1. First, I moved my portfolio website away from Adobe Portfolios since those websites offer zero protections from AI image scraping. In fact there was a time when Adobe was scraping portfolios and behance accounts as a way to train their Firefl…

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To help further this goal, what follows is an ongoing list of my favorite artists and art related stacks.

I could have done an extended drill down to describe each newsletter, but instead I left it up to you to discover what tickles your fancy. Explore them all and have fun.

Cartoonists (Political, Editorial, Comic, Humor, or Other)

• A Cartoon Every Thursday - Katherine Bettis

• The Amazing Zoot & Algy - Lee Arnold

• Audry Without an E - Audry Nicklin

• Be relentless: a creative life - Nolan Green

• Blind Squirrel Comics/Xion Studios - Charlie McElvy

• The Bob - Bob Eckstein

• Bors Comics - Matt Bors

• Bow Tie Press - Jamie Jones

• Political Cartoons & Comic Strips by Darrin Bell

• Danny Hellman Illustration

• Day Dronk - Delaney Gibbons

• Cartoons by Hillary - Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

• Comic and More - Rina Piccolo

• Comic Book Odyssey - Ulysses

• The Cosmic Gutter - Anthony Woodward

• Courtney Anne’s Newsletter - Courtney Anne Vocal

• Creating Comics - K. Woodman-Maynard

• Dean Haspiel’s Newsletter - Dean Haspiel

• Dove Square Comix - Caleb Collins

• Drawn By Tom - Tom Chitty

• Escape from Clowntown Comics - E.R. Flynn (What? You think I wouldn’t list myself?)

• Evil Inc. - Brad Guigar

• Finding My Inner Panda - Anne Belov

• The Fractured Heart - Brian Mannell

• The Grickle Substack - Graham Annable

• Incindental Comics - Grant Snider

• The Ink Stained Wretch - Tom Richmond

• The Keef Knight Project - Kieth Knight

• The Greater Quiet - Steve Brodner

• Maddy Not Mommy - Maddy Buck

• Mark Fiore's Cartoon Update - Mark Fiore

• My View from Here…and Before - Dave Sattler

• New York Cartoons - Jason Chatfield

• Never Not Nervous - Brooke Barker

• Rono64 Comics - Ron Gravelle

• The New Futurists - Ben Bolling

• The Norm - Norm Rockwell

• Open Windows - Ann Telnaes

• Pat’s Substack - Pat Higgins

• Pen Strokes - Nick Anderson

• Rachelle’s Comic Corner - Rachelle Meyer

• Sandra Bell-Lundy: My Cartooning Life

• David Sattler

• Substack Lightning - J.C. Duffy

• Seeing Things - Liza Donnelly

• Serio Comics - David Cowen

• The Steckley Stack - Ed Steckley

• Sweater Weather - Michael Sweater

• Teal Cartoons - Face Ache - Adrian Teal

• The Tom The Dancing Bug Review - Ruben Bolling

• Toonstack - Assorted Cartoonists

• Uncouth Comics - Roseanne Thorne

• Weirdo Poetry - Jason McBride

• Woke Political Cartoonist - DoRano

• THE deEP STATE : The political artwork of Michael de Adder

• The World of Jimmy Robinson - Jimmie Robinson

• The Awesome Shannon Wheeler Newsletter - Shannon Wheeler

• Audry Without An E - Audry Nicklin

• Yuck! Travel Magazine - Mark Scott Ricketts

• - Zoe Si

Click here for a list of even more cartoonists that was compiled by the folks at AutoGraphix and Soft things!

International Cartoonists

• Newsletter Do Aran - Edson Aran - Brazil

• Amorim Cartoons! - Amorim - Brazil

• Andre Carrilho -Portugal

• Cartoonist E. Cook - New Zealand

• Fábio’s Moon Base - Fabio Moon - Brazil

• +Humor - Brazilian Humor and Cartoons

• Betje’s Comics - Betje - The Netherlands

• Margreet’s Comics - Margreet De Heer - The Netherlands

• Alex Hallat’s Illustrated Epistle - Alex Hallat - New Zealand

• Editorial Cartoons by Alesh - Ebun Aleshinloye - Nigeria

Illustrators (Editorial, Children’s Books, Urban Sketching, Journalism and Other)

• A.W. Sketching with Sue Clancy - Sue Clancy

• An Artist's Life - Sandi Hester

• The Accidental Expert - Kyle T. Webster

• Authorstrator - Meghan McIsaac

• Catherine’s Studio - Catherine Rayner

• Colleen Doran’s Funny Business - Colleen Doran

• Dandelion Seeds - Candace Rose Rardon

• Danny Hellman Illustration

• Digital India Ink - Jose Marzan Jr.

• Finding My Inner Panda - Anne Belov

• Illustrated Journalism - Bill Russell

• Nadia’s Nook - Nadia Salomon - London Ladd (illustrator)

• On The Spot - Gabi Campanario

• Pat’s Substack - Pat Higgins

• Pencil Pals - Helen Stephens

• Paint Here - James Gurney

• Rono64 Comics - Ron Gravelle

• The Ink Stained Wretch - Tom Richmond

• See You - Carolyn Yoo

• The SneakyArt Post - Nishant Jain

• The Steckley Stack

• Teal Cartoons - Face Ache

Newsletters devoted to Illustration and its Creative Pursuit

• The Accidental Expert - Kyle T. Webster

• Notes on Illustration - The Illustration Department

• Illustrated Journalism - Bill Russell

• Paint Here - James Gurney

• The Habit of Art - Kelcey Ervick

Newsletters devoted to Cartoonists, Comics & their Creative Life

• Autobiographix Amaris Ketcham and Nora Hickey

• Be relentless: a creative life - Nolan Green

• Beyond the Process - Shane Patrick White & Lance Laspina

• Comic Book Odyssey - Ulysses

• Jack Kirby: The King of Comics

• Omar Morales on comic books and writing

• Pulp Empire - Nicholas Ahlhelm

• The New Futurists - Ben Bolling

• Serio Comics - David Cowen

• Toonstack - Assorted Cartoonists

I hope you find this list helpful. If you think I overlooked your newsletter and you’d like to be listed, please feel free to reach out to me via chat or in the comments of this post.