CSotD: Obscene Cartoon Warning
Ed Hall offers a commentary on an item from Dear Leader’s budget, which eliminates funding for Stars and Stripes, the…
February 2020
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Big Nate Gets Animated
Lincoln Peirce‘s multimedia success (popular comic strip, best selling comic collections and illustrated novels, musical theatre) is now getting a…
CSotD: To Speak of Country Matters
Steve Sack offers a bit of good old country comfort from the frozen north, as a way of breaking the…
74th Reubens: Garfield’s Jim Davis Guest Speaker
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, the most widely syndicated comic strip in the…
DeBartolo Streak Ends; Aragonés Now Top Streaker
MAD #12 comes out tomorrow and does not contain NEW material from Dick DeBartolo. That ends a streak going back…
The Weed of Cartooning Bears Bitter Fruit (2)
At Boing Boing Rusty Blazenhoff writes of rejection. Specifically Drew Dernavich and his pile of cartoons rejected by The New…
CSotD: Ostriches and Reality
Tom Toles expresses some impatience with the public’s willingness to ignore what’s going on around it. Granted, ostriches do not,…
The Weed of Cartooning Bears Bitter Fruit! and other shady comic strip stuff
Today’s Reality Check by Dave Whamond which immediately brought to mind, not Maxwell Grant’s, but Mike Kaluta’s The Shadow. …
CSotD: Dark Side of the Moonbats
I’ve told this story before, but Ted Rall’s latest cartoon makes it seem more relevant than ever. A college friend…
Nick Downes is the Latest Case For Pencils
A Case for Pencils asks cartoonists about the tools of the trade Nick Downes is the latest to take the…
Newspapers: Stars and Stripes Funding Threatened
In an effort to keep active duty frontline soldiers uninformed, the new Pentagon budget would cut all funding for the…
Collectors’ Growing Interest in Original Art
above: Régis Loisel An exhibit of original European comic art in New York City gives Forbes a reason to look…
CSotD: Random Laffs at Wiley’s Expense
I rise to a point of personal privilege this morning to join Wiley Miller in celebrating his 20th anniversary with…
Sandra Bell-Lundy Interview
JH: You started drawing “Between Friends” when you were in your thirties, and your characters were the same age. What…
Red, White, Black and Blue: Documenting America’s Racial Illiteracy – A Keith Knight Presentation
Knight’s talk was both autobiographical and a chance to comment on society through his art. Knight, who grew up in…