The Phantom and The Muppets from the 1980s; Paul Bunyan from the early 20th Century, comic strip lettering from later in the 1900s; and the first Peanuts TV animation. Hermes Press, the publisher of The Complete Phantom Dailies, missed an episode between Volume 29 and Volume 30. For those who didn’t keep track of our […]

After a continuous newspaper run of 102 years the Australian comic strip Ginger Meggs has ended. The strip began November 13, 1921 as a Sunday-only feature in The (Sydney Sunday) Sun titled Us Fellers. From the New South Wales State Library: The plot of the ‘Us Fellers’ strip had initially revolved round the activities of Gladsome Gladys, a sweet and pretty little […]

My situation with Arlo and Janis (AMS) isn’t so much that I needed to choose some particular strips from the current arc but, rather, how I needed to pick the right moment to sound the alert to what’s looking like a major shift. It looks, for sure, like it’s time now. I was pleased to […]

Two popular New Yorker magazine cartoonists, who also happen to be West Tisbury neighbors and dog-walking partners, shared the stage at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs Monday for a two-handed talk about the craft they share. © Mick Stevens and Paul Karasik Mick Stevens and Paul Karasik “[discussed] slides of their work, […]

Al Goodwyn (Creators) brings up, somewhat indirectly, the Stupid Angry People factor in current coverage. At least he singles out a flaw in how things work, though not specifically citing the Stupid Angry People themselves. Back in the Olden Days, someone might ask a reporter how a particular public forum had gone, and, in our […]

Comics artist Steve Lieber kicked things off with advice to young cartoonists as if he “were looking at your work in person” and telling the would-be cartoonist what they needed to hear. Then Jim Zub and Patrick Brosseau added advice to young comic writers and letterers. Free advice from Comic Pros to Young Cartoonists! Your […]

The Washington Post recently published an illustrated report about a group of Filipinos that went to the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis to be put on display as part of an exhibit of United States expansionism. It was drawn by Philippines native Ren Galeno. Galeno was behind the evocative illustrations for the Washington Post’s […]

Lemont, the protagonist of Candorville (KFS), spends too much time playing the pedant and correcting people for speaking the way people speak. Sure, he’s correct: “Pin number” is redundant, though I don’t hear people say it nearly as often as I did a decade or so ago. However, “being made redundant” remains both correct and […]

Bone creator Jeff Smith recovering from heart attack To our friends and fans: Jeff Smith is recuperating from a cardiac arrest, which he suffered on Sunday [August 13]. There will be a long road to recovery, so regrettably we must cancel the remainder of his book tour this year. Our apologies to his fans who […]

Mr. Boffo offers a chance to visit the ungracious past. The idea of pop-up wine tastings out of paper bags reminds me of the Olden Days when the gentlemen of the streets would scrape up enough money to buy something utterly undrinkable, plus a dime for a packet of pre-sweetened Kool-Aid, which they would add […]

CartoonStock, “the world’s largest online database of cartoons for licensing, products, and original art,” is now carrying editorial cartoons, a new category similar to their politics grouping but more explicit. Their politics offerings seems to be close to the current Washington Post opinion page cartoons – a mix of New Yorker-style and editorial cartoons; while […]

On the topic of things you shouldn’t have to be told, Gary Varvel (Creators) depicts a kid gleefully heading off to the College of His Choice, leaving a pair of apparently bankrupt parents behind. He’s got a point, given that the kid is headed for State U and not Rich Kid Private Emporium, because even […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists reconstructed their website this year and after some delays it is now up and running. And it is looking good! JP Trostle introduces us to the new site and the changes: Welcome to the newest iteration of the AAEC website. Here you can find the latest news on the […]

Mike Peterson mentioned the sad news in passing today, but here’s a bit more. The Australian Cartoonists Association issued a statement about the Nine Entertainment newspapers dropping comic strips from their pages: The Australian Cartoonists Association notes with disappointment that the Nine newspapers (including The Age, the Sunday Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the […]

When I heard of the Trump team’s preposterous proposal to postpone that Jan 6 trial until April, 2026, I thought of Bob Mankoff’s famous “How about never?” cartoon and thought somebody should update it. Lo and behold, when I went poking around in the bushes, I discovered that Adam Zyglis had already done it back […]