Heathcliff Cartoonist Peter Gallagher Opens the 2024 Season of PBS’ Comics Culture
The 2024 season of KPBS’ Comics culture has kicked off by interviewing Heathcliff cartoonist Peter Gallagher. Famed for weirdness, Peter…
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Books: Bushmiller, Brown, Burning
Bill Griffith’s Fancy for Nancy Bill Griffith‘s graphic biography of Ernie Bushmiller Three Rocks will be released next month. So…
Pearls and Pastis: Road to Spokane
Pearls Before Swine comic strip creator Stephan Pastis is returning to Spokane, Wash. and The Spokesman-Review is celebrating the imminent…
A Talk with Darrin Bell About The Talk
Darrin Bell’s The Talk reaches bookstore shelves on Tuesday June 6 (though it is already on the shelf at my…
Syracuse JumpStarted Robb Armstrong’s Career
Philadelphia native and cartoonist Robb Armstrong has been making waves and history his entire career. He created his comic strip…
And In The End – Tom Batiuk on Funky Winkerbean
What started as the humorous misadventures of the teens from Westview High School eventually morphed into a serialized drama tackling…
Harry Bliss Considers Retiring. Possibly. Someday.
Harry Bliss is ready to retire. At least, he might be. Maybe. Sitting across from a crackling woodstove in the…
Meet Macanudo Cartoonist Liniers
Ricardo Siri Liniers was born on November 15th, 1973, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [T]he comic artist…owes his fame to the…
Thank God It’s Funniesday
Batiuk Does the Time Warp Again Tom Batiuk begins to bring the Funkyverse and the Crankyverse into sync as Funky…
New Jules Feiffer Interview
The above art by Jules Feiffer is from a September 2022 edition of Dan’s Papers, but the interview conducted by…
October Extra! Cartoonists in the News
Liz Montague! Elizabeth Montague is a cartoonist and author known online as “Liz at Large” or simply Liz Montague. She…
The Vermont Conversation with Ed Koren
“I love to draw, it’s as much draftsmanship as it is storytelling, and it’s as much character delineation as anything…
Sergio Aragonés: MAD’s Oldest Active Idiot
… Aragonés contributed to a special edition of MAD, publishing Tuesday, that marks the magazine’s 70th anniversary. The special edition…
Screening Cartoonists
Tom Toles is the most decorated journalist in the history of Buffalo news media. He cut his teeth as an…
Summer’s Last Roundup
Some stray news items from the end of Summer 2022. The New Improved NCS Divisional Award Rich Powell compares his…