Looking back at Bill Mauldin, Walt Kelly, Popeye, and MAD magazine. A Voice for the Dogface With Veterans’ Day tomorrow the Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin and the Art of War exhibit currently on display at New Orleans’ National WWII Museum (July 16, 2026, through April 18, 2027) is back in the news. Kenny Lopez […]
Shujaat Ali, Pakistani political cartoonist, caricaturist, animator, and founding member of Al Jazeera’s online services has passed at the age of 54 from heart attack.Ali’s professional career began in 1992 working for The News Daily in Islamabad. According to Al Jazeera he earned several awards during that period including “best political cartoonist award from the […]
This is one of those “I’m so old …” things, but I have to be careful, because one of my sisters has an AOL account and she also has my name in this year’s Christmas gift lottery. An ex-GF also has one, I think, though we mostly see each other on Facebook, so maybe she […]
Featuring Ware, Beiman, Pich and Kunz, Pastis, Li-Vollmer, Gilchrist, and Aislin. Chris Ware Arts and Crafts The latest edition of ACME Novelty Library (#21) releases today and its a comic book like no other, as is to be expected from cartoonist Chris Ware. Kelly Roark at Newcity reviews the book: “Chris Ware’s “Acme Novelty Library […]
The long held misconception that The New York Times never ran comic strips is now widely known as an “alternative fact.” As Allan Holtz writes in his The Roosevelt Bears entry at The Stripper’s Guide: “The feature sold very well, and became somewhat famous as supposedly the only comic strip ever run by the New […]
No politics today, but how’s about some reactions to politics? There must be some very unhappy plutocrats wandering around wondering, as this pair does, what just happened. When I got in the car Wednesday morning, I heard an interview with some counselor explaining how managers could help employees who were upset with the election results, […]
It Was 20 Years Ago This Week Edison Lee and his friends spent the summer at the mercy of his latest invention – an interactive holographic holosphere simulator. The strip has a long history of Edison inventing things ever since the third strip in November of 2006. Today The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee pays […]
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2026, an authorized biography of Dilbert cartoonist and political influencer Scott Adams will be released, Scott Adams: A Life of Persuasion and Principle is published by Scott Adams, Inc.The Amazon blurb claims, “Scott Adams was and is the most influential personal development writer of all time.” The book is written by […]
The elections are essentially over, pending a few squeakers yet to be finalized. It was good to have cartoons commenting on the results, but we’ve seen them now and it’s time to start looking forward, and while we will have a two-month lame duck session until the new crew is sworn in, Donald Trump will […]
Scottish cartoonist and artist Tom Johnstone has passed away. Tom Johnstone 1935 – 2026 Lorraine Tinney for The Greenock Telegraph reports the death of their longtime cartoonist: “Tom Johnstone, whose paintings and cartoons preserved scenes of old Greenock, Gourock and Port Glasgow, passed away peacefully aged 91 at the Little Sisters of the Poor’s Holy […]
The New Cartoonist regular contributor, Glenn Marshall, has written a piece about fountain pens and his experiments with them. As a fountain pen connoisseur, I share much of his insights and affinity for a Fude nib pen. Two of my favourite ‘drawists’ who often use fountain pens are Róisín Curé (Insta: @roisincure) the self-described ’sketching […]
Missed it: The southern chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists choose the winners of their 2026 Green Eyeshade Awards in July and posted the results on Aug. 4, 2026. The 76th annual competition recognized work published or broadcast during the 2025 calendar year. In the Editorial Cartoons category Steve Stegelin took first place with […]
It took 3 decades but GoComics has finally landed a Rina Piccolo comic. Piccolo’s Rina’s Odd Little Page landed today with an instant 11 week archive. Rachel DeSchepper at the GoComics blog interviews Piccolo to explain the new comic: “Since around 2005, I’ve been doodling and writing in little sketchbooks every day, like a diary. […]
Steenz with Heart of the City spent the better part of September with the character Charlotte getting her first period and dealing with it. While it remains a controversial subject for a lot of daily newspapers GoComics reminds us that the topic was first broached 35 years earlier in Luann by Greg Evans. Juliana Roth […]
JD Vance seems to be looking forward to the 2028 presidential election. He blamed the Iran war for the Republicans’ sweeping losses, which, as Anderson points out, sure seems like he’s trying to put some distance between himself and Trump. Will it work? I’d be surprised, particularly since he also said that the problem wasn’t […]