The Texas Observer is celebrating it 70th year and the most recent issue covers its skewering of Texas politicos by way of editorial cartooning. Gayle Reaves at The Texas Observer regales us with tales of Observer cartoonists from the first Don Bartlett cartoon to the current Loon Star State cartoons of Ben Sargent. At the […]

Fiona Katauskas sets a familiar scene divided between old and young, which may be a stereotype, but putting the old fellow in a suit rather than Archie Bunker mode suggests another division, that between those who have and those who are still setting their goals. The parallels between the Student Strike of 1970 and the […]

The National Newspaper Awards are being presented at The Chelsea Hotel in Toronto tonight and the portfolio from Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald has been judged the winner of the Editorial Cartooning category. Bruce is repeating his win of last year and it is his ninth winning year overall. Congratulations to Bruce! Bruce had […]

A hodgepodge of recent comic related items featuring Jules Feiffer, David Potter, the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, Ed Steckley, Joel Priddy, William Hennessy, Allan (Sols) Salisbury. HarperCollins Publishers has announced the forthcoming publication of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer Jules Feiffer’s first graphic novel created for young readers. Amazing Grapes is scheduled for publication on […]

In case you hadn’t noticed, when I feature a syndicated cartoon here, I add the name of the syndicate with it. For instance, I would label this one Barney & Clyde (Counterpoint). A few months ago, I’d have said “Barney & Clyde (WPWG)” but the Washington Post Writers Group has recently ended its syndication of […]

The satirical news website The Onion, and by extension cartoonist Stan Kelly, has been sold to Global Tetrahedron. From The Wrap: The Onion has sold to a new Chicago-based firm called Global Tetrahedron, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced [in a memo] Thursday, TheWrap has learned. TheWrap obtained Spanfeller’s memo in full below: “As I […]

Raw Story reports on a Rolling Stone article: Former President Donald Trump is enraged about how he looks in the courtroom sketches at his Manhattan trial — and thinks that the sketch artist is trying to make him look bad on purpose. According to Rolling Stone‘s Ryan Bort, Asawin Suebsaeng, and Catherina Gioino, the former […]

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — Stephen Dedalus As Doonesbury concluded back in 1971, putting Kent State into the memory hole allowed us to “concentrate on fresher, more recent, tragedies.” But as Senators Hawley and Cotton call for the National Guard to be sent to quell campus protests, it’s […]

Some more thoughts on the lovely life of Trina Robbins from Andrew Farago at The Comics Journal, John Lent of the International Journal of Comic Art, and a few dozen more short remembrances from cartoonists and friends. Andrew Farago at The Comics Journal has a wonderfully detailed (halfway between profile and biography) obituary. Andrew and […]

A couple Sundays ago we noted Bob Weber, Jr.’s use of Lucky Bucks and crediting Paul Fung. We also linked to Mark Johnson’s thoughts on the origins of such comic ephemera: If I recall it right, it was Jimmy Murphy who started the extras like comic stamps, play money and cut-out dolls in Toots & […]

If you haven’t been reading Crabgrass (AMS), you should start now, and begin here because today’s would be too much of a spoiler to start with, plus you need to catch up if you’re going to enjoy it. Yes, this is from two months ago, but Tauhid Bondia likes long story arcs and this one […]

From Radio Free Europe: PEN America, along with a group of organizations that support cartoonists and artists, has condemned the violent arrest of Atena Farghadani, an Iranian cartoonist currently being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for attempting to hang one of her drawings on a wall near the presidential palace. Farghadani’s lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, […]

The National Cartoonists Society will have a booth at the Chicago Comic & Enterrtainment Expo on April 26 – 28. If you are in Chicago this weekend visit NCS member cartoonists at Booth 848. Several members of the NCS will be tabling over the weekend, including: Brian Gordon, George Gant, Harold Bucholz, Dee Fish, Johnny […]

We’ll start our search with Cathy Wilcox’s commentary on keeping young people off social media, in which she raises the question of how you would keep up with the world otherwise. She’s obviously not a big fan of Xitter, which is getting a harsh reassessment from the folks Down Under. Fiona Katauskas isn’t impressed with […]

Editorial cartoonist Bob Lynch has passed away. Robert Emery (Bob) Lynch April 15, 1933 – April 6, 2024 From the obituary: He was eventually deployed to Korea and was a veteran of The Korean War. After his discharge, he attended The Cooper School of Art in Cleveland and spent the next ten years employed by […]