Seth, Tomine, and Neely have illos among others in today's NY Times Magazine in this article - "Risk Mismanagement" - click o...

Here's another review of Losing Everything by my friend David Lozell Martin: "A novelist's harrowing journey," REVIEW BY P...

"Keeping The Sword Sharp: Talking to the Luna Brothers," By Vaneta Rogers, Newsarama 30 December 2008 .

Whoops. December 28th, p. B8 for anyone who kept the paper. Since all of his Post cartoons are online, I guess it doesn't matter much. ...

Zadzooks was on a videogame last week so I'm not linking to it, but here's 2 of Greg's recommendations: Bennett's Best for t...

See "Four new strips replace low finishers in News Sentinel cartoon lineup," By Susan Alexander, Knoxville News Sentinel Sunday, ...

Since most of the comics news blogs are on holiday hiatus, I'll link to something that has nothing to do with our stated purpose - here&...

QUICK REVIEWS OF COMICS DUE WEDNESDAY 01-07-09 By John Judy AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #582 by Dan Slott and Mike McKone. Spidey’s gotta settle th...

Scott R wrote in noting that one of Nate Beeler's editorial cartoon also made Time's Top 10 List. Good work, Nate.

Nate Beeler's cartoon is number 12 here: "Our 12 (Or So) Favorite Techy Cartoons of 2008," By Jose Fermoso, Wired's Gadge...

At least according to "On the Slate: The Best Editorial Cartoons of '08," By E&P Staff December 30, 2008. I gave up click...

Possibly for the inauguration?

See "Friday Mini Book Review: The Ten Cent Plague," Brian Doherty, Reason.com January 2, 2009. Reason's based in DC, just nor...

2008 COMICS IN THE REARVIEW by John Judy This past year saw no shortage of excellent comics work in spite of a dry-spell of inverse-proport...

David Hagen is reporting that an exhibit of his work is coming to Arlington this spring. I've left a message on his blog asking for det...

"Top 10 Comics of 2008 - Velocity Comics," Brick Weekly January 02, 2009. I haven't been to this store? Anybody have? The lis...

I liked this photo enough to start playing around with it making Zazzle stuff - Available as a postcard - www.zazzle.com/county_fair_heroes_...

All hardcovers will be on sale in Bethesda and Georgetown all month and select ones in the other two stores. BIG PLANET COMICS 4908 Fairmont...

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Kathleen's Tiz Herself Flickr photos site - lots of lovely pictures especially of churches and museums.

If you're a Comicsvore* like I am, you didn't get everything comics-related for the holidays that you really, really needed. Big Pl...

A small exhibit was at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art in 2006, in conjunction with the donation of some artifacts fro...

I got a tip that Big Monkey Comics had a note on their website today that read: NEW COMICS ARE IN! In our last post, we told you we weren...

In "Please bring back 'Curtis'" by Brian Steinberg, Comics Examiner December 31, 2008, Steinberg argues that the annual K...

This book came over the transom a few months ago, and I'm just catching up to reviewing it. This review should also appear in print in t...

In 2006 the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History had an exhibit of lunchboxes, many of which featured comic and cartoon cha...

I always enjoy the new Supernatural Law comic and Batton is one of the nicest guys you'd want to meet at a con. I usually try to buy any...

Hulk, Spider-Man and Superman balloons at the Arlington County Fair, August 2006. I think there's a Jimmy Neutron poking up too. I ran a...

My friend David Martin has a new book out, and it's reviewed by the New York Times. LOSING EVERYTHING By David Lozell Martin 201 pages. ...

One would think that a presidential election year wouldn't be one in which you'd let your political cartoonist go, but apparently I ...

Minor bit from today's newletter - BREAKDOWNS: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman, $27.50 now $18.43 - but th...

Nice review here: Harvey Pekar: Mensch A Review of Harvey Pekar: Conversations by Michael G. Rhode by Paul Buhle, November 20, 2008 Paul Buh...

I didn't see it at the Vienna Metro Station when I got on the train this morning, but it was staring me in the face when I got off at Ga...

I broke out the Credit Crunch game from the Economist today and got destroyed by my 10-year old daughter. My ex-high school teacher of econ...

100_6708 Originally uploaded by mgrhode1 A entomologist contacted Richard Thompson about making a t-shirt from his Richard's Poor Alman...

Dave Barry's annual Year in Review in the Washington Post magazine is illustrated by Our Man Thompson and the pics are on the Post websi...

QUICK REVIEWS FOR COMICS DUE FRIDAY (Not Wednesday) 01-02-09 By John Judy (Why kiss a loved one at midnight when you could be reading comic...

