This Thursday cartoonists and illustrators will meet to commemorate the life of Chilean-Mexican cartoonist José Palomo who passed in March and attend the opening night of the Palomo: Papel, tinta y memoria (Palomo: Paper, ink and memory) exhibit.From Aristegui Noticias, cartoonist Arturo Kemchs, speaks of his friend: Palomo proved himself to be a comedic genius with […]
Bone creator Jeff Smith will receive the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s National Cartoonist Society’s annual Reuben Conference. And he’s being recognized as one of “seven books you’ll never outgrow” and Ruben Bolling reports the honor for Boing Boing.The Atlantic’s Rafaela Jinich included Bone series in an article of Seven Books You’ll […]
Each week my ADHD brain finds some comic-related things on social media that must be chased down. There were several this week. Due to scheduling conflicts with some subject matter experts, I had to push two topics to next week. This week we chase two rabbits: how do artists draw character’s mouths based on the […]
Prospect Magazine has a profile on R.E. Burke, the young British cartoonist who was picked up by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while on an extended visit to the U.S. and Canada. She spent 19 days in detention before she was released to return to the U.K. She’s close to finishing a 255 […]
Brigid Alverson over at School Library Journal is reporting that the first issue of Shrub, a graphic medicine series, will be made available via Hoopla and Comics Plus. The middle grade story is written by Shane Portman, drawn by Andy Alves, colored by Sophia Du and Celia Fitzgerald, and letterer by Oceano Ransford.There is a […]
The Herblock Prize Event Ceremony was held earlier tonight. This year’s recipient, Jack Ohman (San Francisco Chronicle) was on hand to receive the prize. Mike Rhode has a brief post with photos over on Comics DC blog. Mike reports that Matt Wuerker, Steve Artley, Kevin Kallaugher, Joel Pett, Nik Kowsar, Caroline Belefski, among others were […]
The UK Press Awards has named Matt Pritchett their 2026 Cartoonist of the Year at last nights awards ceremony. The Press Awards recognizes the “best of national journalism in the UK.” Matt has been with The Telegraph since 1988.Unfortunately, at the moment, the Press Awards website’s has the wrong description and judges comments for his […]
I’m known to go down a rabbit hole from time to time and many of those threads come from something I saw on social media. Here’s three things I learned this week about Popeye (and billionaires), Marvel Comics Swim Suit Edition, and Will Eisner Mural in Copenhagen.Be a Non-AI Generated PopeyeTom Hientjes‘ reposted a Popeye […]
According to The Independent, Lee Mendelson Film Productions has filed four lawsuits against for entities who allegedly violated copyright in using music without permission. The four entities are the Interior Department, Heritage Auctions, Buckle-Down Inc., GameMill Entertainment. According to the lawsuits, the Interior Department allegedly used Vince Guaraldi’s O Tannenbaum in social media posts and […]
In an effort to promote himself, French National Assembly member and 2027 candidate for President François Ruffin, published a comic book earlier this month but it has come under attack by critics and former allies calling it “uninhibited racism.”From le HuffPost, translated via Google Translate we get a description of the troubling storyline. In one […]
The last turn in events with the Angoulême festival drama is news that the former organizer, 9eArt+, has been placed in judicial liquidation by the Commercial Court of Angoulême. 9eArt+ also reveals that it is €1.6 million in debt. This development is not related to the legal battle between 9eArt+ and l’Association pour le développement […]
Apple TV has announced several new upcoming Peanut features. Season two of “Camp Snoopy” will debut in June, a new special “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy,” will premiere at the end of July, and the Peanuts classics “This Is America, Charlie Brown” and “The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show” will debut in […]
Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: “How cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became a Rolling Stone writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has an opinion piece in today’s issue of Rolling Stone (non-paywall version) on his relationship with Charles Schulz and more so on why Snoopy is an enduring and endearing comic character. It was this haiku-perfect character humor that dazzled Schulz’s peers. In Snoopy, he had created an American archetype – the […]
This morning Kickstarter COO Sean Leow posted an apology and announced that the crowdfunding platform has reversed its week-old policy for projects with mature content. The controversial policy was more specific and detailed in what was no longer acceptable and caused outrage with creators who use the platform to fund their NSFW comics. Additionally, Kickstarter […]