Toronto newspaper artist, art director, and editorial cartoonist Andy Donato is calling it a day after 65 years. Denette Wilford for The Toronto Sun profiles the long career of Donato. Donato began his newspaper career in 1961 with The Toronto Telegram as a staff artist eventually becoming the paper’s art director and occasionally contributing editorial […]
We’ll start today’s collection of Quick Takes with a quick take of its own. The idea of Duke joining the Trump administration is exciting, but I’m not sure it can work in Doonesbury’s once-a-week format, which is a shame, but Trudeau’s best work was not done in quick takes. He did extended narratives, building characters […]
For the second week in a row McDonnell has treated us to a new MUTTS, and for the second Friday in a row it is an illustrated proverb by Daniel Ladinsky. I don’t know if these are new or from the book collaboration Ladinsky and McDonnell did several years ago. I also don’t know if […]
Magazine Deathwatch Piggybacking on the news that The Saturday Evening Post is ending its print edition World of Monsters brings news that Castle of Frankenstein and Scary Monsters will be going to the special order/subscription-only market and no longer be distributed to newsstands. I would see Scary Monsters when browsing the very small magazine section […]
What if they gave a big convention, the first party convention held before a midterm, and nobody came?That seems to be the prospect facing Dear Leader. He planned an extravaganza starring himself (naturally) and JD, that would be televised to rally the GOP, and it was going to be fabulous, except it looks like yet […]
A year after firing editorial cartoonist Kevin (KAL) Kallagher The Baltimore Sun has found a replacement: Artificial Intelligence. The editorial cartoon for the Sept. 4, 2026 edition of The Baltimore Sun included a note stating it was “Produced using artificial intelligence tools by The Baltimore Sun editorial staff.” Scrolling down The Baltimore Sun’s homepage for […]
For right-wing cartoonists there are inevitable conclusions: If a politician is of the Muslim faith that person is a jihadist. If an officeholder or prospective legislator is a self-proclaimed socialist that equals being a Communist. Really scary for them is if that person was born in The United States and so could rise to the […]
Emmerson’s double-tribute last week set me to thinking about life and death and whatnot. I already had it in mind, because one of my dearest friends died recently, and her death reminded me of how, in Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana described the death overboard of a crew member on his ship:(A)t […]
Schmoey Comics by Josh Lawrence began last year online. In May 2026 the comic strip began appearing every other week in The Westford (Mass.) Villager. From The Westford Villager where the newspaper has set up a 2026 May to Aug. archive: Schmoey Comics is a comic strip that was featured bi-weekly in the print version […]
On the occasion of its 205th anniversary of publication The Saturday Evening Post announced that the January/February 2027 edition of the magazine will be the last print issue. From Benjamin Mullin of The New York Times (or here) or via The Seattle Times: The magazine’s January issue will be its last in print, according to […]
I’ve seen so many cartoons combining the Strait of Hormuz with some visual imagery that they flow by without my noticing them anymore. But Hajjaj’s piece stopped me, in part because it’s so attractively done and in part because he’s a Jordanian/Palestinian living in Abu Dhabi. The war is on the other side of the […]
Ideally the comic books you are trying to sell would be entombed in a sealed archival-grade plastic coffin, aka “slabbed.” Unfortunately for us garden variety collectors that is cost prohibitive except for the most valuable of comic books, unless you are trying to sell them individually on eBay or working a consignment deal. If, like […]
Stephan Pastis is an old veteran of books tours touting his Pearls Before Swine and Timmy Failure volumes. Now he has coerced Wallace the Brave cartoonist Will Henry to join him in a journey around the nation. The occasion is the September 1, 2026 release of a book the cartoonists have co-created with Pastis writing […]
It’s either cuddle the dog or shut off the alarm clock, and waking up to an inquisitive nose is better than waking up to an obnoxious buzzing. In my nine-to-five days, I woke up to NPR, but sometimes I just stayed asleep and dreamt about the news. The dog knows when it’s time to get […]
The first week of October will be comics paradise in the British Isles from Galway, Ireland to Kendal, England. The Galway Cartoon Festival returns for its 10th annual celebration of laughs and satire. This is Galway has details from The Galway Cartoon Festival press release: Galway Cartoon Festival will mark its 10th anniversary this October […]