With Steve Breen, Wayno, Glenn Fleishman, Ruben Bolling, Paul Robinson, and Jimmy Johnson. By Appointment Only – A migrant family waits for the chance of safety in the United States. At inewsource Sofía Mejías-Pascoe reports on a family seeking safety; in a sidebar Steve Breen illustrates it. Update: Apparently Mike Peterson entered the high bids […]
These past decades have seen pro sports fans around the country spurned by the teams they support and cheer when owners of sports franchises see shinier, brighter, newer things elsewhere – well, Money Talks. Oakland, California has been especially hard hit lately. Five years ago, after nearly 50 years in Oakland the Golden State Warriors […]
1814 Surrender of Alexandria, Amtrak across America, Page One-above the fold Cartoonist Profile, Letterer Appreciation Day, Cartoonists for ,la. Prominent Alexandrians saw how British forces burned Washington, D.C. on Aug. 24, 1814. Although the War of 1812 had started two years earlier, the war came home to residents of Alexandria in 1814, when our city […]
Drew Friedman, Gary Varvel, KC Green, Karl Christian Krumpholz, Harvey J. Kaye and Matt Strackbein The Faces of Caricature Humans love to “make faces.” As children we learn that sad faces produce sympathy, angry faces produce fear, kind faces produce trust, and funny faces produce laughs. This quality is central to Friedman’s brand of representation, […]
Vermont’s alternative newspaper Seven Days has released its annual Cartoon Issue. This year’s special comic features includes efforts by Mary Ann Lickteig and Clover Ajamie, Hannah Feuer and Kristen Shull, Ken Picard and Dan Nott, Steve Goldstein and Ezra Veitch. Also articles about Vermont’s Center for Cartoon Studies heading to Ireland, Burlington’s Intervale Center installing […]
‘Tis the season. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, and Comics Kingdom is decking the halls with a special Holiday Collection that’ll make your spirits zing faster than sleigh bells on Christmas Eve! The Comics Kingdom Shop has an assortment of ornaments, mugs, posters, and clothing with Holiday themes. ********** It is also the season […]
Since it’s release in the Summer of 2023 The Talk by Darrin Bell has garnered nothing but praise. Lately it has been making the end of the year lists. Named one of Publishers Weekly‘s Top Ten Best Books of 2023. …a powerful and moving portrait of the experiences of racism across generations One of TIME […]
It began with Kayliegh McEnany, former spokeswoman and still disciple of Donald Trump, in her current role as a Fox TV talking head, being unhappy with the courtroom sketch of her leader: Asked about what advice she would give him during the trial, she said: “Keep doing what he’s doing. Look, I would advise him […]
Know, O children, that there was a time when coffee tables across the nation were covered with magazines – Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Companion, True, Look, Reader’s Digest. Field & Stream, and so many others – and those magazines carried a dozen or so gag cartoons in each and every issue. It was an […]
Matt Bors sent a message that though The Nib is in a state of suspended animation the cartoonists who contributed to the magazine and website remain actively cartooning and need reader support to continue. From Matt’s email: The Nib may have ended, but our cartoonists carry on. This email is so you can follow and […]
Matt Bors, editor and publisher of The Nib, sent a message this morning: Tomorrow is the final day of publishing for The Nib. We have a blowout planned with more comics than we have ever published in a single day. That seemed like the only proper way to do it. Thank you for reading our […]
The Washington Post recently published an illustrated report about a group of Filipinos that went to the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis to be put on display as part of an exhibit of United States expansionism. It was drawn by Philippines native Ren Galeno. Galeno was behind the evocative illustrations for the Washington Post’s […]
The Nib magazine free! Simon and Schuster books $1.62 billion! New Bloom County comic strips! Peanuts merch! The Addams Family versus The Simpsons Family! The Nib is offering, through August 2023, free downloads of all 15 issues of The Nib magazine. The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the […]
The end of August will see the end of The Nib. But you can still give some love to The Nib cartoonists. Before The Nib closes down at the end of August, we are putting our sticker packs back on sale in the store one last time. We have a 5 pack featuring a Nib […]
Seven Days presents their 11th Annual Cartoon Issue! From Seven Days editor Dan Bolles: Seven Days prides itself on being a writers’ newspaper. That is, a publication that devotes as much energy and resources into the craft of writing as it does into sourcing, reporting and all other aspects of news gathering. How we tell […]