The Return of the Prodigal Cartoonist
The Metter (Georgia) Advertiser welcomed back editorial cartoonist Gary Jarrell after Gary was wandering the world outside the newspaper for…
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Comic Strips – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
© Rick McKee and Kent Sligh GoComics has been running the Mt. Pleasant comic strip for at least a…
CSotD: Weekend Wrap-up
We’ll end the week with a bit of politics, as Gary Clement (Cartoon Arts) hits with one of the first…
Rending of Garments and Gnashing of Teeth – Alden Global Buy of Tribune Publishing OK’d
From Poynter: May 21, 2021 Tribune Publishing said that hedge fund Alden Global Capital’s bid for the company, valued at…
20 Years Ago Today: John Rose Signs Snuffy Smith
Last month John Rose celebrated being hired by King Features Syndicate to succeed Fred Lasswell as the cartoonist for the…
CSotD: The National IQ Test
If mockery could solve our problems, we’d have no problems at all. And then the political cartoonists would all be…
2021 Davenport Cartoon Contest Call for Entries
Announcing the 2021 Davenport International Cartoon Contest! Anyone may enter the contest. Grand Prize: $750 * First: $500 * Second:…
CSotD: Funnies Break
Edison Lee (KFS) doesn’t say everything I’ve been thinking about this, but he says enough. One of the things popping…
Someday Funnies (B.C., Id, Mutts, Capp, and Liô)
I don’t remember the characters of The Wizard of Id and B.C. comic strips mingling except in promotional material like…
CSotD: Recalculating
Ann Telnaes is hardly the only cartoonist to show people — particularly Republican politicians — wearing their covid masks over…
‘This is Fine’ Dog Comes to King Features
K. C. Green, creator of the internationally famed “this is fine” internet meme, is taking his humor to King Features…
Israel-Palestine Cartoon Sends Clay Jones to Facebook Jail
Clay Jones used his Twitter account to let his Facebook followers know that he had been suspended because the Facebook…
CSotD: When it all comes down to dust
Let me start the day by declaring that I don’t like most of these cartoons very much, but it’s not…
M. Thomas Inge – RIP
Pop Culture scholar and historian M. Thomas Inge has passed away. Milton Thomas (Tom) Inge March 18, 1936 – May…
CSotD: And another thing …
This is hardly new: It’s an illustration from a 1903 book of nursery rhymes by Charles Robinson, who did much…