ZADZOOKS: Offbeat holiday offerings Joseph Szadkowski Washington Times Thursday, December 25, 2008. I really like Paul Dini's Jingle Belle.

"Fave Fan Anecdotes: 'Pickles' & 'Candorville'," By Michael Cavna, December 26, 2008.

This is a pretty good article - "Prototype: The Comics Are Feeling the Pain of Print," By LESLIE BERLIN, New York Times December ...

Baltimore's Greg LaRocque has an interview on Newsarama. LaRocque was one of my favorite DC artists in the late 80s, and I got to meet ...

Cartoonist Darko Macan's blog (in Croatian) and the Ephemerist blog of neat cartoonist bits.

I just stuck a new widget up on the side linking to my friends, on topics that may or may not be comics-related. Check them out. First up is...

Eva Mendes, Looking Through The Layers By Ellen McCarthy Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 26, 2008; WE26

Fave Fan Anecdotes: 'Pearls Before Swine' & 'Hi and Lois' By Michael Cavna | December 25, 2008;

If you're a Comicsvore* like I am, you didn't get everything comics-related for the holidays that you really, really needed. Big Pl...

People aren't liking it much. 'The Spirit': Enough Ham To Lay a Great Big Egg By Carina Chocano Special to The Washington Post T...

Here's my daughter enjoying her Christmas Cul de Sac book. And here's Richard's drawing in it.

Richard's first Cul de Sac collection was number one for the Drawn! blog this year. Of the rest of the picks, I've only read Sempe&...

See "Fave Fan Anecdotes: 'The Buckets' & 'Big Nate'."

Check out Richard's blog for a story of Virginia, Santa Claus and possibly how a thread of talent works through generations.

Librarian Martha Kennedy reports, "Matt Wuerker and Sara Thaves just published Inks Campaign '08 , a book of election cartoons, [w...

Michael Cavna's got two more today - "Fave Fan Anecdotes: 'For Better or For Worse' & Signe Wilkinson" .

Kal sent this note in today and gave his permission to reproduce his excellent Christmas e-card: On December 15 The Baltimore based Stoop St...

And there's an online-only Aqua Teen Hunger Force bit at the Express today - "Hunger Forced: 5 Ridiculous Moments From 'Aqua Te...

I was sorting through some clippings I inherited (so to speak), and ran across these two 1987 Thompson drawings from the August 17th Washing...

Dan Reynolds wrote in a few minutes ago to complement me on the site and ask why he's not mentioned here. I think it's because he ha...

Tom Spurgeon had a link to a Washington Webtoonists group . If you guys are still functional, drop me a line please.

John Read's Stay Tooned mag , a good collection of interviews at a reasonable price, will feature Our Man Thompson on the cover says th...

Cavna mentions one of his anecdotes about being a sports cartoonist, and then gets stories for "Favorite Fan Anecdotes: 'Speed Bump...

Balancing the Cartoonist Washington Post Saturday, December 20, 2008; A15 Dec. 13 Free for All writer Jim Welch proposed that The Post use a...

Guess what I'm giving out for Christmas this year. And here's another satisfied reader - my Dad.

Dean Haspiel did a cartoon for the New York Times Proof blog - Snow Dope - starring himself. A couple of days ago he wrote an entry for the...

The Opinion section has what purports to be "The Year in Cartoons." It's not a very good selection. Steve Brodner illustrates ...

QUICK REVIEWS FOR COMICS DUE 12-24-08 By John “Krampus” Judy (Wishing you and yours a Super Saturnalia and a Sizzlin’ Solstice!) AMERICAN ...

People were mocking an Australian judge for declaring that cartoons using the Simpsons children in sexual situations wasn't just bad tas...

"The Mouse That Bored: 'Despereaux' Delivers Exquisite Technology -- Storytellers Simply Failed To Affix a Proper Tale," ...

The New Yorker is selling prints of the drawing of Obama as FDR that Richard did for them a few week ago.

The subject line "Kal designs new board game" sucked me right into the email: If your financial indicators are looking down, there...

This is a fun little story about a quirky small budget Superman movie being made in India, although I'm sure that the Time-Warner lawyer...

Tom Chalkley, whose work I've seen in the Baltimore City Paper and who spoke at SPX/ICAF years ago has a caricature poster on Baltimore ...

"ZADZOOKS: Superhero gift ideas in comics, figures and video games; At play in comics, film worlds," Joseph Szadkowski, Washingto...

Some of the advertising material for the Spirit movie that was distributed to comic book shops. That's a temporary lipstick tattoo, a se...

Yesterday and today - "The Interview: 'Candorville' Cartoonist Darrin Bell" By Michael Cavna | December 17, 2008; "...