Notables: Keith Williams, Al Milgrom, Nick Anderson, S D Phadnis, Stan Kelly, James Thurber, and more. Inkwell Award to The Phantom Artist Keith Williams Among the awards handed out lately let’s not overlook The Inkwell given to Keith Williams. From the Inkwell Awards announcement: New Bedford, MA/USA–July 22, 2025) The Inkwell Awards, a non-profit devoted to promoting […]
That Famous Thurber Spot Drawing for The New Yorker First, a brief reminder of what’s what: New Yorker “Spot” drawings are not New Yorker cartoons. Once upon a time, pre-Tina Brown era, Spots were those unrelated, uncaptioned drawings by various artists, placed here and there throughout the magazine. They could be humorous, but they could […]
Paul Noth is the winner of The 2025 (and 2nd annual) Thurber Prize For American Humor In Cartoon Art. The Thurber House announced the winner. From the Thurber house twitter account and on their Facebook page. On 4/25 at 54Below in NYC, Paul will receive his award & the writing award winner will be announced […]
Time for our weekly trip to Arcamax. Monotonous, isn’t it? Well, it sure gets old, given that somebody keeps forgetting to load the black plate for Barney & Clyde on Sundays, but, then again, if all they loaded were the black plate, that would be monotonous. What they’re doing instead is polytonous. However, today it […]
Wallace the Brave (AMS)‘s Mom decides that a snow day should be a snow day. I feel that education is very valuable, and I suspect she does, too, but snow days are also important and, besides, between the digital divide and power outages, you wouldn’t achieve perfect attendance and the day would be a waste […]