On Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men
Hogan’s Alley and Tom Heintjes remind us that it was on this day, in a 1959 Peanuts Sunday comic strip,…
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The Bill Mauldin Award? AAEC Letter to OPC
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists President Kevin Necessary has issued an open letter to the Overseas Press Club of…
And In The End – Tom Batiuk on Funky Winkerbean
What started as the humorous misadventures of the teens from Westview High School eventually morphed into a serialized drama tackling…
CSotD: Last Minute Gifts
(Clay Bennett — CTFP) (Pickles — AMS) The problem with last-minute gifts is that, no matter how practical they…
2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize Open for Submissions
Each year the Cartoonist Studio Prize will be awarded to work that exemplifies excellence in cartooning. The creators of two…
OT: NY Times Crossword on First Day of Hanukkah
The New York Times created a social media storm when their Sunday crossword puzzle layout for December 18, 2022 (the…
Scott U Joins Slylock Fox Daily
Slylock Fox daily is ringing out 2022 the way Slylock Fox Sunday rang in 2022. Very early in 2022 a…
CSotD: Getting Our Stories Straight
Watching Twitter twitch has become a favorite sport, and for some a major compulsion, and Bill Bramhall notes Elon Musk’s…
A Message For TDC Daily Digest Subscribers
The Daily Cartoonist (TDC) is in the midst of a disruption of sorts(that brief outage the other day was actually…
Reader Didn’t Get The Funnies; But What Version?
Oregonian Editor Therese Bottomly received a complaint from a reader: The other weekend, I received an email from an unhappy…
CSotD: It’s beginning to look a lot … well, you know …
Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) on the demise of the Christmas Newsletter. Yesterday, I talked about the fables that passed as history…
HerStory: Bessie Mae Kelley – Comic Chronicles
One hundred years ago there was one woman drawing and directing animated films. From animation historian Jerry Beck: In the…
CStoD: Yule Love These Cartoons!
Clay Bennett (CTFP) manages, alas, to capture the spirit of Christmas, 2022, though I’d like it just as much without…
Trump NFT Cards Designer/Artist Clark Mitchell
The artist who designed NFT digital cards with “amazing ART of [Donald Trump’s] Life & Career” is Clark Mitchell. Above:…
2023 Awards Await – Deadlines Differ
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has posted their 2023 list of major national journalism awards given to cartoonists. …