Pulitzer Prize Winning Vaughn Shoemaker Too
As Christianity’s most holy season approaches the Assembly of God celebrates the life of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning, and man…
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Women Cartoonists of The New Yorker Two
[Liza Donnelly’s] latest book, Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, publishes in March. In it, Donnelly continues telling…
The Day David Sipress Became a Cartoonist
David Sipress writes: In the fall of 1969, I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to quit graduate school at Harvard, where…
Comic Chronicles – Caricaturing Old Abe Lincoln
Despite the legendary status of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, neither were universally loved during their presidencies. The History Channel,…
Hey Kids! Comics! Books for Your Valentine
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through…
Comic Chronicles – Three Cartooning Aces
Syracuse University has Ray Thompson‘s Papers and the inventory includes a biography of the 20th Century cartoonist and writer: In…
Roundups and Updates
A reminder that the deadline for entries to the National Cartoonists Society’s Divisional Reuben Awards ends in three days –…
100 Years Ago – Major Hoople’s Grand Entrance
100 years ago this week Gene Ahern, in his Our Boarding House panel, started a sequence that would have a…
Tennessee School Board Bans Maus Graphic Novel
Southeast Tennessee’s McMinn County School Board has voted unanimously to ban Art Spiegelman‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus from every…
Ron Goulart, Comics Historian (Bibliography)
The Ron Goulart funeral home obituary is up. Mr. Goulart who was born in Berkeley, California was a widely recognized…
Comic Book Stuff – News About the Old
We don’t feature a lot of comic book news here – mostly because there are so many comic book news…
The Comic Strip Preservation Society
A Comic Chronicles Edition So much comics history. IF FAY KING HADN’T MARRIED A PRIZE FIGHTER named “Battling” Nelson, we’d…
The Art of Lettering Comics
Ginger Snappish offers a primer on comic lettering. Part 2 of The Art of Lettering Comics. Other blogs…
The Morning Chex-Press by Ron Goulart
The recent death of author Ron Goulart has brought up his early compositions for an advertising agency that had a…
First and Last: Alan Dunn and The New Yorker
Today Michael Maslin corrects a couple misconceptions that have taken hold about Alan Dunn and the cartoons he did for…