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https://editorialcartoonists.com/ted-ralls-new-graphic-novel-out-in-april/March 5, 2021- Cartoonist and raconteur Ted Rall has written a new graphic novel that asks: what if a journalist decided it was more profitable to use his contacts to start wars instead of covering them? “The Stringer,” out next month from NBM, is a sprawling, dark fantasy that reads like Syriana met Confessions of...
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https://editorialcartoonists.com/long-story-short-arrives/June 26, 2020- Don’t have time to read Moby-Dick? Given up on ever finishing War and Peace? No problem! “Long Story Short” is due to drop in July. The high-concept tome, by the low-brow Mr. Fish & Friends, boils classic novels down to a single panel cartoon. Most of the entries are by...
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https://editorialcartoonists.com/tom-the-dancing-bug-celebrates-30-years-with-2-new-titles/June 12, 2020- If you love Tom the Dancing Bug, you’ll probably like the pair of new books celebrating the 30th anniversary of the strip. But you NEED TO PREORDER BY JUNE 30 to get your copies. AND they’re only available online! The books will be out in mid-August 2020. Click here to...
The Nib launches new Kickstarter | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/the-nib-launches-new-kickstarter/May 22, 2020- The Nib has launched a Kickstarter for their latest book — Greetings From the Wasteland — a collection of all the chaos from the Trump years. Support this new volume and relive every stupid, stupid moment of the last 4 years.  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thenib/greetings-from-the-wasteland/...
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https://editorialcartoonists.com/gary-huck-and-mike-konopacki-publish-their-last-collection/April 3, 2020- On the heels of the news that Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki would shut down their long-running labor cartoon syndicate, the duo announced “Torn,” the last collection of their editorial cartoons. “After 37 years of syndicating Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons to unions and newspapers, these Wisconsin-bred practitioners of pushback, parody, and...
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https://editorialcartoonists.com/hot-cartoonist-on-cartoonist-action-in-new-book-on-canadian-cartoonist/March 27, 2020- Canadian cartoonist Terry Mosher (better known by his pen name Aislin) has written a new book on Duncan Macpherson, one of the best cartoonists to come out of Canada in the 20th Century. “Professional Heckler” is the first biography of Macpherson, “a formidable and groundbreaking artist, he was also an alcoholic who...
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https://editorialcartoonists.com/the-bane-of-british-politicians-gerald-scarfe-has-a-new-book/March 20, 2020- While perhaps best known in America as the dude who did the art for Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Gerald Scarfe is celebrated across the pond as one of Great Britain’s greatest —and most vicious— political cartoonists (I mean, just look at this caricature of Margaret Thatcher!—ed). Scarfe recounts his 60-year-career...
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https://editorialcartoonists.com/remembering-the-world-of-jak-smyrl/March 13, 2020- If you grew up in South Carolina, you might remember Jak Smyrl, the first staff cartoon for The State in Columbia, SC. His life and career played out against the backdrop of the 20th century, and is now the subject of a biography, “The World of Jak Smyrl: South Carolina...
Randy Bish helps revive classic comic strip character | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/randy-bish-helps-revive-classic-comic-strip-character/March 2, 2020- Editorial cartoonist Randy Bish is part of duo that is reviving The Yellow Kid —the first comic strip, and the source of the term “Yellow Journalism”— for the 21st century. The former long-time staffer for the Tribune Review drew the iconic character for a new book, “Hully Gee It’s The Yellow...
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https://editorialcartoonists.com/tom-the-dancing-bug-does-the-two-step/March 6, 2020- Whoa nelly — Tom the Dancing Bug is turning 30 this year! In celebration, cartoonist Ruben Bolling (aka Ken Fisher) is releasing not one but TWO topical collections of his alt-weekly comic strip. “Into the Trumpverse” collects his Donald-centric cartoons from 2016-2019, while “The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader” gathers together every...
