Short Takes From the Past Week
Bob Staake, Mick Stevens, Paul Karasik, Max Fleischer, Peanuts, and The Nib. ********** Staake has publicly rejected the idea that…
Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Bob Staake, Mick Stevens, Paul Karasik, Max Fleischer, Peanuts, and The Nib. ********** Staake has publicly rejected the idea that…
My hip replacement has had the pleasant timing to have occurred during the Women’s World Cup. While I’m still pushing…
Bill Messner-Loebs’s work in comics was beloved by fans for many years, but the circumstances of his life—illness and injuries—have…
Publisher, cartoonist, artist Jim Adcock has passed away. James Bentley (Jim) Adcock June 12, 1948 – July 19, 2023 From…
Patrick Blower cites the new Civil War, in which a divided country rages around a vestige of the old Civil…
It’s throw it out there Thursday – a gathering of gleanings. Editoons v. Memes; Newspaper Troubles; Battling Book Banners; and…
The end of August will see the end of The Nib. But you can still give some love to The…
Paul Noth having summed up the Nov 24 election, we move on to further action, later in the game. That…
Unlike the 2020s The Pulitzers had an Editorial Cartooning category in the 1920s. Rollin Kirby took three of the first…
Ann Telnaes was out of the gate quickly as the indictments were announced, largely because she’d been following the story…
Nope, don’t like it. Don’t like it a bit. Before last month gets too far away let’s bring up the…
Grand Avenue (AMS) marks a cultural change that has often sent me digging through the memory banks. I suppose the…
The National Cartoonists Society has issued a notice for ads in their 2023 Reuben Journal and Banquet Playbill noting the…
Pros and Cons (KFS) relies on three main characters: Samuel, the incompetent attorney; Stan, the somewhat brutish but kind-hearted cop…
We’ll start with a small bit of news: Marvel Comics and King Features Syndicate are now rerunning the reruns. Above…