Comic Strip of the Day: Fewer is harder
Monday can be tough for this feature: A lot of editorial cartoonists don’t work the weekend and so won’t post…
August 2018
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The Sunday Funnies – Classics
In the 1970s Garry Trudeau edited a series of comic strip reprints. Among the “Cartoon Stories For New Children” was…
Art Speigelman Reflects on MacDowell Medal
Michael Cavna over at the Washington Post interviews Art Speigelman on being first cartoonist to receive the award. From the…
CSotD: What are little girls made of?
According to this Comics Beat story, Target will be the sole dispenser of a new line of Disney graphic novels…
Some Quick Hits from the Past Week
Bob Montana’s Archie A bronze statue of comic book and comic strip character Archie, with a plaque honoring Bob Montana,…
Comic Strip of the Day: Bully For You
Let’s start with the current Vintage Juliet Jones storyline, in which quiet, submissive Vassily the Exchange Student has been forced…
Paul Conrad: Enemy of the President
Over the last 150 years there were and are many great editorial cartoonists, you can name your favorites and I…
‘The Daily Show’ Covers the Franklin/Peanuts 50th Anniversary
Trending up as the No. 3 video on all of YouTube.com, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah covers the 50th…
The National Comedy Center Has Recreated Brad Anderson’s Studio
The recently opened National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., has reconstructed Brad “Marmaduke” Anderson’s studio and create an interactive exhibit….
Comic Strip of the Day: Friday Funnies
Wiley Miller is in the midst of an impressive run of news/deadline synchronicity, with this Non Sequitur appearing just as…
2018 AAEC Convention Schedule Set
An international line-up of Americans Ward Sutton, Matt Bors, Brian Fies, and Rob Rogers; Canadians Terry Mosher, Wes Tyrell, and…
More at the Billy Ireland: MAD, CXC, AAEC, JAN
If you are heading to get some book bargains at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, you may want…
Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State University to Hold ‘Duplicates Sale’
Tom Spurgeon over the Comics Reporter has a small piece on The Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State University holding their…
Comic Strip of the Day: (In)credibility
(Signe Wilkinson) Well, thanks for coming. That’s all for today. ———– Okay, perhaps a little commentary, though I think Wilkinson’s…
Homage Where The Heart Is
Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon #236 (on sale now) has a few pages of the kids’ adventures drawn as tribute pages…