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'I'LL NEVER BE Andrew Wyeth' the late Charles M. Schulz often lamented, referring to the famed American artist. This, from the man whose comic strip 'Peanuts,' over the course of [...]

AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, AMERICAN ICONS REVEALED One afternoon in 1988, Wendy Wick Reaves, curator of prints and drawings at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, was poring through aged [...]

The image we have of the Georgian world as a rowdy, scatological, fractious place is largely down to two artists, William Hogarth and James Gillray. While Hogarth, with his 'modern [...]

Ever wonder what your favorite cartoonists drew when they were in school? Now you can find out. The ToonSeum, located inside the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, has opened two new [...]

By Dominic Lutyens Multidisciplinary is a much-vaunted word today, but, arguably, the early 20th century term 'polymath' was more ambitious and all- encompassing. Take Jean Cocteau - poet, novelist, filmmaker, [...]

'Peanuts' comics are in reruns, but 'Peanuts' characters are in the running. People can go to PeanutsRocksTheVote.com to vote for Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, or Sally for president. Participants [...]

An exhibit called 'Tales From The Farside' is running through Aug. 28 in Miami. The show -- loosely based on 'The Far Side' comic by Gary Larson -- features drawings, [...]

Gary Varvel's editorial cartoons, paintings, and other work will be exhibited at the Jewish Community Center in Indianapolis. The show starts with an Aug. 7 evening event and continues through [...]

Editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett's work will be displayed from Aug. 4 to Sept. 4 at the Jewish Cultural Center in Chattanooga, Tenn. And Bennett -- whose Chattanooga Times Free Press [...]

Check out Tuesday's highlights from newspaper Web sites. 'Dark Knight Versus 'The Hulk,' Part 2: The First ScreeningCartoon AnimationNew Jersey Star-Ledger Check out the animated sequel to 'Dark Knight Versus [...]

An exhibit of late cartoonist Howie Schneider's work will run from this Thursday to Aug. 21 at the Highland Museum in Truro, Mass. Schneider was doing 'The Sunshine Club' comic [...]

The ToonSeum announced that it will host a cartoon exhibit about Pittsburgh's mayors to mark the city's 250th birthday. 'Drawn to the Hive' is scheduled to run from Aug. 9 [...]

An exhibit called 'Just Kidding Around!: Children in Cartoons and Comics' will open June 7 at the ToonSeum in the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. The show -- which runs through [...]

An exhibit called 'Lines of Humor, Shades of Controversy: A Century of Student Cartooning at UNC' is being held at the University of North Carolina's Wilson Library in Chapel Hill. [...]

The work of Green Bay (Wis.) Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist Joe Heller will be exhibited from April 19 to Sept. 7 at Green Bay's Neville Public Museum. More than 200 of [...]

Submissions are being sought for a Kenyan cartoon exhibit about the post-election violence in that country. Organizing the 'Picking Up the Pieces' show are the Association of East African Cartoonists, [...]

The Charles M. Schulz Museum of Santa Rosa, Calif., will hold an exhibit called 'The Language of Lines: How Cartoonists Communicate' from Feb. 2 through Aug. 11. Visual shorthand in [...]

Several cartoonists will autograph their latest Andrews McMeel Publishing collections tomorrow in the AMP booth at Book Expo America, which is being held in New York City's Jacob Javits Center. [...]

An exhibit called 'The Art of Dick Tracy: 75 Years of Crooks, Dames and Fedoras' will open June 22 at the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock, Ill. The show [...]

The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is holding its third annual fundraiser and silent art auction on April 5. Original cartoons for sale will include the work of Lalo [...]

An exhibit of the work of Marcus Hamilton is running through March 19 at Barton College in Wilson, N.C. The 1965 Barton alumnus is one of the cartoonists who works [...]

For two decades, a group of artists have been using images from comics and animation as their springboards for abstraction. Yolanda Zappaterra looks at a new exhibition in the US [...]

They are the underdogs of the art world, kings of the funnies, masters of the scratchy pen-and-ink drawing and the word balloon. Comic-strip artists and graphic novelists specialize in pranks [...]

Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) lived for 100 years. I bet as a kid he drew ma and pa with the same easy line. No one draws like this now - it's [...]

The Studio Museum in Harlem hosted an event to celebrate 'Hirschfeld's Harlem', an exhibition of line drawings by the late caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. The exhibition was held in February 2004 and in addition to Hirschfeld exhibit, the museum also mounted a show called Harlemworld: Metropolis A Metaphor.

ROY HATTERSLEY canvasses for the funny men of political caricature A couple of weeks ago, the main cartoon in the London Evelling Standard was a crude drawing of John Prescott's [...]

'Peanuts,' as it nears its 50th birthday Oct. 2, is the subject of an Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library exhibit slated to last until Jan. 19. The library will [...]

A New Show Hails Edward Sorel, Whose Caricatures Have Spoofed Or Skewered Celebrities Of Every Stripe "There was a lot of yelling," says Edward Sorel of his childhood in the […]