This weekend was the L.A. Times Festival of Books where they unveiled their best books of last year. Jaime Hernandez took home the prize in the Graphic Novel/Comics category, and Trung Le Nguyen (Trungles)‘s graphic novel “Angelica and the Bear Prince” won the Young Adult Literature category.Jaime graphic novel “Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets […]

Origins IssuesThe story of how Kit Walker became The Original Phantom continues into its 12th Sunday, while the story of how Ming became The Merciless continues in the daily and Sunday Flash Gordon. And King Features/Comics Kingdom celebrates the 80 anniversary of the Mark Trail comic strip. We’re proud to mark this 80th anniversary. And […]

This is a really good cartoon. Bennett has excellent artistic skills and a keen eye for depicting frustrated despair, which he make a recurring motif in his work. He’s even color-coded his firefighters with red and blue clothes under their bunker gear.The problem is that this shouldn’t be an evergreen — a cartoon that could […]

A few cartoonists, past and present, are spotlighted. Vaughan Tomlinson Magazine cartoonist Vaughan Tomlinson (Readers Digest, Airmail, Alta, Private Eye, The Oldie, Weekly Humorist, etc.) has been contributing panels to Comics Kingdom for a year now and The Kingdom’s Alex Garcia has now gotten around to interviewing him about how Vaughan goes about creating Oddly […]

If Carillo had dropped this tomorrow instead of last Sunday, you might think he was commenting on the Hegseth/Ezekiel/Pulp Fiction matter, rather than accidentally predicting a week in which everyone was wrong and the smart move was to stay out of it.In any case, Hegseth wasn’t quoting either Zeke or Jules, but since making the […]

On April 17, 1926 Editor and Publisher celebrated the 32nd anniversary of newspaper comics with a comic supplement featuring specially created comic strips for the 1926 Newspaper Convention. The contributing cartoonist were Edward Grinham, Merrill Blosser, Burt Thomas, Frank King, Sidney Smith, Frank Godwin, J. R. Williams, Rube Goldberg, C. W. Kahles, Frank Willard, Bud […]

The Graphic Medicine International Collective has added two new board members: political theorist and historian Soha Bayoumi, PhD, and writer and cartoonist Jen Leach (Furtivedoodles).Jen is New York based writer and cartoonist. She works at New York University driving student wellbeing communications and initiatives. Early in her career, she hid her (bipolar) diagnosis and her […]

Variety is reporting that King Features has partnered with Reginald Hudlin to develop a television series starring The Phantom of comic strip fame. From Jennifer Mass at Variety: A live-action [emphasis added] TV series based on Lee Falk’s classic comic strip “The Phantom” is in the works from “Candy Cane Lane” and “Sidney” filmmaker Reginald Hudlin, […]

We should probably go a little easy on Pete Hegseth, who never said he was quoting Ezekiel when he whipped out that prayer the other day. What he said was that it was something some aviators had laid on him, and it’s obviously rewritten with flyers in mind.And, BTW, what Jules quotes in Pulp Fiction […]

Baseball fan (Yankees and Phillies) Howard Goldstein has spent the better part of a lifetime collecting baseball memorabilia concentrating on the subject of Jewish participation. Parts of his collection have been spotlighted in museums around the nation including Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of Fame.The last few years saw Mr Goldstein get serious about exhibiting his collection […]

Early this year it was reported that Block Communications had decided to shut down the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette following court decisions that favored the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh over the newspaper. Now The New York Times’ Katie Robertson is reporting (or here) that: The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, which runs The Baltimore Banner and is […]

Anderson starts us off with a challenging cartoon, specifically targeting Trump’s Evangelical supporters, and accusing them of blissfully ignoring a variety of serious offenses against the commands of the Bible, but then mocking them for finally becoming incensed over what Anderson apparently sees as a somewhat trivial violation.He often combines his cartoons with an essay, […]

Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for April 2026 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. Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant Sketchbooks: An Illustrated Memoir: Volume 2 edited by Brian Kane The second […]

Three weeks after announcing his retirement from Diario El Universo, Xavier Bonilla (Bonil) has announced he has a new role as the editorial cartoonist for Primicias creating three cartoons a week—one of which will be a cartoon in video format.Bonil isn’t new to animation. He tells The Daily Cartoonist that he created a traditional animation […]

The 20th Century newspaper comics were bookended by two masters of the art. Winsor McCay’s full page Little Nemo was a near-perfect example of the early comic strip (you’d think someone who began their career as a poster artist would be better at lettering). At the other end of the century was Bill Watterson whose […]