The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) announces its annual call for entries for consideration for the 79th NCS Divisional Reuben Awards, recognizing excellence in professional cartooning for work published in 2024. The NCS has announced the opening for submitting for consideration in a baker’s dozen of categories. Note: the Animated category has been reinstated. See Jason’s […]
I liked Shoe‘s rephrasing of the various end of year holiday greetings that had just past. And, naturally, it is always a pleasure to see David Reddick use his pen (stylus?) to delineate other comic characters than his regular cast. More fabulous comic strip females in today’s Legend of Bill. Rina and Hilary gave me […]
Ten years after the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo, the magazine remains defiant Tomorrow marks the 10-year anniversary of the deadly attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The satirical magazine published a special issue today to commemorate the day two brothers began a shooting spree to avenge the oft-ridiculed Prophet Mohammad. The shooting killed […]
Art Spiegelman is clarifying a news story that first surfaced on Hyperallergic in December that he was working on a new graphic novel about Gaza with Joe Sacco. The Pulitzer Prize winning Maus author says his comment on what he was currently working was twisted from a three page comic into an “epic-length work.” In […]
The tribute cartoons marking Ann Telnaes’ courageous departure from the Washington Post continue to appear, and DD Degg has links to several. This one is by Tjeerd Royaards, editor at Cartoon Movement, and that organization has released a statement on the situation which is worth a read, because it talks about the state of political […]