2024 Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award to Safiyya Hosein and Jonathan Najarian
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research…
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The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research…
Dick Tracy, Rubes, Blondie, James Bond, Gil Thorp, Tarzan, plus Tom Toro, Laura Eggleston retires, and more. Dick Tracy begins…
One hundred years ago in the pages of The New York Daily News … The world, or New York anyway,…
Fifty years ago today former football player Tank McNamara made his debut as a TV news sportscaster. Seven days later,…
Some of comics’ most iconic characters found their homes in these long-running comic strips, from Dick Tracy to Beetle Bailey….
100 years ago The San Francisco Bulletin ran a series featuring editorial cartoonists from across the nation. From The San…
Some editoons and editoonists not yet mentioned here. In Australia, where the Murdoch News Empire originated, cartoonist Mark David notes…
The British Dennis; Garfield the new comic book; deconstructing tents illustrated; the Luann Mystery Museum; Bill Watterson and Berkeley Breathed;…
After a troubled past, the comic strip not the character (well, maybe the character too), Alex Segura & Nickolej Villiger’s…
September 2024 will see two exhibits of illustrator Ralph Steadman‘s artwork opening. Upcoming exhibition of Ralph Steadman works spans six…
Long time St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial cartoonist Tom Engelhardt has passed away. Thomas Alexander (Tom) Engelhardt December 29, 1930 –…
Origins of the comic strip gutter?; MIckey Mouse’s Friends; More about Han Ola og han Per; Future Funnies; and pre-Tiger…
Newspapers From this past weekend’s Albany Times-Union: On April 4, 1924, the Times Union told its readers it had officially…
Bob Weber, Jr., he of Slylock Fox fame, and Gary Hallgren, he of Air Pirates Funnies fame, have been friends…
Tank McNamara cartoonist Bill Hinds to be honored. From the National Cartoonists Society: Bill Hinds will be presented with the…