I think today’s Deflocked (AMS) is largely an example of lead time. When the first cell phone bans in school were announced, editorial cartoonists leapt to depict disheartened children, though my own suspicion was that the kids would largely shrug it off and either adjust to life in the here and now or find new […]

From The North American Post introduction to a 2017 interview with cartoonist Sam Goto: Sam Goto drew his Seattle Tomodachi strip for five years. He passed away on New Year’s Eve 2017, but he left the North American Post with enough new comic strips to last well into 2018. For five years, Sam told mostly […]

Featuring Rod Whigham; Dee Fish; Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar; Beatriz Lockwood and Maya Scarpa; Henry Payne; Juanjo Gaurnido; Rachel Smythe; Shen; Jeff Weigel and Thomas Yeates; Bill Morrison and Dave Warren; and Mason Mastroianni. With Wayno, Dana Simpson, and Jamar Nicholas; Maria Scrivan, Hector Cantu, Dana Simpson, Danesh Mohiuddin, Hilary B. Price, and Tauhid […]

Nick Anderson (Tribune) salutes the 118th Congress, one of the least productive congresses in history, as it disbands to go home and run for office based on having done little but squabble and preen. They’ll be gone until after the election, which won’t make much of a difference to the nation, since I’m quite sure […]

Florida Weekly has announced that Edward (Eddie) Dziura is the newspaper’s new (freelance) editorial cartoonist. From the September 26, 2024 Florida Weekly: That September 26 issue also carried Eddie’s first cartoon. And like his children, you can enjoy Eddie’s cartoons via Florida Weekly’s E-Edition.

When last we read Jules Feiffer it was his graphic novel trilogy paying homage to film noir and detective fiction. Now Jules returns with a graphic novel for teens and preteens wherein he puts down in comic form a detective story of a far different kind as two youngster are separated from their older sister […]

A timely message from Mike Luckovich, who as I write this is likely hunkered down in Georgia as Helene passes over. There’s probably some kind of wisecrack available about how, if Trump is elected, he’ll protect us by diverting hurricanes with his magic Sharpie, but the more serious point is that NOAA was born out […]

These past decades have seen pro sports fans around the country spurned by the teams they support and cheer when owners of sports franchises see shinier, brighter, newer things elsewhere – well, Money Talks. Oakland, California has been especially hard hit lately. Five years ago, after nearly 50 years in Oakland the Golden State Warriors […]

It is a more frequent occurrence than you would imagine – an editorial cartoon goes awry from what the cartoonist envisioned. Michael de Adder‘s recent cartoon about the crowded field running for Halifax mayor drew criticism. From the CBC: The cartoon, by longtime freelance cartoonist Michael de Adder, depicts a bald white man and a […]

There’s nothing all that new if you take Guto Dias’ cartoon in the broad, overall sense. Both graphic and literary artists have had to leave creativity aside when entering the commercial arena, and if some leaks in, it generally gets committeefied into pap before anybody in the public sees it. But the advent of AI […]

I would certainly love to be at the September 28 opening of The Larry Todd Retrospect at The Willits Center. According to The Ukiah Daily Journal: In addition to the exhibition, Larry Todd will be present for an opening reception on Sept. 28 from 6-9 p.m., where visitors will have the chance to meet the […]

By future Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers creator from late 1966 or early 1967, during the height of the Vietnam War, comes a comic of the times: “Everybody Seems To Be Going Over To Viet Nam,” a three page story by Gilbert Shelton and Tony Bell first seen in Wonder Wart-Hog #1 (Winter 1967). The story […]

I’m not buying what the woman in this Phil Hands cartoon is selling. She may be busy, but being too busy to keep up with politics in a presidential election year is just silly. It’s like saying you were too busy to notice three feet of snow in your driveway. And it only snows a […]

What happened? From Console and Associates P.C. via JD Supra: On January 25, 2023, Andrews McMeel Universal (“AMU”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of New Hampshire after discovering that an unauthorized party was able to access confidential consumer information maintained on the company’s IT network. In this notice, AMU explains […]

This Comic Strip Is the Best Read for Fans of The Far Side Maria Scrivan’s Half Full is a comic strip with similar offbeat humor to The Far Side that fans will love. Arantxa Pellme, in a two minute video from Comic Book Resources, nominates Maria Scrivan’s Half Full as the rightful successor to Gary […]