Backderf Talks Research, Creativity & Kent State
One of the feature panels at last weekend’s MoCCA Art Fest was Derf Backderf discussing researching his non-fiction graphic novel Kent…
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Cartoonist Profile: Buck Brown
Cartoonist Robert “Buck” Brown (1936 – 2007) will be inaugurated into the Illini Media Hall of Fame Class of 2022…
1926 Newspaper Convention Comic Supplement
The American Newspaper Publishers Association Convention in 1926 was naturally covered by Editor & Publisher. E&P previewed it in their…
CSotD: You can quote me
An apt mood-setter from Pros & Cons (KFS): Whether we’re entering a new Dark Age or a new Golden Age…
Cartoon News Briefs
Keith Knight lives just outside of Chapel Hill, NC, these days, but from 1990-2008, he resided in San Francisco where…
CSotD: A mixed bag
It’s appropriate for Tank McNamara (AMS) to lead off today, because sports coverage tends to drift between entertainment and politics,…
Forum Communications Teams w/ Comics Kingdom
Forum Communications, an upper mid-west media company with a score of newspapers that can trace its publishing roots to 1878,…
CSotD: Reason in the Dock
Steve Bell starts today’s discussion with a demand, backed with a depiction of the atrocities left in the streets of…
A Little Song, A Little Dance…
A Saul Steinberg drawing from 1967 graces the cover of the new New Yorker. Françoise Mouly interviews Ian Frazier, friend…
CSotD: Gowdy, Amos, Iggy, Tour, and other choices
You’ve likely already seen Sunday’s Doonesbury (AMS), which has not only been posted by a lot of editorial cartoonists but…
Comic Chronicles: Sickles, Syndicates, Sky Masters
From Rob Stolzer: In the smallest of nutshells, Noel Sickles entered the comic strip field in 1933, spent three years…
Right Rags on “Disgraced,” “Disgusting” de Adder
Mentioned here yesterday was MRC’s take on Michael de Adder‘s cartoon about Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida state’s “Don’t Say…
CSotD: Was it for this the clay grew tall?
There is a temptation to simply display Morten Morland’s absolutely brilliant commentary on Russian atrocities and shut down for the day….
Gabrielle Drolet, New Yorker’s Newest Cartoonist
Michael Maslin noted a new cartoonist in the April 4, 2022 issue of The New Yorker: Sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists…
DeSantis Cartoons are Upsetting
A couple of recent Ron DeSantis cartoons have upset fans of the Florida governor. Earlier this week there was a…