Hey Kids! Comics! May Flourishes
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2024 release.Images and links from a variety of publishers…
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CSotD: The Emperor
Michael Ramirez (Creators) offers a magnificent spoof of Jacques-Louis David’s Coronation of Napoleon. Napoleon had himself crowned in the presence…
Nick Seluk’s The Awkward Yeti Story; or, Heart and Brain Turn Failure to Success
From Nick Seluk: Growing up, I had two passions: drawing silly comics, and not doing what anyone told me to…
CSotD: Bits and Pieces
Tom Tomorrow and I seem to be on the same page. I don’t mean on the same ideological page, though…
New to Comics Kingdom: Working Cats
Cartoonist Maritsa Patrinos, Friday’s Child for Six Chix, is giving us a new weekly comic strip at Comics Kingdom. Working…
CSotD: Humor, from the personal to the global
I’ll have a couple of dissents in a moment, so we’ll start with a compliment: Check out the final panel…
In Spite of What You Read Gasoline Alley, Mary Worth, and The Phantom Continue
San Marcos Daily Record columnist Jerry Hall opens his Sunday column about Peanuts reminiscing: Let us depart from topics of…
No More Spectickles (Belated Notice)
Bill Abbott is no longer creating new Spectickles panels for syndication. The last new panel was issued on December 16,…
CSotD: The Void Gazas Back
Dr. MacLeod has consistently been a harsh opponent of US arming of Israel, and his response to the cutback of…
The Resurrection of The Bad Cartoonist?
It seems The Bad Cartoonist has resurfaced. Who? You might ask. For those who weren’t around then, and for those…
CSotD: Graduation Day in the Committee Room
The second Saturday in May would be graduation on a lot of campuses, and it probably still is, since the…
Cartoonists in the News
Jeff Smith, David Fitzsimmons, Raymond Briggs, Lalo Alcaraz, Alex Portal, Jake Tapper Jeff Smith has a Bone to pitch Jeff…
CSotD: Timing, repetition, redemption, etc.
Barbara Smaller’s cartoon is hardly breakthrough humor, subconsciously echoing as it does a Tom Toro piece that has become a…
NALC/USPS Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive
Saturday May 11, 2024 is Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive. Each year, letter carriers across the country head…
Robert Grossman, Steve Brodner Inducted into Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
Illustrators and caricaturists Robert Grossman and Steve Brodner are numbered among the 2024 inductees into the Society of Illustrators Hall…