Medar de la Cruz, contributor to The New Yorker, has been awarded the 2024 Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Pulitzer Prize for The Diary of a Rikers Island Library Worker. Judges commentary: “For his visually-driven story set inside Rikers Island jail using bold black-and-white images that humanize the prisoners and staff through their hunger for books.” […]
Before we get too far away some more comments on yesterday’s and last week’s comics. It didn’t take long for the Sunday Blondie to match the daily Blondie’s new color scheme. The new, mostly background, color approach on Blondie began with the April 22, 2024 daily comic strip. At least Dan Thompson got good use […]
I don’t know how much lead time Jimmy Craig takes for They Can Talk. I guess it’s up to him, since he’s self-syndicated, but I’ve also heard he’s working on a book, so who knows? However, the migrators have been returning to New England over the past 10 days or so. The ducks and geese […]