A roundup of good tidings about comic strip and magazine cartoonists feauring Wayno®, Lincoln Peirce, Sy Barry, Liza Donnelly, Gideon Smiley, Harry Bliss, and cartoonists from The Saturday Evening Post of the 1950s and 1960s. Wayno’s Reuben Portfolio As noted here Wayno® is a finalist for this year’s Silver (divisional) Reuben as Best Newspaper Panel […]
A roundup of good tidings about comic strip and magazine cartoonists feauring Wayno®, Lincoln Peirce, Sy Barry, Liza Donnelly, Gideon Smiley, Harry Bliss, and cartoonists from The Saturday Evening Post of the 1950s and 1960s. Wayno’s Reuben Portfolio As noted here Wayno® is a finalist for this year’s Silver (divisional) Reuben as Best Newspaper Panel […]
Etcetera Days are when I feature interesting political cartoons that don’t spark a full-throated rant.Today’s headline is a catch-phrase Yul Brynner had in The King and I, and while he and Deborah Kerr (and Marnie Nixon) did wonderful work in the movie, I would have thought there wouldn’t be much contemporary interest in the story […]
Etcetera Days are when I feature interesting political cartoons that don’t spark a full-throated rant.Today’s headline is a catch-phrase Yul Brynner had in The King and I, and while he and Deborah Kerr (and Marnie Nixon) did wonderful work in the movie, I would have thought there wouldn’t be much contemporary interest in the story […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that they will be presenting Bone creator Jeff Smith with their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s 80th annual Reuben Conference. As the NCS says in their announcement Jeff Smith came to fame in the 1990s with his epic comic book series following the adventures of the […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that they will be presenting Bone creator Jeff Smith with their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s 80th annual Reuben Conference. As the NCS says in their announcement Jeff Smith came to fame in the 1990s with his epic comic book series following the adventures of the […]
A roundup of various comics related news items featuring Mafalda, Hunt Emerson, Hoo-Hah (with J. R. Williams), Tony Millionaire, and Cheeky Pandas. ‘Mafalda’ original publisher Ediciones de la Flor shuts down As the Mafalda comic strip gets a boost with an American series of translated books in English the publisher that first published Mafalda books […]
A roundup of various comics related news items featuring Mafalda, Hunt Emerson, Hoo-Hah (with J. R. Williams), Tony Millionaire, and Cheeky Pandas. ‘Mafalda’ original publisher Ediciones de la Flor shuts down As the Mafalda comic strip gets a boost with an American series of translated books in English the publisher that first published Mafalda books […]
Boris gets it right, but I’m already seeing the next Big Myth: Other cartoonists, and plenty of social media commentators, are declaring that Congress has approved $1 billion to build the ballroom. Not true.The billion of taxpayer funds is mostly for the bunker under the ballroom, and specifies that none of it can be spent […]
Boris gets it right, but I’m already seeing the next Big Myth: Other cartoonists, and plenty of social media commentators, are declaring that Congress has approved $1 billion to build the ballroom. Not true.The billion of taxpayer funds is mostly for the bunker under the ballroom, and specifies that none of it can be spent […]
After Segar there was Tom Sims writing Popeye. Harry Haenigsen drew the Penny and the teen scene. Tom Sims, Popeye Writer Kelly Kazek for AL.com profiles the local writer who took over the Popeye comic strip after E. C. Segar died (or here). If not for a new folklife marker in Gadsden, Alabamians may have […]
After Segar there was Tom Sims writing Popeye. Harry Haenigsen drew the Penny and the teen scene. Tom Sims, Popeye Writer Kelly Kazek for AL.com profiles the local writer who took over the Popeye comic strip after E. C. Segar died (or here). If not for a new folklife marker in Gadsden, Alabamians may have […]
Five publishers and one author have filed lawsuit against Meta for deliberately pirating millions of books to train its AI model Llama. While symbolic, the suit also names Mark Zuckerberg for “personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement.” The publishers include: Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, and novelist Scott Turow.The suit, filed in […]
Five publishers and one author have filed lawsuit against Meta for deliberately pirating millions of books to train its AI model Llama. While symbolic, the suit also names Mark Zuckerberg for “personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement.” The publishers include: Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, and novelist Scott Turow.The suit, filed in […]
Fan favorites Stephan (Pearls Before Swine) Pastis and Will (Wallace the Brave) Henry have teamed up to create “a laugh-out-loud illustrated middle-grade adventure” scheduled for release at the beginning of the 2026/27 school season. From the Simon and Shuster description: Porter Avery is just your average boy from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with your average boy […]
Fan favorites Stephan (Pearls Before Swine) Pastis and Will (Wallace the Brave) Henry have teamed up to create “a laugh-out-loud illustrated middle-grade adventure” scheduled for release at the beginning of the 2026/27 school season. From the Simon and Shuster description: Porter Avery is just your average boy from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with your average boy […]
The UK Comics Creators Research Report has been issued showing the results of a survey of 700 United Kingdom comics creators taken in the Fall of 2025. The ability to survive financially is disheartening. The vast majority of creators make less than a living wage from their comics endeavors necessitating employment outside the industry and […]
The UK Comics Creators Research Report has been issued showing the results of a survey of 700 United Kingdom comics creators taken in the Fall of 2025. The ability to survive financially is disheartening. The vast majority of creators make less than a living wage from their comics endeavors necessitating employment outside the industry and […]
Got a case of the collywobbles from Sunday’s Lio, because this is the time of year I used to be coaching the spring season of soccer back when I had small children.I also coached in the fall season, but that was run entirely by the local youth soccer league, and the kids who played then […]
Got a case of the collywobbles from Sunday’s Lio, because this is the time of year I used to be coaching the spring season of soccer back when I had small children.I also coached in the fall season, but that was run entirely by the local youth soccer league, and the kids who played then […]
Early last year Mark Buford put an ash stake in his Scary Gary comic strip. Now Julie Lineback for the University of West Georgia brings us up-to-date with Mark. “A Major in Minds, a Minor in Mischief.” As the U.S. recognizes National Cartoonist Day on May 5, University of West Georgia alumnus Mark Buford ’86 […]
Early last year Mark Buford put an ash stake in his Scary Gary comic strip. Now Julie Lineback for the University of West Georgia brings us up-to-date with Mark. “A Major in Minds, a Minor in Mischief.” As the U.S. recognizes National Cartoonist Day on May 5, University of West Georgia alumnus Mark Buford ’86 […]
Nancy Beiman gave us a three week notice of the annual “holy day.” The others mostly waited until today. Today comic strips transition from World Press Freedom Day (not mentioned at all) and National Star Wars Day (many references yesterday) to National Cartoonist Day/Cinco de Mayo. Or Inko de Mayo.Lalo Alcaraz and Chip Sansom weren’t […]
Nancy Beiman gave us a three week notice of the annual “holy day.” The others mostly waited until today. Today comic strips transition from World Press Freedom Day (not mentioned at all) and National Star Wars Day (many references yesterday) to National Cartoonist Day/Cinco de Mayo. Or Inko de Mayo.Lalo Alcaraz and Chip Sansom weren’t […]
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