I’m disappointed in last night’s half-dinner, though I hope it lasted enough for everyone to get their selfies, as Telnaes suggested ahead of time. But I wanted to see how it came out, and I guess while we can’t have nice things, we also can’t have not-so-nice things, either. It’s too early to get into […]
MIchael de Adder has been named the National Newspaper Award’s 2025 Illustrated Commentary winner. The National Newspaper Awards (NNA) honors the best in Canadian journalism. The National Newspaper Award announcement: Winner: Michael de Adder, The Globe and Mail, for his political satire on the impact of the Trump presidency. Judges described it as “truly memorable […]
The Glyph Awards, honoring the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color from the preceding calendar year, has announced the nominees for their 2026 slate of categories. Of the nine categories George Gant and his Beware of Toddler comic strip has been named in six. The six categories in which George […]
Garry B. Trudeau biographer Joshua Kendall for The Boston Globe (or here) compares the attitudes of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton with the current resident of The Oval Office. [In 1974 Nixon] wrote Trudeau to request a signed copy of the “ill health resignation” comic strip. And it hung in his office ever since. In […]
I wasn’t blown away by today’s Pearls, at least when I first came across it. The first cartoon websites I visit each morning are humorous, and I got the gag. I even agree that we’d all be happier if we disconnected and lived in the moment. As the saying goes, “Ignorance is bliss.”But the significance […]
UK comics creator, author and editor Barrie Tomlinson has passed away. Barrie Tomlinson February 1938 – April 21, 2026 From John Freeman’s tribute: We’re very sorry to report the passing of comics editor, writer and author Barrie Tomlinson, the genius who not only made TIGER a much-loved weekly sports comic, but who also brought us […]
Let’s add them up. On the Fastrack = over 42 years Safe Havens = nearly 38 years Kevin and Kell = over 30 years Yep, 110 years worth of comic strips from the mind and hand of Bill Holbrook and all continue since their debuts. Cartoonist Bill Holbrook spares a precious 40 minutes talking to […]
This ain’t over yet. As noted before, posting the King James version of the 10 Commandments is not just bringing religion into public schools but specifically bringing in Protestantism, a message to Catholics, Jews and Muslims that their religions are not the official government- approved sects, and to non-church-goers and atheists that their families are […]
Featured in the parade are Luke McGarry, Gary Varvel, W. Heath Robinson. Joe Long, Steve Brodner, John Cuneo, and Tom Richmond with gags, books, lectures, awards, carucatures, and returning to a first love. Luke McGarry Picks a Weird Hill to Die On Luke McGarry, the famous co-cartoonist of KidTown, was interviewed by Comic Beat’s Diego […]
Duke University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) posted an Emory Douglas anti-imperialism/anti-Zionism cartoon to its Instagram page that originally appeared in a 1970 Black Panther newspaper. The e-flier was used to promote a SJP event. Complaints about the nature of the cartoon resulted in Duke University suspending all funds and campus activities for the […]
A simple cartoon can contain a lot of different messages, and Derenne doesn’t tell the reader what to think. She just gives us a visual poke to get the thinking process started.First of all, Trump does peddle a lot of fake news, whether it’s deliberate lies or cockamamie theorizing. By this time, we ought to […]
Years after being completed and then written off (shelved) for tax purposes the animated-live action movie that fans insisted on being released is coming to a theater near you this summer. Jamie Lang at Cartoon Brew has the background of Coyote vs Acme’s road to release. For a film that has already been written about […]
The Angoulême International Comics Festival is largest comic festival in the world. It has been held annually in January in Angoulême France since 1974. The conflicts that are unfurling now in the news were sown in the early ’00s. This article tries to encapsulate the pivotal moments that led to the cancellation of the 2026 […]
Cartoonist Don Simpson steps on a third rail of comics research – he criticizes esteemed comics historian David Kunzle‘s use of the phrase “comic strip” in Kunzle’s various pre-histories of the 20th century comics.In “Kunzle’s Pre-History of Comics: But Is It Really? (A Snobbish 2014 Essay Reposted From Another Platform)” Simpson marks Kunzle’s bona fides: […]
Yesterday’s news about the Angoulême International Comics Festival selecting a new organizer left one question unanswered: will there be a festival next January? The contract for 2027 is held by the former organizer, 9eArt+, who is currently in litigation over their contract. Another hurdle is the mere logistics of organizing the biggest comic festival in […]