Patrick McDonnell returns to Mutts with a new Sunday page today, and tomorrow new dailies begin anew after mostly reruns for 2024 up to this point. (The Sundays will be all new eventually – but today’s isn’t the starting point for regular new Sunday strips.) Also returning Sunday was Lyman in Garfield after an absence […]

After warning her fans that she would be taking a Summer sabbatical Olivia Jaimes has gone on vacation. Today’s Sunday Nancy page shows Leigh Luna taking on the cartooning chores as the first of a round robin of women creators to do a few weeks of Nancy comic strips while the pseudonymous Jaimes either rejuvenates […]

It seems appropriate that Madam & Eve, which has of late dwelt entirely on South Africa’s corrupt and discouraging political scene, should offer this suggestion for relief, which applies to everyone in a corrupt and discouraging political scene, which these days feels like pretty much everybody. Besides, one of the 10 Commandments — available soon […]

Earlier this month we mentioned the Jules Feiffer collection of original art up for bid at Swann Auction Galleries. Swann has revealed the results of some of the items. Some of the items’ estimate were over optimistic, some were grossly underestimated (see the page from the comic book that featured the first time Frank Miller […]

Former Cincinnati Enquirer editorial cartoonist (and de facto sports cartoonist) and current Zits comic strip artist Jim Borgman returns to Cincinnati to throw out the first pitch of an upcoming Reds game. From The Cincinnati Enquirer: The Enquirer’s renowned former cartoonist Jim Borgman is returning to the Queen City and stepping up to the Reds’ […]

I don’t care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don’t know how to read, but they can’t help seeing them damned pictures. — William M. Tweed, 1875 This NBC poll result was quoted here before, but, then, Tweed’s comment about Thomas Nast has also been quoted and misquoted many places many times. A […]

Stan Mack, Darrin Bell, Bil Keane, Clare Victor Dwiggens, Garry B. Trudeau, Asher Perlman, and Justin Green. Voices in The Village Real Life Funnies, a strip by cartoonist Stan Mack, was a standing feature every week in The Village Voice from 1974 to 1995. Toting a sketchbook and pencils in a pouch on his belt, […]

Yesterday, Tom Heintjes, known to comics historians for the magazine Hogan’s Alley, posted on Blue Sky that it was the anniversary of the first “Davy Crockett, Frontiersman” strip in 1955, which set me to pondering. First thing I pondered was that Jim McArdle’s version of Davy Crockett looked about as much like Fess Parker as […]

A “cartoon yahtzee” is when five or more editorial cartoonists draw a similar approach to a news story. “The Catch” is Willie Mays refusing the Cleveland Indians an eighth inning run and probable win of game one in the 1954 World Series (Willie stealing second in the tenth inning also helped win the game for […]

I’m going to let Bill Bramhall’s tribute stand for all the Willie Mays cartoons, most of which took advantage of “The Catch” but too many of which cluttered it up, particularly with Pearly Gates cliches. Bramhall keeps it simple, though I have to chuckle over him giving Mays a blue hat rather than a black […]

How else can we start this roundup of recent Peanuts in the news than with the passing of the great Willie Mays. Above is an image from Jeanne Schulz’s Blog of twelve years ago wherein Lee Mendelson explains the connection between himself, Charles Schulz and Willie Mays. An Aside: I was born and raised in […]

Too Much Coffeeman brings up the hostility some people have for banjos, which I confess I don’t understand, but which seems to be of a piece with their hostility towards bagpipes and accordions. I’ll confess to not being a big fan of full-sized accordions — forgive me, Myron Floren — but I enjoy a well-played […]

The weekly Clermont (Florida) Sun will begin publishing a new, locally created comic strip this week. A Clermont school teacher has dreamed-up a comic strip about a talking parrot called Rafie and we will be featuring his adventures in the Clermont Sun. Gary Christensen’s Rafie and Friends starts this week, and readers can enjoy the […]

Start with the good news, which is that I agree with Dave Granlund’s idea though not with the sense of crisis it suggests. That is, kids shouldn’t get drunk and drive around, but while you can’t stop all of them from doing it, it’s not the issue it was when I graduated (gasp) 57 years […]

There is a big difference in the fan reaction to two of King Features’ Big Name adventure strips. Dan Schkade‘s take on Flash Gordon continues to garner praise and excitement. Flash Gordon is one of those pop culture names everyone’s heard of, although most would be at a bit of a loss as to why […]