CSotD: Defining Loyalty
I was looking for my favorite quote from the Analects of Confucius (the Lun Yu) and found it included in…
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Michael Ramirez Wins OPC Cartoon Award
Michael Ramirez was honored with the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) Cartoon Award (formerly The Thomas Nast Award) for…
NNA Finalists: De Adder, MacKay, MacKinnon
Finalists for the 2021 National Newspaper Awards have been announced. For Editorial Cartooning/Caricature the nominees are Michael de Adder, Graeme…
Licensing Thoughts: Schulz vs Watterson
Is it better for a comic creator to sell out or remain creatively pure? That dilemma is embodied in two…
In the Land of the Gannetts
Last Summer the good news was that Gannett/Gatehouse was unloading the local weeklies they had accumulated back into the hands…
CSotD: Laugh Break
Note the interplay in this Wallace the Brave (AMS): First, Rose is the right character to have a turquoise necklace,…
Sketching the Disneyverse
Disney Sketchbook Disney+’s new six-part original Series Sketchbook will give “an insider’s look into the animation process” as studio artists…
CSotD: Celebrating Olga on Patrick’s Feast Day
St. Olga’s feast day is July 11, but given who she was and what she did, St. Patrick should yield…
Hal Foster Layouts for J.C. Murphy Prince Valiant
In 1970 Prince Valiant creator Hal Foster was nearing 80 years and decided to slow down. After interviewing a few…
Wednesday Roundup Countdown
Taking a cue from those Countdown to Christmas newspaper front page comic panels Brett Koth has adapted the idea to…
CSotD: Ephemera Should Leave You
Greg Kearney explains the US Senate’s move to put the United States out of sync with most of the rest…
The New New Adventures of Queen Victoria
Early last year Pab Sungenis ended his The New Adventures of Queen Victoria. Then very early this year Pab and…
Hey Kids! Comics! – A New Season of Books
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though…
CSotD: Reply Hazy – Try Again
We’ll start the day with a quick, unexpected history lesson, courtesy of Jeff Danziger (WPWG). I went to look up…
The Art of Living with Grant Snider
Mike Rhode writes: Since I first saw his cartoons about books and reading on the next-to-last page of the New…