Golding channels Groening with this commentary on the upcoming 250th celebrations. I have been hesitant to comment because, while I’m astonished that anybody watches some of the braindead programming on TV, apparently they do.It seems elitist to mock people for not having your own refined sense of style, but that’s another chance to say, “Seems,” […]
Jack Ohman at The Herlock Prize Presentation From Bruce Guthrie comes 150+ still photos of Jack Ohman receiving The Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress event from May 26, 2026. Mr. Guthrie has a photographic archive of Herblock Prize presentations going back 12 years featuring Jen Sorensen, Kevin Kallagher, Mark Fiore, Ruben Bolling, Ward […]
A years-long, physically-enforced sabbatical ended for Steve Sack last year when he returned to cartooning. Rob Tornoe at Editor & Publisher tells of Steve Sack’s Comeback. Journalists are used to overcoming adversity, but what if you’re a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and you suddenly can no longer hold a pencil? That’s the situation Steve Sack faced […]
Horsey may be exaggerating the infantile tantrums of our leader, but he’s reporting Jeff Bezos’ analysis accurately. Bezos genuinely told CNBC “I think he is a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term.”Bezos went on to say “I’ve worked with all the presidents, I will work with all the […]
From the National Cartoonists Society Foundation: The board of the National Cartoonists Society Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2026 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship: Victoria Berrocales. Victoria was chosen from a field of talented applicants to receive this honor and a $5,000 scholarship grant. Victoria is an Illustration major at the Savannah […]
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 […]
Drew Litton gets more play time, Walden passes the baton to Steve Bissette, that G. B. Trudeau biography, and the question burning in me goes unasked in a Man Martin interview. Drew Litton Steps Up His Game Sports cartoonist Drew Litton started a non-sports three-times-a-week comic strip last December for The Vail Daily. This week […]
The monster at the start of this Humpday is Ulysses, and Ruben Bolling provides a chance for me to link to my classic examination of books everybody references and nobody has read. Twain wrote that a classic is “something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read,” which I would modify to […]
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 Artkey, Kevin Kallaugher, Joel Pett, Nik Kowsar, Caroline Belefski, among others were […]
The Sunday Shrimp & Grits comic strip by Andy Marlette has been in rerun status for all of May 2026 so far. The dailies have been in reruns since November 2023. Is it too early to call? Shrimp & Grits debuted from Creators syndicate daily and Sunday on May 31, 2021. The strip appeared at […]
He’s only a bird in a gilded cage, Rowe says, but it’s a cage of his own devise, and while, as the dove of peace says, we’ve heard it all before, the telling aspect is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action he uses as a paper at the bottom of that cage.You don’t have to […]
John Freeman at downthetubes reviews a new history book of British comics – it comes with a warning. The rise of AI has led to some bilge-filled books in recent years times, and now it’s becoming the bane of British comic fans interested in exploring the history of our medium. A case in point is […]
For whatever reason this list from the Freedom Forum of seven months ago popped up in my feed recently. The headline says “most famous” while the body of the article merely says “famous political cartoons.”Scott A Leadingham puts his list in chronological order and it is hard to argue with his first and last choices. […]
Anderson offers a contrast that we should not only contemplate now but ready ourselves to deal with if and when the fever breaks. And that had better happen before Big Brother finishes wiping out the parts of history we aren’t supposed to remember.That’s neither a joke nor partisan exaggeration: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of […]