Unified Comics Page Sweepstakes Winners and how to help those left out in the cold
So who came out ahead with the recent spat of newspaper groups standardizing their comics pages? Gannett/USA TODAY Network with…
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CSotD is XIV
I cobbled this photo together in the early days of Comic Strip of the Day, but, as the blog turns…
Jose Delbo – RIP
Comic book and comic strip artist Jose Delbo has passed away. Jose Delbo (José María Del Bo) December 9, 1933…
Catching Up on the Comics Pages
It’s been a while since I shared some current comic strips, so let’s do some catching up. I’m a sucker…
CSotD: Rumors of War, War of Rumors
Nick Anderson makes an interesting observation: There has been a constant drumroll from the right publicizing the idea that the…
Penn U Prez Criticizes Mr. Fish Cartoons – Update: Dwayne Booth Responds
From The Daily Pennsylvanian: Interim Penn President Larry Jameson criticized recent political cartoons published by a lecturer at the Annenberg…
The Phantom Writer Tony DePaul on Revising Lee Falk’s “The Chain”
HERE’S that piece I said I’d get to on the new Phantom daily story that started two weeks ago. The…
CSotD: Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
The Grammys will be tonight and I will continue my annual tradition of not caring. David Sipress is correct that…
“This is Just Not a Good Cartoon”
This is just not a good cartoon. It’s one of my earliest attempts at gag cartooning. That is cartoonist Kyle…
ChatGBT Draws a New Yorker Cartoon
Jason Kottke writes: In June 2021 (pre The Bear), New Yorker cartoonist Zoe Si coached Ayo Edebiri through the process…
CSotD: Saturday Morning Cartoons
Edison Lee (KFS) has returned to a theme that I have missed. Some years ago, they introduced Katie, a girl…
Herblock Prize Deadline Now February 5
The Herblock Foundation has extended the deadline for accepting submissions. Cartoonists now have until February 5, 2024 to get submissions…
Free-For-All Friday
Ruben Bolling tells us that a comic strip he produces under a pseudonym has ended. From his newsletter: It is…
CSotD: The Abyss Also Gazas Back
“Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when…
Henry Barajas New NCS L.A. Chapter Prez and the Reuben Divisional Awards Deadline
HENRY BARAJAS VOLUNTEERS AS PRESIDENT OF THE LOS ANGELES CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL CARTOONISTS SOCIETY Los Angeles, CA – Thursday,…