This is an installment of 2025 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: The Dearly Departed) THE DEARLY DEPARTED These North American newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2025. David LynchJanuary 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025movie and […]
Bill Day takes what I believe to be an unnecessarily pessimistic look at the year ahead. He’s correct that the gloves are off and that Trump and his fellow travelers are not hiding their ambitions. Homeland Security has posted this declaration of plans to deport 100,000,000 “third world” people and if you need a translator […]
On New Year’s Eve we have a tsunami of political cartoon Best Ofs being issued. We start this round(up) with the Summer (July through September) and Fall (October through December) 2025 picks from The Everett (Wash) Herald who rotates their choices among the Cagle Cartoons cast, including: John Darkow, Michael de Adder, Rick McKee, Dave […]
Good advice from one traditional figure of the new year to another. Some years, the editorial cartoons look forward to progress and improvements, but this isn’t one of those years and nobody has any grand expectations for 2026. It’s also traditional for killjoys like myself to point out that, while a few new laws have […]
As newspapers and cartoonists continue to issue their political cartoon Best Of lists The Daily Cartoonist continues to pass them on to our readers. Just a few today: Jeff Koterba, Jom Richards, and Brandan Reynolds. From Jeff Koterba‘s Substack we get Koterba’s Best 25 of ’25 (with a couple of bonus toons). From Jeff’s introduction: […]
We’re still in the between-times, and the selection of fresh material is limited. I’m sympathetic to Herbert’s idea that the period is a needed break in otherwise unbearable times, mostly because she suggests that, once the New Year’s celebrations are over, we’ll be back to harsh reality. Certainly, I’m sympathetic to the idea of taking […]
Just a few sites today but nearly a score of editorial cartoonists represent. The Everett (Wash) Herald is splitting their best ofs into four parts pretty much following the seasons. 2025’s Best Editorial Cartoons, January through March (or here) and 2025’s Best Editorial Cartoons, April through June (or here) with an all-star cast of Cagle […]
As Christmas season fades, Ramirez asks if there are no prisons, and if the workhouses are still in operation. Scrooge at least conceded that his taxes — however reluctantly — supported those institutions. Ramirez, by contrast, insists that any but minimal support is a form of theft. As noted yesterday, I’ve been reading Barbara Tuchman’s […]
Another new batch of bests and favorite editorial cartoons from the old year. David Horsey presents his “Ten top Trump cartoons from 2025.” From a variety of his outlets comes Nick Anderson’s Best Cartoons of 2025: Part 1 and Part 2. from tc2oons we get the Best Tim Campbell Cartoons of 2025. Kevin KAL Kallaugher […]
In what has to be the cartooning story of the year Ann Telnaes left The Washington Post after they refused to run her cartoon of billionaire oligarchs paying tribute to Donald Trump. Says Ann: When I made my decision to leave, I knew this would be the end of my thirty year career as an […]
Editorial cartoonist Mike Beckom has told The Daily Cartoonist he will be retiring at year’s end: I began this journey over 22 years ago as a way to honor my Dad after he died. He’d taught me to draw when I was 4-5 and always encouraged me to ‘do something with my talents’. Gathering my […]
By now you should have three partridges in pear trees, four calling birds and three French hens, or at least three notices from UPS saying they will be delivered tomorrow and will require signatures, in which case you should keep your eyes open because they’ll be left on the porch in the snow. Meanwhile, we’re […]
It is that time of year when cartoonists, newspapers, and websites pick their favorite (what they call “the best”) editorial cartoons from the previous twelve months. Here are some early “Best of 2025” collections. The retiring, but not shy, Walt Handelsman splits his choices into three categories: New Orleans local (or here) and Louisiana state […]
Bennett’s day-after cartoon would have been easy to nit-pick a year or so ago, because half of us wanted the exchange immediately while half of us were pleased, so using Uncle Sam would have been unfair. However, waking up on Boxing Day to find that he bombed another country and then spewed about 150 screwy […]
Recommended Reading, Public Domain 2026, Cartoonist Writes, Recommended Reading PEN America has released the Longlists for their 2026 Literary Awards The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. The only comics-related book on the various lists is Dan Nadel‘s Crumb: A Cartoonists Life. Filled with comics is […]