CSotD: Things that just ain’t so
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t…
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Comic Strips Back to the Future
Yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s comic strips. Old Spanish comic strip is new Comics Kingdom comic strip. Goomer by Ricardo Antonino…
Editors: Scared of Readers & Avoid Conflict – A Michael deAdder Interview
Our conversation with award winning Michael De Adder is wide ranging and looks at the challenges of getting political cartoons…
CSotD: Funny But Not Necessarily Silly
This Carpe Diem (KFS) wouldn’t be funny if everybody lined up their cars properly in parking lots, and so the…
Comics From The Alley
No, not Hogan’s Alley. the alley is the monthly newspaper of the Phillips Community in Minneapolis, and for years they…
On the Road to Becoming a Cartoonist; or, The Sandra Bell-Lundy Story
I still can’t believe I’ve spent my working life creating a comic strip for a living. There is nothing else…
CSotD: Elsewhere in the News
I suppose we should clean up a bit before attempting to move on, and Pat Byrnes offers this example of…
Sunday Lines of Type
What is the significance of Mr. Gabriel using the old-fashioned linotype to print his sheet? Is Mr. Gabriel a muckraking…
The National Cartoonists Society Nominees for 2023 Cartoonist Of the Year Reuben
The National Cartoonists Society has revealed the nominees for THE Reuben Award (Cartoonist of the Year). Due to a tie…
CSotD: Laughter in the Graveyard
David Ostow is right, and so was my professor, all those years ago. We were reading Hamlet and he led…
Jim Davis’ Comic Strips Before Garfield
Despite being the world’s most syndicated comic, pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars every year, Garfield was originally meant…
Roz Chast Awarded the First Thurber Prize for American Humor in Cartoon Art
Liza Donnelly reports: Last year, Michael and I were instrumental in helping to establish the Thurber Prize for American Cartoon…
CSotD: The Whole World Is … well, you know
Nice of Australian cartoonist Glen LeLievre to offer an All-American image as he sums up global reaction to Trump’s conviction….
Seeing May Out with Miss Cellany
Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s Paper Trends returns with a survey of the comics page of the year 2000. The Rookies, Biggest Winners…
CSotD: Quick Resolution, Quick Responses
To repeat an oft-told story in political cartooning, Bill Mauldin was at a luncheon when news of JFK’s assassination came….