New to Comics Kingdom: Working Cats
Cartoonist Maritsa Patrinos, Friday’s Child for Six Chix, is giving us a new weekly comic strip at Comics Kingdom. Working…
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In Spite of What You Read Gasoline Alley, Mary Worth, and The Phantom Continue
San Marcos Daily Record columnist Jerry Hall opens his Sunday column about Peanuts reminiscing: Let us depart from topics of…
No More Spectickles (Belated Notice)
Bill Abbott is no longer creating new Spectickles panels for syndication. The last new panel was issued on December 16,…
The Resurrection of The Bad Cartoonist?
It seems The Bad Cartoonist has resurfaced. Who? You might ask. For those who weren’t around then, and for those…
Cartoonists in the News
Jeff Smith, David Fitzsimmons, Raymond Briggs, Lalo Alcaraz, Alex Portal, Jake Tapper Jeff Smith has a Bone to pitch Jeff…
NALC/USPS Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive
Saturday May 11, 2024 is Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive. Each year, letter carriers across the country head…
Robert Grossman, Steve Brodner Inducted into Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
Illustrators and caricaturists Robert Grossman and Steve Brodner are numbered among the 2024 inductees into the Society of Illustrators Hall…
Clay Passes Lou; Sets Sights on Cal
Major League Baseball notes: On June 1, 1925, Lou Gehrig played in the first of what would be 2,130 consecutive…
Of Comic Strips, Garfield and Mike Peterson
Garfield, FurBabies, Calvin and Hobbes, Bliss/Not Bliss/Bob Mankoff Presents, The K Chronicles, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Popeye, caption contests, and…
Greg Kearney, Midwest Socialist Cartoonist
Kearney grew up in a radical FDR New Deal household in New Sharon, Maine, a town of 1,400 people. He…
Clay Bennett is 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Ten days after The Chattanooga Times Free Press celebrated their cartoonist Clay Bennett winning the National Headliner Award they are…
Medar de la Cruz Wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Medar de la Cruz, contributor to The New Yorker, has been awarded the 2024 Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Pulitzer Prize…
More Past Week Comics This Week
Before we get too far away some more comments on yesterday’s and last week’s comics. It didn’t take long for…
25 Years of National Cartoonists Days
It’s the Silver Anniversary of National Cartoonists Day! As News18 tells it: During World War II in 1943, cartoonists including…
Books, Comic and Otherwise – Mostly Comic
Mad Cave has signed a deal with King Features to publish new comic book stories starring Flash Gordon. The partnership…