2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominees
The San Diego Comics Con International has announced the nominees for the 2019 Will Eisner Awards. The winners, determined by…
April 2019
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CSotD: Friday Funnies – Expect the Expected
Last Sunday’s Reality Check was an unusually detailed piece, within which Dave Whamond managed to capture just about every cliche…
Olivia’s Nancy Seen Through the Funny Filter
Lynley Stace takes “a closer look at why the new Nancy cartoons by the pseudonymous Olivia Jaimes work so…
CSotD: Whitewashing
Marshall Ramsey gets it about right. This is hardly the first cartoon in which the unredacted text spells out a…
Tales From The Reuben: Mell Lazarus Joins NCS
In 1957 Mell Lazarus got his Miss Peach comic strip into newspapers. The next year Mell joined the National…
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, Nobody Knows but Comics Kingdom Subscribers
The rollout of the new Comics Kingdom site continues problematically. The site has fielded complaints from not liking the…
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Charles Addams
More than 10 things about cartoonist Charles Addams. 1 Charles Addams sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker…
Eli Valley: Self-Hating Jewish Cartoonist?
Eli Valley is a Jewish political cartoonist based in New York City. He doesn’t shy away from controversy; in…
Non Sequitur Tops Plain-Dealer Survey on Potential Return
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer editor George Rodrigue has penned a piece on Cleveland.com that reflects on the results of a…
CSotD: Deja, presque et jamais
We all yearn to be Yossarian, but Chaplain Tappmann is probably the best we can manage on a good day:…
90 Years Ago – Herblock Debuts
The Chicago Daily News – April 24, 1929 Herbert Block, signing Herblock, begins his career as an editorial cartoonist….
Yes, Virginia, There Are Magazine Cartoonists
Cartoonist P. C. Vey Hampshire Life: Talk about the work you’re currently doing. What does it involve, and what…
New Dick Tracy Minit Mystery Coming
A new fifteen day Minit Mystery will be featured in the Dick Tracy comic strip. It will start Sunday…
John Backderf draws Kent State Shootings
Next year will be the 50th anniversary of the infamous Kent State shootings. In Spring of 2020 John Backderf…
CSotD: Catching Up
The Mueller Report is not the only important issue facing us these days. For instance, if you haven’t been reading…