Herblock Prize Deadline Now February 5
The Herblock Foundation has extended the deadline for accepting submissions. Cartoonists now have until February 5, 2024 to get submissions…
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Free-For-All Friday
Ruben Bolling tells us that a comic strip he produces under a pseudonym has ended. From his newsletter: It is…
Henry Barajas New NCS L.A. Chapter Prez and the Reuben Divisional Awards Deadline
HENRY BARAJAS VOLUNTEERS AS PRESIDENT OF THE LOS ANGELES CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL CARTOONISTS SOCIETY Los Angeles, CA – Thursday,…
Newspaper Triples its Sunday Funnies
Here is what we need more of – a newspaper ADDING to its weekend color comics section. The Danville (Illinois)…
Wayback Wednesday: Schulz Books 1952-74
Early Peanuts First Editions The definitive guide to identifying early [first edition] Peanuts strip reprint softcovers and hardcovers, published…
McClatchy Standard Comics Pages Update
It’s been three years since we first reported on McClatchy standardizing the comics pages in all their papers. Since that…
Wallace the Brave and Garfield Return – Separated by 45 Years
The Providence Journal gave notice that Will Henry’s Wallace the Brave comic strip returned to the newspaper on Monday January…
Wash. Times: G. B. Trudeau Has a Severe Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome
If the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, used by psychiatrists, were to officially recognize Trump Derangement Syndrome as…
Comic Strip Notes and Nods
Partnering with the old man. Let’s start with not a comic strip. Kidtown, a puzzle and activity feature written and…
Rick Detorie Retires One Big Happy?
January 29 will begin the fifth week of One Big Happy in rerun mode. Has Rick Detorie retired the comic…
Alex Cook – RIP
Editorial cartoonist Alex Burns Cook has passed away. Alexander Burns (Alex) Cook February 1, 1926 – January 25, 2024 Editorial…
The Lockhorns No Longer Available to Longview (Tx) News-Journal Readers
QUESTION: What happened to Leroy and Loretta in the Sunday comics? They were my favorites and I miss them. Thank…
And Now Wick Communications Standardizes Their Comics Pages
Wick Communications, a media group with 24 newspapers mostly west of The Mississippi, will be consolidating their comics pages beginning…
Phil Bissell – RIP
Sports and editorial cartoonist Phil Bissell has passed away. Charles Phillip (Phil) Bissell February 1, 1926 – January 2024 The…
Cartoonists Around The World
Out and about with Posy Simmonds, Bill Griffith, Gilbert Shelton, Walt Handelsman, Willard Mullin, Sarah Anderson, Alex Segura, Michael Moreci,…