“Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” — Friedrich Nietzche Both Nietzche and Joe Heller offer symbolic analogies; Heller’s is harder to misinterpret, but neither makes it easy to answer […]

HENRY BARAJAS VOLUNTEERS AS PRESIDENT OF THE LOS ANGELES CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL CARTOONISTS SOCIETY Los Angeles, CA – Thursday, 02/01/2024 — The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society is proud to announce the appointment of Henry Barajas as its new Chapter Chair, effective immediately. “The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Cartoonists […]

Here is what we need more of – a newspaper ADDING to its weekend color comics section. The Danville (Illinois) Commercial-News has the good front page news: Commercial-News print subscribers will be treated to a new and expanded color comics section beginning with this Saturday’s weekend edition. Most of the comics previously published in the […]

My first reaction to this Non Sequitur (AMS) was that it’s impossible. We all know that the way you learn to check before sending is by sending before checking, a lesson gained through experience. It was a lot more fun back in the days of listservs, which, O Best Beloved, set up a little closed […]

Early Peanuts First Editions   The definitive guide to identifying early [first edition] Peanuts strip reprint softcovers and hardcovers, published by Rinehart & Co. from 1952 -1960 and by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. from 1960 – 1974 Lowell Wilson has set up a guide to the early Peanuts books from Rinehart/Holt, Rinehart & Winston. […]

It’s been three years since we first reported on McClatchy standardizing the comics pages in all their papers. Since that time there have been changes, so let’s update what is now being run in McClatchy newspapers. These are the exact same comics pages material currently running in The Modesto Bee, The Kansas City Star, and […]

We’re starting our commentary on a uniquely American phenomenon with reactions from a pair of Canadians, and why not? If a segment of our fellow citizens make asses of themselves in public, of course others are going to notice. Frum manages to make the connection with the GOP’s attempt to turn everything into revenge for […]

The Providence Journal gave notice that Will Henry’s Wallace the Brave comic strip returned to the newspaper on Monday January 29, 2024 after a two week absence with a front page above the fold feature story: Fans of “Wallace the Brave” rejoice! The syndicated comic strip about the life of a young boy in the […]

Kal Kallaugher offers an antidote of sorts to all the polling and panic, pointing out that party members barely make up half of voters. (Gallup says 27% Democrat, 25% Republican, 45% independent, presumably with some rounding.) He emphasizes his point not just by having the fellow bang on the ceiling, but by referring to “the […]

If the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, used by psychiatrists, were to officially recognize Trump Derangement Syndrome as the serious mental illness that it is, there would be thousands—perhaps tens of thousands—of leftists across the country diagnosed as suffering from the world’s only political psychosis. Conservative political opinion writer Peter Parisi at The […]

Partnering with the old man. Let’s start with not a comic strip. Kidtown, a puzzle and activity feature written and drawn by cartoonist Steve McGarry since 2001, remains written by Steve but, as of January 28, 2024 (above) is drawn by son Luke McGarry. Steve continues to draw the weekly Biographic. TAYO Fatunla‘s award-winning OUR […]

Mort Gerberg offers this cheerful, well-timed reminder. I’ve got to admit that we’ve done all right so far. We’re far enough north not to be as shocked and unprepared as those who have had a worse winter than usual and far enough inland to miss the nor’easters that have plastered the New England coast. Fact […]

Things are getting pretty noir. If you’ve never followed Vintage Judge Parker (KFS), this is an excellent time to jump in.

January 29 will begin the fifth week of One Big Happy in rerun mode. Has Rick Detorie retired the comic strip? A year ago Rick Detorie ended the One Big Happy Sunday page with the last Sunday of 2022. Now he seems to have ended the daily version of the comic strip with the December […]

Editorial cartoonist Alex Burns Cook has passed away. Alexander Burns (Alex) Cook February 1, 1926 – January 25, 2024 Editorial cartoonist, sports cartoonist, caricaturist From the obituary: Alex spent most of his youth in Saint Joseph, Michigan where the proximity of tugboats and steamers was the perfect playground for an adventurous boy. While in high […]