While expanding their Reuben Weekend to be more available to the public via NCS Fest, the National Cartoonists Society is also expanding its awards categories. A few years ago the NCS added Online Comics – Short Form, Online Comics – Long Form categories to the divisional award categories. This year they have added “the […]
Here are just SOME of the cartooning awards and details on submissions and deadlines. After easy holiday days it is time to get frantic if planning to enter some of these. The Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship DEADLINE: ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED BY JANUARY 7, 2019 Only days left to enter this scholarship given […]
I’ll get to politics in a minute, but I’m a little burned out on the topic, so let’s start with some less fraught things, such as fish breath. I’ve never had a sardine omelette, but Wallace the Brave brought back a memory of kippered herring, which my mother liked and which, alongside some scrambled eggs […]
For 19 years before 2000, and now for 19 years after 2000 (and including the year 2000) Garry B. Trudeau has designed a collectible button for the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival featuring his Doonesbury comic strip characters. Above is the 2019 button. Look at the previous 39 buttons from 1981 to 2018 (2016 had two […]
The 2018 National Football League season has ended, and so has The Monsters of the Midway comic strip I guess. But wait, Da Bears are playing post-season and so is the comic strip! Beginning in 2010, Peirce wrote eight hot-selling Big Nate illustrated novels, based on the 11-year-old wise-cracking hero of […]