From The Adirondack Daily Enterprise: SARANAC LAKE — “Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s button and poster designs for the 2025 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival have been revealed and are now on sale at numerous places around town. The buttons and posters were created along this year’s Carnival theme, “Music Legends” and feature members of his comic […]
Featuring Bianca Xunise, Chip Beck, Alan Hardman, Eli Valley, Patrick McDonnell, Herblock, Larry Todd, Matt Wuerker, Ann Telnaes, Michael Ramirez, Pedro Molina, Vladimir Kazanevsky and Rachita Taneja. Bianca Xunise is the Ignatz Award-winning author of comics including GothThrob, Imaginary Boyfriends, Keep Out, and Say Her Name. She is one of the authors of the daily […]
There was a big cartooning event in Washington DC today I knew nothing about until it was over. The Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship at Syracuse University held an event featuring editorial cartoonists Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist and illustrator, POLITICO; Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist, The Washington Post; Michael Ramirez, editorial cartoonist, Las Vegas Review-Journal; […]
A Calvin and Hobbes Happy Meal? A Smithsonian History of MAD. Professor Alison Bechdel! Peanuts Library Cards. The CXC Festival. And a Calvin And Hobbes Reading Guide. A Calvin and Hobbes Happy Meal? Cartoonist Jim Engel has rediscovered a late 1980s proposal of his for a McDonalds Happy Meal set of toys featuring Bill Watterson’s […]
The Baldo comic strip, co-created by Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos, is recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month by featuring Latino guest artists for the strip’s five Sunday comics being published between September 15 and October 15. “There are tons of creative, talented artists who never get a chance to be a part of the funny pages,” […]
Ruben Bolling, Georgia Dunn, Keith Knight, and dozens of more cartoonists; plus Dogs of C-Kennel, Lola, Shifts, Crabgrass, and the missing Vintage Apartment 3-G. Ruben Bolling, who has drawn and written his intricate, incisive, shape-shifting weekly cartoon “Tom the Dancing Bug” for more than three decades, works best under the pressure of a deadline. “Years […]
Peanuts and Halloween have become inextricably linked by way of The Great Pumpkin. Now… Visitors to corn mazes across the country are finding a familiar and joyous figure in the winding labyrinth of tall stalks. Snoopy. More than 80 farms in the U.S. and Canada have teamed up with Peanuts Worldwide to create “Peanuts”-themed mazes […]
WASHINGTON – The United States Mint is pleased to announce a historic collaboration with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products to launch a new collectible coin and medal series celebrating comic book art as a uniquely American artform, featuring DC comic book characters and art. This unprecedented initiative marks the first time the Mint has […]
Keith Knight! Brian Fies! Sergio Aragonés! Al Jaffee! Lalo Alcaraz! Keefer Got The Key! From Keith Knight: Holy smokes! One pleasant surprise that I made reference to in this week’s strip [link added] was the mayor of my hometown showed up to my slideshow and gave me the key to the city! I can now […]
Highlights from the Collection of Jules Feiffer Later this month Swann Auction Galleries is presenting art for bid from cartoonists and illustrators from the fields of magazines, comic strips, animation, newspapers, ads, and much much more (320 lots); at least some of which come from the Jules Feiffer collection. Jun 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM […]
A VIP tour of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, a look at The Nancy Show, and a report on NancyFest 2024. Jason Chatfield, The Former Guy at the National Cartoonists Society (thus inclusion as part of the NCS VIP tour), presents a travelogue of his recent trip(s) to Columbus Ohio. NancyFest 2024 was […]
Ernie Bushmiller, John Kascht and Bill Watterson, Steve Brodner, Drew Friedman, Jack Davis, Georgia Dunn, Maurice Sendak, Steve Breen and Grant Oliphant, John Rose, Bill Amend, Marcus Hamilton, Joe Staton, Alex Saviuk, June Brigman and Roy Richardson Steve Breen and Grant Oliphant inewsource event June 2, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. – Comic-Con Museum Join […]
“Wallace the Brave” shines a light on the things that make Rhode Island … well, Rhode Island. “It’s unapologetically Rhode Island,” said Will Henry, the creator of the “Wallace the Brave” comic strip, Wednesday night at a special event hosted by The Providence Journal at Maury Loontjens Memorial Library in Narragansett. From Goat Island to Potters […]
A hodgepodge of recent comic related items featuring Jules Feiffer, David Potter, the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, Ed Steckley, Joel Priddy, William Hennessy, Allan (Sols) Salisbury. HarperCollins Publishers has announced the forthcoming publication of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer Jules Feiffer’s first graphic novel created for young readers. Amazing Grapes is scheduled for publication on […]
The National Cartoonists Society will have a booth at the Chicago Comic & Enterrtainment Expo on April 26 – 28. If you are in Chicago this weekend visit NCS member cartoonists at Booth 848. Several members of the NCS will be tabling over the weekend, including: Brian Gordon, George Gant, Harold Bucholz, Dee Fish, Johnny […]