It cost nearly half a million dollars to take home the original art by Bill Watterson for the May 24, 1987 Sunday Calvin and Hobbes page. Heritage Auctions described the Calvin and Hobbes Sunday comic strip: Any Bill Watterson original Calvin and Hobbes art is rarer than even a talking tiger! And Sundays even more […]
Cartoonist Tom Batiuk has given notice that he will end the Funky Winkerbean comic strip on the last day of this year. A NOTE FROM TOM BATIUK: More than fifty years ago, the cast of Funky Winkerbean began their journey on the American comics pages, and as the official chaperone of these special characters, they […]
‘Tis the season. The Cartoonists Rights Network International is running a Holiday Pledge Drive. Free Expression doesn’t come cheap. In fact, multiple cartoonists have lost their lives in their pursuit of that right. Others have been assaulted and abused, criminalized or imprisoned, and an increasing number are displaced from their homes. Our mission is to […]
I’ve often noted that the current level of disinformation is hard on “bland restatement cartoons,” in which absurd characters say exaggerated versions of what real people are saying in all sincerity. In this case, however, Tom Tomorrow tackles the dilemma by keeping the exaggeration to a scant minimum, with the only real hyperbole being that […]