CSotD: Weakend Wrapup
Clay Bennett (CTFP) seems more surprised by Dick Cheney’s decision than I was, which is to say I wasn’t surprised…
September 2024
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AAEC/ACC Convention Schedule Updated
Wes Tyrell, President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC), and Jack Ohman, President of the Association of American Editorial…
Today’s Comic Strip Oddities & Curiosities
So alphabetically Loose Parts follows Looks Good on Paper and yesterday they had an eruptive juxtaposition. Joining in the Mutts…
CSotD: Getting It/Not Getting It
How on earth, someone asked me yesterday, can the polls could be so close? My response was to ask who…
Editorials Illustrated
Rounding up a few items about editorial cartoonists and cartooning. For 13 months political commentator Michael Smerconish had had cartoonists…
SaltWire Network Now Part of Postmedia, “company known to ‘slash and burn'”
Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper publisher, has taken ownership of major parts of SaltWire Network, the largest newspaper group in the…
CSotD: A Festival of Futility
Ann Telnaes combines her anguish over the crackdown on women’s rights under the reconstituted Afghan government with her fury over…
Wayback Whensday: Walt Kelly’s Can’t & No!
Walt Kelly’s Can’t Record Storybook Cover and Story Page Original Art Group of 28 (1969) Heritage Auctions has a preview…
Galway Cartoon Festival to feature Speedbump creator Dave Coverly
This year’s Galway Cartoon Festival, in Ireland, will feature an American cartoonist – Dave Coverly, creator of Speedbump. Dave submitted…
Guard Dog Book and Mutts’ 30th Year
Yesterday saw the release of Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story and tomorrow will be the 30th anniversary of…
CSotD: The Mudville Report
Lisa Benson — Counterpoint Mike Lester — AMS Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,The band…
Everybody’s going out an’ having fun
Sez Keefer: The Orange Dotard’s trip to Arlington National Cemetery and the foolishness that ensued reminded me on this classic…
Detention Extended For Ashraf Omar. Again
In what is becoming an unsettling pattern, an Egyptian state security prosecutor extended the detention for cartoonist Ashraf Omar for yet…
CSotD: Funny Stuff and Meandering Thoughts
How better to welcome everyone back from Labor Day than with this Tom Toro panel? I drove 275 miles each…
Olivia Returns & Other Comic Strip Data
Olivia Jaimes returned to the Nancy comic strip today after taking a sabbatical. While gone Olivia got (bribed? coerced?) other…