I’m getting a “shut up and hand over your wallets” vibe from this one, for a number of reasons.One is that nobody voted for this war, and, in fact, Trump was elected on a pledge to keep us out of foreign wars. Not only did the people not vote for it, but their legislators didn’t, […]
The Bryn Mawr-New Yorker Connection Cartoonist Maggie Larson contributed a cartoon to her alma mater’s Bryn Mawr Bulletin and they included a brief profile and an addendum noting Bryn Mawr past cartoons in The New Yorker. Letting Go Jonny Manning for the BBC tells of Peter Hansen thinning his comics collection. Many children collected comic […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization has named Beth Wolfensberger Singer of The Boston Globe winner of their 2026 Cartoon Award as part of this year’s Book and Journalism Awards. In praise of the cartoonist the organization said (at the 23 minute, 20 second mark): Beth Wolfensberger Singer’s work is equal part sardonic and […]
An opinion piece about Prime Minister Narendra Modi (“A clever and slightly annoying man”) in Aftenposten, Norway’s largest daily newspaper, was accompanied by a cartoon that is considered degrading and racist by Indian politicians and citizens. From India’s The Week: A leading Norwegian newspaper is now under fire after it published a cartoon depicting Prime […]
I met my newest granddog yesterday, a little King Charles who is very friendly and has the exuberance of a six-month-old. My own dog, who is not much bigger but is about five years older, at one point told him to cool his jets, which is how puppies learn, but he is a delight and […]
We got Heathcliff and Garfield, Dan Dare and Lance McLane, Detective Dick Tracy and Fred the Clown, and Calvin and Hobbes. Garfield or HeathcliffWizards of the Coast has announced a superdrop of Garfield Secret Lairs. (I have to admit I have no idea what any of that previous sentence, other than Garfield means.) But Peter […]
Apple TV has announced several new upcoming Peanut features. Season two of “Camp Snoopy” will debut in June, a new special “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy,” will premiere at the end of July, and the Peanuts classics “This Is America, Charlie Brown” and “The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show” will debut in […]
In 1995 not-yet Prince Valiant scribe Mark Schultz partnered with never-official Flash Gordon artist Al Williamson to create a two issue Flash Gordon comic book for Marvel Comics. Though he was never the official artist of the comic strip Al Williamson famously drew Flash Gordon at various times from 1966 to 1995 for comic books, […]
Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: “How cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became a Rolling Stone writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has an opinion piece in today’s issue of Rolling Stone (non-paywall version) on his relationship with Charles Schulz and more so on why Snoopy is an enduring and endearing comic character. It was this haiku-perfect character humor that dazzled Schulz’s peers. In Snoopy, he had created an American archetype – the […]
This morning Kickstarter COO Sean Leow posted an apology and announced that the crowdfunding platform has reversed its week-old policy for projects with mature content. The controversial policy was more specific and detailed in what was no longer acceptable and caused outrage with creators who use the platform to fund their NSFW comics. Additionally, Kickstarter […]
Dave Brown, staff cartoonist for the UK’s Independent, has been let go from the newspaper after 30 years. From Dave Brown’s X/Twitter account: The final cartoon; after just under 30 years and something over 6,000 cartoons @Independent are letting me go to save a few quid! Thanks to everyone who followed me and for all […]
I wish more cartoonists had spoken up before Dear Leader reached his out-of-court settlement, but my impression is that it isn’t a done-deal yet, at least in part because his lawyers failed to file the appropriate papers. Which is the sort of thing that happens when you hire people who won’t tell you when you […]
Comic-Con International has responded to the discovery of an Eisner Award nomination that included generative AI work. According to the San Diego Comic Convention organizer, the editor of Stardust the Super Wizard Anthology has withdrawn their submission. The work had been nominated for Best Anthology.Additionally they say had judges known about the AI content they […]
There is an increasing pressure on newspapers to only print cartoons and opinions that are indifferent, mundane, noncontroversial. Cartoons otherwise get letters of disapproval from readers which, in a climate of shrinking subscription bases, scare editors and publishers leading to non-partisan, generic cartoons. Cagle Cartoons posts its best selling cartoons every week and for the […]