Arcadio Esquivel reaches for one of my least favorite images, the notion that cavemen mated by bopping women over their heads and dragging them away. This fits no primitive society I’m aware of; in all the hunter/gatherer societies I’ve read about, women are the cornerstones and they make the decisions about who will marry whom, […]
Magazine illustrator Mark Zingarelli has passed away. Mark Alan Zingarelli July 11th, 1952 – April 18th, 2025 From the obituary: Mark attended The Ivy School of Professional Art for a short period before going to the University of Pittsburgh majoring in art and film-making. He left before graduation to pursue an animation opportunity in San […]
Last week we discovered The Cartoon Factory Ltd. a small syndicate servicing weekly and bi-weekly newspapers that distributed comic strips and panels from July 5, 1981 to March 28, 1982. The full roster of The Cartoon Factory could be run on one page. The cartoonists and comic titles remained the same throughout the syndicates existence […]
You may recall that the Biden administration had a plan to hire IRS staff, mostly to replace retired staffers and augment customer service personnel, but with an eye towards greater enforcement of tax cheating in the upper levels of income. This was immediately branded (i.e. “lied about”) as a plan to send jackbooted thugs after […]
The New York Times famously does not print cartoons or comic strips, but they did on Earth Day. Don Addis (1935-2009) made it into many magazines and newspapers during his time as an editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator (Briny Deep, Babyman, and The Great John L) but not The New York Times. Until now. […]
Earlier this year we noted that Advance Publications’ newspapers, known as Advance Local, were following in the paths of other groups* by going with unified comics pages for their print newspapers. Not long after that news item Advance’s The Oregonian reported to their readers on the changes forthcoming. I saved that story until newspapers.com’s thirty […]
There are so many cartoons about the death of Pope Francis that I had to make decisions, one of which was to lead off with a Nick Anderson piece that he did for Easter, before the Pope died. It’s one that could have been done any Easter, because we have become very good at giving […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced nominees for its 2024 Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year aka: The Reuben Award. Each year, the National Cartoonist Society honors excellence in our profession with Divisional Awards, special honors and lifetime achievement awards, and the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. The nominees and recipient of this, […]
Blondie and Dagwood and … Blame Blondie by Dean Young and John Marshall (actually Elmo) for this post’s title. So is John Zakour and Scott Roberts’ Working Daze situated in the city where Dagwood works? Lou from Dagwood’s favorite diner showed up in the Working Daze panel today. One more Blondie as part of today’s […]
I wasn’t going to feature any political cartoons today, but this one not only made me laugh but is extraordinarily topical, given that it has just been revealed that our Secretary of Defense set up a personal Signal chat on his personal phone on which he gave friends and family advance details about the attack […]
So GoComics seemingly has set up someone to make sure that the Sunday strips now have the black plate included after weeks of that being a problem on a few strips every Sunday. This week only Rose is Rose got through, but they fixed it very quickly so only Arcamax was caught blackless: But there […]
The New Yorker cover artist Gretchen Dow Simpson has passed away. Gretchen Dow Simpson May 17, 1939 – April 11, 2025 From The Providence Journal obituary: Gretchen Dow Simpson, the acclaimed painter whose depictions of the American Northeast graced 58 covers of The New Yorker, died peacefully in Providence, Rhode Island on April 11, 2025, […]
Today is Easter in the Western Christian churches, and a rare chance to catch Caulfield in error, because, while the date is different each year, it’s not random and is the first Sunday after the full Moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox, as explained by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, who certainly […]
Jim Keefe remembers Jay Kennedy; Jay Kinney recalls his underground comix days; Rick Marschall presents W. C. Fields, cartoonist; Allan Holtz present W. C. Fields the comic strip; Brian Walker of The Cartooning Walker Family profiled; and the Art Spiegelman documentary; and Randy Milholland honors Hy Eisman in today’s Popeye. Jay Kennedy I first met […]
Nigerian cartoonist Obe Ess has passed away. Olaseinde Obe (Obe Ess) 1952 – April 2025 Nigerian newspaper The Nation has reported the death of Obi Ess: Of the Obe clan from Igbara Oke in Ondo State, Obe Ess — Olaseinde Obe — had cemented his name in the pantheon of Nigerian newspaper cartoon greats (if […]