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, […]
In a column today for The Chronicle Herald editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon says “I’m not retiring, but . . .” (or here). August 10 will mark my 40th full-time year with this newspaper. Although quitting drawing cartoons would be a bit like cutting off my right hand (something that would be hard not to notice […]
It’s interesting that satire can bring a smile even when there’s nothing funny about it, and by framing this in a well-established, popular satire, the Simpsons, Ruben Bolling boosts the humor quotient to compensate for the horror he’s describing. Then he touches it off by having the Haitian Simpsons sheltered by their silly, fatuous neighbor, […]
Animator Glen Keane, the son of cartoonist Bil Keane and brother to cartoonist Jeff Keane (and the Billy in Family Circus), needed help getting down from an Arizona mountaintop Wednesday. Arizona’s Family carries video of the rescue and Glen Keane’s reaction to the episode. Oscar-winning animator Glen Keane said he was hiking in Paradise Valley […]
True Grit Texture Supply provides us with Guy Lawley’s history of the development of color in the Sunday Color Supplement and the comic books of the 20th Century in The Origins of Vintage Comics. Just about every illustrator on the planet has a soft spot for the warm, nostalgic aesthetic of vintage comics. The visible […]
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 […]
This year’s 2026 Graphic Medicine Awards have been announced. The awards were presented during the Graphic Medicine International Collective annual conference in Baltimore. Below are the three categories and the winner. In addition to the award, winners took home a $600 cash prize.Educational categoryThe winner for the best Educational comic went to “It’s A Journey” […]
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 […]
The names of two Portuguese cartoonists, Andre Carrilho and Cristina Sampaio, were found on a far-right neo-Nazi group’s list of future targets. The Movimento Armilar Lusitano (Lusitanian Armillary Movement) compiled the list of who they viewed as a threat due to their alignment with “immigration, anti-racism, anti-fascism, diversity, social inclusion, and minority rights.”Nine members of […]
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 […]
Victor Moscoso, who got his start creating psychedelic posters for rock bands in San Francisco and became famous in comic circles as an early contributor to ZAP Comix with surrealistic sequential comics, was born 90 years ago on July 28, 1936 and so is now an honored member of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Strippers Club. […]
(It’s just a manly phase we’re going through.)Lieutenant Dangerous points out that we’re not at war with Iran, because, if we were at war, the president’s 60 days would have run out and he’d have to go to Congress to get permission under the War Powers Act to keep blowing things up.We were doing Operation […]
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’ […]