The long held misconception that The New York Times never ran comic strips is now widely known as an “alternative fact.” As Allan Holtz writes in his The Roosevelt Bears entry at The Stripper’s Guide: “The feature sold very well, and became somewhat famous as supposedly the only comic strip ever run by the New […]
No politics today, but how’s about some reactions to politics? There must be some very unhappy plutocrats wandering around wondering, as this pair does, what just happened. When I got in the car Wednesday morning, I heard an interview with some counselor explaining how managers could help employees who were upset with the election results, […]
It Was 20 Years Ago This Week Edison Lee and his friends spent the summer at the mercy of his latest invention – an interactive holographic holosphere simulator. The strip has a long history of Edison inventing things ever since the third strip in November of 2006. Today The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee pays […]
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2026, an authorized biography of Dilbert cartoonist and political influencer Scott Adams will be released, Scott Adams: A Life of Persuasion and Principle is published by Scott Adams, Inc.The Amazon blurb claims, “Scott Adams was and is the most influential personal development writer of all time.” The book is written by […]
The elections are essentially over, pending a few squeakers yet to be finalized. It was good to have cartoons commenting on the results, but we’ve seen them now and it’s time to start looking forward, and while we will have a two-month lame duck session until the new crew is sworn in, Donald Trump will […]
Scottish cartoonist and artist Tom Johnstone has passed away. Tom Johnstone 1935 – 2026 Lorraine Tinney for The Greenock Telegraph reports the death of their longtime cartoonist: “Tom Johnstone, whose paintings and cartoons preserved scenes of old Greenock, Gourock and Port Glasgow, passed away peacefully aged 91 at the Little Sisters of the Poor’s Holy […]
The New Cartoonist regular contributor, Glenn Marshall, has written a piece about fountain pens and his experiments with them. As a fountain pen connoisseur, I share much of his insights and affinity for a Fude nib pen. Two of my favourite ‘drawists’ who often use fountain pens are Róisín Curé (Insta: @roisincure) the self-described ’sketching […]
Missed it: The southern chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists choose the winners of their 2026 Green Eyeshade Awards in July and posted the results on Aug. 4, 2026. The 76th annual competition recognized work published or broadcast during the 2025 calendar year. In the Editorial Cartoons category Steve Stegelin took first place with […]
It took 3 decades but GoComics has finally landed a Rina Piccolo comic. Piccolo’s Rina’s Odd Little Page landed today with an instant 11 week archive. Rachel DeSchepper at the GoComics blog interviews Piccolo to explain the new comic: “Since around 2005, I’ve been doodling and writing in little sketchbooks every day, like a diary. […]
Steenz with Heart of the City spent the better part of September with the character Charlotte getting her first period and dealing with it. While it remains a controversial subject for a lot of daily newspapers GoComics reminds us that the topic was first broached 35 years earlier in Luann by Greg Evans. Juliana Roth […]
JD Vance seems to be looking forward to the 2028 presidential election. He blamed the Iran war for the Republicans’ sweeping losses, which, as Anderson points out, sure seems like he’s trying to put some distance between himself and Trump. Will it work? I’d be surprised, particularly since he also said that the problem wasn’t […]
Last month The New York Times ran their obituary of cartoonist P.C. Vey and at the same time asked readers to submit cartoons in a PC Vey vein i.e., “humor in the absurdities of everyday life.” With a deadline of Oct. 20 The Times has sorted the “more than 200 submissions” and presented a baker’s […]
Cartoonist and mural painter Yasser Mounbir has been sentenced to four years in jail and fined 40,000 dirhams ($4,095 US) for insulting the monarch by posting caricatures of King Mohammed VI on his Instagram account. He was sentenced Oct. 30.The African Meridian reports that he was found guilt of two counts: insulting the King and […]
One of the jobs I got straight out of college was at a pizza/burger place. I started as a pizza maker, but the hand-eye work placing the ingredients was not my thing, so when I had a chance I switched over to the grill and I really enjoyed the challenge of making everything come out […]
Yesterday was for quick reactions, and I didn’t have space for as many good hip shots that came in. More have arrived since, but simply noting the loss was yesterday’s mission and even the good ones seem, 24 hours later, to be esprit d’escalier — “staircase wit” — that clever thing you think of on […]