Constant Readers know my feelings about leaf blowers, which I have often said should have governors in them so they can only run for 20 minutes a day. I’m adding another gripe, which is that I don’t know why “leaf blower” is two words when “lawnmower” is one. However, given that I refuse to accept […]

Featuring George Gant, Gerald Vreden and Hakim Rafai, Mason Mastroianni, Howie Noel, Kieran Castaño, Paul Noth, and Bill Schorr.The Glyph AwardsThe East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) has announced the winners of their Glyph Awards, honoring “outstanding achievements in comics made by, for, and about people of color.” George Gant, the Beware of […]

Kickstarter has updated its rules on the types of mature content that comic creators (or anyone) can post to fundraise using the social platform. The new update is causing worry and anger for some comic creators who rely on the platform to fund their comics.Prior to this update the only rule regarding prohibited fundraising for […]

I’m not nearly as worried about mice and rats as I am of the looney in charge of Health and Human Services.Hantaviruses are spread in rodent droppings, which is why they’re a greater threat out West where desert climates suit rodent life and their droppings don’t return to the earth quickly. And how better could […]

It is one thing that we comic strip fans are aware of the situation, but when newspaper editors, who are on the whole no more knowledgeable than the general newspaper reading public about comic strips, are taking notice it is a warning sign to the short form sequential art. Last week The Gloucester Daily Times […]

Last week, on May 4, 2026, The Gloucester Daily Times informed their readers why they could no longer find the newspaper’s comics page. From the unsigned editorial (or here): In today’s paper, you’ll notice that while all your favorite puzzles are available, we’ve decided to eliminate the comics in our weekday print editions. This is […]

The nominees for the 2026 Doug Wright Awards and Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame inductees have been announced.The nominees are:Best Book The Nipper (Emerging Talent)The Pigskin Peters Best Small or Micro-Press BookThe Egghead (Best Kids’ Book)Additionally Emily Hearn (1925–2015) and Mark Thurman, the co-creators of The Mighty Mites, which appeared for many years in Owl magazine; and Arch Dale (1882–1962), an editorial cartoonist […]

The trial for Egyptian cartoonist and translator Ashraf Omar was to begin yesterday, but has been delayed until July 13 for reasons of “witness discussion” according to Ashraf’s attorney, Khaled Ali. Ashraf has been in custody since detained since July 2024 on four charges after he was arrested and seized from his home. The current […]

Statues of famous people are not unusual in the United States: There is a statue of “Rocky Balboa” in Philadelphia and a slew of statues of real-life athletes as well. However, Wednesday’s dedication of a statue of Donald Trump on the grounds of his private club in Florida has drawn both praise and criticism, much […]

Avery Silfer has been a cartoonist and illustrator for the New Mexico Daily Lobo, the independent newspaper at the University of New Mexico, for a number of semesters. Now she is moving on as graduation nears. Leila Chapa and Paloma Chapa at The Daily Lobo say hail and farewell. For the past year, Daily Lobo […]

Mrs. Olsen is a lot more understanding than a lot of commenters on GoComics and Comics Kingdom who seem to be in a constant state of aggravation over a lot of comic strip characters. Some more than others: Comic strips are visual first script second and when Mallard Fillmore came up my first reaction was […]

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 […]