I got a particular laugh out of this RWO, because I worked at a paper where they had mugshots of the staff on a bulletin board in the break room. It was handy, because you could learn the names of people in other departments who you ran into in only a superficial way.But it became […]

Paul Noth Collected Paul Noth, newly crowned Cartoonist Laureate of Wisconsin, has collection of his cartoons coming out in October and we now have the cover of I Am Going to Eat You and the opportunity to pre-order it. The Complete Zap Comix A month earlier, in September 2026, comes The Complete Zap Comix Box […]

More on Patrick Lamontagne World Press Freedom award, Nazi Germany’s pressure on cartoonists, and an argument that comics are NOT for Kids. Patrick LaMontagne Receives International Award A week and a half ago we reported on the World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Award winners. As a followup here is The Calgary Herald noting that […]

The Lakes International Comic Arts Festival is taking fire from British politicians for inviting Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj to be one of 13 guest cartoonists for their 2026 event in October. Critics, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, are demanding public funding be withdrawn and the cartoonist be disinvited. At issue are two of Emad’s cartoons […]

Today is Victory Day in Russia, though yesterday was VE Day elsewhere in the world. Russia marks the day the papers were signed, rather than the day the war ended. And today, as mentioned before, they’re marking the day with a parade that, Adams notes, doesn’t feature the usual display of weaponry, because their tanks […]

A thrill for any syndicated cartoonist is to see their handiwork in print in the newspaper delivered to their front door (or mailbox as the case may be.) So it is with Joe Wos and his MazeToons. Alexis Papalia at The Tribune-Review informs the paper’s readers: Those in the habit of heading to the comics […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]