Strangely, for such a popular comic strip that appears in thousands of newspapers and has scores of book collections published, previous little-known miscellany about Garfield continues to surface. A few years ago the pre-Garfield Jon strip surfaced. Now another obscure set of Garfield comic strips are coming to the fat cat’s fandom. About two years […]

Andertoons (AMS) takes a daring step, making a joke based on the reader having a good vocabulary, but which is funnier if the reader has just enough of a good vocabulary to know what the word means and to feel somewhat proud of that. That is, if ubiquitous/ubiquity were more common words, there’d be nothing […]

David Rowe, editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review, has been voted Cartoonist of the Year by his fellow members of the Australian Cartoonists Association. This is David’s 10th Gold Stanley. He was also awarded his 13th Bronze Stanley for Caricaturist and second for Editorial/Political Cartoonist. In other categories, Edmund Iffland received a Bronze Stanley […]

There are “third rails” that must be avoided in the world of comic strips. One of them is religion and specifically talking to God would be a major no-no. So naturally this past week saw RJ and God having a conversation. Michael Fry and T. Lewis risk retribution from, not God, but newspaper readers in […]

The Museum of Australian Democracy has named Megan Herbert as Cartoonist of the Year for its long-running annual Behind the Lines exhibit. The exhibit “celebrates the talent of this country’s best cartoonists, presenting a unique time capsule of the year in Australian politics.” This is Megan’s first win as Cartoonist of the Year. Her work […]

This is a “where to start” day, but we’ll lead off with Non Sequitur (AMS), because, while I don’t blame it all on the media, I agree with Wiley that the states that were so important a few weeks ago are no longer on anyone’s mind. Election promises are famous for being empty, but I […]

We’ll start with a pair of Thanksgiving family thoughts from Dennis the Menace and The Family Circus about the same relative that followed closely on the Comics Kingdom feed. One thankfully, one wistfully. Then the day after Thanksgiving came Flo and Friends and The Flying McCoys with one following on the heels of the other […]

In 1924 King Features Syndicate offered newspapers an illustrated column by cartoonists in their stable. With Fay King, Jack Callahan, James Swinnerton, Pat Sullivan, Walter Hoban, T. E. Powers, H. H. Knerr, Harry Hershfield, F. Opper, A. C. Fera, Al Zere, and Jack Lait.

When I first saw Nick Anderson (Tribune)‘s latest, I thought it was another slightly-late Thanksgiving piece, since it seemed half the cartoons yesterday depicted people gathered around a spread board, and half the cartoons today seem like Thanksgiving gags that should have run yesterday. However, he offers a solid hit on Trump’s War Against Fairness, […]

In 1924 King Features Syndicate offered newspapers an illustrated column by cartoonists in their stable. With Jimmy Murphy, Billy DeBeck, Amram Scheinfeld, Charles Dunn, Winsor McCay, Darrell McClure, George Herriman, TAD, Cliff Sterrett, and George McManus.

Monty’s right. Nobody’s reading the paper today, and it’s only in relatively recent years that they’ve even bothered to print on holidays, which, by the way, had a lot to do with not being able to get them delivered because the kids were at Grandma’s. So you have your characters wish readers a happy whatever […]

Soft-spoken cartoonist historian Tim Jackson, who died on Nov. 3 of complications from Lewy Body disease, was best known for his 2017 Eisner-nominated book Pioneering Cartoonists of Color, which put the history of African-American editorial cartoonists and comic-strip artists in high relief. But Jackson didn’t just write about pioneering cartoonists of color; he was a […]

Back before Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson became the mega comic strip hit it was to become the first appearance was seen in the Universal Press Syndicate press kit sent to newspaper editors. Connor Ratliff presents the entire Calvin and Hobbes press kit from the mid-1980s on his Bluesky page. Recently the 90th birthday […]

Joe Heller is right, though obviously we can’t buy everything that we’re going to need over the next four years between now and January 20. On the other hand, part of the strategy of hunkering down until the worst is over might include rushing to lock in any major purchases you had in mind. Our […]

That time Bill Watterson wrote Mike Lynch a letter Six months into Bill Watterson’s comic strip launch, I wrote him a letter. I asked probably what many people were asking: How do I do what you do? What’s the path? And then I suggested we meet. (I had learned he lived nearby. How I got […]