I don’t know that people overseas have a clearer view of our situation, but perhaps it’s easier to laugh at existential dread when you’re observing from afar. Not that there isn’t concern about the effects, because what happens in the United States certainly doesn’t stay in the United States, but what distance there is between […]

For reasons unexplained (greed?) Lee Enterprises is insisting on unheard of compensation from any library that will accept David Fitzsimmons’ editorial cartoons archive. From David Fitzsimmons Substack comes the details: For years, Lee Publishing, owner of The Arizona Daily Star, has been blocking me from donating my professional life’s work to my hometown Alma mater, […]

The death of Pat Oliphant brought immediate tributes from friends and colleagues. Those very early first responses have been followed with an astounding amount of words or pictures or both honoring the master of editorial cartooning. An outpouring of respect, appreciation, and love unseen since the passing of Charles Schulz. Michael de Adder brought a […]

The level of exaggeration in German’s cartoon depends on where you live. In some parts of the Northeast US, the skies really have reached a level of orange haze through which a blood-red sun could barely peek. In others, the smoke from Canadian wildfires is less visible, but that doesn’t make it less evident in […]

Newspapers.com with their 30 day delay has caught up with the June 13, 2026 end of Big Nate dailies. Unfortunately the Advance Publication papers ran an advertisement for the Sunday Big Nate during that first week so I still don’t what comic strip, if any, has replaced Big Nate in those daily newspapers. “If any” […]

With FurBabies, Talk Talk Talk, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Cathy, Pearls Before Swine, FoxTrot, and a detour to the sports page. FurBabies Returning Nancy Beiman last month decided to take a sabbatical from her daily FurBabies comic strip. The pause is lasting less than expected. From Nancy’s Substack: I’m bringing the strip back on […]

Rowe once more takes advantage of the time difference between here and Australia to respond to late-breaking news. I don’t imagine many American newspapers will have responses to last night’s speech, either in the form of political cartoons or editorials because most of them go to press about the time Trump was on the air.Print […]

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Propaganda, Cancel Culture, Public Service, Public Remonstration, Cartoons and Cartoonists. Agitprop Animation Members of Parliment are warning of youngsters being victims of propaganda with the animated Masha and the Bear, a Russian animated cartoon aimed at pre-school children. George Francis Lee for The Guardian reminds us that there is a history of animated evangelism. Cartoons […]

Milbrath is not the only observer predicting that tonight’s speech will be about the 2020 elections and Dear Leader’s “proof” that it was stolen. Miles Taylor, who served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the first Trump White House, was the anonymous author of a New York Times op-ed […]

In celebration of the quasquicentennial when California legislators repealed their anti-cartoon law the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has decided to return to that state’s capitol for the organization’s 2026 convention. From the AAEC: This year, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists are taking over California’s capital. We will have an internal schedule for AAEC-members […]

There have been a number of tributes to Pat Oliphant, here we link to some of them. Ann Telnaes writes of her admiration of Pat Oliphant. People will throw around the label of legend in the editorial cartooning profession but Pat Oliphant was truly one. Not only did his editorial cartoons and caricatures slice right […]

Might as well laugh, because between now and the midterms, we’re going to be hearing more about the communists under all our beds.Laughter is the best medicine, I read in Reader’s Digest, and I think it’s also a good purgative. The problem is that Ostow’s cartoon relies on your already knowing how foolish the shouts […]

Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for July 2026 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theatre: The Complete 1919-1920 Dailies E.C. SEGAR’S MASTERPIECE—FROM THE BEGINNING! Olive Oyl and […]

Helene Ragovin for Tufts Now talks to Brian Walker, alum of Tufts University, about comic strips – his and others. “Beetle Bailey” hasn’t missed a day of publication since 1950. Unlike other so-called legacy strips, such as “Peanuts,” which now appear in reruns, “We’re still doing new stuff every day,” said Brian Walker. While comics […]