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Don’t Get Around Much Anymore – If I Did…

Billy Ireland’s New Yorker Centennial Celebration! New Yorker Centennial Celebration! Join us on Saturday, March 1 for a special program celebrating the centennial of The New Yorker magazine and a reception for our new exhibit, See Anyone You Know? The New Yorker Cartoons and Covers of Edward Koren. This event is FREE and open to the public. No […]

This Week in Comic Stripping

Breaking Cat People News Taking a break from breaking cat news is Breaking Cat News getting into breaking people news this week. People news involves those in control of our lives and governments, and Georgia Dunn goes there: Georgia leads off the comments by telling her readers why: For folks not loving a strip touching […]

CSotD: The Way We Live Now

I’m tempted to invite you to read Joel Pett’s cartoon, thank you for coming and remind you to tip your waitress, because he manages to pack an awful lot of current events into his piece, with greedy billionaires and without a lot of exaggeration or irony to puzzle the reader. Obviously, they’re not this direct, […]

MLive Media Adding Comics

The MLive Media Group has announced it is adding comic strips to their print editions. Two new comics to their Sunday Funnies and 12(!) to their daily comics pages: Starting March 18, our eight Michigan newspaper titles are adding 8 new comic strips to our Sunday newspaper lineup – 6 will be available in our […]

CSotD: The Center Cannot Hold

I hadn’t planned on featuring any more “list of accomplishment” cartoons, since, as said the other day, they were fairly identical and uninspired, but Matson has broken through with this piece, since we’ve entered a moment when the oligarchs seem to be losing their grip. Specifically, Republican lawmakers have been advised by their leadership to […]

The Press: Audits & Other News

Report on 2024 Newspaper Circulation The combined average daily circulation of the 25 largest audited newspapers in the US dropped 12.7% in the year to the end of September 2024, new data shows. The figures, supplied to Press Gazette by the Alliance for Audited Media, show that none of the top US titles increased their […]

CSotD: I Believe We Could Use Some Laughs

This is as political as I plan to get today. I’m awash in political cartoons with sarcastic responses to Musk’s demand that people tell five things they accomplished last week, mostly showing Trump filling out the form and varying from okay to more than okay but only a couple reaching brilliant. Ali Solomon, however, frames […]

CSotD: Cartoons Call For Comments

Given the tumult we’ve been going through since Inauguration Day, the flow of political cartoons has been steady but has ranged from nuanced to absurd, sometimes out of extreme views one way or the other, other times because of the complexity of subject matter. It definitely makes me hope that, when GoComics unveils their new […]

Comic Strip News and Nonsense

Count Me Out/In After 11 and a half years cartoonist Graham Nolan has moved his weekly Sunshine State comic strip from GoComics to his own Compass Comics site. It sounds as if the archives at GoComics will not be there for long: To have it in two places is to fracture the audience. I want […]

Comic Strip Updates

VeeFriends and LeePapers; Doonesbury Done in Dallas; Comics Come in for Candorville Cuts. VeeFriends Debut Newspaper Comic Strip If you were like me you would have thought that the images of the comic strip with the publicity surrounding the debut of VeeFriends in Lee newspapers was the actual February 23 comic strip. It wasn’t. With […]

CSotD: Monday Miscellany

This cartoon is both depressing and encouraging, being an external viewpoint from Denmark. He’s right that we’ve fallen into the clutches of partisan lunatics, though perhaps you have to be old enough to remember the Cultural Revolution to comprehend the realities of an army of extremist disciples roaming the country looking for unfaithful citizens to […]

Cartoonist Profiles Part CCIV

Deon Parson, Kate Beaton, Barbara Shermund, Art Spiegelman, Colin Whittock, Alison Bechdel, Clay Jones $upr Dee Parson Parson, 29, is the creator of multiple comic strips, including “Life With Kurami” (debuted in 2015); “Pen and Ink” (debuted in 2017); and “Rosebuds” (debuted in 2019). “Rosebuds” has been Parson’s biggest financial success thus far in his […]

Sunday Afternoon Roundup

Jeanne Young O’Neil obituary; USPS postage stamps for 2025; Famous Cartoonists School course art; Garry Trudeau versus Mort Drucker and Jerry Dumas; Peanuts collectibles; 2024 children and young adult bestsellers. Jeanne Young O’Neil – RIP Jeanne Young O’Neil, the daughter of Blondie creator Chic Young, the sister to current Blondie producer Dean Young, and the […]

CSotD: Sunday Miscellany

Dave Coverly gets the Crystal Ball Award for having drawn this piece godknowswhen but well before Dear Leader declared himself a king and got plenty of pushback. It wasn’t French Revolution level pushback, mind you, despite his having echoed the Sun King who reportedly said, “L’Etat c’est moi,” which is cousin to “He who saves his Country does not […]

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