Bottorff’s ComicBack© Checklist Updated for 2020
Last week you heard, and maybe saw, the fireworks going off, but you were probably mistaken about the cause. It…
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Cartoonist Profiles and Cartoonews
MONTAGUE: Yeah. I had emailed just, like, the general New Yorker email from the Instagram account and had said, hey,…
A ‘Cartoon Caption Contest’ Contest
It started with Michael Gerber of The American Bystander asking a question. Michael Maslin‘s Ink Spill passed the question to…
Phil Hirsch – RIP
Cartoon editor and humor and gag writer Phil Hirsch has passed away. Philip (Phil) Hirsch August 18, 1926 – January…
Red, White, Black and Blue: Documenting America’s Racial Illiteracy – A Keith Knight Presentation
Knight’s talk was both autobiographical and a chance to comment on society through his art. Knight, who grew up in…
Hey Kids! Comics! Book Love
Seems Dennis is right: I love books. The problem is that my book-buying habit outpaces my ability to read them….
Hey Kids! Comics! Read Comics, Get Smarter
Language experts have been studying the act of reading comics and its effect on the brain, and they have arrived…
NCS Divisional Reuben Awards 2019 Call for Entries
December 20, 2019 Letter from the National Cartoonists Society calling for submissions. Note that membership is not a requirement to…
Hey Kids! Comics! For Under the Tree
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
‘Tis the Season for Calendars
This calendar year ends and another begins in less than a month, and calendars are selling! The Dilbert Day-to-Day Desk…
CSotD: Earlybird Special
Frazz brings back a memory: Back when I used to visit classrooms to teach media literacy, my offer to teachers…
CSotD: Back to Basics
I don’t know if Paul Berge considers this a cartoon or if he just posted it on his page to…
CSotD: What’s New?
Mo is content to put up her feet and gobble popcorn (go read the whole thing here), but her creator…
Classics Cartooned
Forget Classics Illustrated, let’s read Classics Cartooned. I’m Katie, and I’ve been drawing single-panel cartoons for the past eight years….
Centenarian Veteran and Cartoonist Honored
Ernie Poignant was born a few months after the end of World War 1, which made him of age to…