The Boston Globe had a space open up on their comics page and chose to fill it with the pre-adolescent children of nearby Snug Harbor. Carlos R. Muñoz at The Boston Globe introduces Bostonians to Wallace the Brave (or here): When cartoonist Will Henry was a teenager pitching comic strips to local newspapers, an editor […]
Fan favorites Stephan (Pearls Before Swine) Pastis and Will (Wallace the Brave) Henry have teamed up to create “a laugh-out-loud illustrated middle-grade adventure” scheduled for release at the beginning of the 2026/27 school season. From the Simon and Shuster description: Porter Avery is just your average boy from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with your average boy […]
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) has named the nominees for the 2025 Cartoonist of the Year Award otherwise known as The Reuben Award. The nominees are: DAVE BLAZEK Loose Parts TAUHID BONDIA Crabgrass WILL HENRY Wallace the Brave DAV PILKEY Dog Man/Captain Underpants DANA SIMPSON Phoebe and Her Unicorn MARK TATULLI Liô RAINA TELGEMEIER The […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for December 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. The Smythes by Rea Irvin (update: much more about The Smythes and Rea Irvin) Rea Irvin […]
Visiting: Alex Hallat at Jason Chatfield’s place; Sandra Bell-Lundy goes Inside the Kingdom with Alex Garcia; Cathy Guisewite stops by Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett’s ComicsLab; plus Jack Kirby at Yancy Street and Will Henry in Snug Harbor.Drawing with Alex and JasonAlex (Arctic Circle) Hallatt and Jason (Ginger Meggs) Chatfield spend an entertaining hour discussing […]
This would have been a great bit of timing if Blazek had scheduled it for yesterday instead of last Saturday. For my part, if I were going to have a press conference about a particular drug, I’d make sure I could pronounce it before I made an ass of myself in front of the whole […]
The National Cartoonists Society’s 79th Annual Reuben Awards weekend starts tomorrow and syndicates are proudly highlighting the cartoonists from their stables that have been nominated for awards and honors. Comics Kingdom Proudly Celebrates our 2025 Reuben Awards Honorees and Nominees From King Features Syndicate/Comics Kingdom: In this post, we’re spotlighting our Reuben Award nominees and […]
Comic books have been a gateway to reading for generations. They combine colorful artwork with engaging stories that can pull even the most reluctant readers into the joy of books. Whether your child loves superheroes, fantasy adventures, or slice-of-life humor, there’s a comic out there for them. Jack Wilson at Nerdbot lists the 15 Best […]
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 […]
Featuring cartoonists Berkeley Breathed, Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa, Will Henry, Marcus Williams, Patrick McDonnell and Jane Goodall, Lee Falk and ????, Rick Stromoski, and Christina ‘Steenz’ Stewart.We start off with a reminder that Berkeley Breathed’s The Bloom County Boys continues to issue new strips. As does Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa’s Shifts vertical comic […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 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. Hägar the Horrible: The First 50 Years by Dik Browne It’s time to set sail with the […]
Joann Mackenzie for the Gloucester Daily Times talks to local cartoonist Mark Parisi (or here), nominated for the National Cartoonists Society’s 2024 Cartoonist of the Year aka The Reuben Award. Now in its 38th year and distributed daily by United Press Syndicate [sic] to some 100 newspapers, “Off The Mark” [link added] has been described […]
Good Timing? Bad Timing? The above Pearls Before Swine appeared two days after the announced death of Pope Francis. Some, who know nothing of lead times, took it as a swipe at that passing. Others took for what it was – just a case of timing. I agree with Stephan Pastis about obituary cartoons but […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced nominees for its 2024 Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year aka: The Reuben Award. Each year, the National Cartoonist Society honors excellence in our profession with Divisional Awards, special honors and lifetime achievement awards, and the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. The nominees and recipient of this, […]
Wallace the Brave is consistently filled with such surreal touches that it is generally easier to point out the ways it could have gone wrong than to explain where it all came from in the first place.The timing is exquisite: My feeders have been crowded the past two weeks as birds either gas up for […]