2022 NCS Divisional Award Nominees for the 77th Annual NCS Reuben Awards
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for the twelve divisional awards (aka Silver Reubens) for work produced in…
June 2023
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Nancy Beiman’s FurBabies New @ GoComics
Veteran animator Nancy Beiman has retired from the animation industry and taken up comic stripping. Nancy retired last Fall and…
CSotD: Finding Humor in Despair
I’m interpreting this Joy of Tech cartoon as a cry for help, but not on behalf of coders who may…
Abecor Wins Courage in Cartooning Award
Last week CARTOONISTS RIGHTS presented the 2023 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award to Abecor at a private ceremony, held…
The Missing Popeye Files – Filling the Gap
King Features has put up a different sort of trouble slide, which isn’t their usual announcement for missing files and,…
Richard D. Olson – RIP
Comics historian and R. F. Outcault/Yellow Kid authority Richard D. Olson has passed away. The report of Richard’s passing was…
CSotD: Drawing The Thing That Is Not
Pedro X. Molina (Counterpoint) politely and kindly uses a Simpsons trope to attribute homophobic and transphobic outbursts to ignorance and,…
The Missing Popeye Files, Day Three
KFS continues to run the Dec 31, 1939, episode of Vintage Thimble Theater. Here are the missing episodes to date:
A Talk with Darrin Bell About The Talk
Darrin Bell’s The Talk reaches bookstore shelves on Tuesday June 6 (though it is already on the shelf at my…
Interview: Bors & Mirk and End of The Nib
As The Nib prepares to take a bow with its final issue, we took a look back with Matt Bors….
CSotD: When the One Great Scorer comes
Sunil Agarwal mocks a saying I take seriously, but I’m willing to laugh at the empty cans and bottles that…
Comic Stripping The Week That Was
Slylock Fox Bumped for The Pig Family on Vacation Bumping Slylock Fox from his own strip last week Friday was…
The Rare May 34th Roundup
JD Crowe newsletter; Doug Pike novella; Stephen King and The Far Side; News Deserts and Ghost Papers; Castigating Rick McKee…
CSotD: Awoke in the Wake
Steve Breen (Creators) seems to have the best take on what just happened: A crisis was averted, and both sides…
Arlo and Janis, Gilligan, and Newton Minow – A Vast Wasteland Factoid
As was mentioned regarding Mike’s column today Arlo and Janis heard a little-known factoid the other day. Obituaries for Newton…