Tomorrow is the Big Parade, and, in Pett’s cartoon, King Donald wonders why nobody is saluting as the horrors of the past five months pass in review. “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” works in reverse as well, however, and there are plenty of people in this country joyfully feasting on what has happened […]

We all know newspapers have seen better days. As Alex Hallatt notes in her latest “Cartooning in the Age of AI” installment at her Illustrated Epistle Substack cartoonists “need multiple sources of income” not least because: Surviving newspaper websites and are losing views to AI searches (which show newspaper content without the reader needing to […]

When we were reading Hamlet in college junior year, the professor asked the purpose of the gravedigger scene. We went around the seminar table talking about comic relief and the need to ease the tension and onward and so forth and the wisdom flowed like fine wine. Then he pointed out that Shakespeare was maintaining […]

Sydney Morning Herald cartoonist John Shakespeare has passed away. John Shakespeare 1961 – June 9, 2025 The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) broke the sad news (or here): John Shakespeare, one of Australia’s most loved newspaper artists, died on Monday evening of cancer. He was 63. “Shakes” worked at the Herald for 39 years before taking […]

George Herriman and Krazy Kat! Richard Felton Outcalt and The Yellow Kid! Frank Frazetta and Buck Rogers! The surreal brilliance of George Herriman It was sheer coincidence that led to the intersecting of reading “Which Language Is the Richest in Words?,” an article from Interpreters & Translators, full-page Inc. by Toni Andrews, followed by an […]

Jennings is an ocean away, but he focused on Compton, name-checking an old-school rap with the scene of confrontations between authorities and citizens, as discussed in this next-day description of local residents cleaning up. Those who live there are looked down upon by the forces of ICE and Donald Trump, with a sense of bullying […]

From Comics Kingdom we check in on The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Mutts, Rosebuds, and The Family Circus plus a trip to The Kingdom of Id. The Plane, The Plane One of our phavourite games to play here at Chronicle Chamber is trying to guess what direction Tony DePaul‘s stories will go. If you have been […]

Featuring Jules Feiffer, Jane Rosenberg, Quino and Mafaldo, Lynda Barry and other autobiographical cartoonists, Steve Bonello. Cyril Tighe, Matt Groening, and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes on sale. Jules Feiffer, Playwright Cartoonist Jules Feiffer was the author of Little Murders (1967), Feiffer’s People (1969), Knock Knock (1976), Elliot Loves (1990), among other plays and was […]

A bit of poetic license here: The tanks are in DC waiting to rumble past Trump’s collection of contributors in a Soviet-style display of macho goodness. They haven’t been deployed in LA, despite several Tank Man cartoons. I hope at least a few people know that Tank Man only slowed the tanks down for a […]

The Washington Examiner (I know, I know) published an article this morning by Mark Judge titled “Celebrating Superman’s Jewishness.” The writer begins with people doubting Superman’s Jewishness: Yet, in his origins, different names, and even his costume, Superman is a deeply Jewish creation. With a new Superman movie about to be released and American Jews […]

While Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts 75th Anniversary is getting the bulk of publicity this year, a month before that October 2nd, 1950 day is September 4th, 1950 – when Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey debuted. And Beetle Bailey, unlike Peanuts, has been issuing new comic strips for all of its 75 years. While not the licensing […]

Anderson is 100% right, but the real message is not in his cartoon but in the shrug it inspires. January 6 was only a bit over four years ago, and everyone of voting age remembers that day. The fact that the architect of that attempted coup was voted back into office is astonishing and hinges […]

It was good news today as GoComics/Andrews McMeel has heard the pleas of comics fans and restored their Sunday comics to the full three tier format or title panels to most of their strips and panels. Comics that have full original content making up the top tier of their comics all seem to be posted […]

Something*Positive [link added] is a ‘day in the life’ webcomic that follows the main character of Davin MacIntire and his group of friends. Started in 2001, it is loosely based on the life and friends of creator Randal “R.K.” Milholland, and is darkly funny, skewering everyone and everything it can. It is sweet and sad […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Drew Litton, 67, wanted to be two things when he grew up. He yearned to shoot like “Pistol Pete” Maravich and to play the guitar like Eric Clapton.   “I instead ended up playing basketball like Eric Clapton and guitar like Pete Maravich,” said Litton, laughing as he sat in his studio chair […]