Comic Strip of the Day: Friday Funnies
We’ll start this week’s Friday Funnies with Dogs of C Kennel and a tip for anyone thinking of adding a…
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Crossing Continents and Borders to Reach America (and the AAEC Convention)
Canadian political cartoonist Michael de Adder will be traveling from east to west and from north to south to enter…
Confirmed: Olivia Jaimes to Appear at CXC
Tom Spurgeon, CXC Executive Director, has announced that Olivia Jaimes will attend the festival. CXC 2018 will be the first…
Comic Strip of the Day: Giving It Their Awl
Ann Telnaes provides a textbook for those who want to learn, and some me-too style camaraderie for those who already…
Make Room on Your Bookshelves
Doonesbury, Garfield, Star Wars, Peanuts, and more. This week’s releases include: #SAD!: Doonesbury in the Time of Trump by…
Icons of Political Art – And Varvel Makes Three
We have mentioned the Advancing American Democracy Award to three Icons of Political Art, and we have linked to the…
The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.) Covers the Peanuts Hotel in Japan
The Bloomington, Illinois, newspaper has some coverage of the new Peanuts Hotel (with some good photos) that opened in Japan…
Comic Strip of the Day: Random laffs
It has been reliably reported, though not officially announced, that mysteriously anonymous Nancy cartoonist Olivia Jaimes will be appearing at…
Comic Strip of the Day: Last generation’s blues
Kal Kallaugher shared this 1991 cartoon on social media yesterday, and it was comforting in that it brought back the…
The Death of Editorial Cartooning
The cartoonist’s choice: Navigate a minefield of heightened sensitivities or produce pandering dreck for an audience of ideologues. Following the…
Michael Ramirez – Advancing American Democracy
Michael Ramirez and the Advancing American Democracy Award Ten days ago we latched on to the Mary Tucker Jasper Speaker…
Washington Post Letter to Editor Cites ‘Prickly City’
A September 16th Letter to the Editor at the Washington Post cited a 2017 Prickly City as the source of…
Jason Chatfield to Compete on ‘Doodle Wars’
Fresh off his head-scratching performance as Selsun Blue’s Dandruff, “Ginger Meggs,” New Yorker and MAD Magazine cartoonist Jason Chatfield, will…
Comic Strip of the Day: Legal Roundup
Today’s Mo offers a chance to update yesterday’s comments on the limited social skills of Catholic prep-school alums. The parallel…
Peanuts: The Defining Comic Strip of Our Time
Feature article by Matt Blitz at Today I Found Out on Peanuts becoming the popular comic strip it is. [W]hen…