The UK Press Awards has named Matt Pritchett their 2026 Cartoonist of the Year at last nights awards ceremony. The Press Awards recognizes the “best of national journalism in the UK.” Matt has been with The Telegraph since 1988.Unfortunately, at the moment, the Press Awards website’s has the wrong description and judges comments for his […]

Last weekend the Doug Wright Awards at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. The awards recognizes excellence in the field of Canadian comics. Below are the the 2026 winners. For full full list of nominees, read our prior coverage.Best BookCannon, Lee Lai (Drawn & Quarterly)The Nipper (Emerging Talent)Lis Xu for Layover & Mad (Self-published) and Raccoon Rescue […]

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 […]

Garry Trudeau didn’t plan on being a cartoonist. But he quickly became one of the most influential cartoonists in modern cartooning with his comic Doonesbury. Launched in 1970, Doonesbury quickly became a must-read for fans, politicians, and journalists. In the new Trudeau biography, Joshua Kendall writes, “at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television […]

Russian artist, caricaturist, and frequent President Vladimir Putin critic Semyon Skrepetsky (real name was Robert Kuzovkov), was shot dead yesterday in Polish city of Biała Podlaska. The shooting is described at close range. Polish police believe the killing was a targeted, but have not offered a motive.Three days prior to the killing, Semyon had protested […]

Today kicks off the three-day Comic Barcelona in Spain. Unlike other gatherings, they are not waiting to the end of the event to announce winners of their annual prizes. Below is a list of their Grand Prize winner, along with their category winners and nominees.Grand PrizeEsteban Maroto Torres was awarded the Grand Prize in recognition […]

Growing up in remote Nova Scotia, Kate Beaton may not have a wealth of comic art surrounding her, but as you’ll read below, she found inspiration from a variety of sources. And that foundation has served her well as she’s become an award winning cartoonist, children’s book author, and non-fiction graphic novelist.For those not familiar […]

The Freedom Cartoonists Foundation will be marking World Press Freedom Day on Monday, May 4 with two events: the inaugural “Cartooning for Freedom” Exhibition and a ceremony to present the 2026 Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award. “Cartooning for Freedom” ExhibitionThe exhibit opens today and runs through May. It features 60 cartoons selected by FreedomCartoonists […]

Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: “How cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became a Rolling Stone writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]

Comic-Con International has responded to the discovery of an Eisner Award nomination that included generative AI work. According to the San Diego Comic Convention organizer, the editor of Stardust the Super Wizard Anthology has withdrawn their submission. The work had been nominated for Best Anthology.Additionally they say had judges known about the AI content they […]

Bone creator Jeff Smith will receive the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s National Cartoonist Society’s annual Reuben Conference. And he’s being recognized as one of “seven books you’ll never outgrow” and Ruben Bolling reports the honor for Boing Boing.The Atlantic’s Rafaela Jinich included Bone series in an article of Seven Books You’ll […]

This week’s rabbit hole technically started last week. Whilst scrolling on Bluesky, I noted Mark Kaufman had reposted a video animation of Nancy dancing to a song on a record player. Since I follow current Nancy cartoonist Caroline Cash and the Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller Bluesky accounts seeing Nancy on my feed is not […]