Weekend Quick Hits
Jim Keefe on Making Comics – The Assembly Line Jim Keefe on the assembly line of making syndicated comic strips….
May 2018
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Reuben Nominee Profile: Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis The Punmeister The pun has been around for thousands of years, but Stephan has co-opted its use. These…
Happy Birthday Tom Gammill!
Thomas W. Gammill, the man most famous for writing The Doozies turns a year older today. If you see him,…
Signe Wilkinson Reflects on Career
No, no, no – Signe Wilkinson is not retiring. But that was my first thought when I saw the headline…
Glenn McCoy Has Officially Retired from Editorial Cartooning
Glenn has decided to stop his syndicated editorial cartoons after he left the Belleville (Ill.) News Democrat last week. More…
Reuben Nominee Profile: Glen Keane
Glen Keane “I always wanted to draw ever since I can remember.” And why not, with a cartoonist for a…
Team Cul De Sac Hosting ‘Drink & Draw’ at HeroesCon to Raise Funds for Michael J. Fox Foundation
Team Cul De Sac chief Chris Sparks is helping throw another Drink and Draw at this year’s Heroes Convention in…
Jason Chatfield is Dandruff
Ginger Meggs, New Yorker and MAD Magazine cartoonist Jason Chatfield is dandruff. See the video proof here: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wvMO/selsun-blue-date-night …
Did The Advertiser Mash Up Comics and Royal Weddings?
You may think Ginger Meggs is Australia’s favorite and longest running comic. But allegedly (fwiw, we have not been able…
Reuben Nominee Profile: Lynda Barry
Lynda Jean Barry – NCS Cartoonist of the Year nominee Look at that photo above, now look in a mirror…
Jen Sorenson Launches Subscription Service
In the tangy and delicious honeycomb mold of Tom the Dancing Bug’s Inner Hive subscription model, Herblock-Prize and RFK Journalism-Award…
Bill Amend, Brian Gordon and Nick Seluk Appearing at Motor City Con this Weekend
Bill Amend of Foxtrot, Brian Gordon of Fowl Language and Nick Seluk of The Awkward Yeti will be boothing proximity…
‘Phoebe and Her Unicorn’s’ Dana Simpson to Appear at Everfree Northwest
Dana Simpson of Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Andrews McMeel/GoComics will be a special guest at this weekend’s Everfree Northwest…
“Nancy, All Too Nancy”
From last year’s McSweeney’s #50 comes an essay on reality. Not sure if the story came first or was inspired…
Cartoonist Profile: Rube Goldberg
Foolish Questions, I’m the Guy, Boob McNutt, Mike and Ike, Pepsi and Pete, Life’s Little Jokes, Sweep Out the Padded…