Tuesday, May 5, 2026

May 5th is National Cartoonist Day !

 Yes, it's National Cartoonist Day and probably the best way to acknowledge that is with B. Kliban's now-iconic cartoon:

Here's a salute to ink slingers of days gone by:

Milton Halladay

One of America's greatest cartoonists, Art Young

British cartoonist Harry Furniss

19th Century political cartoonist Bernhard Gillam

Abe Savrann

Charles Dana Gibson

Kate Carew

And Kate's brother Gluyas Williams

Ernest Peixotto as drawn by Jimmy Swinnerton

The great British cartoonist David Low

Bill Mauldin as drawn by caricaturist, Irma Selz

Golden Age comic book pioneer, Lillie Renee and husband gag cartoonist Eric Peters

Harry Lambert, gag cartoonist and Golden Age comic book artist

Jon Cornin + Zena Kavin = Corka

The amazing and multi-faceted F. G. Cooper

Caricaturist Aline Fruhauf

Magazine cartoonist Mary Gibson

Tony Sarg

Magazine cartoonist Dorothy McKay

New Yorker cartoonist, Richard Taylor

Humorous illustrator, Arnold Roth

Editorial cartoonist, Etta Hulme

Mel Tubby Millar

Disney gagster, Roy Williams

Don Martin, in a class by himself

EC comic book legend, John Severin

Fellow EC artist, Johnny Craig drawn by Marie Severin

Comic book veteran Kurt Schaffenberger

I always like to include this self-portrait by Superman artist, Curt Swan

Underground comix pioneer, Joel Beck

Peggy Bacon as drawn by Aline Fruhauf

Victor 'Vicky' Weisz


The legendary Herblock by Aline Fruhauf

and Al Johns
It's tough times now to be a cartoonist.
A salute to all who struggle on to ply the trade.

Friday, May 1, 2026

More of “Anthology of Unknown Music, vol.1” currently at the Bolinas Museum


This explains what the exhibit is about:

In our previous posting of Sonny Smith's group show, “Anthology of Unknown Music, vol.1”, we didn't have shots of a lot of the work (there are dozens of artists involved).

This round is probably incomplete as well (our apologies to any missing artists) but it still serves to give you an idea. 


Sonny Smith

John Gnorski

Yuske Okada

Jason Jagel

Shannon Shaw

Nathaniel Russell

Barry McGee

Ben Venom

Jon Bernson

Sonny Smith

Krusty Wheatfield

Juan Luna-Avin

Kyle Field

Sonny Smith

Chris Johanson

Sonny Smith

Kyle Field

Squeak Carnwath

Kyle Field

Sonny Smith
Sonny Smith

The show remains at the Bolinas museum until May 17th


Artwork copyright respective artists