In what is becoming an unsettling pattern, an Egyptian state security prosecutor extended the detention for cartoonist Ashraf Omar for yet another two weeks. It is his fourth extension since he was abducted from his home in July by plainclothes officers. Ashraf, whose work appears in Al-Manassa, has been a vocal critic of the Egyptian government. He’s […]
How better to welcome everyone back from Labor Day than with this Tom Toro panel? I drove 275 miles each way Saturday to visit my mother for her 100th, though her birthday was actually Sunday. As it happened, the 550-mile round-trip wasn’t so bad and I assume most drivers had left on Friday and returned […]
Olivia Jaimes returned to the Nancy comic strip today after taking a sabbatical. While gone Olivia got (bribed? coerced?) other people to create Nancy comics in her absence. Following are the credits for the Summer of 2024. Olivia Jaimes April 9, 2018* – June 22, 2024 (*Sundays May 6, 2018 – June 16, 2024) Leigh […]
Oregon cartoonist Bill Friday has passed away. William Rodney (Bill) Friday November 8, 1942 – August 23, 2024 From the obituary: William “Bill” Rodney Friday, fondly known to many as Uncle Bill, passed away in Bend, Oregon, in 2024 at the age of 81. Born on November 8, 1942, in Payette, Idaho… Bill spent the […]
For some odd reason which they seem unwilling to explain, Facebook has suspended our account. If you are used to seeing links from us there, be assured we are still here and are still posting regularly. If we are reinstated, you’ll see us back on FB. If not, we’ll all survive somehow. We’re hanging in. […]
Xitter has been kicked out of Brazil, as Joy of Tech notes without mourning. It seems Musk got in a quarrel with them over his right to spread misinformation, and so they blocked reception of his platform, though the NYTimes also reports that he’s encouraging people there to log on via Starlink, which could get […]
1814 Surrender of Alexandria, Amtrak across America, Page One-above the fold Cartoonist Profile, Letterer Appreciation Day, Cartoonists for ,la. Prominent Alexandrians saw how British forces burned Washington, D.C. on Aug. 24, 1814. Although the War of 1812 had started two years earlier, the war came home to residents of Alexandria in 1814, when our city […]
Cartoonist Michael Leunig, a fixture for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, for 55 years, was laid off along with dozens of others across Nine Entertainment Co’s chaing of newspapers. The media company claims the layoffs were necessary due to declining advertising and the loss of $15 million in revenue from Meta. Michael says […]
Mike Lynch (with Art Bouthillier, Randy Glasbergen, Ted Goff, George Jartos, Bart Roozendaal, and George Trosley), Ed Steckley, Warner Bros cartoons, Flash Gordon comic book, AI, and (sorry) Scott Adams. The Aspiring Cartoonist: The Craft and Business of Gag Cartooning Mike Lynch has a very fine habit of pulling old cartooning magazines out of his […]
Douglas Rodger saluted American workers with this Labor Day cartoon in the San Francisco News a century ago, but, in Chicago, my grandmother was involved in a different sort of labor, and I am rising to a point of personal privilege today. In those days, fathers were banished to the waiting room, and so in […]
We start not with Peanuts but Sparky’s other comic It’s Only A Game. A dozen years ago Nat Gertler wrote of a Charles Schulz rarity he had missed out on: … a booklet called Golfing — It’s Only A Game, which reprinted seven panels from Schulz & Sasseville’s “It’s Only a Game” feature, behind a […]
British cartoonist Bill Stott passed away on August 25. His career began as an art teacher in Liverpool. His cartooning career started at Punch magazine in the late 1970s. Bill described his early career as “teaching when it was light and drawing cartoons when it wasn’t.” He was a founding member of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organization and a member of the […]
Michael Ramirez (Creators) offered a curious take on CNN’s candidate interview. It appeared the morning after, but that likely means it was drawn before the interview aired. He assumed, then, that Harris was incapable of answering questions without Walz to save her. Now, judging it in retrospect, it’s clear from the transcript that absolutely nothing […]
The UK Column has posted a 90-minute video interview with Bob Moran, former political cartoonist for the Daily Telegraph. Bob is a libertarian cartoonist who took a strong position against Covid restrictions in Britain and was eventually fired from the Telegraph for tweets calling for his followers to verbal abuse a British NHS doctor. From the […]
Ruben Bolling, Georgia Dunn, Keith Knight, and dozens of more cartoonists; plus Dogs of C-Kennel, Lola, Shifts, Crabgrass, and the missing Vintage Apartment 3-G. Ruben Bolling, who has drawn and written his intricate, incisive, shape-shifting weekly cartoon “Tom the Dancing Bug” for more than three decades, works best under the pressure of a deadline. “Years […]