Nor should we listen to those who say “The voice of the people is the voice of God,” for the turbulence of the mob is always close to insanity. — Alcuin to Charlemagne, 798 AD“Friends, I want to remove any cause for contention between you two fine fellow-Democrats”HerblockI missed getting to vote in 1968, because […]
Vermont’s favorite alternative newspaper Seven Days has released its annual Cartoon Issue cover featuring Vermont’s newest cartoonist laureate Stephen Bissette with an interview inside. And a whole lot more as Dan Bolles tells us: In a Seven Days interview, Bissette said his primary goal during his three-year tenure is to produce a history of cartooning […]
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) used a cartoon to object to portions of the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act moving through congress. The cartoon shows veterans standing before a firing squad of bureaucrats and media and is drawing heat from the bill’s sponsors. Patricia Kime for Military Times reports: The nation’s largest combat veteran […]
Opening with one political cartoon, largely because I disagree. Trump’s clodhopper interference in the World Cup didn’t destroy the integrity of soccer. It merely pointed out the lack of integrity of FIFA, which — as has been noted here and everywhere else — wasn’t in doubt to begin with. If the red card kerfuffle made […]
Creative Boom has released the results of its 2026 survey from creatives around the world, with the scales tipped toward the United Kingdom and the Unites States. The state of the creative industry 2026 survey as spelled out by Tom May Our wide-ranging survey lays bare a profession that’s exhausted, anxious about its future, and […]
First, here’s the Red Card Menace:Just when you think Dear Leader has run out of ways to make everyone in the world hate us, he pulls this. They all laughed at him when he got that stupid pretend Peace Prize, but everybody assumed that was going to be the end of it. As I’ve said […]
Cowboy cartoonist Mike Scott has passed away. George Michael (Mike) Scott December 13, 1952 – July 4, 2026 From the obituary: Mike earned degrees in Animal Science and Agricultural Extension and Education from New Mexico State University before beginning a 27‑year career at Fort Sumner Municipal Schools. As an agriculture, shop, and science teacher, he […]
For nearly 50 years Daryl Cagle has been illustrating. For over 30 of those years he has been an editorial cartoonist and since the year 2000 he has owned and operated Cagle Cartoons, the largest syndicator of editorial cartoonists. Tracy Lehr for KEYT-TV profiles Montecito’s favorite son. “Here is Trump killing PBS and of course […]
While we’re remembering 250 years ago, it was about then that Samuel Johnson wrote “My old friend, Mrs. Carter, could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well as compose a poem.”Whatever the quality of Elizabeth Carter’s cooking and sewing, the quality of her scholarship is astonishing, […]
Genesis 4:8 – Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go for a walk.” (Contemporary English Version) Unlike today’s Pearls Before Swine, which I instantly figured out what was going on, it took a double take for me to transliterate the words in Pluggers to names and figure out what was what. Bragging rights: I […]
I wasn’t going to revisit Trump’s state fair or run anymore July 4 cartoons, but Deering’s commentary is not only funny but thought-provoking, combining Dear Leader’s mentally-questionable assumption that the world revolves around him with the growing sense that fewer and fewer people care. He’s still got an active sucker list, but he’s losing some […]
For a number of reasons the semiquincentennial of The Declaration of Independence does not seem to be celebrated as hardily as was the bicentennial fifty years ago. Not the least of which is that multiples of 100 is a bigger deal than multiples of 50. Back in the day the comic book industry was more […]
The Bicentennial was a big deal and we prepared for it all year. Time magazine even put out a special edition, based on the news of that week in 1776, not only covering the political activities in the Colonies but, as the magazine might have, what was going on around the world in science and […]
Drew Litton’s Slippery Slopes, Dan Thompson’s Comic Stew, G.B. Trudeau and Nicole Hollander and Doonesbury, In Person: Keith Knight, Phil Hands’ Mendota Marsh, The Sunday Post comics are Inkredible, and then it’s decision time: Mickey or Snoopy? Drew Litton Presents… Drew Litton’s Beyond the Drawing Board Substack presents a baker’s dozen of Slippery Slopes comic […]
“Let facts be submitted to a candid world.” Your brain prefers print over pixels. How to sell cartoons to The New Yorker. Unauthorized paintings created on boulders along a beach create controversy. Get rich with comics royalties. Your Brain Prefers to Read on Paper Rather Than on Screens Jessica Stillman writes for Inc.: E-books have […]