The New Yorker’s annual Cartoons and Puzzles special issue is coming to your bookstore and newsstand shelves, or maybe to your mailbox. The Kate Beaton cover starts it off with a combination of cartoon and puzzle. And the New Yorker online contents page shows the special features (some shown above). Of course the famed New […]
Seems Insanity Streak had a contest I knew nothing about until it was over. My heartfelt thanks to all those who entered the 2024 Caption Contest. It was a lot of fun reading your delightful captions. This year’s contest involving cows in an art gallery contemplating a painting of a steak elicited many varied captions, […]
With Steve Breen, Georgia Dunn, Ralph Hulett, Hartley Lin, Jack Ohman, Rob Rogers, E. C. Segar, Scott Stantis, James Thurber, and more. SMERCOMICS raises 200K for Children’s Crisis Treatment Center From Michael Smerconish YouTube channel: Thank you to all who purchased Smercomics 2024. Last night I received copy No. 1, and handed over 100% of […]
Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud are co-chairs; Connie Zeigler on Brenda Starr and Dale Messick; Phil Witte – counsellor, cartoonist, critic; Barbara Shermund biographer Caitlin McGurk; Terry Laban – graphic novelist; Beginning: Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon. Telgemeier, McCloud chosen as National Library Week honorary chairs From the American Library Association: CHICAGO — Award-winning author and […]
That time Bill Watterson wrote Mike Lynch a letter Six months into Bill Watterson’s comic strip launch, I wrote him a letter. I asked probably what many people were asking: How do I do what you do? What’s the path? And then I suggested we meet. (I had learned he lived nearby. How I got […]
A bevy of New Yorker cartoonists turned out for the launch of Alen McWeeney and Michael Maslin’s new book At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker. And what better way to celebrate a book of photographs and profiles than with a collection of photos taken at the event by way of Michael Maslin’s Ink […]
Jim Borgman Winter cartoons, Michael Maslin profiles Linda Finck and Ed Steed, Selected 2025 Free Comic Book Comic Strip Comics, Hearst Magazines and Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz house for sale, WEBTOON $1 Million Comic Strip Contest, and a Sandra Boynton Christmas. A collection of Jim Borgman snow cartoons Prepare yourselves. Winter weather has arrived in […]
Ed Koren, Will Henry, Charles Schulz, Michelle Ann Abate, Mike Peterson, Paul Carmack, Wallace the Brave, Peanuts, Public Domain Popeye, Albert the Alligator; with the easiest comics quiz and one not so easy. A Visit to Planet Koren – a photo comic Paul Karasik joined James Sturm and Glynnis Fawkes who all paid a visit […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2024 release (or so).Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. This is it! The Complete Library of Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse is complete!! For […]
Mark Parisi and Kim Tomsic, Rockwell Kent, Sarah Anderson, Barbara Shermund, Dick Brooks, Stevan Dohanas, and Jef Mallett and the class of 2002. above: The Jackson Twins cartoonist and Saturday Evening Post cover model Dick Brooks The daughter of a cartoonist, Virginia Brooks describes her childhood in Westport, Connecticut, as “hilarious.” The Carefree artist spent […]
In every interview cartoonists are asked how they come up with all those ideas. The cartoonists reply with a generic club approved answer because you see, just like magicians, there is a code not to reveal cartooning secrets. Now Bob Eckstein reveals the most closely guarded secret of the cartoonists’ society to The New Yorker. […]
Armed with watercolors and a “passive-aggressive” sense of humor, the New Yorker cover illustrator finds the funny, even in ugly times. The New Yorker’s YouTube channel presents a wonderfully entertaining, self-effacing, humorous interview with “cartoonist and illustrator” Barry Blitt. Some of the best seven minutes you’ll spend today! Cartoonist Dave Coverly talks about the creative […]
Auctions featuring original comic and cartoon art and comic books. Occasionally a comic book collection of immense value goes public. Such is the case up Mike Peterson way. From Seven Days last month: Following the death in April of Vermont comic book retailer and collector Christine Farrell, her legendary collection is about to go up […]
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., closes Sunday, the 27th, giving you eight days to get there. Stockbridge is about two hours from Boston, two-and-a-half from New York City and less than an hour from Albany. I drove three hours to get there and it was […]
New Yorker cartoonists’ events and The New Gag Recap market summary is out. ‘Sunday Brunch at The Hawley Garage’ series opens with two cartoonists Barbara de Vries and The Hawley Garage announce the inaugural “Sunday Brunch at The Hawley Garage” event slated for Sunday, October 27 from 1 to 3 p.m. This gathering will feature […]