The Sunday Social Session
Art Spiegelman artwork © Art Spiegelman In the age-old discussion about when comics finally “grew up” Maus is often exhibit…
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Bob Weber, Sr. – RIP
Comic strip and magazine cartoonist Bob Weber, Sr. has passed away. Robert P. (Bob) Weber, Sr. June 26, 1934 –…
Hey Kids! Comics! Autumn Almanac
Macanudo © Liniers, distributed by King Features Syndicate Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October…
Paul F. Gray Joins the Senior Strippers Club
A(nother) belated notice that Paul Frank Gray is now a dues-paying member of the Senior Strippers club. We wish the…
Meet The(se) Saturday Evening Post Cartoonists
In 2011 The Saturday Evening Post ran a series of profiles/mini-interviews with a baker’s dozen of their cartoonists with sample…
Charles Preston – RIP
Wall Street Journal cartoon editor Charles Preston has passed away. Charles M. PrestonNovember 6, 1921 – October 2, 2020 …
74th Annual Reuben Awards/2020 NCSFest Lineup
The National Cartoonist Society has released its schedule for the September 12, 2020 NCSFest and Reuben Awards. Streaming broadcast…
Jason Chatfield: International Cartooning Socialite
President of National Cartoonists Society, New Yorker and Ginger Meggs cartoonist, stand-up comedian, former president of the Australian Cartoonists Association,…
How About Never- Revised(Adam) & Revisited(Bob)
Editorial cartoonists often take universally recognizable images and twist them into a useful satirical drawing for sarcastic and humorous purposes….
Magazine Cartoonists Going the Way of The Dodo? – update
July 23: The dearth of magazines buying gag cartoons does not bode well. ‘Nightmare!’ is how The Spectator’s cartoon editor…
Bottorff’s ComicBack© Checklist Updated for 2020
Last week you heard, and maybe saw, the fireworks going off, but you were probably mistaken about the cause. It…
Henry Martin – RIP
Magazine cartoonist Henry Martin has passed away. Henry Read MartinJuly 15, 1925 – June 30, 2020 Excerpted from daughters…
Peter Kuper’s Little Donald’s Sneeze (An Homage to Winsor McCay)
Back in the first decade of the 20th century cartooning genius Winsor McCay did a number of strips about dreams….
Playboy Ends Print Edition
After its Spring 2020 issue Playboy magazine will stop printing regular editions in the U.S. “We have decided that our…
First and Last – James Thurber & The New Yorker
James Thurber‘s first drawings appeared in the The New Yorker dated ninety years ago today. In the New Yorker issue…