This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed) 2024 – THE DEARLY DEPARTED These U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists, and selected others, died in 2024. DAVID MARK KUNZLE April […]

Jeremy Banx’s old couple welcomes in the New Year with the same attitude I did, having seen it several times. I just went to bed at my usual time and the calendar managed to do its thing without my assistance, as it often has. So no cartoons today about people falling asleep before the ball […]

This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed) 2024 DETOURS & DEVIATIONS Some changes to U. S. newspaper comic strips and panels in 2024. But first a missed 2023 change: […]

This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed) 2024 DEBUTS These comic strips and panels began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2024. BREAK OF DAY by Nate Fakes […]

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, […]