King Features Syndicate (KFS) Editor Amy Anderson is sharing news about the departure of Tony DePaul as the writer of The Phantom and the new daily and Sunday writer Alex Segura. “We have news to share about the next chapter of The Phantom. “This December, Tony DePaul will conclude his 27-year tenure as writer of […]

Former King Features President Joseph F. D’Angelo has passed away. Joseph Francis (Joe) D’Angelo July 4, 1930 – October 13, 2026 The Hearst Corporation is reporting the death of Joe D’Angelo, long time employee and 25 year President and Chairman of King Features Syndicate (KFS). “Joseph F. D’Angelo, former chairman and president of Hearst’s King […]

Tony DePaul has informed readers of his Nickels of the Man blog that he has been dismissed as the writer of The Phantom after more than a quarter century of plotting and scripting the comic strip. DePaul writes: “On September 21, the desk at King Features went dark on me when I started asking questions. […]

We’ve got some grim news today, so let’s start with something lightweight, a good description of Dear Leader’s newest vacuous blonde, which is not only a description of the new Press Secretary but her only apparent qualification. Katie Zacharia may have been nervous when she fluffed her debut, but may have also been nervous when, […]

The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the various categories of the 2026 Walkley Awards. The Walkley Awards “Australia’s pre-eminent national journalism awards, recognise and reward the best in the craft and set the industry standard for excellence.” The finalists in the Cartoon of the Year award are… Matt Golding, The Age, ‘Operation Epic […]

For the Library of Congress Stephen Winick traces the origins of Uncle Sam. “In a pair of posts, I’ll look primarily at the stories behind the name “Uncle Sam,” and in a third post look more closely at his iconic image.” In two parts Winick retells the truth and the “metafolklore” about Uncle Sam: Part […]

A baker’s dozen of cartoonists were inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame last Friday. As far as I know the four living inductees – David Mazzuchelli, Jenette Kahn, Klaus Janson, and Frank Miller – have not worked on newspaper comic strips. But 7 of the 9 posthumous honorees do have comic strip bona […]

We’ll start with this punning riff on Liberty Mutual’s Lemu Emu and Doug spots, which people love to hate. The company may have set itself up for abuse with their earlier, awful commercials, particularly the young woman mourning her old car “Brad,” but I think this series is amusing and occasionally funny. Not as witty, […]

Hal Foster’s magnum opus Prince Valiant began on February 13, 1937 and is nearing its 90th anniversary.To celebrate King Features is adding the complete Prince Valiant canon on the Comics Kingdom site. Praised for both the narrative and the art Foster’s comic strip is considered to be the top of the art form.From Brian Walker: […]

The New York Times ran an obituary for cartoonist P.C. Vey by Michael S. Rosenwald or here. “P.C. Vey, whose cheerfully pessimistic cartoons in The New Yorker depicted the inescapable absurdity of romantic relationships, corporate life, hoity-toity restaurants, cats, health care, technology, greed and death, died on Sept. 17 at his home in Amherst, Mass. […]

Andrew Borowitz’s very popular satire site The Borowitz Report reports on “The War on Cartoonists” these days, both editorial cartoonists… “Censorship has undermined the opinion pages of newspapers across the US during Trump’s second term. Two weeks after Telnaes resigned, a small newspaper in Pennsylvania outdid the Post in gutlessness. When…the publisher, Dave Cuddihy, announced […]

Australia not much caring who discovered America, First Dog instead brought us up to date yesterday on what we’ve made of our corner of the place 534 years later. Someone posted on Xitter last week about how much Trump is loved and admired throughout the world, but I’ll bet she’s nowhere to be found today […]

The Baltimore Sun‘s Opinion Page is now almost exclusively printing AI generated cartoons. As seen they have a preferred style to prompt their computer to generate an image for their editorial page, until this weekend. For the middle cartoon above they have scraped/stolen another style which is more cartoony than their regular prompts. So I […]

Research Sunday Phantom artist and South Seas researcher Jeff Weigel tells us: “Take note that this story will be dealing with real isolationist tribes in Papua New Guinea who deliberately avoid contact with the outside world. I’ve tried to convey their native garb as accurately as possible based on photos I found online.” Sports ToonsWAFB […]

Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Omar remains in jail after the prosecution’s first witness failed to show up for today’s trial. It is the third time the witness, the investigative officer in his case, was absent.A new trial date has been sent for December 14. Omar has been in jail since July 2024. Visit our archive for […]