No Penguin Random House Simon & Schuster Meld
From Publishers Weekly: A Federal Court has blocked Penguin Random House’s acquisition of rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster….
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Chelsea Carr Curses GoComics
Appropriately GoComics introduces Curses! by Chelsea Carr on Halloween. From the GoComics blog: The comic strip follows Wilma, a witch…
Ward Sutton Wins 2022 Berryman Award
The National Press Foundation has announced that Ward Sutton has won the 2022 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award…
CSotD: Twitterpated
It’s Halloween, but that seems to mean “Cartoonists’ Day Off.” I found myself resisting the urge to post an entire page…
A Gathering of Gallimaufry
A Hard-Copy of the Morning Newspaper is Vital Art Marmorstein needs four things in the morning: … a warm shower,…
CSotD: Asymmetrical War on a Darkling Plain
I’m going to have to be frugal with cartoons this coming week, given that most are either Halloween gags, which…
Harvard Magazine Profiles Harvard’s Own KAL
Grotesquerie is Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher’s bread and butter. For fifty years the cartoonist has rendered newsmakers in a fleshy museum…
A Brief History of Britain’s Political Cartoonists
An article takes time to read, but a picture speaks to us instantly. In the 18th century, William Hogarth campaigned…
CSotD: Weekend Wrap
First, “He Who Must Be Dealt With,” and Ben Jennings bursts through the crowd of Musk-Freeing-Trump and Musk-Weaponizing-Twitter cartoons with…
Charles Addams and George Booth to be Inducted into the 2022 Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
Cartoonists Charles Addams and George Booth will be inducted into the 2022 Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame on November…
Friday Funnies Footnotes
Thursday’s Judge Parker made me nostalgic. © NAS Nostalgic for those Dagwood commute drives when Denis Lebrun was the Blondie…
CSotD: The Abyss Gazes Back
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you…
Print Cartoon is Dead Long Live the Online Cartoon
The death of print editorial cartoons is a worldwide phenomena. Online platforms are full of editorial cartoons… the era of…
CSotD: Don’t bother. They’re here.
As we come within two weeks of the midterms, Paul Berge riffs on GEICO’s riff on cheesy horror movies to…
Lists: The Far Side, 2022 Graphic Novels, 2023 Stamps, Greatest Comic Artists, Calvin and Hobbes
Gary Larson’s 10 Best Comics, Ranked © Gary Larson Screen Rant lists, what they purport to be, The 10…