77th Annual NCS Reuben Award Nominees for 2022 Cartoonist of the Year
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for their 77th annual Reuben Award which celebrates and honors The Cartoonist…
June 2023
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CSotD: The Kollege of Kolorblind Knowledge
Sorting through the responses to yesterday’s SCOTUS decision raised a number of questions, starting with whether I should wait for…
Charlie Brown Goes Home Again
The Minnesota History Center will host a year-long exhibit of Peanuts and Charles M. Schulz. The event is covered by…
CSotD: Say Anything
Nobody knows what actually happened in Russia and, certainly, nobody knows what’s going on there now, but that hasn’t stopped…
Manuel M. Moreno in Wayback Whensday
Way back one hundred years ago The Los Angeles Times produced a Sunday supplement for and by younger readers it…
The Changing Mores of Goofus & Gallant
The boys are prepubescent, but their exact age is unclear, as is their relationship to each other … Are they…
CSotD: Random thoughts on a Tuesday morning
(Or Wednesday. Whatever. I’m retired; I don’t have to know that stuff anymore.) Well, then, we’re making progress! This sequence…
Brian Basset Looks Back on Career
‘Red and Rover’ cartoonist, based in Edmonds, looks back on career Brian Basset has drawn newspaper comic strips for decades….
CSotD: Riddles in mysteries inside enigmae and such
Fiona Kataukas makes what I think is the best overall assessment of what happened, what’s happening and what’s about to…
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Newspaper Apologizes for Editorial Cartoon, Bans Cartoonist from Their Pages – updated
On Wednesday The Quad City Times published a cartoon by Leo Kelly taking a swipe at MAGA racism, but the…