The NY Post drops its comics section—who noticed?
Media watchdog Jim Romanesko was the first to catch that the New York Post had dropped its comics section. The section was wizened...
2014 Reuben Award nominees are out
The "Reuben Awards", aka the divisional awards presented by the National Cartoonist Society to deserving creators in comic strips, illustrations, animation and even comics,...
Bill Watterson and Richard Thompson interviewed on the state of cartooning
Yep you head me right. This weekend the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and LIbrary in Columbus Ohio will open two incredible shows,
The Irresistible...
Bill Watterson creates poster art for STRIPPED
While the odds are still low on him showing up to fulfill his duties as Grand Prix winner, Bill Watterson is slightly less reclusive of late than he has been for most of the 19 years since he quite Calvin and Hobbes. For instance he has drawn the poster for the film STRIPPED, a documentary about comic strip artists which also features an interview with Watterson. The piece is billed as Watterson's first cartoon in 19 years (he's shown a painting since then, a contribution to Project Cul-de-sac.)
Checker Books is back (?) with The Winsor McCay Project
Back in the day Checker Books was a company that specialized in reprinting old comic strips and books, including a bunchy of Winsor McCay...
RIP: Morrie Turner
Morrie Turner, creator of Wee Pals, and the first African-American cartoonist with a nationally syndicated strip, passed away Saturday at the age of...
Mark Trail in black fly shocker
It all started when someone wrote to The Black Mountain News of North Carolina to point out a shocking misstatement in a recent Mark...
Extremely rare Bill Watterson Interview: “I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact...
Comics very own JD Salinger*, Calvin & Hobbes artist Bill Watterson has been making very very tentative moves to emerge from his hobbit hole,...
Nice Art: When Anarchy Ruled the Funny Pages
Designer Steven Heller profiles the latest in Pete Maresca's oversized collections of turn of the century comic strips Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at...
Let’s Play Comics and Captions!
In 1983, the Dayton Daily News accidentally switched the captions for "Dennis the Menace" and "The Far Side". And then, a few days later,...
RIP: Stan Lynde
Artist Stan Lynde, creator of the comic strip Rick O'Shay and one of the best known Western comics artists, has died at age 81....
Peanuts: It takes a nation of millions to hold Franklin back
Here's a window into comics as social history as Nat Gertler write about this history of Franklin, the black kid in Peanuts which...
