and death itself. The festival will be held from October 3 to 8.The festival is open to all cartoonists. You can […]
This year’s Galway Cartoon Festival, in Ireland, will feature an American cartoonist – Dave Coverly, creator of Speedbump. Dave submitted cartoons last year for their festival exhibit and was happy to get an invitation to be a featured guest at this year’s festival.While this may be Dave’s first time at the Galway Cartoon Festival, he […]
The Galway Cartoon Festival has announced their line-up for this year’s event. The annual festival in Galway Ireland will feature Lucie Arnoux, Dave Coverly, Ben Jennings, Malak Mattar, Will McPhail, and Dean Patterson.The Galway Cartoon Festival was established in 2017 with the objective to “nurture, promote, and develop the art of the cartoon in Ireland, […]
The third annual Galway Cartoon Festival kicks off tomorrow. Cartoonists slated to attend include Martyn Turner, Maria “Twisted Doodles” Boyle and Joe Boske.From their site: The Galway Cartoon Festival is an international celebration of cartoons, hosted in Ireland’s cultural mecca on the Wild Atlantic Way. The festival includes main exhibitions, and live drawing sessions. The Galway […]
My trip to MOCCA yesterday was cut short because my kennel went out of business without telling anyone, so I ended up having to leave the dog on his own, which meant adding 5 hours drive time each direction to the total time he would have to maintain.It didn’t leave nearly as much time in […]
Jack Ohman’s local cartoons are often more fun than his nationals, because he uses a multi-panel approach to eviscerate somebody on a topic his readers in Sacramento are familiar with.In this case, the topic is that a protestor smashed a pie into the face of Sacramento Mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson, and I […]
My Three Sons.No, the cartoon is Barney and Clyde.To the best of my knowledge, the term “the hairy eyeball” originated with Chip Douglas. You’re welcome. You’re also welcome for alerting you to the story arc beginning in Candorville. I don’t know where it’s headed, but the voices-from-beyond arcs in this strip are always worth following. This arc […]
Today’s posting is mostly a collection of other places you should go instead, but I’ll start with this Nick Anderson cartoon which, if you’ve been keeping up with the news, stands alone.And if you haven’t been keeping up with the news, go here and ensmarten yourself. And let me add here that the Daily 202 […]
Fowl Language starts off the day with a cartoon I like, even though it’s directed at people like me.I don’t like IMs and I’m certainly not very good at texting and the two factors are not unconnected. If I enjoyed it, I’d do it more often and then I’d be better at it.But I don’t, so […]
I’m not sure when crossovers in comics became “a thing,” though likely with the Comic Strip Switcheroo of April Fool’s Day, 1997. But two years earlier, apparently Zippy popped up in Family Circus, inspiring this Tom the Dancing Bug that is today’s Classic at GoComics.Crossovers generally pose the challenge that readers need to be familiar with […]
(Kevin Kallaugher) (Clay Jones)We’ll start the new week with a Juxtaposition about the start of the actual choosing, and the ephemeral nature of caring about Iowa or New Hampshire, though we ought not to forget that Iowa has ethanol and large pork factories, so it won’t slip off the radar entirely.New Hampshire, by contrast, is […]
My first reaction to Brandan Reynolds’ cartoon was the realization that, while normally a South African commentary on US politics would provoke a knee-jerk “What business is it of yours?” response, Donald Trump is an international issue and not just our own problem.Which, to start with, is the natural result of our sticking our nose […]
This was an exceptionally good day on the comics page, full of doubles and triples and not a few home runs, so let me do a quick NPR rant and say that, if you don’t have a Comics Kingdom and/or GoComics account, well, you’re missing out on supporting some good work, even if you are […]