In a career that’s spanned more than 40 years and included some 80 books, thousands of newspaper and magazine illustrations and many New Yorker covers, author and illustrator Bob Staake has never had a solo show of his work. Until now. “The Endless Imagination of Bob Staake” will be on exhibit at the Cape Cod […]

The San Diego Comic Con (aka: Comic Con International) returns for its 2023 engagement next week. It began as a comic book festival and evolved into a Hollywood hullabaloo, though that seems to have subsided a bit this year. Anyway, there is a long-time relationship between comic books and comic strips. So here is some […]

Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end. Dr. MacLeod piggybacks on the success of the new Indiana Jones movie — in which an 80-year-old proves he’s not too old to be a hero — by pointing out how things have changed not since World War II but far more recently. After […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (the renovated AAEC website will return soon) has opened the window for submitting cartoons for the 2023 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. The deadline to enter is Friday, August 25, 2023. The full notice as released by the AAEC: SACRAMENTO, CA — The Association of […]

On Tuesday, three Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists — Ohman of the Sacramento Bee, Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer [links added]— were all let go by McClatchy newspapers. Jack Ohman cannot recall another day like it, even amid decades of brutal cuts in the field of newspaper political […]

A personal chuckle from The Other Coast (Creators), because he’s right that dog owners are more observant of the scoop laws than other users seem to be of the littering laws. There are, of course, times when a dog poops while the owner is engaged in conversation and doesn’t notice, though when there’s a group, […]

Brooke McEldowney celebrated 30 years of 9 Chickweed Lane comic strips in his usual artistic way (above). 9 Chickweed Lane began showing up in newspapers on July 12, 1993. That first strip can be read, as part of the entire 9 Chickweed Lane archive, at GoComics. The early strips can be part of your daily […]

(Jack Ohman — Pulitzer Prize, 2016) (Joel Pett — Pulitzer Prize, 2000) (Kevin Siers — Pulitzer Prize, 2014) This is, alas, a Juxtaposition of the Fired. The McClatchy chain of newspapers, which has been struggling in bankruptcy for more than three years, has decided to cut costs by eliminating three of the nation’s leading editorial […]

Graham Harrop has a new comic strip on GoComics. The Ten Cats creator and editorial cartoonist premiered UFO on July 11, 2023. From a GoComics introductory post: “UFO” by Graham Harrop follows two duck brothers, Quagmire and Melrose, who were abducted from Earth and whisked away to Planet UFO. There, they run a two-star hotel […]

If we’re going to talk about subjective reality, we might as well begin where the term was hatched, in the world of recreational drugs. The term was a joke, not a theory, and Joe Heller addresses the objective reality, which is that less-than-recreational drugs have fully permeated our society such that having a small bag […]

When it comes to current continuity comic strips it sometimes becomes difficult to keep track of the plot and story development. That is where Joseph Nebus’ What’s Going On In… series becomes a valuable resource. When the Prince Valiant plot takes a detour (not unusual) or The Phantom adventure goes on for months and months […]

Comics and illustration historian and publisher Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has passed away. “Jim was one of those rare figures in the history of comics, an amateur in the best and most noble sense of the word, a scholar with discriminating taste, a selfless researcher before the internet existed, an historian who helped create a foundation […]

Scott Stantis (Counterpoint) notes another rate hike at the post office, but I’m not fretting over it. I don’t like how the USPS is being kicked around by the privatizers who would love to turn it over to their pals at UPS and Fedex, but the rise in postal rates doesn’t bother me. Well, at […]

Scott Adams, Mario DeMarco, Jack Lindstrom, Jim Keefe, George Herriman, and the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese, Maurice Noble, Ken Harris, Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughn, et al. That Other Scott Adams Comic Strip A Butler Eagle reader advocates for the return of Scott Adams. While we can’t help with that we […]

Fred Basset by Alex Graham debuted in The Daily Mail on July 9, 1963.* From that Daily Mail newspaper celebrating the birthday: There’s a big birthday ambling our way this week — and it belongs to someone with long floppy ears, short waddly legs and a tail wagging in anticipation. Not that Fred Basset, 60 […]