A 64-Page Celebration of Comics, Chaos, and Questionable DecisionsFrom a DC press release: DC is proud (and slightly concerned) to announce MAD About DC, a 64-page one-shot arriving April 1, 2026. Yes, April 1. And no, this isn’t a prank—unless you count letting Chip Zdarsky run this thing as its Guest Editor a prank on […]
Leman No More From Balkan Insight: For 40 years the weekly satirical magazine Leman was published in Turkey. But on June 26, a cartoon appeared depicting Gaza under fire and featuring two figures named Muhammed and Musa [Moses]. Five employees were arrested; the editor-in-chief could not be, however, as he was abroad. Meanwhile, prison sentences ranging […]
Cartooning is a big interest here, but there are other diversions. The American Revolution being one. Bonus is when the two merge. The November 2025 issue of The Atlantic (more specifically here) gets an early jump on the 250th anniversary of The Revolution. And the issue starts off with a wonderful gatefold cover by Joe […]
Ron Coleman sent out a notice a few days ago that he will no longer produce the Gag Recap infozine, an insider trade journal aimed exclusively at gag writers and gag cartoonists.From Ron: I have decided to discontinue publishing the Gag Recap after the September and October issues. The truth is it just isn’t profitable. […]
With: Joe Caroff and 007; Kevin Kalluagher (KAL) and The Economist; Bill Maher and National Lampoon; TYove Janssen and The Moomins; Doris Carr and Marmaduke; the U. S. Mint and Superman; Joe Staton and Dick Tracy; and Carole Curtis.Joe Caroff – RIPFrom Jeré Longman at The New York Times the Joe Caroff obituary (or here): […]
Comics Kingdom subscription bargain, Cartoon Brew changes hands, Kevin Kallaugher on TV, San Diego Comic-Con panels of interest, Comics Revue ends after 42 years, seeking lost Eartha comic strips by John M. Burns, what some of those strange items advertised in old comic books really were, and a reminder to get your Reuben Playbill ad.Comics […]
Guilford College’s Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR) program is receiving more national recognition. Only this time the attention is coming from an unexpected source: a comic strip. Josh Neufeld, a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times, published a comic strip earlier this month in The Boston Globe that […]
The New Yorker, The Lockhorns, Flash Gordon, Phil Miller, Jim Steranko. Yaakov Kirschen, and John Donohue are in the spotlight.Since Mike ends with a video I’ll start with a video. N.Y.C.’s ROOF Studio partnered with Le Truc, the creative collective within Publicis Groupe, alongside The Condé Nast Creative Marketing Team and Human, to create an […]
Magazine illustrator Mark Zingarelli has passed away. Mark Alan Zingarelli July 11th, 1952 – April 18th, 2025From the obituary: Mark attended The Ivy School of Professional Art for a short period before going to the University of Pittsburgh majoring in art and film-making. He left before graduation to pursue an animation opportunity in San Diego […]
The New Yorker cover artist Gretchen Dow Simpson has passed away. Gretchen Dow Simpson May 17, 1939 – April 11, 2025From The Providence Journal obituary: Gretchen Dow Simpson, the acclaimed painter whose depictions of the American Northeast graced 58 covers of The New Yorker, died peacefully in Providence, Rhode Island on April 11, 2025, surrounded […]
Jason Chatfield, cartoon editor; Tom Toro, exclusive cartoonist; cartooning for School Administrator; cartooning opportunities from The New Gag Recap; The American Bystander and The New Yorker kinship.Reports of the demise of magazine cartooning, other than The New Yorker, are exaggerated. Cartoonist Jason Chatfield also Jason Chatfield Cartoon Editor Cartoonist Jason Chatfield brings news that he […]
Report on 2024 Newspaper Circulation The combined average daily circulation of the 25 largest audited newspapers in the US dropped 12.7% in the year to the end of September 2024, new data shows. The figures, supplied to Press Gazette by the Alliance for Audited Media, show that none of the top US titles increased their […]
Here is a roundup of articles celebrating the 100th Anniversary of The New Yorker’s publishing debut. We at The Daily Cartoonist featured all the editorial drawings and cartoons from that first issue.Others delved into the history of the magazine. Origins Literate in tone, far-reaching in scope, and witty to its bones, The New Yorker brought […]
On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, the Jeopardy television game show featured “The New Yorker at 100” as an opening Jeopardy category, with The New Yorker editor David Remnick reading the answers. Here is a closer look at The New Yorker at 100 “answers: And here is David Remnick reading the answers via The New Yorkers […]
The New Yorker has published its 100th Anniversary Issue (scroll down at that link!).The Centennial Issue, dated February 17 & 24, 2025, comes with the original Rea Irvin cover and 5 variants.A highlight is Seth‘s four page illustrated appreciation of cartoonist Rea Irvin. Michael Maslin heralds the issue and notes other highlights: There are shout-outs […]