Renowned courtroom and congressional sketch artist William J. Hennessy, Jr. has passed away. William Joseph (Bill) Hennessy, Jr. December 9, 1957 – December 9, 2024 Bill ‘s son announced the passing: My name is John Paul Hennessy, William (Bill) Joseph Hennessy Jr.’s son. I’m reaching out with the sad news that my father passed away […]
Dave Ostow comes up with the most frightening first-person game ever. As I’ve said before, I reached a level of enlightenment when I realized that, as middle management, I could adopt the practice of other bosses: Show up, have a drink, greet the people in my department and get the hell out before anybody starts […]
Kate Beaton fame began with her webcomic Hark! A Vagrant and has grown worldwide with her recent win of the 2024 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature for her Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands graphic novel. “…a piercing and daring graphic memoir that sheds light on the hidden side of working conditions in the […]
Malcolm Mayes has announced that he is closing the Canadian based Artizans Syndicate. Edmonton Sun editorial cartoonist Malcolm Mayes informed his clients yesterday that he was pulling the plug on Artizans, the cartoon syndicate he created decades ago. From Bado’s Blog: Yes, the Artizans website is now down, though some of its past is available by […]
Pedro X. Molina has standing to speak for human rights, having fled Nicaragua in order to preserve his own. Somehow, the fact that yesterday was Human Rights Day didn’t hit my Intertubes until this morning, but I don’t think it matters a whole lot. Every day should be Human Rights Day, and, just as we […]
Iranian activist and cartoonist Atena Farghadani, originally sentenced to six years in prison for “insulting sacred values” and “propagating against the ruling system,” has been released after serving eight months. Her sentence was first reduced to 18 months, but a December 9 appeals court ruling acquitted her of the blasphemy charges, reducing her sentence to […]
A Charlie Brown Christmas – year 59. Next year will not only be the 75th anniversary of Peanuts debut on October 2, 1950 it will also be the 60th year since A Charlie Brown Christmas first appeared on December 9, 1965. Of course times have changed and your opportunity to view the Peanuts special free […]
In this Candorville (KFS), Lemont echoes my feelings about scabdrivers. I don’t think we even have taxis out here in the sticks, but I’ve been to a couple of conventions where I got to sample both the licensed cabs and the unlicensed drivers, and I’m sticking to my original thoughts, which echo Lemont’s. I know […]
Following Jack Davis and Sam Glanzman we have the centennial anniversary of Fran Matera. Unlike the other two Fran spent most of his comic career on the newspaper pages drawing a number of comic strips from 1946 to 2004. Beginning with comic books in 1941 WWII interrupted his career. Returning to civilian life in 1946 […]
The Indian Institute of Cartoonists is celebrating its 200th cartoon exhibit as well as the release of the third edition of their flagship publication “CartoonistsIndia Annual 2024.” The exhibit will feature the work of cartoonist M.S. Ramakrishna whose work was published in “Shankar’s Weekly“, “Caravan“, and “Woman’s Era“. According to Kashmir Images, “CartoonistsIndia Annual 2024” […]
We’ll start at the beginning, with Dick Wright digging into the History Bag for a traditional metaphor in support of Dear Leader’s lies about immigrants. Certainly you’ve seen similar cartoons, this one coming from a Viennese newspaper in 1938, celebrating Germany getting rid of its rats with a “Germany for Germans” policy, while other, more […]
With Steve Breen, Georgia Dunn, Ralph Hulett, Hartley Lin, Jack Ohman, Rob Rogers, E. C. Segar, Scott Stantis, James Thurber, and more. SMERCOMICS raises 200K for Children’s Crisis Treatment Center From Michael Smerconish YouTube channel: Thank you to all who purchased Smercomics 2024. Last night I received copy No. 1, and handed over 100% of […]
The breaking news this morning is that the Syrian government has fallen and Bashar Assad has disappeared. Steve Brodner marks the moment by remembering that Tulsi Gabbard, who is not at all a Russian asset, visited the Russian-backed dictator in 2017, to the distress of The Syrian American Council. She explained the trip to Jake Tapper: When asked […]
Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud are co-chairs; Connie Zeigler on Brenda Starr and Dale Messick; Phil Witte – counsellor, cartoonist, critic; Barbara Shermund biographer Caitlin McGurk; Terry Laban – graphic novelist; Beginning: Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon. Telgemeier, McCloud chosen as National Library Week honorary chairs From the American Library Association: CHICAGO — Award-winning author and […]
Dan Piraro has a fascinating and important piece on his blog that ties in with my own experience of having been punished as a young lad for what we now recognize as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and being fortunate enough to turn it into an advantage. He was punished more savagely, since I was only […]