Reuben Award Winning Cartoonist Ray Billingsley
Ray Billingsley didn’t much like his second-floor Harlem home on Bradhurst Avenue back then. It was affordable — this being…
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9th Annual Guest Jumbler Week
Guest Jumbler week ends today. Above are the illustrations that went with the puzzles. The puzzles in their entirety can…
The Sixties – Peanuts Best Decade?
The year 1959 marked a new wave for Peanuts. Charlie Brown’s sister, Sally, made her debut on May 26, 1959. Linus…
CSotD: Our Way of Life, Alas
Ann Telnaes offers a good reflection on what we may have just seen happen. I hadn’t expected either a full…
Peter G. Pereira – RIP
Artist/cartoonist Peter Pereira has passed away. Peter (né Pierre) Gerard Pereira May 15, 1962 – November 10, 2021 “He will…
British Cartoonist Mulls New Yorker Cartoons
‘I can explain the meaning of life, but not the meaning of New Yorker cartoons.’ So New Yorker gags are…
CSotD: Friday Funnies come on a Friday this week!
In case you haven’t flown in two years or so, it hasn’t changed much, or, at least, there were no…
Comic Chronicles – Recent and Distant Past
In one of his most celebrated paintings, O the Roast Beef of Old England, William Hogarth appears as himself, sketching…
Millions for Berke Breathed’s Mountaintop Estate
While not every writer or artist requires seclusion for focus and/or inspiration, it seems award-winning cartoonist and children’s book author…
Jeff Koterba Returns to Omaha Newspaper
The Reader is thrilled to announce that we are now carrying the work of award-winning cartoonist and South O. native…
CSotD: Blues from an airplane
I’m headed out to Logan Airport so I can fly to Minnesota and explain things to my grandchildren, so, in…
It’s Peanuts Season, Charlie Brown
Seems it is the season of Peanuts. Yeah , all those TV specials – but also… Well, other special videos….
CSotD: News briefs
Jeff Koterba starts us off with a “Yes, but No” take on Michael Flynn’s bizarre declaration that the US is…
Black Cartoonists In These Times
Clockwise from top left: Jackie Ormes, Tom Floyd, Jay Jackson, panels from Tom Floyd’s book “Integration is a Bitch!,” “Southern…
Newly Revealed David Low Self-Caricatures
If you are unaware of the renowned British editorial cartoonist and caricaturist here is cartoonist Mel Calman on Sir David…