Industry news for the professional cartoonist
While we were joining Mike in reading The Funny Pages, behind the scenes… Moved from front window display to the back shelves. © Copley News Service After a year of sitting on the last Nest Heads syndicated to newspapers, Creators Syndicate has moved the comic strip from their page of active syndicated comics to their…
Jefferson County Leader editorial cartoonist Judy Dixon has retired from the paper to move closer to her family. Today, the Leader says goodbye to editorial cartoonist Judy Dixon, who is leaving Jefferson County to live closer to extended family. Since joining the Leader staff on Jan. 15, 1998, Dixon has won numerous state and national…
When the Pulitzer Prize awards first happened in 1917 there was no category for Editorial Cartoons. That honor began in 1922, so this is the 99th year since the first Editorial Cartoon Prize was awarded to Rollin Kirby (though not every year since then saw a Prize awarded to a cartoonist). The original terms for…
The National Cartoonists Society takes great pleasure in announcing that the Gold Key Award will be presented this year to Mort Gerberg, for his widely-varied and successful career of over 60 years as a cartoonist. The Gold Key, awarded by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors, honors the recipient as a member of…
The Alpena News has taken a stand against divisive opinions. The people of America, Michigan, and Northeast Michigan represent a diverse collection of viewpoints and ideologies. We here at The News have strived to reflect that spectrum on our Commentary pages through use of local and syndicated columnists, local and syndicated editorial cartoonists, letters to…
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…
The jury, composed of the members of World Press Freedom Canada, met on April 13 to select the winners of the 21th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition. © Anne Derenne Bado’s blog showcases the winners and honorable mentions. We all had our heroes when we were young. Some of mine were Johnny…
Comic-Con International: San Diego has announced the Judges Inductees who are automatically entered into their Will Eisner Hall of Fame; and 16 nominees, four of which will be voted into the Hall by comics people across a variety of professions (cartoonists, editors, comic store owners, historians, etc.). As is usual a number of inductees and…
Paul Fell offers what I consider the most thoughtful take on the Pope’s declaration that the Church cannot bless same-sex marriages. I capitalize “the Church” because there used to only be one and that’s at the heart of our discussion today. I don’t know that there are a lot of RC churches in America…
Rob Rogers offers a response to the “Cancel Culture” kerfuffle, but in these times, it’s really hard to tell a joke without reflecting something real. Donald Trump has begun issuing position papers and people on social media argue that nobody should post or share them because it gives him the attention he craves. There’s some…
© Scott Adams, Inc.; Peanuts Worldwide; Paws Inc. Dilbert joins Snoopy (and Woodstock) and Garfield as a comic strip addition to the extremely popular Funko collectibles line. MAD Magazine’s Al Jaffee‘s 100th Birthday Celebration! © Allan Holtz Did we mention that Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide returned from sabbatical a while ago? Back is…
I’m often impatient with Gary Markstein (Creators). He keeps up his partnership with Tony Rubino at their daily strip, “Daddy’s Home” consistently, but posts his own political commentary so rarely that I’m sometimes tempted to drop him from my GoComics lineup. However, it’s paid off this time around, because he posted this one January 12,…
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced its new officers. AAEC Officers 2021-2022 President: Jen Sorensen, The Nib Vice President: Ed Hall, freelance Secretary-Treasurer: Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Immediate Past President: Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer Director: Tim Campbell, Washington Post News Service & Syndication (2nd year) Director: Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker (2nd year) Director: Gretchen Koch (1st…
We’ll let Jen Sorensen (Ind) set the stage for what is going to be an extensive and incomplete look at WTF is going on and, as she says, how we got here. As she also says, it’s just a partial cast. And yet to say “We all played a role” is both incorrect and inane….
Existential Comics gave me a laugh this morning when most quasi-political attempts at humor have failed, and I suspect this one was in the works before last week’s upheaval anyway. We read “Das Kapital” in college, but I don’t remember much about Marx’s personal life. On the other hand, I have encountered this monomoniacal True…