Steve Brodner Wins 2024 Herblock Prize Pedro Molina is Finalist
Steve Brodner has been named the 2024 Herblock Prize winner (with portfolio). On choosing Brodner the judges said: Brodner’s work…
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2023 National Newspaper Award Finalists
The National Newspaper Awards have announced the finalists for works published in 2023. In the Editorial Cartooning category the finalists…
CSotD: Hearing what we want to believe
Rick McKee offers a bit of a puzzler, because we seem to be locked in an endless argument over what…
Paul Trap’s Milton Caniff Homage
Cartoonist Paul Trap paid tribute to Terry and the Pirates with Milton Caniff‘s Pat Ryan and The Dragon Lady making…
Holbrook On The Fastrack For 40 Years
March 19, 1984 saw a new comic strip by Bill Holbrook syndicated to newspapers across America. The characters of On…
CSotD: Who do you trust?
Political cartoonists got a bit of a break in that they could draw cartoons about Putin’s re-election just about any…
Miss Cellany’s Monday Summaries
Chance Browne, Sacred Heart Academy comic strips, Dummy magazine, Michael de Adder lecture, and Public Transport Magazine The family/funeral home…
The Daily Cartoonist As News Reference
Forget The New York Times or CNN/Fox/MSNBC or Encyclopedia Britannica or Wikipedia The Daily Cartoonist just got got used as…
CSotD: Only Slightly Political
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) gets political this morning, and I’ll admit I can’t tiptoe around the general topic either. It’s…
The Thoroughly Modern but “Traditionalist” Studio of Cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy
Between Friends cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy has created a Substack and the inaugural newsletter is a tour of her studio workplace…
Funny Pages Phasing Out Female Artists
Michael Cavna, for The Washington Post, covers the disappearance of women cartoonists from newspaper pages. Michael talks to Hilary Price,…
CSotD: Laughing Only at the Well-Healed
Constant Readers know how much I hate March 17, but that means I got a kick out of John Cole’s…
Syndicate Stripping Saturday
Started the week with remembrances of a long gone character. Though we get a better look at Broom-Hilda peeking out…
CSotD: Elsewhere in the News
Joel Pett (Tribune) explains it all. We are now engaged in a great civil war, testing whether people are more…
Hey(th and Begorrah) Kids! Comics!
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2024 release. Images and links from a variety of…