Mad Medieval Marginalia
All of us, at one time or another, have written in the margins of our books. I continue to do…
June 2020
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Greg Kearney Joins People’s World, Gets Profiled
It takes courage to speak out against racism, bigotry in all its ugliness, especially if you live in regions dominated…
2020 Eisner Award Nominations
Comic Con International: San Diego has announced the nominees for this year’s Will Eisner Awards. Like most of this year’s…
CSotD: Friday Funnies, Episode IV, A New Hope
Rex Morgan took a serious step through the fourth wall Sunday, wrapping up a story that had begun with a…
JD Crowe Wins 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Award
The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s concerns, including human rights, social…
NCS Requests Hashtag Uniformity for Sunday’s First Responder ‘Big Thank You’ Project
NCS President Jason Chatfield has just sent an email to the members regarding this Sunday’s “Big Thank You Search of…
Cartoonists Look at Police Brutality
above: “We could say he threatened us with a knife… If we had a knife!” The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library…
‘Tom the Dancing Bug’s’ Ruben Bolling Starts ‘Justice’ Fundraiser
Ruben Bolling the cartoonist behind the award-winning weekly comic “Tom the Dancing Bug” has launched “Tom the Dancing Bug for…
CSotD: On the one hand/On the other
Steve Sack threads the needle, speaking from Minneapolis where the whole thing started and carefully making the memorial for George…
Bianca Xunise: Modern Cartoonist, Classic Sense
Bianca Xunise is the newest member of the Six Chix group, but that is a small part of her cartooning….
KAL Talks to Lalo on ‘Satire Can Save Us’
Episode 10 of “Satire Can Save Us” features two of this year’s Pulitzer-Prize finalists: Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher talks to Academy-Award…
CSotD: Upon Further Review
Somebody reposted this David Rowe cartoon from November, 2016. It was bad enough then, the feeling of “What have we…
Australian Newspaper Accused of Continuing Racist Cartoon Tradition
From Junkee: The Australian has a long and storied history of just appallingly racist cartoons. There’s something about cartoons being…
Coping with Crisis through Humour, Art, and Performance with Michael de Adder
The Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre and Gallery has been presenting a series of webinars (online seminars) about the…
Future Funnies – Secret Sunday Symbols updated
From the Washington Post: Comics will salute essential workers by hiding symbols in their Sunday strips. The idea began with…