Basil and Monte Wolverton; Flash Gordon by Alex, Jim, Dan, and a bunch of others; public domain Popeye and Olive; a hint of next winter’s Doonesbury special art; plus actual comic strips and panels from this week. Let’s start with the news for the indexers. This week sees the King Features Weekly Service dropping Dan […]

Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground, and I’m kind of surprised that anybody had time to respond, given that Dear Leader pulled the plug at two in the afternoon, so we’ll give some other cartoonists a chance to catch up. And speaking of catch-up, we’re in good hands, because our Secretary […]

For those interested in the very earliest history of comic strips Antoine Sausverd has an announcement: About a month ago, we set out to enlighten the “Early Comics” universe with a fair selection of David Kunzle’s legacy on the subject. Indeed, our “David Kunzle page” (DKP) wants to pay tribute to Kunzle as a pioneer […]

With Nick Anderson, David Haldane, Paige Braddock, Kaj Hasselriis, Dan Misdea, Bob Hale, and Guy Badeaux. Nick Anderson Interviewed for Future Documentary From Nick Anderson: Today I had the honor of being interviewed by a very talented director who creates documentaries for PBS. I’m a fan of his work, so it was a real privilege […]

I’m going to set today’s sour mood by disagreeing with Dave Whamond. I understand his point and others have pointed out the keyboard warriors who declare themselves experts on the problem of the day, whatever it is. The problem is that, other than drawing the fellow as buck-toothed and chinless, he doesn’t indicate that he […]

From Mark Evanier: My New Book Tomorrow, a fine publisher will be announcing the new book I’ve authored about a great creator of comics. If you were like me you thought Mark’s long-awaited biography of Jack Kirby was on its way, instead… Mark surprised us with The Essential Peanuts, “a deluxe edition celebrating the 75th […]

Jason Chatfield, cartoon editor; Tom Toro, exclusive cartoonist; cartooning for School Administrator; cartooning opportunities from The New Gag Recap; The American Bystander and The New Yorker kinship. Reports of the demise of magazine cartooning, other than The New Yorker, are exaggerated. Cartoonist Jason Chatfield also Jason Chatfield Cartoon Editor Cartoonist Jason Chatfield brings news that […]

I’d been at the paper — not the above paper, mind you — for about four months when the markets crashed in 1987 and I had to suddenly learn about stocks and bonds and such. Fortunately, I’d just spent three or four years writing about residential real estate and commercial development, so it was more […]

The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) travelled to Broom-Hilda country last November to deliver their Gold Key award (scroll down), signifying induction into the Society’s Hall of Fame, to cartoonist Russell Myers. National Cartoonists Society President Karen Evans and Mark Habegger traveled to Oregon to deliver the NCS Gold Key and record a wonderful interview with […]

Illustrator and cartoonist Brad Holland has passed away. Bradford Wayne (Brad) Holland October 16, 1943 – March 27, 2025 From Steven Heller: Brad Holland died on Thursday March 27 at 2 a.m. after heart surgery. He was 81. He was my first professional friend, critic and inspiration when at 17 I stumbled into the worlds […]

We’ll start the week with a dose of politics and the gift of seeing ourselves as others see us. Depending on how you feel about our chocolate, there’s not much here that seems outlandish or surprising. The humor, rather, is in listing it without choking in horror, as if it were all perfectly normal. Let’s […]

A New York Times obituary for John Peck and a King Features remembrance of Hy Eisman have appeared. John Peck, a cultural omnivore known as The Mad Peck whose dryly humorous style as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic, disc jockey and record collector was accompanied by an ornate eccentricity, died on March 15 in Providence, […]

A new Sunday story in The Phantom means a new title panel by Sunday artist Jeff Weigel. A big, wonderful Prince Valiant panel by Thomas Yeates as Val and company begin their own new adventure. Current Popeye cartoonist Randy Milholland has some fun with the present status of the comic strip of new Sundays and […]

Rain dampened, but did not discourage, demonstrators in White River Junction, where we lined the road through town and across the bridge into New Hampshire. The larger crowds were, naturally, in the larger cities, Montpelier and Burlington in Vermont and Concord, Manchester and Portsmouth in New Hampshire, but there were good turnouts even in the […]

Art Spiegelman biography and career timeline As a prelude to their airing of the Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse documentary on April 15, 2025 PBS presents a “timeline [that] explores Art Spiegelman’s life and the major milestones in his career” from his birth in 1948 to 2025’s collaboration with Joe Sacco on “Never Again […]