Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Thinking About Thinking: Impossible Thoughts and Complicated Feelings by Grant Snider A playful examination of […]
Jason Chatfield, cartoon editor; Tom Toro, exclusive cartoonist; cartooning for School Administrator; cartooning opportunities from The New Gag Recap; The American Bystander and The New Yorker kinship. Reports of the demise of magazine cartooning, other than The New Yorker, are exaggerated. Cartoonist Jason Chatfield also Jason Chatfield Cartoon Editor Cartoonist Jason Chatfield brings news that […]
Tuesday night saw the New York premiere of Laura Nix’s Democracy Under Siege, episode six of Draw For Change, featuring editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes. Acclaimed editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes (Washington Post) offers a razor sharp critique of political hypocrisy as top American political commentators confront viewers with urgent questions about the future of American governance. […]
Walt Handelsman in New Orleans at Mardi Gras time, Hearst 2024 celebrates Hilary B. Price and Popeye, The New Yorker cartoonists party at the Centoonial, Tom Tomorrow accepts the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award, and a passle of Smercomics by Rob Rogers, Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, and Scott Stantis. Some Favorite Walt Handelsman […]
Here is a roundup of articles celebrating the 100th Anniversary of The New Yorker’s publishing debut. We at The Daily Cartoonist featured all the editorial drawings and cartoons from that first issue. Others delved into the history of the magazine. Origins Literate in tone, far-reaching in scope, and witty to its bones, The New Yorker […]
Alex Hallatt, a U.K. cartoonist based in New Zealand, graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a degree in biochemistry and has never strayed far from science. Her syndicated comic strip Arctic Circle, follows three penguins who migrate to the Arctic and provide commentary on environmental and social issues, debuted in newspapers in […]
Letting Dave Whamond lead off, despite a couple of hesitations. One is about the connection between the shooting and football, but my main quibble is with “How could this happen?” because, come on, who’s surprised anymore? Which is his point, so he should have reworked it. He does make up for it with the looks […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) lives up to its name today, because Ulysses really is, and always has been, a case of casting pearls before swine. Joyce didn’t much care if people “understood” it, though he added even more layers of riddles, inside jokes and obscure references to Finnegan’s Wake, next to which Ulysses reads like […]
In these fraught times, silly humor is doubly welcome, and educational as well: Bizarro (KFS) also offers a new-to-me term for what I’ve always known as the “puppy nerve.” Nothing more to add except that, between the collection of different dogs and their differing reactions, and the textbooks and posters, this is quite an example […]
This began slowly and so I didn’t take notes and then it went nuts and, well, the best I can do is show you where it seems to be now. As far as I know, it began with this Michael de Adder cartoon … … and the New York Times’ decision to run a full […]
Today’s posting will be big on links, because, for some reason, I’ve suddenly come across a number of really good things you should go explore on your own. And if you are properly locked down and socially distant, you’ve got time for that, right? Right! So we’ll start with Sarah Cooper, who, if you haven’t […]
Ann Telnaes salutes Press Freedom Day. And so do I: A lady asked Franklin: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin replied: “A Republic, if you can keep it.” — Dr. James McHenry (for whom the fort was named) And a favorite quote from Jefferson: The basis of our governments being […]
There have been some churches featured on Facebook and Twitter that have caged the Baby Jesus in their nativity sets, and I like Mike Luckovich‘s version of the concept. But lest we forget, this idea has Scriptural relevance: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, […]
Peter Brookes holds up the mirror with a cartoon so simple that I almost passed it by as obvious. But sometimes “obvious” is the best message, the clearest possible image, and Trump makes it obvious himself, and not only by adopting the “America First” slogan that our bund leaders and isolationists used when they […]