CSotD: The $250 Million Elephant Drop
It was all a con. Matt Wuerker (Politico) extracts the most damning revelation from yesterday’s Jan 6 Committee Hearing: Trump…
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Bret Blevins Identified as Phantom Ghost Artist
The Phantom cover art by Bret Blevins and Terry Austin The Chronicle Chamber has revealed that Bret Blevins is the…
Ghost Artists on Judge Parker and The Phantom
Beginning today Mike Manley has handed over his comic strips to other artists. Hopefully this is a temporary issue until…
Stuart Carlson – RIP
Editorial Cartoonist Stuart Carlson has passed away. Stuart Scott Carlson September 1955 – June 10, 2022 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel…
The Bog Beast of the Bayou
The modern day swamp creature began with Theodore Sturgeon’s 1940 short story “It.” It would be adapted as a…
CSotD: Living in an Exceptional Nation
I’m writing this a few hours before the second of the Jan 6 Committee public hearings goes on the air,…
Comic History – A Comic Chronicles Installment
History of the Comic Strip (in a nutshell) Through 1960 Rudolphe Töpffer – Primitive comic book creator. His books were…
CSotD: Looking backwards
Today’s F-Minus (AMS) touched off an odd bit of nostalgia, because when I was a small lad, we had a…
The Past Week’s Comic Strips
The past week starts with today’s future Zippy where Griffy refuses to modernize. © Bill Griffith Check earlier in…
Editorial Cartoonist David Cohen Gets a Letter
Like most of us in the world of journalism, Citizen Times cartoonist David Cohen has developed a pretty thick skin over…
CSotD: The Real World & all its works & all its pomps
I think we have to assume that Jeremy, in Zits (KFS), has just concluded his junior year (again), since he…
NCS Letter to Pulitzer re: Editorial Cartooning
The National Cartoonists Society, whose first President was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, has, in solidarity with the Association of…
CSotD: Getting the Picture
My intention this morning was to hold off on last night’s hearing until cartoonists had a chance to comment, and…
Ranan Lurie – RIP
Editorial cartoonist and political caricaturist Ranan Lurie has passed away. AP…
Tom Richmond Art for 2022 NCS Reubens
The National Cartoonists Society has released the art for 76th Annual Reuben Awards brochures, posters, and other applications. It is…