Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Frazz (AMS) starts us off with a head-scratcher. I think the observation is right, but it comes from a direction I hadn’t explored, so it set me back a bit. There are those who object to fans using “we” at all, but that’s nonsense. Why bother having uniforms or selling gear if you don’t want…
One of the arguments against impeaching Trump, Drew Sheneman reminds us, is that it threatened to make impeachment a weapon for trivial partisanship. Or maybe they started it. After all, if, after the 1968 elections, we’d learned that Richard Nixon collaborated with the North Vietnamese to stall LBJ’s peace moves, we might have impeached him…
In one of my answers in the comments section of The Great Gannett Comics Conspiracy I sarcastically said, “It’s like saying Gannett dropped Between Friends because they are misogynistic.” Further analysis suggests that may not be far from right. But first let’s turn to Breaking Cat News cartoonist Georgia Dunn from her Facebook page: The…
With the resignation of Andy Sareyan taking effect this month Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU) has announced the promotions of Kirsty Melville and Brent Bartram to fill top positions at the company. Earlier this month AMU made note of Kirsty Melville being promoted to chief executive officer: Kansas City, MO (February 6, 2024) – The Andrews…
First of all, we knew — didn’t we? — that Dear Leader wasn’t going to cough up the money he owes E. Jean Carroll. Not in a timely manner, certainly, and most likely not out of his own pocket. It seems more likely that the courts will force him to pay his fines to New…
The term “useful idiots” was not coined by Lenin, but it still means what we thought it meant, and Maartin Wolterink (Cartoon Movement) depicts a post-Lenin Russian leader flanked by a pair of his most useful idiots, as he munches contentedly on roast Ukraine. Dave Whamond takes a shot at Tucker Carlson, who had the…
Some notes taken while reading this week’s comics. J. C. Duffy started the week with one of his Fusco Brothers possibly commenting on the comics page consolidation going on among newspaper companies. The next day Harry Bliss used his Bliss panel to make an observation about artists in general. Then Gary Hallgren(?) with Hagar the…
Although the entire run of Calvin and Hobbes is available both online and in print, many fans are interested in finding other comic strips that are similar to Calvin and Hobbes. Thanks to the amazing quality of Calvin and Hobbes, finding a worthy successor is a challenge. There are several comic strips, however, that either…
A local cartoon, certainly, but one that will amuse people far from Glasgow. Steven Camley notes that police there are beginning to enforce a new national law against parking on sidewalks or at curb cuts as well as double parking. Or, as he has Lovely Rita explain things in the best possible way, you can…
I cobbled this photo together in the early days of Comic Strip of the Day, but, as the blog turns 14, I am pleased that, while a few people have felt stung by criticism, nobody has ever asked me to stop using their work here. However, before I launched things on Feb 6, 2010, I…
Edison Lee (KFS) has returned to a theme that I have missed. Some years ago, they introduced Katie, a girl as smart as Edison and capable of putting him in his place when necessary and occasionally when not. She was not only a positive role model for little girls, but took the edge off him…
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…
Sports and editorial cartoonist Phil Bissell has passed away. Charles Phillip (Phil) Bissell February 1, 1926 – January 2024 The New England Patriots announced the sadness yesterday. Phil’s big claim to fame came in 1960 when the new AFL team revealed that they would be called The Patriots and his cartoon in The Boston Globe…
The whole world is watching, and Peter Schrank indicates what the whole world is thinking, or at least the whole world aside from Russia, Hungary and North Korea, and the world who thought he was going away. That narrows it down considerably, mostly leaving us to wonder if Shrank means “madder” in the American “angry”…
Bill Bramhall suggests that there may be some logical holes in Trump’s theory of presidential immunity. This cartoon demonstrates how difficult things have become for satirists lately, since Trump has been asked if the president could murder his opponents with impunity. He responded that yes, he could, unless the Senate convicted him for it in…