Disney’s Once Upon A Studio Premiers Tonight, But Not Without Controversy
Once Upon a Studio debuts Sunday, October 15, at 8 p.m. ET/PT as part of ABC’s The Wonderful World of…
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Tribute Strips and Inspiration Comics
There were a number of tributes to past cartoonists in the past week’s comic strips. Today’s Mutts name checks his…
CSotD: Bits and Pieces of the First Amendment
Ann Telnaes sent me scrambling for the Googles with this one, because she’d apparently picked up on a NYTimes story…
Where Did Foxtrot Go Wrong?
Bill Amend’s FoxTrot was one of the great successes of late-twentieth-century newspaper comics. At the end of its run as…
Newspaper Regrets Israeli-Hamas Cartoon
A Dave Granlund cartoon about the current Israeli-Hamas War brought at least one objection: Read the full letter here. The…
CSotD: Saturday Cartoons
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) is usually silly, except that on random Sundays it will suddenly take a kind of Mr. Wizard…
Keith Giffen – RIP
Creative comic book genius Keith Giffen has passed away. Keith Ian Giffen November 30, 1952 – October 9, 2023 Keith’s…
CSotD: Asymmetric Commentary, Asymmetric War
Zapiro speaks for a large number of cartoonists as they struggle to find something that is both fair and penetrating…
Bado and Cummings Win ACC Townsies
Last week during the Association of Canadian Cartoonists convention the organization presented Guy Badeaux (aka Bado) and Dale Cummings with…
Mary Lawton – Thursday Child Has Gone Far
For 30 years, Houston-based cartoonist Mary Lawton submitted her work to The New Yorker. For 30 years, she received a…
CSotD: Let’s Take a Little Funny Space
The world is full of weighty matters, but we’re going to, in the words of Eddy Arnold, make the world…
Some Wednesday Cartooning Whatnots
We’ll start with a nice 3½ minute segment from News12’s Made in Connecticut featuring Ray Billingsley. This week in Made…
Wayback Whensday
Looking back at the art of cartooning with Bill Mauldin, RL Crabb, Jeff MacNelly, Ian Jones, and Sydney Jordan. Rob…
The Guardian Rejects Steve Bell Cartoon – Update: Guardian Ends Bell Relationship
The Guardian has apparently declined to publish a depiction of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu by cartoonist Steve Bell, reportedly…
CSotD: Explanations, but no excuses
Let’s start by declaring the distinction between an explanation and an excuse. A fair-minded person can explain what is happening…