The Small Press Expo has issued a statement to the public that it will not participate in the boycott of the Montgomery County Conference Center where they have staged their expo for the last 20 years. The local hotel, restaurant, and casino workers employees unions called for a boycott last May to protest the omission […]
Clay Jones, being an editorial cartoonist, is open about expressing his opinions even concerning fellow cartoonists (read the “Creative note” here). Clay has voiced his displeasure about a cartoonist hiding behind a pseudonym, about one reusing political caricatures, and most recently accusing a team of copying his cartoon. (Aside: all those criticized cartoonists are distributed […]
Largely unrelated cartoons today as I clean out my cache, starting with a colorful Odyssey piece by Hajjaj. I’m about done with Odyssey references but that doesn’t mean a particularly apt piece won’t still catch my eye. A cartoonist would have to come up with something astoundingly brilliant for yet another wooden horse cartoon to […]
Signe Wilkinson, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, has donated original drawings to the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.From the news release: Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has announced the donation of a significant collection of editorial cartoons and originals to Annenberg Library Archive, which will […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has announced that Kit Anderson will be its 2026-27 Fellow. Anderson is an Ignatz- and Nebula-nominated cartoonist who graduated from CCS in 2022.From CCS: She’ll be working on a medieval adaptation for an anthology, making short comics, and collaborating with her agent on several pitches. After spending the last […]
With John Trever, Jay Inthammavong, Jack Ohman, Pedro X. Molina, Matt Golding, Megan Herbert, Cathy Wilcox, and Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy. The Vet and The Cadet John Trevor Interviewed on 50 Years of Cartooning Karen Moses for The Albuquerque Journal talks to editorial cartoonist John Trever about his 50 years of “Using humor to make […]
The leftists who have always attacked centrists are beginning to seem less extreme these days. In the days of Clinton and Obama, it was easy enough to say that, while there were things you wished they would or wouldn’t do, on the whole, they served well and had a broad sense of how a decent […]
It’s pretty well established that Randy Milholland has studied Popeye‘s comic strip history. So I have to wonder… When today’s Popeye guest-starred Jeep and his “intradimenshkinal” talents was Randy aware that it was exactly 90 years since Professor Brainstine explained the hows and whys of Jeep’s mysterious powers? Which instantly brought to mind: I couldn’t […]
Webtoons and Marvel; Sy Barry; Bill Watterson; Charles Schulz; Keith Knight; and a few dozen historical comic strips.Marvel Comics in the Webtoonverse Marvel Comics has announced plans to create original digital comic strips for Webtoon, the leading vertical webcomic site. The comics will feature X-Men, Deadpool, and a teenaged Tony Stark. Rich Johnston at Bleeding […]
A lot of comics have pinged memories lately, but we’ll start with an unpleasant one, because Merthiolate and Mercurochrome were indeed the go-to antiseptics for small cuts and scrapes back in the day, and here’s more than you need to know about them. They were a good reason not to go crying to your mother […]
President Trump has made known his desire to spread United States control around the world. He has mentioned making Canada, Greenland, Mexico, the Panama Canal area, and Cuba U.S. territories or states. Beyond the Western Hemisphere, he has stated wishes to rule the Gaza Strip and Iran, even Iceland. He has, for all intents and […]
Censorship: Jeff Smith’s Bone and Frank Hampson’s Eagle; Animation Admission: Artificial Intelligence and The Fleischer Studio News (1936).Jeff Smith, who this summer was inducted into The Will Eisner Hall of Fame and also received The National Cartoonists Society’s Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award to join his couple dozen prior honors, was recently interviewed by Jose […]
The National Cartoonists Society held its annual banquet Friday night, Aug. 7, 2026. The highlight was the naming of award winners in the various categories for their 2025 efforts. Special Awards: Jeff Smith was recognized with The Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Adrian Sinnott accepted The Gold Key on behalf of The Berndt Toast Gang. […]
I can’t accuse Margulies of being a member of the Democrats’ Circular Firing Squad because, while he tends to lean left of the exact center, he’s politically independent and this seems more an observation than an accusation.Then again, one should be careful what one observes, because everything beyond “Kids sure stare at their phones” carries […]
The Galveston County foofaraw over the Brad and Toni shower scene in Luann is now dragging the Arlo and Janis mermaid rerun sequence into the debate as readers mock the Daily News’ overly modest actions taken in regard to their comics page. An August 3 letter to the Galveston County Daily News editor (or here): […]