Believe it or not this is another post about Howie Noel, the new Dick Tracy artist, only this time we are focusing on his Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoon panel gig which he took over earlier this year. Jordan Neese for Ripley Entertainment interviewed the new artist for the 108 year old comic panel […]

Apparently, we can take one crisis off the docket. Dear Leader has decided to stop having the taxpayers pay for his self-promoting political ads. As the articles covering it say, he got some serious pushback on the practice, some of which may have been warnings that what he was doing was illegal, but I particularly […]

AI has taken another step in stealing from cartoonists, it is adding signatures to the fraudulent fakery. Andrew Deck for NiemanLab investigates. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons “These days, cartoon signatures are more than a byline. In an era where cartoons are regularly stripped from their original context and […]

Cartoonists Lineup: Keith Knight, Howie Noel, Jonathan Lemon, Vic Lee, Daniel Shelton, Liniers, and Carol Lay.Knight tells us in this week’s The K Chronicles that he has been at this cartooning business for 35 years (as a professional, he’s been cartooning since childhood). As Dr. Knight tells us appreciators of art, even comic art, we […]

Margulies makes an excellent connection between people exiled to countries with which they have no connection and people who are experiencing the same disorienting thing without having to move at all. He and I are of an age where we had seen this country, if only in propaganda films and, in my case, a live […]

“He puffed a fake cigarette, then sang a tune titled “Who’s Got a Gag for Me Today?”: ‘Sluggo lives by himself. Nancy’s his goil. He was feeling all alone, then in dropped a squoil!’” Emma Allen, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, reviews Tom Gammill‘s “A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller.” In 1976 Ernie Bushmiller was […]

While Bill Griffith has always bled his personal life into the Zippy comic strips I am enjoying the more frequent breaking down of the 4th wall and his giving us more behind the scenes insights since he’s begun his graphic novel autobiography. As he did this past Monday: Truth be told the “selfie” comic strips […]

Kal wrote a piece about depicting democracy in the form of strong women, the top cartoon here being from four years ago, the second being current.I like the basic concept, but prefer the second because the first seems to put three symbols into a belligerent stance that doesn’t fit their traditional roles, at least for […]

At USA Today Brian Truitt asked a number of industry people what their favorite animated movies were. “We reached out to Oscar-winning filmmakers, studio executives and iconic voice actors to find the best 100 animated movies ever. See our list.” “To celebrate animation’s rich cinematic history, USA TODAY surveyed an array of people from across […]

Sergio Aragonés and Frank Quitely, Ernie Bushmiller and Tom Gammill, Teresa Burritt and Clay Jones, Romance books and Cartoon Covers, Mo Willems and Adults, Supergirl and the U.S. Mint. Frank Quitely Wins the 2026 Sergio Aragonés International Award John Freeman (downthe tubes) reports that Frank Quitely has been named as the recipient of the 2026 […]

Thought I’d better get this Banx cartoon in before he has to change the sign over the door. though I suspect making the sign politically correct won’t change the gag.I could, of course, have run it last along with the song about signs, but that song was in heavy rotation when I worked in a […]

A gathering of Political Artists, talking to Ralph Steadman, E&P’s Rob Tornoe on AI in newspapers, fired Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer named E&P’s News Executive of the Year, James Gillray on early 19th Century medical practices, and Comics Illustrated: The Census by Connie Hanzhang Jin and Hansi Lo Wang. America 250 and the […]

Bill Cooper for Spectrum Culture reviews the new biography Trudeau & Doonesbury by Joshua Kendall. “Garry Trudeau, lives privately and shuns interviews. Freelance journalist Joshua Kendall shines some light on the creator in his latest biography, Trudeau & Doonesbury. “Though Trudeau & Doonesbury covers politics, it focuses on Trudeau’s life and how it impacted his […]

Sometimes there a story so ridiculous that people say “The jokes write themselves.” But Eric Schmitt (R-Mo)’s questioning of Jack Smith was so breath-takingly asinine that he left very little for the cartoonists and comedians. It spawned a lot of cartoons, but Anderson got off the best of them, in part because his punchline demonstrates […]

The Galway Cartoon Festival celebrates their 10 year anniversary this week running Oct. 1-6. Featured guests include Glenn Marshall, Martin Rowson, Nicolas Vadot, and Fergus Boylan. The theme this year is “Having a Laugh.”Looking to meet-up fellow cartoonists or attend one of their events, here is the list of cartoonists and the day they are […]