The New York Transit Museum is celebrating The New Yorker’s centennial with an exhibit called Commentary on the Commute: A Century of The New Yorker’s Transportation Cartoons that will open next week in the Museum’s Grand Central Gallery & Store. The exhibit will showcase cartoons and magazine covers from 57 artists. The exhibit highlights the […]
GoComics has set the date for when the new, improved site will rejigger itself. From a March 18 message to GoComics subscribers: We continue to put the finishing touches on the updated GoComics, and we have an official launch date: Tuesday, April 1! (No fooling.) GoComics Blog has also noted the relaunch date: Exciting news: […]
British cartoonist R.E. Burke has been released from US custody and returned to the UK last night. She spent three weeks in an immigration detention center in Tucoma, WA after she was turned away from entering Canada due to a visa mix-up and she tried to re-enter the US. A GoFundMe fundraiser was set up […]
The Albuquerque Journal is asking readers to choose a replacement for Phoebe and Her Unicorn on their comic strip page with this announcement: The cartoonist behind Phoebe and Her Unicorn is retiring [emphasis added]. The Journal has four options to replace this strip, and we want your input. These are the ones that are available […]
Telnaes points out that this isn’t the first self-betrayal in our history, and she could have gone back to the beginning of the nation and added the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which would seem particularly upsetting because they were written and passed in the lifetimes of the Founders. Then again, they were the […]