Posted on: December 27, 2022

Due to a bit of transmogrification The Daily Cartoonist will be down starting Thursday December 29, 2022 until Monday January 2, 2023.

John Byrne is drawing the last week of Funky Winkerbean, though I’m still holding out for creator Tom Batiuk to go solo on the last strip of the comic on December 31, 2022. Nearly twenty years ago John Byrne drew an extended sequence of Funky Winkerbean. Featuring the return of a character; Byrne drew the […]

Cowboy humorist and cartoonist “Mad Jack” Hanks has passed away. Jack Cecil (Mad Jack) Hanks May 16, 1940 – December 17, 2022    The Fence Post notice: Jack Hanks, also known as “Mad Jack” passed away unexpectedly on December 17, 2022. He died peacefully in his home due to complications from a recent illness. At 82 years […]

I’m not big on year-end wrap-ups, which — as noted before — I learned to hate in the newsroom, when we had to compile them in order to fill the pages in the dead space between Christmas and New Years. I also have little interest in reliving the major events of the year gone past, […]