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Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2024 release. Images and links from a variety of…
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Miss Cellany Tours the British Isles
First stop is Galway Ireland where she will return in a few months for The Galway Cartoon Festival. According to…
Buy Steinberg’s Hampton Home For $4.1M
Illustrator/cartoonist Saul Steinberg‘s home is on the market. An East Hampton home once owned by renowned American artist Saul Steinberg…
Wayback Whensday – I Was Just A Child Then
Among the newly added journals at newspapers.com is a 10 month run from May 1880 to February 1881 of The…
Wayback Whensday – The Berenstains
Stan and Jan Berenstain, the Philly natives who created [The Berenstain Bears], met as art students at the Philadelphia Museum and School…
John Adcock – RIP
Comics scholar and illustrator John Adcock has passed away. John Kenneth Adcock May 1950 – June 1, 2024 From the…
Robert Grossman, Steve Brodner Inducted into Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
Illustrators and caricaturists Robert Grossman and Steve Brodner are numbered among the 2024 inductees into the Society of Illustrators Hall…
Getting Down by Rounding Up
A hodgepodge of recent comic related items featuring Jules Feiffer, David Potter, the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, Ed Steckley, Joel…
The Trump Hush Money Sketch Artists
Raw Story reports on a Rolling Stone article: Former President Donald Trump is enraged about how he looks in the…
Frank Renlie – RIP
Cartoonist, illustrator, and painter Frank Renlie has passed away. Frank Hanson Renlie April 17, 1936 – September 10, 2023 From…
Free-For-All Friday
Ruben Bolling tells us that a comic strip he produces under a pseudonym has ended. From his newsletter: It is…
Courtroom Sketch a Hit With Anti-Trumpers
Recent sketches by courtroom artist Christine Cornell showing the latest Donald Trump appearance in the New York fraud case against…
Miss Cellany Visits Jan U. Airy and Meets…
Michael Maslin, Sandra Boynton, Dishonest John, and others. Michael Maslin has a fun, short essay about Fridays for New Yorker…
A Bicentennial Visit From St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas visits George Scarbo, Walt Kelly, Bill Elder, Jim Davis, and, because you were nice, Walt Kelly again. ‘Twas…
Once Upon a Whatnot Wednesday
‘Tis the season. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, and Comics Kingdom is decking the halls with a special Holiday…