For a number of reasons the semiquincentennial of The Declaration of Independence does not seem to be celebrated as hardily as was the bicentennial fifty years ago. Not the least of which is that multiples of 100 is a bigger deal than multiples of 50. Back in the day the comic book industry was more […]

The Bicentennial was a big deal and we prepared for it all year. Time magazine even put out a special edition, based on the news of that week in 1776, not only covering the political activities in the Colonies but, as the magazine might have, what was going on around the world in science and […]

Drew Litton’s Slippery Slopes, Dan Thompson’s Comic Stew, G.B. Trudeau and Nicole Hollander and Doonesbury, In Person: Keith Knight, Phil Hands’ Mendota Marsh, The Sunday Post comics are Inkredible, and then it’s decision time: Mickey or Snoopy? Drew Litton Presents… Drew Litton’s Beyond the Drawing Board Substack presents a baker’s dozen of Slippery Slopes comic […]

“Let facts be submitted to a candid world.” Your brain prefers print over pixels. How to sell cartoons to The New Yorker. Unauthorized paintings created on boulders along a beach create controversy. Get rich with comics royalties. Your Brain Prefers to Read on Paper Rather Than on Screens Jessica Stillman writes for Inc.: E-books have […]

One of today’s major themes is how you balance celebration with reasonable criticism. Jennings offers a disapproving State of the Union illustration that demonstrates how our current administration, and thus our nation, is seen overseas. His major criticism is the profiteering, with bags of cash and crypto, stacks of bills and money dangling over the […]

2027 will be the semicentennial of Sandra Boyton‘s first board book and The New York Times is getting a jump on celebrating the anniversary. Brian Goedde extols the virtues of Boynton and her books or here. Now that Boynton’s books have crossed generations of child-rearing, they deserve another look. We can start with “Hippos Go […]

Matt Golding, Australia; Carlos Latuff, Brazil; Ricardo Sánchez Bobadilla, Mexico Matt Golding Streamline Feed goes “Inside the Mind of Matt Golding” The sharp scratch of a pen against paper often carries more political weight than an entire parliamentary debate. For decades, Melbourne-based artist Matt Golding has leveraged that exact power, using his minimalist, razor-sharp illustrations […]

This is the day the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence. July 4 is the day they announced it. One of the great “Who cares?” of history.It turns out John Adams cared, according to this 1976 clipping I found when I was looking for Bicentennial stuff (stay tuned). You have to bear in mind […]

GoComics’ newsletter reports that after nearly 35 years Wiley Miller will cut his daily workload in half. Starting this week, Wiley Miller is adjusting his workload on his classic satire strip, “Non Sequitur.” New strips will still run Mondays and Wednesdays; Tuesday through Saturday will feature selected reprints pulled from the archive, starting with February 2000. […]

It was in the early 1970s I learned of England’s infatuation with adapting film and TV to comic strips. A fondness that included American big and small screen characters. One of those latter “actors” that came to British comics in the 1960s was Deputy Dawg.John Freeman at downthetubes goes on a search to find Who […]

Librarian (Assistant Curator, Graphic Arts) Legislative Branch Library of Congress From usajobs.gov: The Prints and Photographs Division has one of the largest pictorial research collections in the world with more than 15 million pictures in a variety of visual formats contained in hundreds of individual collections and stored in several locations and remote sites. The […]

What they did when I lived in Plattsburgh was come down to the state park on Lake Champlain. Whamond addresses things from an anglophone angle, but our tourists were francophones from Montreal, which made them particularly uptown and Continental.Which meant that when my son was 16 and working the snack shack on the beach, he […]

A controversy has occurred over two biographical books both of which are titled Charity & Sylvia. The author of the 2014 non-fiction Charity & Sylvia, Rachel Hope Cleves, is accusing the author of the 2026 graphic novel Charity & Sylvia, Tillie Walden, of adapting the 2014 work for the 2026 graphic novel without proper credit […]

Featuring Jonathan Lucia-Wright, Richard Felton Outcault, Tom Racine, John Backderf, and a score of Buffalo area student cartoonists. Caricaturist Hangs Up His Easel Daniel Hickey for the Great Yarmouth Mercury tells of Jonathan Lucia-Wright caricaturing the locals. For the last eight years, a Peterborough man has spent his summer holidays handing out cartoons featuring the […]

Here a generally liberal and a generally conservative cartoonist offer a similar take on the Supreme Court’s finding that, because Roundup’s label doesn’t say it causes cancer, you can’t sue in state courts for Bayer failing to warn you that it causes cancer.Which sounds ridiculous, and there’s a more complex explanation, but it boils down […]