Australian Cartoonists’ 2021 Stanley Awards
The Australian Cartoonists Association held their Stanley Awards brunch in February where finalists and winners were announced for various categories….
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Fifty Funky Years
March 26, 1972 saw a new comic strip appear about a group of high school students created by school teacher…
CSotD: Truth, Justice or the American Way
Mike Lester (AMS) sums up Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, in which she was asked a barrage of asinine questions…
Is Paper a Part of Comics’ Future
With newspapers increasingly NOT publishing on a daily schedule and subscribers being referred to websites to read their favorite comic…
CSotD: Two Minutes Non-Hate
After such a hateful week of deliberate lies and irrelevance, it’s time to take a break. Here’s an intelligent palate-cleanser…
Sherman’s Lagoon Relocates to Andrews McMeel
Sherman’s Lagoon, the comic strip created by Jim Toomey in 1991, is beginning its fourth decade by switching to its…
Stu Goldman – RIP
Philadelphia cartoonist Stu Goldman has passed away. Stuart Wilk (Stu) Goldman March 26, 1947 – March 3, 2022 From the…
CSotD: Fools, knaves or both?
Drew Sheneman shows the broken promise upon which the Republican members of the Senate Judicial Committee based their approach to…
A Late Wednesday Roundup
Friday Event Liza Donnelly explores [the New Yorker women cartoonists] in her new book, Very Funny Ladies (with foreward by…
Swiss Family Robinson Adapted by George Storm
In 1926 cartoonist George Storm adapted Johann Wyss’ The Swiss Family Robinson into a comic strip serial for the McClure…
CSotD: Some Dissembling Required
Ann Telnaes summarizes yesterday’s confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown-Jackson, which, as she notes, had nothing to do with assessing the…
John Kovalic – Cartooning For Ukraine
Cartoonist John Kovalic is best known for Dork Tower and Apples to Apples. Recently John cartooned a Ukraine related drawing…
The Complete Bloom County Goes Paperback
This September, IDW Publishing will release Bloom County Library: Book One, the first of five editions collecting all the humor…
Crabgrass Newspaper Launch Rescheduled
Due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control the syndicated newspaper debut of Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia, originally scheduled for March 28,…
CSotD: The Unknown and the Knowable
Matt Wuerker (Politico) cites the phrase “Fog of War,” which began, as he suggests, on the battlefield, but has spread…