Despite the feature image and the opening item this is a post about comic strips. Three Days a Week at the Two Party Opera Last month Brian Carroll, after five years of a very erratic and sporadic schedule, has returned his Two Party Opera comic strip to regular thrice weekly appearances. Carroll employs past and […]
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) both grabbed and sparked headlines this week with a brief mention of a Trump aide who, until then, had flown under the radar. He doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace, gifted by the Emir of Qatar.Ossoff certainly […]
Small Press Expo announced the nominees for this year’s Ignatz Awards. The awards recognize the best in independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. Voting opened yesterday to those on SPX’s email list or if you request a ballot. Voting ends Sept. 11 with the winners announced on the 12th during the awards ceremony.Here […]
Former Topps trading card Creative Director Len Brown has passed away. Leonard Albert (Len) Brown October 7, 1941 – August 11, 2026 From the obituary: Born in Brooklyn, New York, Len embarked on a remarkable professional journey shortly after high school when he joined the Product Development Department of Topps Chewing Gum. Over a four-decade […]
A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston’s body. His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away.It used to be fiction, but here we are. America is dotted with cameras, many of them just recording license plates as cars stream […]
Maltese cartoonist and author Ġorġ Mallia has passed away. Ġorġ Mallia November 9, 1957 – August 19, 2026 From Sarah Carabott and The Times of Malta: Academic, cartoonist and author Ġorġ Mallia has died at the age of 68. Mallia served as head of the Department of Media and Communications, where he mentored hundreds of […]
From Laurence Grove at The University of Glasgow: “The World’s First Comic and Its New Digital Format:” The Glasgow Looking Glass, which in its initial run lasted for 17 issues from June 1825 until April 1826, has now, but only recently, been accepted as the world’s first modern comic. What was this satirically brilliant, thoroughly modern, publication […]
One cannot understate the influence Wiley Miller has had on newspaper comics and in ways far beyond artistic style.
There seems to be a contest to see who can draw the best cartoon about ICE agents peeing with their shock gloves on. Bado has several more at his blog, which spares me having to collect an array. I’ll deal with the gloves more seriously tomorrow, but, in the meantime, I would invite you to […]
How many times must a man be named before you award him the prize? For Mark Tatulli it was 13. Sarah Nicell at The Philadelphia Inquirer talks to the local cartoonist who finally took home NCS’s The Reuben (or here). Mark Tatulli doesn’t know what made this year different from the last 12 times the […]
A Roger Langridge interview, a Bill Mauldin/Willie & Joe exhibit, and James Bond and Bolling, Ruben Bolling. Roger Langridge, Cartoonist Extraordinaire A favorite cartoonist of The Daily Cartoonist Roger Langridge is interviewed at DAF Novelties by Danny Ferbert. Your run on Popeye is one of my favorite comic books. Are you a fan of the […]
The proper thing would be to build up to the best, but Anderson nailed Trump’s bizarre embrace of Kim Jong Un and North Korea so well that I’m using it to set the scene. Others picked out aspects to emphasize, and that’s valid, but Anderson wrapped it up in a single package.Putting Trump on Kim’s […]
The New Yorker cartoonist Edward Frascino has passed away. Edward Dominick (Ed) Frascino November 15, 1930 – August 13, 2026 Michael Maslin has learned of Frascino’s passing: Word has reached The Spill this afternoon that the prolific New Yorker cartoonist, Edward Frascino passed away last Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 95 (he would’ve turned […]
Wuerker is right that the GOP is trotting out the tried-and-true fear-mongering that has worked in the past, and I guess we’re going to see how it works today. Certainly, these shopworn insults keep the faithful fired up, but as we watch Trump’s poll numbers slide, and with them, the polls for various old guard […]
Checking in on Letters to the Editor, detective comic books, a Charlie Brown Christmas album at 6X Platinum, an invite to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame ceremony, South Park at 29, and a National Cartoonists Society Reubens jigsaw puzzle. A cartoon from the right prompts a letter from the left. From the Chattanooga […]