First and Last – Big George by VIP
Virgil Partch’s Big George panel began on May 23, 1960. It last ran 30 years and one week ago on…
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CSotD: Flag Day in the Committee Room
Dave Granlund posted this, appropriately, on Flag Day, which meant I’d already filed by the time I saw it. But…
Patrick McDonnell to Take Extended Sabbatical
Reed Brennan has notified newspapers carrying the Mutts comic strip: Attention MUTTS Clients: MUTTS creator Patrick McDonnell will be on…
Davies, Ohanian, Bui Get Sigma Delta Chi Awards
The Society of Professional Journalists announced the recipients of the 2020 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism on…
CSotD: Truth, Justice and the Global Way
Rob Rogers (Counterpoint) went there, and it’s courageous and effective. But how many people know where he went? Again, it’s…
Still More Weekend Whatnots
These days Red Ryder is less known for the comic strip than for the BB Gun. Even the…
Seasonal Sunday Funnies
Play Ball! © Peanuts Worldwide Concurrent with today’s Peanuts rerun is a similar Heritage Auctions drawing by Charles Schulz, currently…
CSotD: Punch up! Punch down! See my thumb?
Since DDDegg has done an excellent mop-up of the Pulitzer fiasco, I’m going purely for comedy today, leading off with…
More on Pulitzer’s Editorial Cartooning No-Prize
Mike Peterson has weighed in with his and a few others opinions, but the outrage is large and justifiable. The…
CSotD: I’ve been thrown out of classier joints
Well, I stand by yesterday’s post, and I’m glad that it — and JP Trostle’s “epic rant” — got…
No One Takes 2021 Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer
When the Pulitzer Prize awards first happened in 1917 there was no category for Editorial Cartoons. That honor began in…
CSotD: Now Pulitzer the Other One
Since I started yesterday with a cartoon about an eclipse that was over before you got here, I’ll start today’s…
Al Gottlieb – RIP
Gag writer and gatherer Al Gottlieb has passed away. Al Gottlieb ca. 1927 – May 2021 Van Scott, current editor…
CSotD: Darkness at the edge of day
There is an annular solar eclipse happening as I write this, but while Samson’s Dark Side of the Horse (AMS)…
Mort Gerberg: NCS Gold Key/Hall of Fame Entry
The National Cartoonists Society takes great pleasure in announcing that the Gold Key Award will be presented this year to…