December 20, 2019 Letter from the National Cartoonists Society calling for submissions. Note that membership is not a requirement to submit and be considered for the divisional awards and the submissions deadline is January 23, 2020.
Ye Gods! There’s some synchronicity among today’s comic strips. Dick Tracy The Phantom Mark Trail Curtis Pearls Before Swine Overboard
Vancouver Is Awesome, a part of the vast Glacier Media empire, has hired Geoff Coates as their weekly editorial cartoonist for the website. From V.I.A.’s introduction by editor Bob Kronbauer: I’m extremely proud to introduce you to our new (and first ever!) editorial cartoonist, the amazingly talented and witty Geoff Coates! If you recognize his name […]
Publishers Weekly has named Dav Pilkey their 2019 Person of the Year. Dav is the author/illustrator of the hugely successful Captain Underpants series, and has moved on to the just-as-successful Dog Man graphic novels. Pilkey’s Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers, the ninth book in his popular children’s novel series, published in […]
Sally Forth specializes in bizarre takes on holidays, but they get special credit for last Sunday’s take, which kept me wondering what the hell was going on until the last panel. A lot of their weirdness relies on your being familiar with the characters, but this is an excellent standalone — anybody could stumble into […]
Dozens of New Jersey towns have found too much lead in their drinking water. More than 1.5 million are affected. Cancer-linked chemicals have also been discovered around the state. This year, Newark found itself consumed by a lead water crisis — one that a new NJ Advance Media investigation finds may have been preventable. The […]
Slate and the Center for Cartoon Studies are now receiving entries for their 2020 awards. The two award categories for the Cartoonist Studio Prize are Print Comic of the Year and Web Comic of the Year. Eligible print comics must be written in (or translated into) English and published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of 2019. Creators or […]
Phil Hands is the editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal and the only political cartoonist on staff for a newspaper in the state. Phil explains that his cartoon mind doesn’t stop when his 37 hour work week does. Wisconsin Public Radio interviews Phil Hands and supplies a slide show of cartoons discussed.
From ABC7: It’s not your average suspect sketch, but Riverside police are hoping a drawing will help them find a man who is suspected of robbing a caricature artist. Police say the suspect approached the victim at the Festival of Lights event in downtown Riverside on Dec. 5 and asked him for a portrait of […]