Southerners from the Society of Professional Journalists have announced the winners of The Green Eyeshade Awards. For the Editorial Cartooning JD Crowe of the Alabama Media Group took the #1 spot for his 2023 efforts. Founded in 1950, the Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade is the nation’s oldest regional journalism contest. It highlights the […]
The world’s oldest cartooning organization, the Australian Cartoonists Association, celebrates 100 years of existence today. (Well, yesterday because, you know, Australia.) The Dictionary of Sydney gives us A Short History of the Black and White Artists’ Club by Lindsey Foyle: The Dictionary of Sydney also notes the various name changes of the organization through the […]
As everyone struggles to explain the young man who tried to shoot Trump, I thought of this Tom the Dancing Bug from 1999, when we were trying to figure out Columbine and everybody had a theory. We didn’t actually come to a conclusion, or, at least, not to one that solved the problem, though, as […]
GoComics has posted a notice toward the top of all the editorial cartoon pages (highlighted in orange) that, due to their outdated AI monitoring tools being unable to control the divisive commenting on their platform, for the remainder of this election year commenting will be disabled for political cartoons on their site. The notice: As […]
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From the San Diego Comic-Con Bill Finger Award page: Jo Duffy and Ralph Newman are this year’s recipients of the 2024 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The selection, made by a blue-ribbon committee chaired by writer-historian Mark Evanier, was unanimous. “This year’s posthumous recipient wrote hundreds if not thousands of comic […]
There have been times when emigrating to Australia seemed like a good idea, but it doesn’t take a lot of reflection to recognize the futility. After all, Nevil Shute wrote On the Beach in 1957 and Stanley Kramer turned it into a movie in 1959 in which Australians waited for death to arrive in a […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2024 release. Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Vol.1 – Hardcover by Don Moore and Alex Raymond Science fiction’s most enduring […]
Many of us find joy in looking back and taking stock of our reading lives, which is why we here at The New York Times Book Review decided to mark the first 25 years of this century with an ambitious project: to take a first swing at determining the most important, influential books of the […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) manages to strike an appropriate note through serendipity, given Wiley’s lead time. Indeed, things could have gone worse and, also indeed, fate is recalculating. In any case, the second day of political cartoons about the attempted assassination have mostly indicated that we should give cartoonists a little more time, so we’ll back […]
“Success is a fickle thing. Some people will struggle their whole life looking for that one idea that will make them millions, while others will simply stumble upon it on their first try. “The latter is the case for Scott Adams, the person who made a fortune off his comic strip Dilbert. “What makes this […]
Boom Studios released the “first look” at their forthcoming Garfield comic book series: BOOM! Studios today revealed a first look at GARFIELD #1, the first issue in a new four-issue series about everyone’s favorite cat! Ryan Estrada (I Climbed Kilimanjaro) and Sarah Graley (Kim Reaper, Minecraft) pen two short stories in the first issue, joined […]
David Rowe offers the most appropriate response to last night’s assassination attempt. As is often the case, Australians got first crack at the story because of the time difference, and some did better than others, which is always the case and why I have something to write about each day. Rowe nails it, because “Sigh” […]
First stop is Galway Ireland where she will return in a few months for The Galway Cartoon Festival. According to the Festival: It’s the only cartoon festival in Ireland, and is now in its eighth year. Our guests this year include Martin Rowson of the Guardian, Cristina Sampaio of SpamCartoons, Jean-Michel Renault, and Ed Steckley […]
As good as Liza Donnelly is at being a cartoonist she has proven herself just as adept at researching and writing about the history of women cartoonists, specializing in those who stood and stand shoulder to shoulder with the cartooning men of The New Yorker. Her Funny Ladies and Very Funny Ladies warrant shelf space […]