Time for our weekly trip to Arcamax. Monotonous, isn’t it? Well, it sure gets old, given that somebody keeps forgetting to load the black plate for Barney & Clyde on Sundays, but, then again, if all they loaded were the black plate, that would be monotonous. What they’re doing instead is polytonous. However, today it […]
“I feel sometimes like I am trying to keep alive a dying art form,” Eric Thomas for Kansas newspapers – here at the Kansas Reflector – interviews editorial cartoonist Greg Kearney about the cartooning business, about Kansas politics, and the future of it all. Kearney, 67, has drawn cartoons since he was a 14-year-old high […]
Earlier The Will Eisner Awards Hall of Fame judges named their inductees for automatic inclusion into the 2025 Hall of Fame. They have now released the names of 18 nominees for fans to vote on for inclusion. The Eisner Awards Hall of Fame judges have chosen 18 nominees from whom voters will select 6 to […]
Clay Jones gets to represent the large number of cartoons decrying the Democrats’ silent protest at the SOTU for two reasons. One is that he’s a big boy and I’ve complimented him enough times that he won’t get bent out of shape if I disagree with him, and the other is that he attached, as […]
Starting out with… Proof of Publishment The twice weekly Olive & Popeye comic strip has been around since 2022, but now there is proof that it is being published in at least one newspaper via the King Features Weekly Service (KFWS). The Sidney (Nebraska) Sun-Telegraph comics page for their March 6, 2025 issue shows the […]
Wiley is more of a gadfly than a prescription writer, but he offers an appealing comparison between the muskrats, who have no idea what they’re doing, and a restaurant hiring a chef who can’t cook. That would be a really good way to drive your own restaurant out of business, which provides a clue as […]
Tuesday night saw the New York premiere of Laura Nix’s Democracy Under Siege, episode six of Draw For Change, featuring editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes. Acclaimed editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes (Washington Post) offers a razor sharp critique of political hypocrisy as top American political commentators confront viewers with urgent questions about the future of American governance. […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman will headline Rice University’s upcoming conference, “Comics Sans Frontières: Border Defiance in Graphic Narratives.” The four-day event will explore how comics challenge artistic, national, and cultural boundaries. Art, often credited with raising the graphic novel as a serious literary work, will deliver the keynote address on March 20. He will […]
… Or writes anyway. Tony DePaul, writer of The Phantom, was supposed to join the daily and Sunday artists Mike Manley and Jeff Weigel, on the 300th broadcast of The Phantom Podcast. That didn’t happen due to health issues. But Tony did promise to respond in writing to questions from Phans if the Chronicle Chamber […]
I’m pretty well done with talking about the State of the Union Address, and Horsey sums it up fairly well. Commentators have referred to it as more of a campaign speech than anything addressing the state of the union or proposing any major policies, or at least any new ones. It did likely help Trump […]
The first and last weeks of Ted Shearer’s Quincy, the first Happy Hooligan strip, the death of Alex Raymond, a brief history of American newspaper comic strips by Jules Feiffer, Stefan Kanter, Arthur Asa Berger, Kurt Vonnegut, Roz Chast, and others, remembering Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds’ Tank McNamara of a half century ago, and […]
Darrin Bell has returned to his Disobey in Advance Substack with a multi-panel vertical political comic. The Trump Intervention begins? is an eleven panel comic strip which may be a continuing plot line as it ends with the teaser: “Will the Intervention work? Will it ever even get off the ground? Stay tuned to find […]
I could, if I wanted to, do an entire posting of nothing but cartoons showing Vladimir Putin either giving the State of the Union speech or employing a Trump puppet to give the speech. I don’t want to do that, so I’ll let John Deering’s example represent them all, because he included JD’s “Boycott Vermont” […]
Walt Handelsman in New Orleans at Mardi Gras time, Hearst 2024 celebrates Hilary B. Price and Popeye, The New Yorker cartoonists party at the Centoonial, Tom Tomorrow accepts the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award, and a passle of Smercomics by Rob Rogers, Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, and Scott Stantis. Some Favorite Walt Handelsman […]
The National Cartoonists Society officially (it has been an open secret since last year’s gathering) announces the the time and place for 2025’s Reuben Awards and NCS Conference. The NCS Board is thrilled to announce that the 2025 NCS Conference and 79th Annual Reuben Awards will be held AUGUST 14-16th in BOSTON, MA. We have […]