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The return of Edith Pritchett to The WaPo; Phoebe and Her Unicorn daily replacements; the Barry Blitt CBC interview; Mr. Fish and UPenn; and Topps Baseball card cartooning.

Edith Pritchett Returns to The Washington Post

Last week we noted that Edith Pritchett was no longer appearing in The Washington Post.

Edith Pritchett Washington Post page

After 20 days MIA she has returned to her twice a week opinion page cartoons – though politics is still lacking.

Mike Rhode at ComicsDC notes the comeback.

Edith Pritchett Washington Post March 28, 2025

Replacing the Daily Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Earlier this month we learned that the daily Phoebe and Her Unicorn was ending. This weekend we got a couple newspapers announcing what will fill the Phoebe and Marigold space on their comics pages.

Arctic Circle title panel
Heart of the City title panel

The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin welcomes Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle beginning March 31.

The Dubuque Telegraph Herald informs readers that Heart of the City by Steenz will start running Monday.

Women cartoonists replacing a woman cartoonist. So far, so good.

That Barry Blitt Interview, a Transcript

We linked to a Barry Blitt audio interview in a recent roundup.

Barry Blitt for The New Yorker

Now we have the transcript of that CBC interview with the cartoonist.

Political cartoonists often get their best ideas from the absurdity of politics. You’re a Canadian and you’re an American — from your point of view as an illustrator, how are you looking at this strange moment between our two countries?

It’s impossible to look away; it’s like the proverbial train wreck. I don’t watch any political TV. I can’t stand that even at the best of times. Anytime I read anything online it’s really depressing. I’m just filling my sketchbook with anger and absurdity, basically. 

UPenn Lays Off Mr. Fish Redux

The University of Pennsylvania firing of Dwayne Booth is the subject of a Jewish News Syndicate report.

In February, The Free Beacon discovered that Booth was the identity behind online cartoonist “Mr. Fish,” who published several antisemitic cartoons since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Topps Baseball Card Cartoon Swipes

Last year we featured some baseball card cartooning, so let’s return to that subject with Roy Carlson’s opening day column: Drawing Conclusions Part 2: More Topps Copycat Capers.

swipes found by Roy Carlson at Sports Collectors Daily

Last October in an article published here entitled “Drawing Conclusions:  Eric White’s Vintage Topps Cartoon Discoveries”‘, it was noted that more than a dozen of the cartoons in the 1968 Topps baseball set derived their compositions, poses, or important details from drawings that the legendary comic artist Jack Davis had provided for Series 6 and 7 in the 1962 Topps set.

Simply put, an anonymous Topps artist, admittedly the least talented of four suspected cartoonists who worked on the 1968 set, seemed to have been out of time and out of ideas, so as a shortcut he reached into the 1962 Topps cartoon files to copy whatever he could use.

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  1. Tomorrow I can figure out what the Freep chose. They have a tendency of keeping these things a secret until one day it just happens.

    1. I wonder if in a few weeks the Freep will have Sunday Phoebe. They definitely aren’t adding Heart though because they’ve Heart of the City many years.

      1. The Detroit Free Press now has Wallace the Brave weekdays. They’ve had it on Sundays since 2020, when Stone Soup ended.

  2. Was hoping to send an email to D.D.Degg directly, but the contact link seems to be broken, so I’ll communicate my message here.

    I would encourage The Daily Cartoonist to make every effort to refrain from perpetuating the mischaracterization of my work critical of Israel as being antisemitic. Too many ultra rightwing media sources, like the Washington Free Beacon, are using such willful distortions to silence dissent against genocide and to encourage censorship of anyone attempting to condemn the ongoing atrocities being perpetrated in Gaza and the West Bank. Additionally, I’ve been publishing cartoons for 35 years, domestically and internationally, with many of the nation’s most reputable magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Truthdig, etc., so that when I’m referred to simply as an “online cartoonist,” it feels minimizing to the point of inaccuracy.

    Again, I request that you correct the false statement about my work as being antisemitic. In fact, rather than simply add a link to the Jewish News Syndicate Report to further perpetuate the defamation, perhaps you might share a link to a piece I published recently on the subject of cartoonists and advocates for truth, justice, and peace being attacked for speaking out against war and state sponsored crimes against humanity. (The piece appeared on ScheerPost.com and is called WHICH GENOCIDE ARE YOU ON? – https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/23/which-genocide-are-you-on/)

    With respect and in solidarity!

    1. Believe me Mr. Fish I spent not a little time searching for a left leaning or even a neutral news source to balance the reports and found that only right wing news is covering the lay off/firing. The original report here linked to your revelation of the news and described The Free Beacon as “far right.”
      The quotes you mention are from the linked sources, not this reporter.
      I agree that a pro-Palestinian position is not automatically antisemitic. I find it ridiculous that right wing media describes those college students being rounded up because they support the Palestinian people as pro-Hamas – as if there is no difference.

    2. Sir:

      1) Wanting to destroy the lives of every Jew in the Middle East is antisemitic. PERIOD.

      2) There’s a difference between “criticism” and “attack.”

      3)The fact that you don’t hate EVERY Jew doesn’t change anything. Your “criticism,” which uses antisemitic/nazi tropes, is ‘judenhat.”

      Also, most of the coverage of your firing is from Jewish publications, not FAR-right ones. Some is, as the far right uses attacks on antisemitism as a way of normalizing themselves. However, this doesn’t mean the antisemitism doesn’t exist, or even worse, is OKAY.

      The reason that the “college students” are being characterized as being pro-Hamas is because Hamas is the government of Gaza. If you support the Palestinian side in the war in Gaza, then you support the government in it’s efforts. You are pro-Hamas.

      1. Exactly. Just like if I oppose annexing Greenland, it’s because I hate the United States, and if I say it’s not right to grab students off the street and send them to Salvadoran prisons, it means I want to kill all Americans.

      2. “if I say it’s not right to grab students off the street and send them to Salvadoran prisons, it means I want to kill all Americans.”

        If you SAY you want to kill every American, then you WANT to kill all Americans. The so-called pro-Palestinian “protests” have signs and people chanting “From the River to the Sea…” and other slogans hoping for the destruction of Israel and its Jewish inhabitants.

        Mr. Fish depicts Jews as bloodthirsty monsters.

        To say they don’t is just ridiculous. Nobody is kidding.

        Also, not a single international student has been sent to El Salvador. The people who were sent there deserve due process, just like every serial killer does, which many of them certainly are NOT.

        The authoritarians in the government are going after low-hanging fruit and abusing power by doing so.

      3. Shades of grey, Mr. E., shades of grey. Certainly the Gazans protesting Hamas rule are still pro-Palestine. Certainly the Israelis protesting the harshness of Bibi’s retaliation are not pro-Hamas.

      4. Okay, there is a difference. The thousands of Gazans protesting Hamas rule are still pro-Palestine. This is true and they’re all very brave considering the Nazi/Fascist nature of the Hamas regime.

        However, there are pretty much NO the Israelis protesting the harshness of Bibi’s retaliation. The Israelis protesting Bibi are doing so for other reasons, and I support them in that because he’s a totally corrupt putz who shouldn’t be in the PM’s office, but in jail (he’s been on trial for years).

        All Hamas has to do is release the remaining hostages and the bodies of those who died, and it would all be over. There are NO shades of grey.

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