Editorial cartoonist Clyde Peterson (aka C. P. Houston) has passed away. Clyde Enlow Peterson (aka C. P. Houston) May 7, 1942 – January 20, 2025 The Houston Chronicle is reporting the death of its longtime staff editorial cartoonist and illustrator: “CP Houston,” Clyde Peterson signed his cartoons, as if he were speaking for the city […]

“No sport is less organized than Calvinball.” Calvinball was an invention of comic strip showrunner Bill Watterson who said, “People have asked how to play Calvinball. It’s pretty simple: you make up the rules as you go.” The early days of the Trump administration can be usefully understood as Calvinball for (putative) Adults. Colin McEnroe, […]

No politics today. We’ve had two weeks of thinking about horrible things, and I’m taking a day off. But Existential Comics offers something equally unpleasant and I’ll spare a tear for poor Hercules. I enjoyed reading philosophy, which was good, because we had a lot of it. Plato’s chatter about forms got a little esoteric, […]

This week marks the 40th anniversary of Chadbourne’s association with The Lincoln County News. Beginning Jan. 31, 1985, Chadbourne’s cartoons have appeared on LCN’s editorial page every single week, almost without fail. The only “official” cartoonist in the newspaper’s 150-year history, Chadbourne is currently LCN’s longest-serving staff member outside of the Roberts family, which owns […]

In two weeks, on February 13, it will be twenty-five years since the last new Peanuts comic strip appeared. Later this Fall, on October 2, everyone will be celebrating the debut of cartoonists’ cartoonist Charles M. Schulz‘s magnum opus seventy five years earlier. So these collections of Peanuts and Charles Schulz items may very well […]

Today’s Cartoonist’s Cartoonists is Matt Golding. Matt is an Australian editorial cartoonist whose work appears in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He’s won multiple Stanley Awards – his first award for single gag cartoonist was in 2005 and he kept winning that category through 2010. He’s won the award twice more in 2016 and […]

Joe Heller explains how we have responded to the collision of a passenger plane with a military helicopter. We’re not waiting for investigators to sort through what happened, because we know who is at fault. Liberals believe it’s because 10 days ago changes were made in the top ranks of the FAA which immediately filtered […]

A Michael de Adder cartoon about Jim Acosta leaving CNN has created a bond between the two. The Daily Mail noticed the respect and appreciation the two shared: Jim Acosta appeared to take a swipe at his old network CNN this week, a little more than a day after his pointed on-air sign-off. The journalist […]

Here at TDC we mostly deal with newspaper comics and cartoons, but every once in a while we wander from the beaten path and check out comic books and animated film. Matt Bors on leaving political cartooning for Justice Warriors and Toxic Avenger Bors [founder of The Nib] is ready to move on, and the […]

I don’t envy political cartoonists, working in an atmosphere of “Baffle’em with B*llsh*t,” as Matt Davies (AMS) indicates. It should be obvious that Trump has backed out of the kitchen-table promises that brought so many voters to his side, but he’s following Bannon’s advice to flood the zone in order to keep critics from focusing […]

For thirty years, from 1942 to 1971, cartoonist Lawrence Lariar collected and book publisher Crown (Dodd Mead for the last five) published The Best Cartoons of the Year as an annual series collecting “the best” cartoons from Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Liberty, The New Yorker, Argosy, Cosmopolitan, Parade, Ladies Home Journal, McCall’s, Look, American Legion, […]

Echoes from Ann Telnaes walking away from The Washington Post continue to resonate. While Ann is the starting point the discussion has evolved into a broader discussion about editorial cartoons and the newspaper industry. Yesterday we linked to newspaper editor Tom Lawrence’s column emphasizing the need for editorial cartooning. Today Brittany Allen at Literary Hub […]

Gary Varvel (Creators) reports that paratroopers are landing in North Carolina, apparently in search of undocumented migrants. As you may know, Columbia University is basically a concrete campus in the middle of Manhattan, so, obviously, this is some other Columbia. Now, somebody is going to point out that there are many places named “Columbia,” but […]

Cartoonist and illustrator Doug Sneyd has passed away. Douglas Mord (Doug) Sneyd December 14, 1931 – January 21, 2025 From the family obituary: Passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, at Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, Orillia on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, in his 94th year. Doug was a renowned commercial artist, illustrator, and cartoonist … From humble […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post after an editor killed a cartoon depicting wealthy businessmen and leading media figures, including Jeff Bezos, who owns The Post, paying obeisance to President-elect Donald Trump. It is a sharp, honest jab at the powerful. That’s the role of an editorial cartoonist, and it […]