Break of Day arrived on the Comics Kingdom roster when it relocated to its new home last Spring [link added]. However, the online strip goes back to August 29, 2011 [link added], when it was picked up for syndication. Its origin dates back even further to 2003 in the college newspaper, The Wright State Guardian, […]
Matt Davies Clay Jones By now you’ve heard that Time magazine has named Taylor Swift its Person of the Year, which I capitalize because they’ve managed to make it into a Big Freaking Deal despite a few damp squibs and obvious choices over the years. You can tell that Matt Davies has daughters, because he […]
Harry McCracken in Scrappyland Preeminent Scrappy historian Harry McCracken returns, after a two year absence, to present a print off-shoot of the 1930s animated character: The Complete Scrappy Comic Strip “by” Charles Mintz. Says Harry: Among Scrappy rarities, few items are as tantalizingly obscure as the Scrappy newspaper strip. Though perhaps “newspaper strip” is a […]
Cartoonist Chris Browne passed away early this year, now much of his, and his wife Carroll who predeceased him by a few years, estate is going up for sale. KELO of Sioux Falls South Dakota reports: Now 10 months after his passing much of his estate is going up for sale at his home on […]
Might as well get my annual fruitcake rant out of the way. There will be a kabillion cartoons twixt now and Dec 25 about how awful fruitcake is, but in this Off The Mark (AMS), Mark Parisi gives us a close-up that explains the problem. Traditional fruitcake is a dense, dark loaf full of brown […]
Winners of The 2023 Ellwood Atfield Political Cartoon of the Year Awards have been announced. Ellwood Atfield with The Political Cartoon Society and the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation hosted the awards which were presented on December 5, 2023 and announced on the Ellwood Atfield X/Twitter feed. Winner of The Low Trophy (Winner, Political Cartoonist of the […]
Occasionally The Daily Cartoonist goes off-trail with some tenuous links to newspaper comics and cartoons… Shaenon K. Garrity at Publishers Weekly checks into WebToons and webcomics getting hard copy editions. Forget swiping right. Online comics are racking up readers, and the test of success is how far readers will scroll on down. As demand for […]
The resumption of war in Gaza is no rumor, though Glen LeLievre manages at least to inject a note of dark comedy, noting the futility of the recent ceasefire. There are all sorts of ways this could have been a maudlin reflection, but the Warner Brothers cartoon mood, IMHO, is more eye-catching and effective. By […]
Artificial intelligence, the Voice referendum, the cost-of-living crisis, King Charles III’s coronation and the Matildas. These are just some of the events featured in political cartoon exhibition Behind The Lines for 2023, at Canberra’s Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD). This exhibition asks us to laugh, but it also asks us to reflect, discuss, listen and learn.” Canberra’s […]
Red and Rover (AMS) Daddy’s Home — Creators Lola — AMS Yesterday’s comics page didn’t have a Juxtaposition so much as a three-strip pile up. One might suspect that all of the comic strip people live in the same town, but Red and Rover don’t even live in the same year as the others, being […]
Pearls Before Swine, Calvin and Hobbes, Herman, Junco Canché and Lalo Alcaraz (La Cucaracha), Rich Torrey (Hartland), Rip Haywire, Mike Manley (Judge Parker and The Phantom), and more Mutts (but not Guard Dog). While we hate to argue with the Wise Ass on the Hill, his knowledge does have limits. Friday Pig, seeking enlightenment, went […]
When the little newspaper on Long Island revealed the cascade of lies under which George Santos was elected, it touched off a storm of political cartoons and memes and jokes and not a lot more. Kevin Kallaugher sidesteps the new rash of “Santos is gone” cartoons to focus on why Santos is gone and what […]
King Features Syndicate has released the 2024 Directory displaying their offerings to newspapers. From King Features: From its many popular comic strips and panels to columns by well-known personalities, incisive editorial cartoons to a wide variety of puzzles and games, King Features covers the world with informative, entertaining features for today’s readers. We’ll highlight their […]
Today’s Pearls Before Swine (AMS) is how we know that Stephan Pastis either (A) is older than we thought or (B) went to a conservative Catholic school or (C) is channeling terrorized older Catholics. I only had two years of Catholic school before we moved to the wilds and I started going to public school, […]
Insanity Streak, the comic panel by Australian Tony Lopes, was introduced to North American funnies fans two months ago when Comics Kingdom began running it on their website. Now King Features Syndicate will be introducing the comic to newspaper readers in the U.S. (and Canada?). King recently released a press kit for Insanity Streak announcing […]