The NCS Reuben Awards is celebrating 80 years this coming Friday! That’s Garry Trudeau at the podium having just won the 1995 Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. Behind Garry Trudea is Harry Devlin on the left and Mort Walker on the right. Side note - Need help identifying the guy to the far left!

Stopped by the Powderhorn Park Art Fair in Minneapolis yesterday. Continues today (August 2nd) 10-5pm. Beautiful weather and amazing stuff on display! More info at the following link. www.powderhornartfair.com

Emerson quote for the week via Arnold’s Pump Club. This is a nonpaid endorsement. 😁 arnoldspumpclub.com

Tired of seeing people using AI to mimic (i.e. rip off) a popular artist's style for their book cover/advertisement/whatever. Can't draw or design yourself? Hire someone. And if you don't have the money to hire someone, using a program that steals from, then devalues an artist, is not the answer.

FYI that registration just opened for a kids class in cartooning I’ll be teaching this fall at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Date: Saturdays, Sep 26 - Nov 14, 2026 Time: 9:30–11:30 a.m. CST Open to students ages 9–12 Location: In person at MCAD More info at... tinyurl.com/bp8rhn7j

it’s just been announced that the Joe Kubert School is now a part of the County College of Morris. I’m a Kubert School Alum (class of ’89) so this brings up a lot of memories. Got a chance to visit the school when it moved from Dover just last year - here’s some pics. www.patreon.com/JimKeefe/pos...

It’s official, Francesco’s inspiration for the “Dinosaurs in Upside-Down Cadillac Ranch” was a combination of the Cadillac Ranch in Texas and The Cabazon Dinosaurs in California (and their cameo in “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure”) – NOT the cadillacs and dinosaurs in Mark Schultz’s Xenozoic Tales. 😁

This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?

FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.

President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.

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And as the Sally Forth summer storyline draws to a close, Ted finally gets to visit the "Dinosaurs in Upside-Down Cadillac Ranch.” More at comicskingdom.com/sally-forth

It’s Dave Stevens’s birthday (July 29, 1955)! More Rocketeer on my Patreon at www.patreon.com/JimKeefe/pos...

This is the time of year that I’d usually be prepping for the Autoptic Festival. Since it’s been postponed a year, Here's a quick trip down memory lane... www.patreon.com/JimKeefe/pos...

Autoptic 2015 | Jim Keefe

Since the Autoptic Festival has been postponed until next year, Here's a quick trip down memory lane - back to the 2015 Autoptic Festival...

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Never know who you’re going to run into at the San Diego Comic Con. Here’s iconic artists John Romita Sr. and Jim Mooney from 1998 - the first and only SDCC I ever attended. More pics at www.patreon.com/JimKeefe/pos...

On the newsstand... Spider-Man magazine/comics. Even includes a Steve Ditko pinup! 💚

40 years ago this summer I was preparing to move out east to go to the Joe Kubert School. It was one of the few schools of its kind back in the day. Lots of schools that teach cartooning have popped up since, here's a list of a few from my Patreon... www.patreon.com/JimKeefe/pos...

"The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists" is a feature on the Daily Cartoonist where artists highlight other cartoonists/artists they admire. It’s very cool and you should check it out! 🎉 www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/ca...

The 10+ Cartoonists Who Influenced Lynn Johnston

To call Lynn Johnston a legend would undersell her influence on newspaper comic strips. Her strip For Better or for Worse launched in 1979 and quickly became one of the most widely syndicated comic st...

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Throwback Thursday #TBT - That time Ted tried to hire a prostitute. The previous sentence is called clickbait. Here’s the link... www.patreon.com/JimKeefe/pos...

There is so little accountability for all the crimes our pedophile president commits that this was nice to see today. www.npr.org/2026/07/14/n...

E. Jean Carroll receives $5.6 million from Trump in sexual abuse and defamation case

The payment comes three years after a jury found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.

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I keep reflecting on the MIA exhibit currently on display entitled, Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1918-1945. The following is a wood cut created by Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945). Echos of recent ICE raids here in Minneapolis abound. More pics from the exhibit on my Patreon at patreon.com/JimKeefe

I love that they reprint these beauties from the 70s.

With how crappy things have been here in the US, finding comfort this holiday weekend in Jack Kirby's Captain America. More Jack Kirby, and my attempt at recreating a Jack Kirby cover drawing, on my Patreon at patreon.com/JimKeefe

Plymouth Turismo Hatchback from today’s time travel story in Sally Forth. More at comicskingdom.com/sally-forth

Went out today to pay my respects to where Alex Pretti and Renee Good were shot dead by ICE Agents. Trump’s crew is of the mind they got what they deserved and has blocked investigations, so no justice forthcoming anytime soon. I take solace in that there's no statute of limitations for murder.

Heads up that Groovy’s Minneapolis is now at 4408 Nicollet! A sensational secondhand store. Here’s just a couple pics…

This beautiful Bad Bunny print just arrived. Mary C. Bruno down at Bruno Press does old-school analog letterpress printing. I mean, how cool is that?! Check out more at www.mcbrunopress.com

Earlier this month the International Comic Salon in Erlanger, Germany had an exhibit featuring ICE Out comics. Lars von Törne, a journalist at the German newspaper Tagesspiegel, generously shared video and pictures of the event. Here's a link - www.patreon.com/JimKeefe/pos... #iceoutcomics

Throwback Thursday - My trip to Mile High Comics in Denver, Colorado. www.patreon.com/JimKeefe/pos...

Here I thought I was drawing Paula Abdul, but a big shout out to Meta AI for correcting me - it was actually Reba McEntire! Makes me think all those AI data centers destroying the environment are worth it. 😑

Thanks to David Stroh at King Features for going that extra mile coloring the poster on Hilary’s wall in today’s Sally Forth.

Life is hard. Try not to beat yourself up so much by counting the wins you’ve had - big or small. www.patreon.com/JimKeefe/pos...

Counting Wins to Offset Losses | Jim Keefe

As I deal with rejection all the time as a freelancer, here's a little advice when life is beating you up. Make a point of counting your win

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Forever thankful for libraries with great graphic novel sections. Here's a cool one I just picked up. Century’s End by writer Pierre Christin and artist Enki Bilal. Circa 2016, Titan Books. I'm woefully ignorant of so many fantastic comic books done outside of the U.S. - Working on correcting that.