The National Newspaper Awards have announced the finalists for works published in 2023. In the Editorial Cartooning category the finalists are Michael de Adder, Halifax Chronicle Herald Brian Gable, Globe and Mail Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald In their comments about the finalists the NNA notes: The Globe and Mail’s Grant Robertson (Bob Levin Award […]
Rick McKee offers a bit of a puzzler, because we seem to be locked in an endless argument over what Dear Leader said and what Dear Leader meant. Is it intentional? His fault? Our fault? Trump has plenty of trouble just reading from his TelePrompter, lapsing off into incoherent approximations of what’s written in front […]
Cartoonist Paul Trap paid tribute to Terry and the Pirates with Milton Caniff‘s Pat Ryan and The Dragon Lady making an appearance in Thatababy today: Paul pirated (heh, heh) a couple panels from the October 10, 1936 Terry and the Pirates comic strip:
March 19, 1984 saw a new comic strip by Bill Holbrook syndicated to newspapers across America. The characters of On The Fastrack would change over the years with some taking on the starring role over others. On May 18, 2010 a character came into the strip who would take on that starring role. As Bill […]
Political cartoonists got a bit of a break in that they could draw cartoons about Putin’s re-election just about any time and then put things on autopilot and take a vacation when the election actually took place. But Patrick Chappatte makes a good point in that Putin himself seems to be on autopilot, neither caring […]
Chance Browne, Sacred Heart Academy comic strips, Dummy magazine, Michael de Adder lecture, and Public Transport Magazine The family/funeral home notice of Chance Browne‘s passing has been published. A link is added to our obit. ********** The Reord, serving the Catholic Community of Central Kentucky, has the story of student cartoonists. ********** Welcome to dummy, […]
Forget The New York Times or CNN/Fox/MSNBC or Encyclopedia Britannica or Wikipedia The Daily Cartoonist just got got used as a source in a more important learning tool – the Breaking Cat News comic strip! Georgia Dunn has, appropriately, Tabitha take on a special breaking news alert this week as BCN reports on the alarming […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) gets political this morning, and I’ll admit I can’t tiptoe around the general topic either. It’s not easy to avoid thinking about. My social media this morning consisted of a mix of leftover St. Patrick’s Day stuff — and I don’t intend to get into that again — and loads of […]
Between Friends cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy has created a Substack and the inaugural newsletter is a tour of her studio workplace which has a drawing table rather than a tablet for creating her comic strip. Next to my computer station is my drawing board…where I spend most of my time. Yes, I work traditionally. Yes, I […]
Michael Cavna, for The Washington Post, covers the disappearance of women cartoonists from newspaper pages. Michael talks to Hilary Price, Georgia Dunn, Stephanie Piro, Lynn Johnston, Karen Evans, and King Features President C. J. Kettler. Kettler, along with Stephan Pastis, talk more about the general State of The Art: “[A]re we in the same place […]
Constant Readers know how much I hate March 17, but that means I got a kick out of John Cole’s contribution to the day, because it’s entirely silly start to finish. Darby O’Gill and the Little People is not, by far, the worst Irish-American film ever shot, but it does play on sentimental archetypes and […]
Started the week with remembrances of a long gone character. Though we get a better look at Broom-Hilda peeking out of that log than we used to get of Grelber’s face. Strangely beginning Tuesday “Browne” started showing up as the signature in Hi and Lois. It seems too soon to be paying tribute to Chance […]
Joel Pett (Tribune) explains it all. We are now engaged in a great civil war, testing whether people are more afraid of scary, foolish nonsense than they are of genuine problems. The answer isn’t entirely clear, which is what makes reality so much fun. Certainly, the “real threats” of ignorance combined with disinformation are a […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2024 release. Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Arnold: The Complete Collection Volume 2 by Kevin McCormick After more than 30 years Arnold is back, […]
I gather, from the flood of cartoons on the topic, that I’m the only person in America who doesn’t watch TikTok. It’s not that I don’t watch TikTok, but I don’t watch many videos, which I would say has something to do with being ADD except I know people with ADD who find short videos […]