King Features regularly issues a directory for its syndicated offerings, but this week they surprised us by putting up a directory for their King Features Weekly Service (KFWS) branch. Let’s take a look at the KFWS listing for comic offerings (not in alphabetical order): Tiger Flash Gordon Stan Smith Tennis (aka Stan Smith’s Tennis Class) […]

Well, Arlo (AMS), the problem is that you’re celebrating the wrong saint. If you wait two days, you can have corned beef and cabbage on your St. Joseph’s Table at a heavily discounted price. Best of all, Festa di San Giuseppe falls on a Sunday this year, so you don’t need a dispensation to have […]

News with Monte Wolverton, Brian Fies, Roy Lichtenstein, George Herriman, Lucy Shelton Caswell, and Shantell Martin. When Cartoonists are No Longer Supported by Newspapers Monte Wolverton is asking for a little help. From Daryl at CagleCartoons: We’ve put up a crowd funding campaign for our beloved and brilliant, progressive cartoonist, Monte Wolverton at Cagle.com/Wolverton –come […]

Percy Crosby was born in 1891 and was working and cartooning for newspapers before he was out of his teens. His twenties saw him succeed in contributing cartoons and comic strips to magazines and newspapers. WWI interrupted the career. After The War to End All Wars Crosby reestablished himself as a cartoonist and illustrator. One […]

As expected, I’m seeing a lot of SVB cartoons, some of which are entirely off target, some of which are blaming deregulation, which is a likely but not yet proven cause, a couple of which celebrate panicked withdrawals and too many of which predict a general collapse of all banks and the economy. So here’s […]

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. We begin our March list of books with one we missed in February. UVA Press is happy to announce the publication of a […]

Fourteen months after Joe Wos switched his MazeToons from Creators to King Features the panel has finally been added to Comics Kingdom. (Will it take as long for Andrews McMeel to add Mike Peters’ editoons to GoComics?) The feature was added Monday but the archive goes back to January 2022 when Joe switched syndicates. Set […]

We’ll start the day with a pair of cartoons about a topic I’m not going to cover yet, though I did touch on SVB’s collapse the other day. At the moment, we’ve got people who should understand this stuff saying that SVB’s fall is because of changes in the Dodd-Frank law, and Barney Frank saying […]

So you and I missed The Oscars. We can still experience it vicariously through the sketches of cartoonist Liza Donnelly. As MEAWW explains: Liza Donnelly, who started contributing to The New Yorker in 1979, has made her sixth visit to live-draw from the Oscars 2023. Donnelly made history in 2016 by being the first person […]

The colored comic supplement is regarded by foreigners visiting this country for purposes of study as one of our natural wonders ranking with Niagara Falls, the Mammoth Cave and the Hylan administration. But even those visitors who remain here long enough to admit that ice water is not a vice but a grateful refreshment do […]

Today’s headline is an old joke; the answer is in Ann Telnaes‘ cartoon. The stork ought to still scare them, because, as Telnaes points out, we’re heading back to the pre-Roe days when a pregnant woman’s choice was between giving birth or possible death, and I say that as someone old enough to have been […]

Famed British comic strip and gag cartoonist Bill Tidy has passed away. William Edward (Bill) Tidy, MBE October 9, 1933 – March 11, 2023 The death of Bill Tidy, who some call “The World’s Greatest Cartoonist” and “UK’s Best-Loved Cartoonist,” is being reported by newspapers throughout Great Britain including The Daily Mail and The Guardian. […]

Dilbert by Scott Adams has ended its syndicated newspaper run. Dilbert debuted in 1989. It is unknown if the Sunday April 16, 1989 issue appeared in any newspapers, but a few newspapers did begin showing the strip on their comics pages on Monday April 17, 1989. While enduring the circumstances of being middle management Scott […]

I’m with Elliott, or, as Napoleon once remarked to Marshal Bernadotte, “Je ne donne pas une merde.” Or words to that effect. I have one clock in the house that needs to be reset, plus the one in the car. The others mostly take care of themselves. I never set the ones on the oven […]

Morten Morland, a frequent Mike Peterson choice, has been named The Press Awards’ Cartoonist of the Year. Hat tip to Bado’s Blog for the notice and a Morland gallery. Dark Horse and Yoe Books Present “Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry” Cartoonists Against Racism tells the remarkable unknown story of how a […]