More than half a century before Aaron McGruder’s first introduced The Boondocks as a comic strip (and later television series) and decades before the biting social commentary found in Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury and Berke Breathed’s Bloom County, cartoonist and essayist Oliver W. Harrington set a standard for Black readers, combining his signature wit with incisive […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. The Life and Art of Mort Walker by Bill Janocha Mort Walker, the “Dean of […]
Charles Schulz was probably the most adored cartoonist ever and his Peanuts comic strip more loved than any other. Twenty-five years ago we lost both of them. Peanuts ending was front page news above the fold. Of newspapers not carrying the story on page one most that carried the strip at least had a notice […]
The New Yorker has published its 100th Anniversary Issue (scroll down at that link!). The Centennial Issue, dated February 17 & 24, 2025, comes with the original Rea Irvin cover and 5 variants. A highlight is Seth‘s four page illustrated appreciation of cartoonist Rea Irvin. Michael Maslin heralds the issue and notes other highlights: There […]
Over the course of his nearly 80-year career, Jules Feiffer tried his hand at everything–comic books, political cartoons, editorials, comics history, plays, films, animation, children’s books, graphic novels … and he was hard at work on his next book when he passed away on Jan. 17, just shy of his 96th birthday. In celebration of […]
Today’s Cartoonist’s Cartoonists is Matt Golding. Matt is an Australian editorial cartoonist whose work appears in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He’s won multiple Stanley Awards – his first award for single gag cartoonist was in 2005 and he kept winning that category through 2010. He’s won the award twice more in 2016 and […]
The death of famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer was international news. But we would like to recommend those obituaries prepared and issued by the comics community. Jules Feiffer mastered every major narrative art form of the 20th century — comic strips (Feiffer), theater (Little Murders), cinema (Carnal Knowledge), novels (Harry the Rat with Women), graphic novels […]
Cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer has passed away. Jules Ralph Feiffer January 26, 1929 – January 17, 2025 The Washington Post is reporting the death of Jules Feiffer. Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author who was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his generation, died Jan. […]
Pedro X. Molina has spent more than 20 years drawing political cartoons skewering Nicaragua’s dictatorship and government. In 2018 the government hit back. After police killed one journalist, jailed two others, and pillaged the Confidencial’s offices, Pedro and his family were forced to flee his home country. With the assistance of Ithaca City of Asylum, […]
Ed Koren, Rob Tornoe, Ed Steckley, Barry Blitt, and George Metzger. See Anyone You Know? The New Yorker Cartoons and Covers of Edward Koren Olivia Hoffman of Ohio State’s The Lantern talks to Jenny Robb of The Billy Ireland Library and Museum and to Cartoonist James Sturm who is curating the Museum’s See Anyone You […]
Schulz, the man who birthed the lovably hard-luck Charlie Brown, was known to have wrestled with self-doubt. Yet when it came to taking the reins of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in 1965, the “Peanuts” creator was a thinker of unwavering confidence and cool-headed belief, his longtime screen collaborator and late producer Lee Mendelson — who […]
SuprDee Parson, Jack Davis, Bill Watterson, Liz Climo. Plus notable comic strip compilations for 2024 and an animation In Memorial for those we lost in 2024. ANDERSON, Ind. — The bonds and rivalries of three sisters are the focus of a comic strip that is now syndicated in newspapers around the country. The comic behind […]
Feiffer: Well, when I was young, it didn’t much matter what I thought, because I was scared of my shadow, and I wouldn’t have done anything about anything. Kuper: Which brings me back to my question. You came from that, and then you end up in a profession that is the most extreme example of […]
Alex Hallatt, a U.K. cartoonist based in New Zealand, graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a degree in biochemistry and has never strayed far from science. Her syndicated comic strip Arctic Circle, follows three penguins who migrate to the Arctic and provide commentary on environmental and social issues, debuted in newspapers in […]
A Charlie Brown Christmas – year 59. Next year will not only be the 75th anniversary of Peanuts debut on October 2, 1950 it will also be the 60th year since A Charlie Brown Christmas first appeared on December 9, 1965. Of course times have changed and your opportunity to view the Peanuts special free […]