The Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC) has announced the dates of its 2026 convention, a gathering it is calling “a popup mini congress.” The poster for the event states it will be a “no frills” friendly gathering of cartoonists. The assemblage will take place a week after the AAEC convention at the gateway to “Lake […]
Tom Gammill of Tom Gammill fame will be reprising his role as Ernie Bushmiller in his production of A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller. The two-person play will have a six-night run at the Mark O’Donnell Theater in Brooklyn, NY. Oct. 8, 9, 10, 15, 16 & 17.The play was original written and performed for the […]
Readers of Nine Entertainment’s The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers were greeted Friday morning with the papers’ longtime editorial cartoonist Cathy Wilcox‘s farewell cartoon. In an article bidding Wilcox farewell The Sydney Morning Herald (or here) wrote: Award-winning cartoonist Cathy Wilcox has been drawing cartoons for the Herald since 1989. For four days […]
If you’re the sort of person who comes here often, you’ve almost certainly already heard that Meta — parent company of Facebook and Instagram — has arrived at a settlement in a case in which they were accused to damaging young people with a purposefully addictive format and sloppy, ineffective protections. What you’ve heard may […]
The New Yorker’s Cartoon Slide Show Tribute To Edward Frascino In remembrance of Edward Frascino The New Yorker has posted a gallery of Frascino cartoons. The Comic Strip That Originated as an Old-Time Radio Comedy Okay so it isn’t the book, but Commonplace Fun Facts takes a very thorough look at the history of the […]
From the late 1970s to the early 1980s when Fran Matera had lost his job ghosting the art for the Rex Morgan, M.D. comic strip (1975-1978) and had not yet started drawing The Legend of Bruce Lee (1982-1983) comic strip. Matera was “slumming” in comic books and other odd jobs. Matera was always submitting comic […]
That was exactly my response when I got my first pair of glasses in third grade. I had just assumed that, at a distance, trees looked like drawings of trees: A big blob of green, and you weren’t supposed to be able to see the leaves unless you got closer. And then Ben tossed another, […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) convention is just three weeks away and events there and around it are taking shape. Members-only and the public schedules are available at the AAEC website. Sacramento organizer Maryellen Burns is involved in coordinating a number of events some lasting a month beyond the convention weekend. The Association […]
In the most recent entry of his Inkslingers series Rob Stolzer appreciates the talent of H. M. Wilder. Wilder was a wonderful figurative artist, much on the order of his contemporaries A.B. Frost and T.S. Sullivant. All three of the cartoonist-illustrators had the ability to capture a figure’s movement at the apex of an action. […]
Dolly Parton’s death dominates political cartoons today. I’m not a fan of obituary cartoons, but I think it’s fitting that so many cartoonists used her Coat of Many Colors as a motif, since it was not only a well-known crossover hit for her, but an indicator of her impact as a generous person who acknowledged […]
The Houses of Parliament has lost a number of pieces of art. The Lancashire Telegraph headline: Barbara Castle art among pieces missing from Westminster With the subhead: A satirical cartoon depicting Baroness Barbara Castle as Florence Nightingale is among dozens of missing artworks from the Houses of Parliament. While other news stories give prominent coverage […]
It is not unusual for editoonists to use sports in their cartoons, especially during the time surrounding The Super Bowl, The World Cup, March Madness, and other big sports events. It is natural for them to analogize the game of the day with the politics of the day. And of course they celebrate the home […]
Trump’s attempt to extort Canada continues to draw mockery, and Telnaes does the rest of the commentators one better by noting that not only are the Canadians not intimidated, but Americans are lining up behind Carney and his crew as they tell Dear Leader where to get off. A poll taken earlier this month shows […]
Here it is only a month to go in the 2026 Major League Baseball (MLB) season and we haven’t checked in with Eric White’s updated research into “Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons?” In previous installments White has identified many of the cartoonists who decorated the backs of Topps baseball cards from the “classic” […]
Jamie Lang at Cartoon Brew has excellent coverage of two Disney related news stories. Headline for the first: “Disney Profits Soar After Three Rounds Of Layoffs, Millions In Tax Credits, And $100M Tariff Refund” Headline for the second: “Disney To End Health Coverage For Thousands Of Employees’ Spouses.”And near the bottom of the second story […]