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…
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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…
CSotD: TikTok Timeout?
I gather, from the flood of cartoons on the topic, that I’m the only person in America who doesn’t watch…
Newspaper Cartoonists Use Digital Tools, but Not as You’d Expect
I spent dozens of hours last fall interviewing newspaper cartoonists about how they draw their work, assuming that many would…
Pia Guerra/WaPo Kate Cartoon Goes Viral
Apparently Pia Guerra‘s cartoon on yesterday’s The Washington Post site (in the hard copy?) referencing the recent Royal photo fail…
CSotD: Friday the 13th come on a Thursday!
Asked and answered. Thanks, Frazz (AMS). One thing I learned by interviewing politicians and celebrities is that luck and talent…