Throw-Stuff-At-The-Wall Thursday
As we jump all over the place let’s start with – The Are You Calvin or Are You Hobbes Quiz….
2022
Continue reading
CSotD: Truth, Justice, or the American Way
Kevin Siers puts our current crisis in plain terms: We’ve somehow become involved in an argument in which the concept…
News Corp Australia Cancels Comic Strips
News Corp Australia, which publishes about 100 newspapers there, has decided to no longer carry comic strips and panels in…
CSotD: The Good, and not so good, Old Days
There’s an interesting collision going on between routine Back to School comic strips and political cartoons marking the current teacher…
The ACA Stanley Awards Call For Entries
The Australian Cartoonists Association is now calling for submissions for the 38th Stanley Awards. There are nine award categories: Animation…
King Features Joins the Book-of-the-Month Club (Comic Chronicles)
With content by cream-of-the-crop illustrators like Hal Foster, Frank Godwin, James Montgomery Flagg, F. R. Gruger, William Meade Prince, and…
Kirk Luehrs – RIP
Cartoonist and advertising artist Kirk Luehrs has passed away. Kirk Allan (Bro Kirk) Luehrs March 23, 1941 – August 1,…
New to Comics Kingdom – Bob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The Funny
Premiering at Comics Kingdom, in the middle of the night with no advance notice, isBob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The…
CSotD: The Futility of Fighting Fanatics
Tom Tomorrow demonstrates a pair of things Constant Readers have read here more than once. One of the most devastating…
Hey Kids! Comics! Hot August Books
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
Kevin Kallaugher & the Art of Editorial Cartooning
Grotesquerie is Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher’s bread and butter. For fifty years the cartoonist has rendered newsmakers in a fleshy museum…
Miscellaneous Monday: Editoons and Comic Strips
I won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights journalism award for cartooning last May… The check for winning arrived a…
CSotD: Monday Funny Papers Potpourri
Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) is apparently at the start of a story arc that is a departure for the strip, which…
Henry Barajas Now Calling Plays for Gil Thorp
Henry Barajas, new writer of the Gil Thorp comic strip, was kind enough to have a chat (via email) with…
CSotD: Protecting the Public’s Right Not To Know
I wish I liked Joel Pett’s cartoon a little more. He’s right, for the first four panels, about the ways…