This week’s issue of The New Yorker introduced two new cartoonists to the magazine’s readers. Michael Maslin tells us: As Michael noted in his Monday entry little was known of David McCaw. That changed today. Madelyn Alexander for Bham Now celebrates the local Birmingham cartoonist scaling the cartooning peak. Yes, David knew months ago he […]
Bennett has a reasonable analysis of this week’s flurry of primaries and referenda. Voters made decisions that seemed to have more to do with their mood than with what the experts projected or what PAC dollars were spent to achieve. Two dramatic rejections of machine politics came in Kansas and Missouri, reliably Republican strongholds, where […]
One is available, one can be pre-ordered, one is still in dreamland. The New Cartoonist #12 The New Cartoonist “is a bi-monthly digital magazine dedicated to cartoonists, comic creators, illustrators, animators and fans of cartoon art.” It is based in England and the 12th issue is now available. Featuring the brilliant @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social as our cover […]
The New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium has posted their fall line-up of speakers and topics. Each symposium is free to the public and online though you need to register. To register, visit their newsletter on Substack for the email address one week prior to the event. Sept. 1 – Roman Muradov: My Idea of […]
Don Trachte and the Fake Norman Rockwell This story has been told before but Neha B at Scoop Upworthy brings it back: “Cartoonist painted fake versions to fool ex-wife during divorce. Cartoonist painted fake versions to fool ex-wife during divorce.” For nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell’s famous painting “Breaking Home Ties,” sold for $15.4 […]
Printing and comics historian Glenn Fleishman has launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish a print hardcover edition of articles and stories he’s written over the last 15 years on the topic of type, printing and language. The 128-page book is called Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It. According to his Kickstarter, the […]
I don’t know if New York’s lieutenant governor was a Democrat or a Republican in 1920, but here’s a peek into the duties of the office back then. Happy Humpday in the middle of a busy week when I could use a few laughs.When I was in TV advertising, my sales manager went, not to […]
Paul Burke, a former comics publisher and entertainment executive, posted on the Library of American Comics Newspaper Strip Appreciation Facebook group that he is selling 10 posters from a fundraiser he did with 69 cartoonists back in the early 1970s.He wrote: I created this artwork with 69 artists 40+ years ago to raise funds to […]
John Freeman, creator of the British comic focused news site downthetubes, has launched a GoFundMe to raise funds to cover his rising hosting fees. He writes: As regular readers know, downthetubes is a comic site primarily promoting British comics, run by me, former Marvel UK and Titan editor John Freeman, my work complemented by contributions from a fantastic […]
Hannah Brown for The Jerusalem Post reports Exhibition of Ultra-Orthodox Military Draft Cartoons Vandalized: An exhibition of political cartoons about the exemption of the ultra-Orthodox from military service was vandalized on Monday ahead of the opening of the Animix International Animation, Cartoon and Comics Festival at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. The festival, which opened on […]
Lee Enterprises seems to jump from one syndicate to another in search of lower costs. Five Years Ago – the Tulsa World, a Lee Enterprises newspaper: It’s 2021 and the Tulsa World editor, like the other 70+ Lee Enterprises newspaper editors, have a free hand in deciding which and how many comic strips and panels […]
The big news of the day is that Senators Tillis and Cornyn have resolved their doubts about confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general, since he has fulfilled two conditions: One, to sit down and talk with a group of Epstein victims, and the other, to certify an end to the proposed slush fund for paying […]
The Guardian Australia is not renewing its contract with editorial cartoonist Fiona Katauskas.From Fiona’ Bluesky account: So, I found out on Friday that my gig at the Guardian is coming to an end in late August. Needless to say I’m rather bummed by this development AND in need of a new job so if anyone’s […]
There is a certain joy of anticipation when the Monday comic strips come around. Monday is when changes (art and stories) usually happen, though there are outliers (Tauhid Bondia seems to ignore this tradition). So Monday comes around and we have so many questions springing to mind: Will Rachel Merrill return as the Gil Thorp […]
Graphic designer, author, and comic book historian Steven Brower has passed away. Steven Ian Brower June 23, 1952 – July 24, 2026 Steven’s wife Kati announced to the public of his passing. From Fantagraphics mini-bio: Steven Brower is an award-winning former Creative Director for Print, a former art director at the New York Times and […]