The Resurrection of The Bad Cartoonist?
It seems The Bad Cartoonist has resurfaced. Who? You might ask. For those who weren’t around then, and for those…
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CSotD: Graduation Day in the Committee Room
The second Saturday in May would be graduation on a lot of campuses, and it probably still is, since the…
Cartoonists in the News
Jeff Smith, David Fitzsimmons, Raymond Briggs, Lalo Alcaraz, Alex Portal, Jake Tapper Jeff Smith has a Bone to pitch Jeff…
CSotD: Timing, repetition, redemption, etc.
Barbara Smaller’s cartoon is hardly breakthrough humor, subconsciously echoing as it does a Tom Toro piece that has become a…
NALC/USPS Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive
Saturday May 11, 2024 is Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive. Each year, letter carriers across the country head…
Robert Grossman, Steve Brodner Inducted into Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
Illustrators and caricaturists Robert Grossman and Steve Brodner are numbered among the 2024 inductees into the Society of Illustrators Hall…
CSotD: Sez who?
I’ve often quoted a frustrated exclamation that pops up in commedia dell’arte plays, “I cannot tell if he is a…
Clay Passes Lou; Sets Sights on Cal
Major League Baseball notes: On June 1, 1925, Lou Gehrig played in the first of what would be 2,130 consecutive…
Of Comic Strips, Garfield and Mike Peterson
Garfield, FurBabies, Calvin and Hobbes, Bliss/Not Bliss/Bob Mankoff Presents, The K Chronicles, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Popeye, caption contests, and…
CSotD: How to Suck Eggs, Explained
By the time George Cruickshank (1792 – 1878) penned this cartoon, “teaching your grandmother to suck eggs” was an established…
Greg Kearney, Midwest Socialist Cartoonist
Kearney grew up in a radical FDR New Deal household in New Sharon, Maine, a town of 1,400 people. He…
Clay Bennett is 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Ten days after The Chattanooga Times Free Press celebrated their cartoonist Clay Bennett winning the National Headliner Award they are…
CSotD: Silence is Golden (But my eyes still see)
Rob Rogers (Tinyview) sets up today’s topic: If nobody knows that it happened, did it? And, if it didn’t happen,…
Medar de la Cruz Wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Medar de la Cruz, contributor to The New Yorker, has been awarded the 2024 Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Pulitzer Prize…
More Past Week Comics This Week
Before we get too far away some more comments on yesterday’s and last week’s comics. It didn’t take long for…