The nominees for the 2026 Harvey Awards, held annually at the New York Comic Con (October 8-11, 2026, this year) have been announced. Only a couple concern books or cartoonists we have mentioned here.The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco (Metropolitan/Holt) is included for the Book of the Year category.Inbetweens by Faith Erin Hicks […]
President Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt was photographed posing with The New York Times. Facing the camera was the obituary for editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant, it included a cartoon of Trump as a Nazi-like character. From Aman Sharma at Reality Tea: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was seen holding a newspaper that featured Trump’s […]
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will close its Beach Street space tomorrow. The museum has opted not to renew its lease. A future location is still in question.From their announcement: We make this announcement with deep appreciation for the extraordinary support the community has given the museum. For nearly 42 years, our Board, […]
First, this update: Infantino has withdrawn his cunning plan to sell off part of FIFA to a consortium. Seems the universal hatred of the idea got through to him.That’s why people should speak up. On a related note, the public comment period for the FCC’s attack on the ABC network’s owned-and-operated stations has ended. According […]
Back in May the Society of Illustrators (SoI) posted the names of the inductees for their 2026 Hall of Fame inductees on Instagram. Now, two months later, the honorees have gotten their names on the SoI website. The most famous of the new Hall of Famers would be John Tenniel, while Jackie Ormes is the […]
Jay Edwards for WRNJ reports that the Joe Kubert School, famous for teaching future professional comic artists the ways and hows of that career, has been integrated into the County College of Morris curriculum. RANDOLPH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (Morris County) — County College of Morris has acquired The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, […]
Filipino cartoonist Elmer Saflor, who goes by pen name Superelmer, has filed a complaint against Memes App, LLC, the operator of Memes.ai and Memes AI Studio, for alleged copyright infringement when they began selling a commercial template subscription plan that includes his viral cartoon Running Away Balloon. First published in 2017, his cartoon has been […]
Since the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) is mostly a Hollywood/RPG/Comic Book affair this will be a short stack featuring Rip Kirby, Garfield, and Frank Robbins.Rip Kirby Returns (but not to newspaper pages) Mad Cave Studios has partnered with King Features Syndicate to bring us new comic books starring Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Defenders […]
This is where I’ve landed on the Odyssey movie. I’ve heard it praised and I’ve heard it trashed and the outcome seems to be that it’s neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring and I know herring is a fish, but there’s your problem: The idiom is poetic and apparently we can’t have that.Just […]
Featuring news and reviews with Gregg Bender, Garry Trudeau, George Blevins, Pat Oliphant, Guy Richards Smit, Derf Backderf, and Matt Bors and Fred Harper. Gregg Bender Interview The Fort Wayne, Indiana Journal Gazette recently had Five Questions for Gregg Bender. You spent much of your career in the newspaper industry and continue to draw for […]
Webcomicon comes to Ferndale the weekend of August 1st and 2nd! A host of some of the most famous webcomic creators will gather for the 2026 Webcomicon: Creators include Sarah Anderson, Asher Perlman, Dave McElfatrick, Jim Benton, Nick Seluk, Harris Fishman, Dee Parson, Shen, Nicholas Gurewitch, Kim Winder, Thorn Knight, Julia Kaye, Brian Gordon, Jejo […]
Twenty years ago, on July 27, 2006, Jonathan Mahood introduced Skip and us readers of Comics Sherpa to Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog [as Hoover: the Rechargeable Dog (see comments and Wikipedia)]. From Rachel DeSchepper at the GoComics blog: Twenty years ago on July 27, Jonathan Mahood launched “Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog” on Comics Sherpa, GoComics’ […]
As readers know comic strip time has a different continuum than real life. A Luann Comic Strip timeline from Karen Evans: [I]n 2014 Luann aged for the second time in her life, turning 18 in September that year (and therefore, because he’s three years older, Brad quietly turned 21–how did we miss telling that story?!). […]
Monday It’s always great to get a laugh when reading The Funny Pages and that is mostly a guarantee with The Duplex. Eno and Fang have moved toward the top of my favorite, must-read comic strips. What’s not laughable is the truth in Monday’s Tank McNamara. I have spent the last few years watching my […]
Art Smith reminisces about the comics pages of The Marietta Times and obviously delved into the newspaper’s archive to get the history right and refresh his memory. But did he get it right? Art could have used a fact-checker – if newspapers employed fact-checkers any more. The early comics page history of The Marietta Times […]