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 […]

I’m known to go down a rabbit hole from time to time and many of those threads come from something I saw on social media. Here’s three things I learned this week about Popeye (and billionaires), Marvel Comics Swim Suit Edition, and Will Eisner Mural in Copenhagen.Be a Non-AI Generated PopeyeTom Hientjes‘ reposted a Popeye […]

According to The Independent, Lee Mendelson Film Productions has filed four lawsuits against for entities who allegedly violated copyright in using music without permission. The four entities are the Interior Department, Heritage Auctions, Buckle-Down Inc., GameMill Entertainment. According to the lawsuits, the Interior Department allegedly used Vince Guaraldi’s O Tannenbaum in social media posts and […]

In an effort to promote himself, French National Assembly member and 2027 candidate for President François Ruffin, published a comic book earlier this month but it has come under attack by critics and former allies calling it “uninhibited racism.”From le HuffPost, translated via Google Translate we get a description of the troubling storyline. In one […]

The last turn in events with the Angoulême festival drama is news that the former organizer, 9eArt+, has been placed in judicial liquidation by the Commercial Court of Angoulême. 9eArt+ also reveals that it is €1.6 million in debt. This development is not related to the legal battle between 9eArt+ and l’Association pour le développement […]

Apple TV has announced several new upcoming Peanut features. Season two of “Camp Snoopy” will debut in June, a new special “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy,” will premiere at the end of July, and the Peanuts classics “This Is America, Charlie Brown” and “The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show” will debut in […]

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 […]

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has an opinion piece in today’s issue of Rolling Stone (non-paywall version) on his relationship with Charles Schulz and more so on why Snoopy is an enduring and endearing comic character. It was this haiku-perfect character humor that dazzled Schulz’s peers. In Snoopy, he had created an American archetype – the […]