It’s no laughing matter. Austerity, consolidation and platform disparity undermine cartoons and comics. “I’m expecting some problems.” Editor & Publisher looks at the current situation of newspaper syndicated editorial cartoons and comic strips. Ginger Meggs is an institution in Australia, where the beloved comic strip — about a “red-haired larrikin” living in the suburbs — […]

Wiley Miller lived in New England for some years, which he proves with this Non Sequitur (AMS). It’s nice to live in the Northern Forest because autumns are spectacular, but, yes, timing is everything and those “from away” must learn that it’s nearly impossible to plan a trip ahead of time that will put you […]

While comics have appeared in print since the late 1800s, it wasn’t until 1989 that “Black women characters drawn by a Black woman’s hand have been given a voice on the comics page in the mainstream press,” says cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft. Thirty-four years ago, her comic strip, “Where I’m Coming From,” was first published in […]

Eighty years ago Batman and Robin swung from comic books onto newspaper pages on October 25, 1943. The 13th Dimension presents the first 13 comic strips by Bob Kane with Bill Finger and Charles Paris. ********** Further back in time Euronews takes a look at “The day the US invented the newspaper comic strip. Maybe.” […]

Robert Ariail depicts the Republican elephant whistling past the graveyard, and it certainly seems the GOP is coming apart at the seams and could, indeed, cease to exist. The Whigs, however, may not be the best example of that, though they did go from being able to put candidates in the White House — not […]

The new book by cartoonist Roz Chast, I Must Be Dreaming, was released today and is being talked about and reviewed by all the major outlets. So The Daily Cartoonist, which dreams of playing with the big boys, joins in. A day late, we missed the launch at Museum of the City of New York […]

By Alan Rusbridger: Imagine having a job which involves deliberately causing offence. Imagine going to work to ridicule, belittle, savage and generally humiliate others. We would shun such bitter and twisted people, right?  Not if they were cartoonists. Unless we were ourselves unlucky enough to be in their crosshairs, we might well laugh with them. […]

Jimmy Margulies (KFS) opens today’s conversation with the plain truth, in a situation in which truth seems anything but plain. The emergence of bigotry and hate in the wake of this sort of tragedy is predictable: It was obvious as soon as the towers fell on 9/11 not only that Muslims would be targeted by […]

KFS Vintage lost two weeks worth of Judge Parker strips. Fortunately, we found them!

The Jordan in this case is Jim Jordan. The Columbus Dispatch, an Ohio newspaper juuust outside of Jim Jordan’s Congressional district, noted (Newsweek used the word “mocked”) the Representative’s failed attempt at getting the Speaker’s gavel with cartoons. From The Dispatch introduction: In the end, U.S. Rep Jim Jordan did not tap out of his […]

Painter, illustrator, and cartoonist John Dusko has passed away. John Andrew Dusko, Jr. April 3, 1933 – October 7, 2023 From the obituary: John Andrew Dusko, 90, passed away on Saturday, October 7, 2023, at the Reading Hospital. He was the husband of Annie E. Dusko. John began formal art instruction at the age of […]

This classic xkcd may not quite express my long-term financial plan, but I’m glad I have been saving funny pictures, because, between Jim Jordan cartoons that are suddenly irrelevant, and divisive, nasty commentary on the Middle East — plus the fact that few political cartoons post anything new for Monday anyway — I was in […]

They say there’s nothing new under the sun or on the comics page. But … How Tim Rickard has a couple characters talking over each other in Brewster Rockit is new to me. Not quite as ingenious, but along the same lines is today’s Tarzan. Well, not really along the lines. As noted in the […]

The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip went into rerun status four years and seven months ago with the promise of a new rebooted Spider-Man comic strip forthcoming. That never happened, and now King Features Syndicate and Marvel Comics have ended the newspaper distribution of The Amazing Spider-Man reruns with the Saturday October 21, 2023 issue. Early […]

Following 9/11, I used this Peter Schrank cartoon in my school presentations. It’s brilliant not simply because the world was, indeed, traumatized by the event, but because he melded both that horror-stricken face and Munch’s original drawing of the bridge with the image of people fleeing down the street from the collapsing buildings. And it […]