“Watch your step,” says the soldier as he and a medic lead a hostage over a mound of corpses labeled “Over 40,000 Palestinians killed…” The caption reads, “Some Israeli Hostages Are Home After Years of Merciless War.” This cartoon by Jeff Danzinger (Rutland Herald, 1/20/25) was selected by editorial page editor Tony Doris to run […]
In a few days (April 1, 2025) the new GoComics website will present itself to the world at large, and while we don’t have any details as to most of what will be new and improved we have an idea of what it may look like. Yeah the new (top) page is going to look […]
Being a Duke’s Mixture of various comics and cartoon items. Alison Bechdel – Fun Home/Packed House Bechdel, who is releasing a new graphic novel, “Spent,” this spring, first came to prominence in the 1980s with her comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For.” Running until 2008, it charted the daily lives, love lives and political […]
The successful launch of the the Herblock-designed Bill of Rights stamp in 1966 is detailed by Belmont Faries for the Society of Philatic Americans in the S.P.A. Journal V30 #3 of November 1967. The article describes the process of Herbert Block creating the dozens of designs and revisions. Mike Rhode at ComicsDC posts all nine […]
Liana Finck on parenting, patriarchy + brevity What is your process for writing a cartoon? How many drafts does it take to get to the perfect, pithy final? Do you think there’s some inherent brilliance in brevity? I do think there’s an inherent brilliance in brevity. That said, my cartoons tend to be better when […]
Some marginal items related to comics and cartooning. Johnny Hart Enters the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame Cartoonist Johnny Hart has been inducted into the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame. From WICZ: The latest inductees to the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame have been announced as three new members will be inducted into the Hall […]
For two years cartoonist Edith Pritchett has been a controversial opinion page regular at The Washington Post due to her non-political cartoons that are more about cultural/social affairs than about affairs of state. Now it seems that she has been left behind as part of the upheaval currently going on at The WaPo. Mike Rhode […]
Tributes Lalo Alcaraz thanks Jules Feiffer for his service to cartoonists and humanity in today’s La Cucaracha. While cartoonist John Hambrock riffs on Rube Goldberg in The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. Then Greg and Karen Evans recall a famous Philippe Halsman photo shoot from 1952 in Luann. Prince(ss) Val(entina) and The Adventurers It seems […]
Days after the Trump Administration froze $175 million in federal funding the University of Pennsylvania has terminated the employment of progressive Lecturer (and Cartoonist) Dwayne Booth, aka Mr. Fish. From the Mr. Fish Patreon page: I was informed that the reason for the termination was budgetary, which I think is the same reason they gave […]
Featuring Greg and Karen Evans, Jamar Nicholas, Jeff Weigel, Dan Thompson, G. B. Trudeau, Peter Arno, and Charles Schulz. NCS Open House Meet-n-Greet and Member Spotlight On the other side of this weekend: Come mingle with current NCS members and others interested in the professional world of cartooning. Open to professionals interested in the NCS–please […]
Special Congressional Recognition for Lalo Alcaraz Got it before the Dept. of unDEIs could undo it. Says Lalo Alcaraz: I’m so relieved this certificate of special congressional recognition came before the federal government realized I was not a white man, and made recognition of bad hombres like me illegal. Via Bluesky or by way of […]
March 20 Update: Dana has revealed what is happening with the Phoebe and Her Unicorn comic strip: I’m bringing the daily newspaper strip to an end. The Sunday comics will continue, but as of March 30, 2025, I’m finished with daily comic strips. And just as, in the strip, Phoebe has moved to a new […]
Canada’s National Newspaper Awards has announced the finalists for the 2024 awards and in the category for Editorial Cartooning the finalists are Michael de Adder of the Halifax Chronicle Herald/The Globe and Mail; Gabrielle Drolet of The Globe and Mail; and Patrick LaMontagne of the Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun. The cartoonists’ portfolios, along with all the […]
Cartoon artist John Peck, also known as The Mad Peck, has passed away. John F. Peck aka The Mad Peck November 16, 1942 – March 15, 2025 From the WPRI obituary: John Peck, the artist behind the poster who signed his art as “The Mad Peck,” died at the hospital on Saturday after a sudden […]
GoComics has set the date for when the new, improved site will rejigger itself. From a March 18 message to GoComics subscribers: We continue to put the finishing touches on the updated GoComics, and we have an official launch date: Tuesday, April 1! (No fooling.) GoComics Blog has also noted the relaunch date: Exciting news: […]