CSotD: Happy No Mail and the Bank’s Closed Day
Prickly City (AMS) was my first reminder that the post office and banks will be closed today. Winslow and Carmen…
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ET Too – And Other Funnies
Did something happen eight weeks ago that got cartoonists thinking about aliens? Noted a few days ago was a trifecta…
Lowcountry by Robert Ariail, Not-New Local Comic
We are embarrassed that, until the recent news that Robert Ariail was a Rex Babin Award finalist, we were unaware…
CSotD: Dare to be daring
As we’re discussing, debating and dissecting the current state and potential future of cartooning, Will Henry is going off in…
Matt Davies Wins 2021 Rex Babin Award
Newsday’s Matt Davies is the 2021 recipient of the “Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning.”…
Conventions: The Convenient and the Conventional
Today is the day! Join the cartoonists of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists starting at 1:30pm ET for a…
Book Covers and Looney Trademark Rights
This week, we published a book by the talented Jaime Weinman on the history of the Looney Tunes cartoon franchise,…
CSotD: Truth, or a reasonable facsimile thereof
Starting out with a point of personal privilege: As Rod Emmerson notes, Covid is becoming a greater problem in rural…
Looking Back on Comics News This Week
As the old cliché goes, “What goes around comes around.” And Charlie Daniel is still coming around. At Bacon &…
Stamp Cartoonists Talk
The Canada Post conversation with the editorial cartoonists honored this week is available. Serge Chapleau, Brian Gable, Bruce MacKinnon, Terry…
Bruce MacKinnon – Stamped and Profiled
Canada Post’s week of honoring editorial cartoonists continues with Bruce MacKinnon. MacKinnon’s first cartoon was published by the local weekly,…
CSotD: Loyalty Over Logic
Drew Sheneman offers an imaginary scenario, “imaginary” in that I wonder how many people are really going to toss their…
Eulogy For a Dying Art?
Is this the end of editorial cartooning? For Chris Lamb of The Chicago Tribune it is not so much a…
AAEC Virtual Convention/ZoomFest ’21 – Oct. 8 & 9
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists kicks off it’s annual convention tomorrow. ZoomFest ’21 features several virtual events that are…
Duncan Macpherson – Stamped and Profiled
Canada Post’s week of honoring editorial cartoonists continues with Duncan Macpherson. Duncan Macpherson is considered a giant of Canadian editorial…