Not sure either event is particularly “inspiring” except to the wrong people, but Brewster Rockit (Tribune) does a good job of choosing the finalists and summing up the year, and I think he made the right choice. The election was like finding out your lover has been cheating on you. On the one hand, you’re […]

Roundups of the best editorial cartoons of 2024 will be coming quickly as the New Year closes in. The Chattanooga Times Free Press offers a gallery of 2024 Clay Bennett cartoons of the year. The Guardian collects The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2024. Earlier it was local subjects, now The Times-Picayune/The […]

Prince Valiant was full of ships yesterday. The Tom Yeates title panel and the big shipping out panel in yesterday’s Prince Valiant was matched by the December 16, 1984 Vintage Prince Valiant page by John Cullen Murphy that Comics Kingdom also issued yesterday. We can only hope, for Arn’s sake, that Val’s ship doesn’t make […]

Dave Granlund Marc Murphy I’m okaying Granlund and Murphy for the hardhats because, while their cartoons salute his post-presidency Habitat for Humanity work, they do so while praising his other accomplishments, marking his whole life, not just one aspect of it. I won’t, however, feature cartoons that portray him entirely as a carpenter or that […]

More newspapers and websites roll out the best of editorial cartoonists’ commentary from the past year. Who What Why presents Ted Rall. Michael Ramirez at The Las Vegas Review-Journal offers up CARTOONS: A look back. For Voxeurop it was: a real challenge to sum up 2024 with a selection of press cartoons, as we do […]

This Edison Lee (KFS) ran on Third Day, but I’m borrowing it on Fifth Day because I think a fifth would be lovely gift today, though I realize liquor stores are closed in a lot of places. But I have some other observations: One is that the gifts in the song are additive, so all […]

Various items from various places with friends Tom Beland and Nazish Jonathan, Wayno and Dan Piraro, and Mark Evanier and Russell Myers. Checking in with Tom Beland. Tom Beland got some local notoriety as an editorial cartoonist: Beland spent worked as a cartoonist, graphic artist and sometimes reporter for the Napa Valley Register from 1989 […]

Let’s start with this depressing cartoon from Jonesy. It might be funny if it were some kind of exaggeration, but it functions as an editorial cartoon that, as editorial cartoons can do, elicits a grim smile of recognition. The speed with which AI is taking over everything has made it impossible for the greater society […]

Another roundup of the year 2024 in editorial cartoons. The New Orleans Times-Picayune and NOLA.com present Walt Handelsman: 2024 cartoon review of local topics. From The Las Vegas Sun comes Mike Smith: Editorial Cartoons of 2024. Elections in the UK and US brought political upheaval. That was perfect for Times cartoonist Peter Brookes, who was […]

Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West by William Grady (2024) Nearly 50 years after Maurice Horn’s Comics of the American West we get another book charting “the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond.” By the time comic strips came along the […]

Morten Morland offers the most sweeping, and chilling view of things to come, in the way billionaires are lining up to not just pay homage to, but to pay, the incoming president. I’d like to think I’d be just as appalled if a president with whose intentions I agreed were getting all these massive donations, […]

Gideon Kibet (aka Kibet Bull), a university student, social media influencer and cartoonist who’s work has been critical of Kenyan President William Ruto, has been reported missing and is feared to have been abducted. His brother was disappeared four days earlier. Kibet was last seen visiting presidential aspirant Okiya Omtatah on December 24. Today, Omtatah, […]

From the day after Christmas and into the New Year we will see newspapers’ and websites’ collections of “the year in review” featuring editorial cartoons from the past year chosen by the cartoonists or their editors. Let’s get started: From WhoWhatWhy comes the Best Jon Richards Cartoons of 2024 The Toronto Star presents The year […]

Today is Boxing Day or St. Stephen’s Day or Wren Day (Lá an Dreoilín) or, as I call it, the point when if I haven’t used a cartoon yet it’s probably become irrelevant because they’ve all been about Christmas for the past three weeks. Fiona Katauskas takes an appropriately irreverent and silly look at Boxing […]

Schulz, the man who birthed the lovably hard-luck Charlie Brown, was known to have wrestled with self-doubt. Yet when it came to taking the reins of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in 1965, the “Peanuts” creator was a thinker of unwavering confidence and cool-headed belief, his longtime screen collaborator and late producer Lee Mendelson — who […]