It’s lovely to think that, when a candidate makes a promise of “no new taxes,” the audience will respond by thinking of all they’d have to give up to make that promise true.Slane is being sarcastic, and showing how things might run in a perfect world of well-informed, logical voters. Also, he’s from New Zealand, […]
The past weekend saw the Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC) gather on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls for their 2026 convention which this year they called a “popup mini congress.” So far there has been little news that has come from the conference. One bit of news is who won the dual Townsend Awards […]
Pop Culture and mass communications author Arthur Asa Berger has passed away. Arthur Asa Berger January 3, 1933 – September 19, 2026 “Berger is to the study of television what Idi Amin is to tourism in Uganda.” The New York Times on Berger’s The TV-Guided American The Marin County Journal carries the obituary: “In 1965 […]
This last weekend at the Baltimore Comic-Con, the Ringo Awards for the best achievement in comic books were announced. Below are the winners and this year’s nominees.Fan FavoritesJury and Fan WinnersBest SeriesWinner: Absolute Batman, DC ComicsNominees:Best AnthologyWinner: Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown, Dark Horse ComicsNominees:Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel […]
First Dog points out that, indeed, the whole world is watching. That wouldn’t be so bad if we were some obscure country nobody really cared about, so they could watch what we’re up to, snicker and shrug it off.But ever since WWII we have set ourselves up as the Keystone of the Free World, so […]
After two and a half years Dick Tracy artist Charles Ettinger said goodbye to the Dick Tracy syndicated comic strip with a small insert in the Sept. 26, 2026 issue. Regular “guest writer” Eric Costello confirmed it in a GoComic comment: “I want to take this opportunity to thank Charles Ettinger for the work he […]
I pass on the relief I felt when I saw the “GH” in a Hagar the Horrible. Gary Hallgren frequently lets us know he is still ghosting Hagar by slipping in his initials but it had been six weeks (August 9) since the last sighting and I had begun to worry that the former underground […]
Rall suggests that perhaps our national priorities are out of whack, though it might be a better world if they were this openly explained. It would also be a better country if someone, anyone spoke this plainly to Dear Leader. However, it would be difficult to explain why funds that Congress approved for medical research […]
International Datelines: Kuwait, Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, Switzerland, and Chicago(??!!). Newspaper Comic Strips Everywhere Around the World Saira Abdul Rashid for the Kuwait Times asks, “Could comic [strips] make a comeback?” “For generations of newspaper readers, comic strips were more than small illustrations tucked between advertisements and headlines. They offered humor, emotion and another […]
Mike Smith Enters Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame “Longtime Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoonist Mike Smith enters Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame” The Las Vegas Sun proudly notes in a profile that its staff editorial cartoonist is now a Hall of Famer. “O’Callaghan instead offered him a full-time job. Smith packed up his car, moved […]
I’m glad to have run into this pair in this order, because Heller bucked up my spirits somewhat after Granlund’s negative take on election signs. It is indeed fall, and as much as I look forward to the foliage, this year I’m substantially happier than Heller’s semi-glum couple, looking forward to the midterms and glad […]
Laurie Triefeldt began her newspaper career with The Windsor Star in her native Canada in 1988. She spent a few years there before moving to the U.S. where she briefly worked for the Newspaper Enterprise Association before moving on to the Camden N.J. Courier-Post in 1993. Triefeldt was a newspaper graphic artist during this time […]
Cartooning for Peace celebrated its 20th anniversary yesterday in Paris. A special recognition was also given to Safaa Odah who recently arrived in France after two years of trying to leave Gaza. The organization came from a vision of then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and cartoonist Plantu in the wake of the violence and outrage […]
National Comic Book Day honors the art, artists, and stories of comic books. The South Florida Reporter provides a timeline of American comic books (some of the facts are dated and a bit iffy) in an article titled “People Who Collect Comic Books Are Known As A Pannapictagraphist.” “One of the earliest known comics printed […]
The banishment of the press has ended, thanks to some solidarity among the press corps and a judge who had apparently read the Constitution. However, as anticipated here Wednesday, the boycott cost Dear Leader a lot of coverage of the arrival of Xi Jinping.We can assume this bothered Trump, since he had taken the unprecedented […]