In a week and a half Jumble‘s Guest Jumbler Week returns for 2026. An annual event when David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek turn their puzzle feature over to a half dozen guest cartoonists for the week. As is their custom they give us a sneak peek of who will be contributing to the feature: […]
James Rada, Jr. for The Fredricks News-Post writes of the origin of Merrill Blosser as a professional cartoonist (or here). “In the early decades of the 20th century, one of the most successful newspaper cartoonists was Merrill Blosser. His comic strip, “Freckles and His Friends,” ran for more than 55 years, from 1915 to 1971, […]
This was my idea, too, and I had no intention of doing election-results cartooning today, in part because I was tired from a stint at the polling place and in part because I was tired of the whole thing, and in the largest part because I didn’t expect a lot of cartoonists to get their […]
A month ago Lee Enterprises added 20 Creators Syndicate comic strips and panels to their newspapers. Newspapers.com has a 30 day delay for The Daily Cartoonist to check the newspapers, here are what we see. As noted in that early news item the 20 Creators comics are Agnes (reruns), Andy Capp, Archie (reruns), B.C., Daddy’s […]
Chappatte offers a concise description of the day: This is the point at which we declare what and who we are. We can get off the road to autocracy, or we can keep going the direction we’ve been going the past few years. But it is obviously the last exit, the last chance to change […]
Popeye along with Olive Oyl and Swee’Pea will appear as inflatables in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade after an absence of 58 and 40 years respectably, but not as giant overhead floating balloons. Mercedes Milligan of Animation Magazine tells us: “E. C. Segar’s beloved sailor man will return to the parade as an inflatable for […]
European Cartoon Award has announced their shortlist of 16 cartoonists vying for the political cartoons of the year award to be announced later this month. Here are the cartoons and artists on the shortlist (sorted by first name). Click on the cartoon to enlarge. Finalists and winner will be announced Nov. 27 during European Cartoon […]
“The whole world is watching” can be a bland cliché if you toss it out too casually, but the whole world really is watching to see what happens here tomorrow, and it’s not just curiosity.When students first chanted it in 1968 in the streets of Chicago, it was a call to shame, pointing out that […]
Before this week gets going we take a late look at last week. In an amazing instance of synchronicity a day or two after Obama’s Cheesecake Factory/ White House comment the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip makes the same comparison substituting Tad’s Steakhouse for the Cheescake Factory. Is Bill Griffith part of Obama’s speech writing […]
Cartoonist John Rose brings Rudy the Ostrich back to the funny pages, and, yeah, Rudy is going to need an introduction as he hasn’t been seen in the newspaper funny pages for nearly 90 years. Rudy the Ostrich first appeared in the Barney Google comic strip on January 14, 1924 in the strip that was […]
The Australian Cartoonists Association held their annual Stanley Awards banquet Saturday night and Cathy Wilcox came away with the Gold Stanley for 2026. The winners in the other categories are… Comic Strip Cartoonist: Ian Jones Comic Book Artist: Paul Mason Single Gag Cartoonist: Fiona Katauskas Animation: Paul Mason Illustration: David Pope Book Illustrator: Dean Rankine […]
Dunno how Chatfield fastened on Talarico for this gag, but his is one of a flock of Democratic campaigns I have blocked on my phone, or “stopped” at any rate. Not sure of the distinction. It’s not that I wouldn’t vote for him, if he were here or I were in Texas, any more than […]
The Saturday before the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November – 3 days before a major election that will decide the course America will take for the foreseeable future and the major newspaper in the nation’s capitol features fluff for its readers. On the right is an item by Washington Post business columnist […]
Plenty of Halloween comic strips today and this past week but we’re going to go back a bit further. “In October 1989, Garfield woke up to a chill in the house and no sign of Jon or Odie. Over the next six days, things only got weirder. We collected every strip from the week Jim […]
It’s Halloween, which I know because I saw Christmas stuff at the store yesterday. I was going to do a day of Halloween humor, but not much rang my bell. I think holiday comics are like obituary cartoons: It’s mandatory that you do them, but it’s awfully hard to come up with anything very impressive, […]