The Harvey Awards Hall of Fame Honors Go To: Buell, Gaiman, Shelton, Thomas
The Harvey Awards, which honors exemplary comic book work, will be adding members to its Hall of Fame at New…
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Schulz Peanuts Postage Stamps Arrive Today
This is the day! United States Postal Service First Day of Issue PEANUTS Stamp Dedication Ceremony Friday, September 30 Free…
CSotD: Mixed Bag Day
Political cartoonists should, indeed, stick pins in powerful people, but it does seem, in the current cycle, like a two-pan…
Opinionated – The Not-So-Funny Pages
In 1843, the periodical Punch introduced the word cartoon to refer to comic drawings. By the mid-19th century, periodicals around…
Comic Strip Stuff and Nonsense
Let’s start this comic strip stuff with panel nonsense. © Scott Hilburn Boing Boing, who regularly features collections of comics…
CSotD: A Hurricane of Wilseys
Hurricane Ian has made landfall in Florida and there’s little funny in what this powerful storm is doing, but, then…
Comics and Their Creators: All-True Stories
Illustrator Robb Armstrong sometimes calls his time at Syracuse University “The Syracuse Years,” like a flashback chapter in a comic…
CSotD: Midweek Randomness
A bit of politics before we go for the laughs. I was surprised that NASA’s asteroid deflection drew so much…
The Next Big Cartoonists Meet: CXC/AAEC
Cartoonists of all sorts and stripes – comic strip cartoonists, editorial cartoonists, comic book (mainstream, alternative, small press) cartoonists –…
CSotD: Funny War Stories, such as they are
(Clay Jones) (Patrick Chappatte) I wasn’t sure what order to put this pair in, since they’re both ludicrous and neither…
CSotD EXTRA: Comic fans must now step up
I’m going to assume that Francesco Marciulano’s Ted Talk is for social media and not an Official Sally Forth Strip,…
Postmedia Canada Adopts Printless Mondays and other Pre-Mortem Newspaper News
Postmedia Network Inc. says nine of its urban daily newspapers will no longer be printed and delivered on Mondays effective…
Flashbacks Finale
After 31 years Patrick M. Reynolds has ended his Flashbacks comic strip. above: the penultimate Flashbacks below: the final Flashbacks…
CSotD: Say Anything
I saw the first corgi cartoon on the funny pages today, so I guess that tells us the time lag…
Comic Strips Celebrate National Comic Book Day
Nobody seems to know how it started, when it started, why it started, who started it, or what the reason…