New to Comics Kingdom: Working Cats
Cartoonist Maritsa Patrinos, Friday’s Child for Six Chix, is giving us a new weekly comic strip at Comics Kingdom. Working…
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CSotD: Humor, from the personal to the global
I’ll have a couple of dissents in a moment, so we’ll start with a compliment: Check out the final panel…
In Spite of What You Read Gasoline Alley, Mary Worth, and The Phantom Continue
San Marcos Daily Record columnist Jerry Hall opens his Sunday column about Peanuts reminiscing: Let us depart from topics of…
No More Spectickles (Belated Notice)
Bill Abbott is no longer creating new Spectickles panels for syndication. The last new panel was issued on December 16,…
CSotD: The Void Gazas Back
Dr. MacLeod has consistently been a harsh opponent of US arming of Israel, and his response to the cutback of…
The Resurrection of The Bad Cartoonist?
It seems The Bad Cartoonist has resurfaced. Who? You might ask. For those who weren’t around then, and for those…
CSotD: Graduation Day in the Committee Room
The second Saturday in May would be graduation on a lot of campuses, and it probably still is, since the…
Cartoonists in the News
Jeff Smith, David Fitzsimmons, Raymond Briggs, Lalo Alcaraz, Alex Portal, Jake Tapper Jeff Smith has a Bone to pitch Jeff…
CSotD: Timing, repetition, redemption, etc.
Barbara Smaller’s cartoon is hardly breakthrough humor, subconsciously echoing as it does a Tom Toro piece that has become a…
NALC/USPS Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive
Saturday May 11, 2024 is Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive. Each year, letter carriers across the country head…
Robert Grossman, Steve Brodner Inducted into Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
Illustrators and caricaturists Robert Grossman and Steve Brodner are numbered among the 2024 inductees into the Society of Illustrators Hall…
CSotD: Sez who?
I’ve often quoted a frustrated exclamation that pops up in commedia dell’arte plays, “I cannot tell if he is a…
Clay Passes Lou; Sets Sights on Cal
Major League Baseball notes: On June 1, 1925, Lou Gehrig played in the first of what would be 2,130 consecutive…
Of Comic Strips, Garfield and Mike Peterson
Garfield, FurBabies, Calvin and Hobbes, Bliss/Not Bliss/Bob Mankoff Presents, The K Chronicles, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Popeye, caption contests, and…
CSotD: How to Suck Eggs, Explained
By the time George Cruickshank (1792 – 1878) penned this cartoon, “teaching your grandmother to suck eggs” was an established…