Luann’s Weird Dream, Len Brown remembered, Graeme MacKay and The Rex Babin Award, The Baltimore Sun continues its A.I. obscenity, former McClatchy cartoonist Joel Pett on Newspaper Deathwatch, Big Nate Romance Comics, a P.C. Vey eulogy. The following is an eclectic collection of a few articles that can be considered updates to items posted here […]
As they say, timing is everything. They usually say it about comedy, but it’s obviously a factor in political cartooning and here’s a pair of cartoons that had everything except good timing, and, in the case of Megan Herbert’s piece, it’s a very rare case in which the time difference between Australia and the United […]
Featuring the comics of Milt Gross, Denys Wortman, Gus Arriola, Walt McDougall, and Charles M. Schulz partnered with Len Wein and Walt Simonson. Milt Gross in Action Steve Smith at his Panels & Prose discusses the action comic strips of Milt Gross. “One of the basic joys of comics is every artist inventing their own […]
The Phantom creator Lee Falk told readers a little bit of what happened before that first panel above and a lot, 66 years worth, of what happened after the second panel above, but nothing of the events between those two panels. That lapse of history bothered the current writer of The Phantom comic strip. Says […]
It is the elephant, not the president, who hesitates to dive into an empty pool. They’ve followed him faithfully since his first inauguration, but Republicans have been scrubbing their websites of mentions of Dear Leader and several of them found places they needed to be instead of the half-empty halls of Trumpapalooza. They’re not eager […]
BigGo Finances has reported that the webcomic hosting site Tapas is shuttering: “South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment is terminating service for Tapas, the North American webtoon platform it acquired for approximately ₩1.1 trillion (approximately $809.6 million). The ambitious 2021 investment, intended as a beachhead for the North American market, is effectively being written off just five […]
Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek took home this year’s Inktspotprijs (Inktspot Prize). The award goes to the best political cartoon during the parliamentary year.The judges remarks for Woldhek’s cartoon says, “with an impressive drawing style, the draughtsman combines the grimness and humor in an aesthetically insane image that no longer disappears from your retina.”Honorable mentions this […]
The recent news of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists awards and their commingling with the Society of Illustrators (SoI) has prompted The Daily Cartoonist to list most of the rest of that Society’s 2026 awards, adding to the group’s 2026 Hall of Fame honors that were reported earlier this year. The 2026 Hamilton King […]
I wasn’t going to do any Trump vs. the Press cartoons today, having pretty well exhausted the topic for a while, but Telnaes introduces a new character that cracks me up.The term “work wife” came up with George W and Condoleezza Rice, and I have no doubt that W was faithful to his wife and […]
New Zealand cartoonist and designer Peter Bromhead has passed away. Peter Bromhead May 31, 1933 – August 25, 2026 From Gavin Ellis at Knightly Views: “Peter Bromhead, the cartoonist who has died at the age of 93, would have appreciated the irony in the fact that his only newspaper obituary of any substance was written […]
Andy Donato’s rejected cartoon, P. C. Vey’s last(?) New Yorker cartoon, The Baltimore Sun goes both ways with artificial intelligence, Michael de Adder joins The Order of The Skull Ring. Andy Donato’s Rejected Cartoon Led to Retirement In a move reminiscent of Ann Telnaes quitting The Washington Post a relative of Andy Donato is saying […]
We discussed Dear Leader’s open warfare on the news yesterday, but it’s hardly a one-day story, and Lewis continues her own coverage, with the additional aspect of men in black removing news companies that don’t provide the Truth, which is capitalized because it’s a trademarked product, not a common noun. Notice that she has Truth […]
The Jan. 12 – Jan. 17, 1942 proof sheet for King of the Royal Mounted is missing from the King Features files. Here are those missing strips. The Zane Grey name attached to King of the Royal Mounted was only for promotional/publicity purposes. Grey had nothing to do with the comic strip though presumably he […]
Gil Thorp: three panels, 18 words, 5 word breaks; Sally Forth: three panels, 63 words, no hyphens used. I don’t know who letters the Gil Thorp comic strip but there was plenty of room to elongate the word balloons, reducing the height and doing away with splitting words. And that last word balloon – breaking […]
An Association of Political Artists The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists 2026 convention is winding up today with a meet and greet at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento as part of CrockerCon. Saturday night the cartoonists gathered at the Sacramento History Museum for the “Awards Reception.” Graeme MacKay won “The Rex Babin Memorial Award […]