Industry news for the professional cartoonist
On September 16, 2022 the National Cartoonists Society announced the winners of their Divisional Awards for work produced in 2021 at the 76th Annual Reuben Awards Banquet. Winners in bold. Nominees for Comic Book: Trish Forstner; Gideon Kendall; David Peterson Nominees for Gag Cartoons: Emily Flake; Amy Hwang; Christopher Weyant Nominees for Greeting…
There are only so many new ideas out there, and Pardon My Planet (KFS) isn’t the first strip to make an organized/disorganized religion joke. But a good gagster can add freshening elements, and Vic Lee hits some football matters just as the Hall of Fame Game has fans ready for a new season. Specifically, it…
The Great Bend (Kansas) Tribune announced new comics coming to the paper. June 19 [2022] marks the day for new comics in the Sunday paper. The Great Bend Tribune is excited to introduce fresh, new comic strips to you. We hope you will enjoy them, as we tried to pick comics that would be appropriate…
The National Cartoonists Society has revealed the finalists for the various Divisional Awards for their 76th Annual Reuben Dinner. All of these divisions were juried by regional NCS chapters and specialty juries. The results were tallied to arrive at these final nominees. The nominees for 2021 creativity are: Comic Book: Trish Forstner; Gideon Kendall; David…
Comic strips yesterday and today seems to have jumped the gun on National Cartoonists Day. Superheroes were the theme for today’s comics. Rex Morgan, M.D. has recently started a story about a costumed vigilante, but today Terry Beatty took it a step further showing a trio of self-appointed cos-playing do-gooders. © North American Syndicate Tom…
Twenty-five years ago Jim Scancarelli‘s Gasoline Alley mentioned comics characters looking funny. And the comics did look off-model that day – ’cause it was April 1, 1997. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times hedder: Today is the silver anniversary of The Great Comics Switcheroonie of 1997. A Scripps Howard article explained what was happening to a confused…
To celebrate the 230th anniversary of The Bill of Rights we travel back thirty years when cartoonists and syndicates collaborated with The Newspaper Features Council to mark the bicentennial of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. So, from The Iola Register of 1991, we present The Art of Democracy. Charles M. Schulz…
Well, yes, Ethel, there is that: Willie ‘n Ethel comment on my first year-and-a-half as a retired person. The pandemic was indeed a lovely ego-crutch, though, as noted here, I did just sneak out to visit family in Minnesota. Please don’t tell my credit card. Though, as Kevin Kallaugher notes, coffee break is over…
Meditation and mind control – not others’ minds, your own. Lion’s Roar (“Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time”) takes note of Dan Piraro‘s Buddhist tilt. But meditation is not just fodder for Piraro’s jokes. It’s fodder for our real lives, our reality, his included. Hence his post last week, in which he wrote about open-mindedness, how…
Fans of newspaper comics will instantly notice something missing in many of the strips this Friday — pants. More than 25 cartoonists behind strips from “Blondie” to “Zippy the Pinhead” are celebrating the quirky holiday No Pants Day in a way that helps charities get clothing to those in need. © King Features Syndicate “This…
Easter Monday is a bit slack, but that gives me a free space in which to indulge in picking up some things yesterday’s Georgia rant distracted me from, like Sunday’s Non Sequitur (AMS). And I’ll disagree with Wiley’s take, but only because our situations seem reversed: If my pup gets out without her cable attached,…
Seems like a quiet day in the cartooning universe, but a lack of stark drama allows for some more quiet appreciation. For example, in his weekly taking-of-the-wheel at Bizarro (KFS), Dan Piraro touches on one of my pet peeves — see what I did there? — which is “Lady and the Tramp Syndrome,” a bit…
© Baldo Partnership Today’s Sunday Baldo reminds me of the old Grin and Bear It Sundays. © King Features Syndicate © Maria Scrivan Someone at GoComics (temporarily) dropped the “K” from today’s Half Full,giving an excuse to link to this history of comic’s color. © Bizarro Studios Looks like Dan Piraro’s Bizarro is…
Wayno has revealed the new secret symbol that will soon begin appearing in Dan Piraro’s and Wayno’s Bizarro panels. On January 1, 2021, The Pipe of Ambiguity will join the roster of Secret Symbols. Dan and I agreed that it would be a fun way to continue to leave my mark on Bizarro as I…
While both Don Wimmer and Wayno do an admirable job of drawing stuffed animals today… Rose is Rose © United Feature Syndicate; Bizarro © Bizarro Studios I’m still liking Eric Reaves‘ menagerie from earlier this week more: Hi and Lois (and Trixie) © KFS Gannett’s Sun Journal has a nice column of comic strip…