First, here’s the Red Card Menace:Just when you think Dear Leader has run out of ways to make everyone in the world hate us, he pulls this. They all laughed at him when he got that stupid pretend Peace Prize, but everybody assumed that was going to be the end of it. As I’ve said […]
Cowboy cartoonist Mike Scott has passed away. George Michael (Mike) Scott December 13, 1952 – July 4, 2026 From the obituary: Mike earned degrees in Animal Science and Agricultural Extension and Education from New Mexico State University before beginning a 27‑year career at Fort Sumner Municipal Schools. As an agriculture, shop, and science teacher, he […]
For nearly 50 years Daryl Cagle has been illustrating. For over 30 of those years he has been an editorial cartoonist and since the year 2000 he has owned and operated Cagle Cartoons, the largest syndicator of editorial cartoonists. Tracy Lehr for KEYT-TV profiles Montecito’s favorite son. “Here is Trump killing PBS and of course […]
While we’re remembering 250 years ago, it was about then that Samuel Johnson wrote “My old friend, Mrs. Carter, could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well as compose a poem.”Whatever the quality of Elizabeth Carter’s cooking and sewing, the quality of her scholarship is astonishing, […]
Genesis 4:8 – Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go for a walk.” (Contemporary English Version) Unlike today’s Pearls Before Swine, which I instantly figured out what was going on, it took a double take for me to transliterate the words in Pluggers to names and figure out what was what. Bragging rights: I […]
I wasn’t going to revisit Trump’s state fair or run anymore July 4 cartoons, but Deering’s commentary is not only funny but thought-provoking, combining Dear Leader’s mentally-questionable assumption that the world revolves around him with the growing sense that fewer and fewer people care. He’s still got an active sucker list, but he’s losing some […]
For a number of reasons the semiquincentennial of The Declaration of Independence does not seem to be celebrated as hardily as was the bicentennial fifty years ago. Not the least of which is that multiples of 100 is a bigger deal than multiples of 50. Back in the day the comic book industry was more […]
The Bicentennial was a big deal and we prepared for it all year. Time magazine even put out a special edition, based on the news of that week in 1776, not only covering the political activities in the Colonies but, as the magazine might have, what was going on around the world in science and […]
Drew Litton’s Slippery Slopes, Dan Thompson’s Comic Stew, G.B. Trudeau and Nicole Hollander and Doonesbury, In Person: Keith Knight, Phil Hands’ Mendota Marsh, The Sunday Post comics are Inkredible, and then it’s decision time: Mickey or Snoopy? Drew Litton Presents… Drew Litton’s Beyond the Drawing Board Substack presents a baker’s dozen of Slippery Slopes comic […]
“Let facts be submitted to a candid world.” Your brain prefers print over pixels. How to sell cartoons to The New Yorker. Unauthorized paintings created on boulders along a beach create controversy. Get rich with comics royalties. Your Brain Prefers to Read on Paper Rather Than on Screens Jessica Stillman writes for Inc.: E-books have […]
One of today’s major themes is how you balance celebration with reasonable criticism. Jennings offers a disapproving State of the Union illustration that demonstrates how our current administration, and thus our nation, is seen overseas. His major criticism is the profiteering, with bags of cash and crypto, stacks of bills and money dangling over the […]
2027 will be the semicentennial of Sandra Boyton‘s first board book and The New York Times is getting a jump on celebrating the anniversary. Brian Goedde extols the virtues of Boynton and her books or here. Now that Boynton’s books have crossed generations of child-rearing, they deserve another look. We can start with “Hippos Go […]
Matt Golding, Australia; Carlos Latuff, Brazil; Ricardo Sánchez Bobadilla, Mexico Matt Golding Streamline Feed goes “Inside the Mind of Matt Golding” The sharp scratch of a pen against paper often carries more political weight than an entire parliamentary debate. For decades, Melbourne-based artist Matt Golding has leveraged that exact power, using his minimalist, razor-sharp illustrations […]
This is the day the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence. July 4 is the day they announced it. One of the great “Who cares?” of history.It turns out John Adams cared, according to this 1976 clipping I found when I was looking for Bicentennial stuff (stay tuned). You have to bear in mind […]
GoComics’ newsletter reports that after nearly 35 years Wiley Miller will cut his daily workload in half. Starting this week, Wiley Miller is adjusting his workload on his classic satire strip, “Non Sequitur.” New strips will still run Mondays and Wednesdays; Tuesday through Saturday will feature selected reprints pulled from the archive, starting with February 2000. […]