Asa Elmer “Ace” Reid Jr. was born in the Texas Panhandle [on March 10] 1925, near Clarendon. When he was 3 months old, his family moved to Electra, where they owned a 10,000-acre cattle ranch.  Young Ace Reid grew up around cattle, horses and cowboys. He was familiar with what it was like to be a cowboy […]

This isn’t China, though Bagley is right to compare the cult of personality that has risen around Donald Trump with the one that rose around Mao Tse Tung. Certainly, the two cults, the two revolutions, share several elements, including the condemnation of intellectual elites in favor of mindless loyalty and the elevation of mindless loyalty […]

In an unfortunately twist of fate, something readers of The Heart of Juliet Jones should be used to, the proof sheet to the first week of the new, new being a relative term, story is missing from King Features archives. The past week – January 15 to January 22, 1956 – was a transition interlude […]

Sergio Aragonés, Chad Nichols, Bob Mankoff, Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, Rozalia Finkelstein, Duane M. Abel, Mark Knight, Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud, Ian Jones, and Liana Finck. Sergio Aragonés The NCS is proud to Present: Show and Tell with Sergio Aragonés Join us for a captivating two-hour LIVE show from the art studio of master […]

We’ll touch on something vaguely political before moving on into folly. Or, that is, intentional folly. I have nothing, theoretically, against brokers except a general prejudice that they should set you up with a portfolio that works and then leave you, and it, alone, barring some major change, like having the President say “Now is […]

The Herblock Foundation has awarded Marty Two Bulls, Sr. the 2025 Herblock Prize. From ComicsDC: WASHINGTON, DC, Thursday, April 10, 2025 – Marty Two Bulls, Sr. has been named the winner of the 2025 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Marty Two Bulls, Sr. is a freelance artist and graphic designer who has been creating cartoons […]

Basil and Monte Wolverton; Flash Gordon by Alex, Jim, Dan, and a bunch of others; public domain Popeye and Olive; a hint of next winter’s Doonesbury special art; plus actual comic strips and panels from this week. Let’s start with the news for the indexers. This week sees the King Features Weekly Service dropping Dan […]

Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground, and I’m kind of surprised that anybody had time to respond, given that Dear Leader pulled the plug at two in the afternoon, so we’ll give some other cartoonists a chance to catch up. And speaking of catch-up, we’re in good hands, because our Secretary […]

For those interested in the very earliest history of comic strips Antoine Sausverd has an announcement: About a month ago, we set out to enlighten the “Early Comics” universe with a fair selection of David Kunzle’s legacy on the subject. Indeed, our “David Kunzle page” (DKP) wants to pay tribute to Kunzle as a pioneer […]

With Nick Anderson, David Haldane, Paige Braddock, Kaj Hasselriis, Dan Misdea, Bob Hale, and Guy Badeaux. Nick Anderson Interviewed for Future Documentary From Nick Anderson: Today I had the honor of being interviewed by a very talented director who creates documentaries for PBS. I’m a fan of his work, so it was a real privilege […]

I’m going to set today’s sour mood by disagreeing with Dave Whamond. I understand his point and others have pointed out the keyboard warriors who declare themselves experts on the problem of the day, whatever it is. The problem is that, other than drawing the fellow as buck-toothed and chinless, he doesn’t indicate that he […]

From Mark Evanier: My New Book Tomorrow, a fine publisher will be announcing the new book I’ve authored about a great creator of comics. If you were like me you thought Mark’s long-awaited biography of Jack Kirby was on its way, instead… Mark surprised us with The Essential Peanuts, “a deluxe edition celebrating the 75th […]

Jason Chatfield, cartoon editor; Tom Toro, exclusive cartoonist; cartooning for School Administrator; cartooning opportunities from The New Gag Recap; The American Bystander and The New Yorker kinship. Reports of the demise of magazine cartooning, other than The New Yorker, are exaggerated. Cartoonist Jason Chatfield also Jason Chatfield Cartoon Editor Cartoonist Jason Chatfield brings news that […]

I’d been at the paper — not the above paper, mind you — for about four months when the markets crashed in 1987 and I had to suddenly learn about stocks and bonds and such. Fortunately, I’d just spent three or four years writing about residential real estate and commercial development, so it was more […]

The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) travelled to Broom-Hilda country last November to deliver their Gold Key award (scroll down), signifying induction into the Society’s Hall of Fame, to cartoonist Russell Myers. National Cartoonists Society President Karen Evans and Mark Habegger traveled to Oregon to deliver the NCS Gold Key and record a wonderful interview with […]