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 […]

Sour Grapes is new at GoComics, sour grapes is an old story with newspapers, The Singh Brotherhood vexes the olde and the new Phantom, Henry Barajas presents good trouble, bad trouble for Scott Adams and revolutionary trouble with Sam Adams, MAD memories with John Ficarra and Gerry Gersten, and Keith Knight about That One Black […]

Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for June 2026 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.MAD #600 by THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS MAD #600 features a wraparound cover illustrated by legendary […]

With Frank Stack, David Oskow, Peter Kuper, Jeff Koterba, Adam Zyglis, Rick McKee, and Daryl Cagle. Frank Stack, NY Times Obituary Apparently The New York Times didn’t have an obituary for Frank Stack “in the can.” A month after Stack’s passing we finally get a notice of death from the paper of record by Michael […]

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 […]

After six months of renovations and upgrades the Museum part of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will reopen Saturday May 23. Madeline Bradshaw for Ohio State University’s The Lantern reports: Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, home to the world’s largest cartoon and comic collection, will turn a new page and […]

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 […]

In 1995 not-yet Prince Valiant scribe Mark Schultz partnered with never-official Flash Gordon artist Al Williamson to create a two issue Flash Gordon comic book for Marvel Comics. Though he was never the official artist of the comic strip Al Williamson famously drew Flash Gordon at various times from 1966 to 1995 for comic books, […]

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 […]

Envisioning Consumer Culture: Comic Strips, Comic Books, and Advertising in America, 1890 – 1945 by Ian Gordon In the late nineteenth century American newspaper owners and comic strip artists transformed European traditions of visual humor and graphic narrative into a new commercial form of leisure, the Sunday color comic strip. These strips focused on continuing […]

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 […]

Featuring the illustrated “Heroes! The Astounding True Story of America’s Comic Book Creators” by Roy Schwartz and Frank Stockton from the Summer 2026 issue of The Smithsonian magazine and the 1933 thesis A History and Analysis of the American Comic Strip by Harry Emsley Wood, Jr. The Summer 2026 America 250 issue of The Smithsonian […]