2023 Awards Await – Deadlines Differ
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has posted their 2023 list of major national journalism awards given to cartoonists. …
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Another Quentin Blake Honor = Senior Stripper
Famed British illustrator Sir Quentin Blake has many honors – as detailed in his entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia: Throughout…
CSotD: I won’t ask, I won’t ask, I won’t ask …
What the hell were you thinking? Oh, wait. I wasn’t going to ask that. It’s never helpful and it assumes…
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…
CSotD: Peace to Men of Good Will, if you can find them
(Pearls Before Swine) (Pat Bagley) Pastis and Bagley make an understandable, but fatal error: They assume Elon Musk accidentally…
Hey Kids! Comics! Books From Last Month and This
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
CSotD: This time it’s personal again
I’ve long thought that “This Time It’s Personal” should have been a category in Jumping the Shark, a point at…
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…
New Yorker Xmas Issue Honors Booth and Lorenz
George Booth, who died last month, and Lee Lorenz, who passed earlier this month, were honored by The New Yorker…
CSotD: Mixed, and mixed-up, messages
Wiley Miller is notably unimpressed with social media, so today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) is no surprise, though for someone who…
Day By Dave by Dave (New GoComics Comic)
Dave Whamond, of Reality Check and editorial cartooning fame, has developed another comic panel. From Dave’s Twitter feed: Day By…
GoComics Announces Site Update for Fall 2023
Two weeks after a major disruption to the site, and the day when that complication led to a week of…
Conservatives Careless Comics Communications – Update: It’s Happened Again
Once again a local Republican website has posted Woody Harrington‘s image equating The Grand Old Party with the Ku Klux…
CSotD: A variety of irritants
Today’s Pickles (AMS) reminds me that this is a time of year when I am thrilled to be retired. There…
Sunday Stories featuring Comic Chronicles
Exploring comics’ past with Homer Davenport on Rube Goldberg, Bobby London and Popeye, Bazooka Joe and the Gang. But we…