The first and last weeks of Ted Shearer’s Quincy, the first Happy Hooligan strip, the death of Alex Raymond, a brief history of American newspaper comic strips by Jules Feiffer, Stefan Kanter, Arthur Asa Berger, Kurt Vonnegut, Roz Chast, and others, remembering Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds’ Tank McNamara of a half century ago, and […]

Darrin Bell has returned to his Disobey in Advance Substack with a multi-panel vertical political comic. The Trump Intervention begins? is an eleven panel comic strip which may be a continuing plot line as it ends with the teaser: “Will the Intervention work? Will it ever even get off the ground? Stay tuned to find […]

I could, if I wanted to, do an entire posting of nothing but cartoons showing Vladimir Putin either giving the State of the Union speech or employing a Trump puppet to give the speech. I don’t want to do that, so I’ll let John Deering’s example represent them all, because he included JD’s “Boycott Vermont” […]

Walt Handelsman in New Orleans at Mardi Gras time, Hearst 2024 celebrates Hilary B. Price and Popeye, The New Yorker cartoonists party at the Centoonial, Tom Tomorrow accepts the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award, and a passle of Smercomics by Rob Rogers, Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, and Scott Stantis. Some Favorite Walt Handelsman […]

The National Cartoonists Society officially (it has been an open secret since last year’s gathering) announces the the time and place for 2025’s Reuben Awards and NCS Conference. The NCS Board is thrilled to announce that the 2025 NCS Conference and 79th Annual Reuben Awards will be held AUGUST 14-16th in BOSTON, MA. We have […]

Stahler’s right. It’s not a matter of not caring or doing nothing. We need a little R&R, and a little bit of sleep, if we’re going to be worth anything as an army of resistance. For those who prefer to pay attention and speculate about what’s coming next, Wiley has a cynical but not necessarily […]

Joel Englehardt at Stet News broke the story yesterday: The owners of The Palm Beach Post fired Editorial Page Editor Tony Doris last month after the paper published a syndicated cartoon condemned as antisemitic. Executives with Gannett, the nation’s largest daily news publisher with more than 200 newspapers and 19 in Florida, fired Doris on […]

We have had a couple Advance Locals (MLive Media and The Post-Standard) inform us of their coming revisions to the comics pages with Jim Glick, Director of Enterprise Content & Design for Print at Advance Local, giving further details in comments at both items linked above. Now The Cleveland Plain Dealer/cleveland.com has given their readers […]

As Herbert suggests, we’ve got a full plate, in keeping with Steve Bannon’s advice to flood the zone with shit so that the opposition has no time to deal with any of it. As Dan Perkins (“Tom Tomorrow”) told the Irish Times in Trump’s first administration, [It’s] like waking up and saying ‘I’d like a […]

Jules Feiffer got his start in newspaper comics, though they were a strange sort of newspaper comics. A young teenage Feiffer was hired by Will Eisner to work in the Eisner Studio as an assistant – erasing pencil lines, filling in spotted blacks, ruling borders, etc. The Grand Comics Database’s (GCD) first credit for Feiffer […]

One of those cases where the timing is fortuitous but accurate. A few more editorial cartoonists have stepped up with commentary on the Oval Office Ambush and we’ll get to them, but they’ll keep and, as Royston’s announcer says, things are depressing enough that we’ll go right to the weather (which has been good here) […]

A Stan Mack interview; a Milton Caniff profile; a Tim Jackson appreciation; a John Rose video interview; a visit with Rob Moreland; and a Colin Whittock obituary. Funny Friends: an interview with Stan Mack Funny TimGreg Lynch for The Dayton Daily Newses’ Mia Beach presents a short interview with cartoonist Stan Mack. You originally had […]

Advance Publication newspapers are revising their comics pages this month. The other day we noted that MLive Media, an Advance group, would add more comics in mid-March 2025. Jeff Glick, Director of Enterprise Content & Design for Print at Advance Local, informed us that it wasn’t just the Michigan group revising and adding to their […]

Sometimes it’s easier to be a gag cartoonist than a political cartoonist, but this is not one of those times. I had, briefly, planned to run humorous pieces today while I waited for the editorialists to catch up, but fortunately they leapt to their drawing boards, because, like Sipress, I don’t find anything very funny […]

Billy Ireland’s New Yorker Centennial Celebration! New Yorker Centennial Celebration! Join us on Saturday, March 1 for a special program celebrating the centennial of The New Yorker magazine and a reception for our new exhibit, See Anyone You Know? The New Yorker Cartoons and Covers of Edward Koren. This event is FREE and open to the public. No […]