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’ […]
I didn’t watch the White House Concubines Association dinner, but I’ve certainly seen a mountain of videos, summaries and outraged reactions. Someone asked on-line why everyone in the room didn’t get up and walk out when he insulted Kaitlin Collins, but that’s a silly question, because the fact that they were even there answers it. […]
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 […]
Benson’s provokes a double-take, by positing the panic she says that Democrats are in because James Carville said they should stop fighting Voter ID laws. It raises the important question, “Who’s fighting Voter ID laws?”I’m not crazy about requiring photo ID, because in rural areas, they can be hard to get. You vote in your […]
In the queue: Biplob Chakroborty, Asher Perlman, Anna Haifisch, Jack Ohman, Alex Hallatt, and Colleen Doran. Biplob Chakroborty‘s 2026 World Cup Cartoons ReviewedBefore the memories fade too much The Daily Star gives us a review of Biplob Chakroborty’s cartoons and caricatures of the 2026 World Cup. As billions around the world followed the drama of […]
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 […]