Robert Grossman, Steve Brodner Inducted into Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
Illustrators and caricaturists Robert Grossman and Steve Brodner are numbered among the 2024 inductees into the Society of Illustrators Hall…
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CSotD: Sez who?
I’ve often quoted a frustrated exclamation that pops up in commedia dell’arte plays, “I cannot tell if he is a…
Clay Passes Lou; Sets Sights on Cal
Major League Baseball notes: On June 1, 1925, Lou Gehrig played in the first of what would be 2,130 consecutive…
Of Comic Strips, Garfield and Mike Peterson
Garfield, FurBabies, Calvin and Hobbes, Bliss/Not Bliss/Bob Mankoff Presents, The K Chronicles, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Popeye, caption contests, and…
CSotD: How to Suck Eggs, Explained
By the time George Cruickshank (1792 – 1878) penned this cartoon, “teaching your grandmother to suck eggs” was an established…
Greg Kearney, Midwest Socialist Cartoonist
Kearney grew up in a radical FDR New Deal household in New Sharon, Maine, a town of 1,400 people. He…
Clay Bennett is 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Ten days after The Chattanooga Times Free Press celebrated their cartoonist Clay Bennett winning the National Headliner Award they are…
CSotD: Silence is Golden (But my eyes still see)
Rob Rogers (Tinyview) sets up today’s topic: If nobody knows that it happened, did it? And, if it didn’t happen,…
Medar de la Cruz Wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Medar de la Cruz, contributor to The New Yorker, has been awarded the 2024 Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Pulitzer Prize…
More Past Week Comics This Week
Before we get too far away some more comments on yesterday’s and last week’s comics. It didn’t take long for…
CSotD: Love in perspective, love of perspective
I don’t know how much lead time Jimmy Craig takes for They Can Talk. I guess it’s up to him,…
25 Years of National Cartoonists Days
It’s the Silver Anniversary of National Cartoonists Day! As News18 tells it: During World War II in 1943, cartoonists including…
CSotD: Errors, Misunderstandings and Lies
It’s always nice, though not always possible, to begin with an overview of what is about to come. Jen Sorensen…
Books, Comic and Otherwise – Mostly Comic
Mad Cave has signed a deal with King Features to publish new comic book stories starring Flash Gordon. The partnership…
CSotD: Marooned on an Accessible Island
Ivan Ehlers captures my mood as I watch the nation’s dialogue degenerate into what seems like a contest to see…