I’m always pleased when I can start Humpday with a cartoon that reflects something I was just thinking of, and I’ve been amused lately by old retired guys grocery shopping with their wives when it’s obvious that she’s been doing the task for decades and he’s wandering through Wonderland. She’s explaining the different kinds of […]
One my favorite artists, Florian Satzinger, has an exhibit translated into English as “Ducks, who save themselves in rocket ships” about a Florian’s work as a character designer. The exhibit runs Jun 3–Jul 26 at the Comic Museum in Erlangen, Germany.Florian is a character designer heavily influenced by Carl Barks, Bruno Bozzetto, André Franquin and […]
The Hugo Award nominees were announced today. Of note to our readers is the inclusion of cartoonist Dave Kellett creator of the Sheldon webcomic and his sci-fi webcomic Drive which debuted in 2009. He is nominated in the Best Professional Artist category.From a statement on his Patreon page Dave says that he knew about the Hugo […]
The Angoulême Comic Strip Festival has announced it has selected the Morgane group as their new festival organizer. The Morgane group will replace the controversial 9eArt+ whose mismanagement resulted in the boycott and cancellation of the festival due to the protests of hundreds of cartoonists and authors.In a statement the mediation group Association for the […]
The Museum of Wisconsin Art, following the lead of Vermont, has launched a Cartoonist Laureate of Wisconsin program and named Paul Noth as the first recipient of the honor in their Summer 2026 newsletter. The Museum of Wisconsin Art is pleased to announce Paul Noth as the first Cartoon Laureate of Wisconsin. One of the […]
In his long lifetime Pe‘l Schlechter has been graphic designer, illustrator, author, poet, and cartoonist. Marc Thill at the Luxembourg Times celebrates the artist turning 105: Over the years, graphic designer, illustrator, newspaper designer and poet Pe‘l Schlechter, who turned 105 on Monday, has had a hand at everything. His portfolio ranges from posters and […]
I’ve been feeling sorry for Tom Tomorrow and other deep-digging satirists lately, in part because the real world is becoming so ridiculous that it doesn’t give satire anywhere to go, but, particularly in his case, because Steve Bannon’s ongoing flooding of the zone makes multi-panel humor hard to sustain. At any given moment, something may […]
Lincoln Peirce has announced that beginning June 14, 2026 the Big Nate comic strip will run Sunday only. From Lincoln Peirce’s Instagram page: Here’s part of the final Big Nate daily comic strip, which will run on June 13th. No more Nate on Monday thru Saturday, but there’s still going to be a Sunday page. […]
Yesterday’s comic strip roundup got cut short as I had an “Appointment With Danger Dinner.” Let’s continue with the news that… Terry Beatty has returned to drawing Rex Morgan, The Daily Bugle has dropped its Comics Section, and Andrews McMeel has stopped syndicating Ginger Meggs to newspapers. Terry Beatty is Back! Terry Beatty has returned […]
Weyant keeps it simple and gets it right. I’ve used the term “The whole world is watching” often, in the shame-building sense in which demonstrators chanted it at the Democratic Convention in 1968 when the Chicago police were beating the crap out of them on national television.Weyant suggests it by drawing the World as the […]
This weekend was the L.A. Times Festival of Books where they unveiled their best books of last year. Jaime Hernandez took home the prize in the Graphic Novel/Comics category, and Trung Le Nguyen (Trungles)‘s graphic novel “Angelica and the Bear Prince” won the Young Adult Literature category.Jaime graphic novel “Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets […]
Origins IssuesThe story of how Kit Walker became The Original Phantom continues into its 12th Sunday, while the story of how Ming became The Merciless continues in the daily and Sunday Flash Gordon. And King Features/Comics Kingdom celebrates the 80 anniversary of the Mark Trail comic strip. We’re proud to mark this 80th anniversary. And […]
This is a really good cartoon. Bennett has excellent artistic skills and a keen eye for depicting frustrated despair, which he make a recurring motif in his work. He’s even color-coded his firefighters with red and blue clothes under their bunker gear.The problem is that this shouldn’t be an evergreen — a cartoon that could […]
A few cartoonists, past and present, are spotlighted. Vaughan Tomlinson Magazine cartoonist Vaughan Tomlinson (Readers Digest, Airmail, Alta, Private Eye, The Oldie, Weekly Humorist, etc.) has been contributing panels to Comics Kingdom for a year now and The Kingdom’s Alex Garcia has now gotten around to interviewing him about how Vaughan goes about creating Oddly […]
If Carillo had dropped this tomorrow instead of last Sunday, you might think he was commenting on the Hegseth/Ezekiel/Pulp Fiction matter, rather than accidentally predicting a week in which everyone was wrong and the smart move was to stay out of it.In any case, Hegseth wasn’t quoting either Zeke or Jules, but since making the […]