The annual NCS holiday party is quickly approaching, hosted by the NYC chapter of the NCS. What’s better than ringing in the holidays with cartooning friends and family in… Read More
Columbus, Ohio | September 26-29, 2019 For its annual convention this year, the AAEC teamed up with Cartoon Crossroads Columbus and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.… Read More
LEE SALEM by Cathy Guisewite The package of scribbles my mother made me send to a syndicate in 1976 landed on Lee Salem’s desk. Any reasonable person would… Read More
2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the first appearance of everyone’s favorite spinach-munching sailor, Popeye, in E.C. Segar’s celebrated newspaper strip Thimble Theatre. Popeye’s heartthrob, Olive Oyl was… Read More
June 12th, 2019 Re: Response to Editorial Page Editor, James Bennet’s statement: June 10th, 2019. On behalf of the membership of the National Cartoonists Society, the NCS board… Read More
Excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, online comics, newspaper panels, TV animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, book illustration, comic books, magazine feature/magazine illustration, and editorial cartoons, is honored in the NCS Division Awards, which are chosen by specially-convened juries at the chapter level. Read More
CONGRATULATIONS TO STEPHAN PASTIS, winner of the 2018 Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year. STEPHAN PASTIS is the creator of the daily comic strip Pearls Before Swine,… Read More
Click below to see the full guide to the program of events at America’s biggest comic arts festival in Huntington Beach, California, May 17-19, 2019. Read More
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