74th Reubens – Patrick McDonnell Will Be Honored With The Elzie Segar Award
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell will receive The Elzie Segar Award at the 2020…
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First and Last – James Thurber & The New Yorker
James Thurber‘s first drawings appeared in the The New Yorker dated ninety years ago today. In the New Yorker issue…
74th Reubens: Gold T-Square to G. B. Trudeau
The National Cartoonists Society is noting that Garry B. Trudeau will be presented the Society’s the Gold T-Square. From NCS…
Bil Canfield – RIP
Editorial and sports cartoonist Bil Canfield has passed away. William Newton (Bil) Canfield October 8, 1920 – January 30, 2020…
2020 Eisner Hall of Fame Judge’s Choices (and Nominees): Nell Brinkley and E. Simms Campbell
The 2020 Judges’ Choices for automatic inclusion into the Eisner Hall of Fame are Nell Brinkley and E. Simms Campbell….
John Romita Senior now a Senior Stripper
Happy Birthday John Romita, born January 24, 1930. John now becomes a member of our Senior Strippers Club. John is…
[Pay] Only What’s Necessary
Only What’s Necessary, Chip Kidd’s second look at Peanuts materials is now at two-thirds off its $40 cover price over…
“Feiffer On Nixon” in the Trump Era
“It’s déjà vu all over again.” – Yogi Berra So Michael Tisserand took 1974’s Feiffer On Nixon down from…
When Paul Conrad Forgot the Caption
Among the Giants of Editorial Cartooning in the last half of the 20th Century and into the 21st was Paul…
Oliphant: “Being a Cartoonist is a Great Privilege”
In 2018 the great editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant donated a great deal of his papers to the University of Virginia….
Webster’s Bridge (1924) – New Paperback Edition
Nat Gertler and About Comics have reissued the 1924 Webster’s Bridge book, originally published by Frederick A. Stokes. Bleeding Cool…
Buy Gerald Scarfe Art
From the Livingston Ledger: An image of the Duke of Cambridge leap-frogging over his father the Prince of Wales [#39]…
Buy Ranan Lurie’s Home
As Mansion Global says: Ranan Lurie couldn’t have drawn a more perfect view from his 63rd-floor Manhattan apartment, which serves…
Al Jaffee Hands Fold-In Off to Johnny Sampson
Johnny Sampson notes: I did the “Special Edition MAD 20 Fold-In”, out this week! Some of you know this but…
Willie and Joe and World War 3 (Mauldin, 1951)
Here’s the story in a nutshell. In May, 1952, after the Russian invasion of Yugoslavia, the principal United Nations countries…