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 […]

Kevin Kallagher (KAL) drew political cartoons for The Baltimore Sun for 30 years (1988-2006 & 2012-2025). In 2025 the new owner of the newspaper fired KAL as he possessed diametrically opposite political views the new owner wished to promote and KAL would not ease up on drawing cartoons mocking the Trump administration.A year after that […]

There’s a good chance that when CK Gormally walks into a room of cartoonists, CK is the smartest one. Cartoonists, stereotypically, are the ones in the back of the classroom doodling—not in front teaching. CK entered their cartoonist era while in grad school pursuing a Ph.D. in Biology Education & Plant Biology. They are currently […]

Luann’s Weird Dream, Len Brown remembered, Graeme MacKay and The Rex Babin Award, The Baltimore Sun continues its generative AI obscenity, former McClatchy cartoonist Joel Pett on Newspaper Deathwatch, Big Nate Romance Comics, a P.C. Vey eulogy. The following is an eclectic collection of a few articles that can be considered updates to items posted […]

As they say, timing is everything. They usually say it about comedy, but it’s obviously a factor in political cartooning and here’s a pair of cartoons that had everything except good timing, and, in the case of Megan Herbert’s piece, it’s a very rare case in which the time difference between Australia and the United […]

Featuring the comics of Milt Gross, Denys Wortman, Gus Arriola, Walt McDougall, and Charles M. Schulz partnered with Len Wein and Walt Simonson. Milt Gross in Action Steve Smith at his Panels & Prose discusses the action comic strips of Milt Gross. “One of the basic joys of comics is every artist inventing their own […]

The Phantom creator Lee Falk told readers a little bit of what happened before that first panel above and a lot, 66 years worth, of what happened after the second panel above, but nothing of the events between those two panels. That lapse of history bothered the current writer of The Phantom comic strip. Says […]