App Store Cuts Into Creator Patreon Pay
From Dean Simons at The Comics Beat: Apple has caused consternation in the creative space as it requires Patreon –…
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Support Your Local (or Distant) Cartoonist
If you are a lover of the medium, please consider supporting a couple of your favorite artists. As staff positions…
Breaking Cat News/How Comics Were Made: the Comic Strip, the Book, the Interview
As the Breaking Cat News comic strip approaches its 10th anniversary the comic’s creator Georgia Dunn sits down on March…
Cartoonist Bill Messner-Loebs Fundraiser
Bill Messner-Loebs’s work in comics was beloved by fans for many years, but the circumstances of his life—illness and injuries—have…
Triumph and Tragedy and Things
2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Winners The Beat and The Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to reveal the winners…
John Kovalic – Cartooning For Ukraine
Cartoonist John Kovalic is best known for Dork Tower and Apples to Apples. Recently John cartooned a Ukraine related drawing…
NCS Auction Raises $54K for St. Jude’s Children
Helping to clobber kid’s cancer the National Cartoonists Society raised $54,000 last Fall with a Heritage Auctions event selling original…
J. P. Trostle Needs a Hand – Literally
Caption: Even though my hand doctor assures me the image of a skull in my MRI is an optical illusion,…
NCS Auction for The Benefit of St. Jude’s Children
Beginning on October 27th and running through November 3rd of this year, the National Cartoonists Society and the NCS Foundation…
Roast Cartoonist – Fitz on a Spit
From Blog for Arizona: David Fitzsimmons is the cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star. He will be roasted by former…
Comic Strip Cartoonists in the News
June Brigman, former Brenda Starr and Power Pack cartoonist, is the current cartoonist of Mary Worth, and also, it seems,…
Stock Up for The Fourth, Bring Your Own Bagley
Journalism and beer. Beer and journalism. Philosophically, the two pair just about as good as anything. To that end, Fisher…
Bunny Matthews Crowd Funder for Final Costs
New Orleans alternative cartoonist and music critic Bunny Matthews has decided to discontinue cancer treatment and entered hospice. His family…
They’re Doing It, You Too Can Help Bob Wiacek
From ComicsBeat: It seems Wildstorm editor Scott Dunbier found an unpublished script by Moore for Gen 13 annual a while…
Bill Plympton’s SLIDE Kickstarter
Famed animator Bill Plympton has three days to raise $40,000 for his independent animated feature. As a kid growing up…