A Little Song, A Little Dance (Cartoonists)
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Guilford College’s Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR) program is receiving more national recognition. Only this time the attention is coming from an unexpected source: a comic strip.
Josh Neufeld, a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times, published a comic strip earlier this month in The Boston Globe that tells the story of ECAR’s founding and mission.
Guilford College proudly relays the news of a half page-formatted comic strip by Josh Neufeld that appeared in The Boston Globe promoting the Every Campus A Refuge program that started on their home turf.
The Pope’s passing, coupled with the lingering effects of the Trump Administration’s restrictions on refugee admissions, sparked an idea for Josh. “It felt like the right moment to share this story,” he says.
Still with religious service for a moment, I recent came across cartoonist Kevin Beckstrom who does a weekly panel for Meridian Magazine of The Church of Latter Day Saints and has been doing so for going on 15 years..
Kevin Beckstrom is a native of Salt Lake City, served a mission in Korea and is a graduate of BYU. Beckstrom has been publishing cartoons since he was 16, and his work has appeared in numerous newsletters, trade publications, newspapers and magazines. He has drawn several cartoon strips, including two that currently run as webcomics: Zarahemla Times and Good Heavens, both of which have garnered fans from around the world.
Magazines
The new issue of The New Cartoonist is out, a British publication.
As is the Spring 2025 issue of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society.
From The Comic Studies Society’s Facebook page:
Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society is Eisner nominated!
Please consider voting for Inks for Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism.
In honor of this recognition, Inks Issue 8.3, a special issue centered on Indigenous Comics, guest edited by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins and Jeremy Carnes, will be open to everyone through June 6th. Please check it out here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53356
Books
The biggest-selling graphic novel of 2025 will be either Dog Man: Big Jim Believes or Asterix In Lusitiana. But the first will tend towards the USA, the second towards France.
Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool reviews the American book.
Not in any danger of giving Dog Man or Asterix a run for their #1 position but recommended all the same:
For those who didn’t get the Kickstarter edition of How Comics WERE Made by Glenn Fleishman comes this new edition How Comics ARE Made.
Long before Glenn Fleishman was a technology columnist for outlets like The Seattle Times (2000-13) and Macworld, before he wrote books, before he was a two-time “Jeopardy!” champion, he was a kid who loved comics. He read collections of old comic strips at the library and devoured decades of back issues on newspaper microfilm machines.
As an adult, a chance eBay find — a 1973 “Doonesbury” printing mold — made Fleishman investigate comic strip production. He uncovers an almost-forgotten golden age and explores the beauty that exists today in “How Comics Are Made” (out June 3 from Andrews McMeel Publishing [link added]).
Rebekah Denn for The Seattle Times interviews “How Comics Are Made” author Glenn Fleishman.
Tell me about your research.
This book took me to a few different countries, but the primary place I went to was the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio … the preeminent comic library research center in the world. I spent many, many hours at Billy Ireland, but I also went to a number of other institutions.
I also was very lucky: A number of cartoonists I contacted let me come to their studios and talk to them. They showed me their working methods. Bill Griffith opened his archives to me. For a lot of cartoonists and a lot of research institutions, no one had ever said, “Tell me about this aspect (of your work)” or “What do you got?” That opened a lot of doors.
Roundtable Video
From The Independent Ink comes a roundtable discussion hosted by Mr. Fish (Dwayne Booth) with cartoonists Ann Telnaes, Steve Brodner, and Keith “Keef” Knight.
What happens when four cartoonists get together to discuss art, activism, culture, and politics without the help of visual aids? THIS is what happens – enjoy the show!
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