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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Strip Mining the Funny Pages
Dick Tracy, Rubes, Blondie, James Bond, Gil Thorp, Tarzan, plus Tom Toro, Laura Eggleston retires, and more. Dick Tracy begins…
A Classic’s Centennial: Little Orphan Annie
One hundred years ago in the pages of The New York Daily News … The world, or New York anyway,…
Retiring at 50? Not Tank McNamara
Fifty years ago today former football player Tank McNamara made his debut as a TV news sportscaster. Seven days later,…
A List: “15 Longest Running Comic Strips” – Naturally We Quibble and Correct
Some of comics’ most iconic characters found their homes in these long-running comic strips, from Dick Tracy to Beetle Bailey….
1924 Symposium by American Cartoonists
100 years ago The San Francisco Bulletin ran a series featuring editorial cartoonists from across the nation. From The San…
POW-litical Comics
Some editoons and editoonists not yet mentioned here. In Australia, where the Murdoch News Empire originated, cartoonist Mark David notes…
A Friday Funnies Free-For-All
The British Dennis; Garfield the new comic book; deconstructing tents illustrated; the Luann Mystery Museum; Bill Watterson and Berkeley Breathed;…
New Timetable for Time Keeper Mara Llave
After a troubled past, the comic strip not the character (well, maybe the character too), Alex Segura & Nickolej Villiger’s…
Ralph Steadman Exhibits, Here and Abroad
September 2024 will see two exhibits of illustrator Ralph Steadman‘s artwork opening. Upcoming exhibition of Ralph Steadman works spans six…
Tom Engelhardt – RIP
Long time St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial cartoonist Tom Engelhardt has passed away. Thomas Alexander (Tom) Engelhardt December 29, 1930 –…
Wayback Whensday Wonders
Origins of the comic strip gutter?; MIckey Mouse’s Friends; More about Han Ola og han Per; Future Funnies; and pre-Tiger…
Whatnot Wednesday Weirdness
Newspapers From this past weekend’s Albany Times-Union: On April 4, 1924, the Times Union told its readers it had officially…
Gary and Bob, Hägar’s Ghost Cartoonists – but mostly Gary
Bob Weber, Jr., he of Slylock Fox fame, and Gary Hallgren, he of Air Pirates Funnies fame, have been friends…
Bill Hinds is NCS Gold T-Square Recipient
Tank McNamara cartoonist Bill Hinds to be honored. From the National Cartoonists Society: Bill Hinds will be presented with the…