The elections are essentially over, pending a few squeakers yet to be finalized. It was good to have cartoons commenting on the results, but we’ve seen them now and it’s time to start looking forward, and while we will have a two-month lame duck session until the new crew is sworn in, Donald Trump will […]
Scottish cartoonist and artist Tom Johnstone has passed away. Tom Johnstone 1935 – 2026 Lorraine Tinney for The Greenock Telegraph reports the death of their longtime cartoonist: “Tom Johnstone, whose paintings and cartoons preserved scenes of old Greenock, Gourock and Port Glasgow, passed away peacefully aged 91 at the Little Sisters of the Poor’s Holy […]
The New Cartoonist regular contributor, Glenn Marshall, has written a piece about fountain pens and his experiments with them. As a fountain pen connoisseur, I share much of his insights and affinity for a Fude nib pen. Two of my favourite ‘drawists’ who often use fountain pens are Róisín Curé (Insta: @roisincure) the self-described ’sketching […]
Missed it: The southern chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists choose the winners of their 2026 Green Eyeshade Awards in July and posted the results on Aug. 4, 2026. The 76th annual competition recognized work published or broadcast during the 2025 calendar year. In the Editorial Cartoons category Steve Stegelin took first place with […]
It took 3 decades but GoComics has finally landed a Rina Piccolo comic. Piccolo’s Rina’s Odd Little Page landed today with an instant 11 week archive. Rachel DeSchepper at the GoComics blog interviews Piccolo to explain the new comic: “Since around 2005, I’ve been doodling and writing in little sketchbooks every day, like a diary. […]
Steenz with Heart of the City spent the better part of September with the character Charlotte getting her first period and dealing with it. While it remains a controversial subject for a lot of daily newspapers GoComics reminds us that the topic was first broached 35 years earlier in Luann by Greg Evans. Juliana Roth […]
JD Vance seems to be looking forward to the 2028 presidential election. He blamed the Iran war for the Republicans’ sweeping losses, which, as Anderson points out, sure seems like he’s trying to put some distance between himself and Trump. Will it work? I’d be surprised, particularly since he also said that the problem wasn’t […]
Last month The New York Times ran their obituary of cartoonist P.C. Vey and at the same time asked readers to submit cartoons in a PC Vey vein i.e., “humor in the absurdities of everyday life.” With a deadline of Oct. 20 The Times has sorted the “more than 200 submissions” and presented a baker’s […]
Cartoonist and mural painter Yasser Mounbir has been sentenced to four years in jail and fined 40,000 dirhams ($4,095 US) for insulting the monarch by posting caricatures of King Mohammed VI on his Instagram account. He was sentenced Oct. 30.The African Meridian reports that he was found guilt of two counts: insulting the King and […]
One of the jobs I got straight out of college was at a pizza/burger place. I started as a pizza maker, but the hand-eye work placing the ingredients was not my thing, so when I had a chance I switched over to the grill and I really enjoyed the challenge of making everything come out […]
Yesterday was for quick reactions, and I didn’t have space for as many good hip shots that came in. More have arrived since, but simply noting the loss was yesterday’s mission and even the good ones seem, 24 hours later, to be esprit d’escalier — “staircase wit” — that clever thing you think of on […]
In a week and a half Jumble’s Guest Jumbler Week returns for 2026. An annual event when David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek turn their puzzle feature over to a half dozen guest cartoonists for the week.As is their custom they give us a sneak peek of who will be contributing to the feature: I’m […]
James Rada, Jr. for The Fredricks News-Post writes of the origin of Merrill Blosser as a professional cartoonist (or here). “In the early decades of the 20th century, one of the most successful newspaper cartoonists was Merrill Blosser. His comic strip, “Freckles and His Friends,” ran for more than 55 years, from 1915 to 1971, […]
This was my idea, too, and I had no intention of doing election-results cartooning today, in part because I was tired from a stint at the polling place and in part because I was tired of the whole thing, and in the largest part because I didn’t expect a lot of cartoonists to get their […]
A month ago Lee Enterprises added 20 Creators Syndicate comic strips and panels to their newspapers. Newspapers.com has a 30 day delay for The Daily Cartoonist to check the newspapers, here are what we see. As noted in that early news item the 20 Creators comics are Agnes (reruns), Andy Capp, Archie (reruns), B.C., Daddy’s […]