Some AI Nonsense Ron Winkler asked AI to imagine comic strip characters as real people and what we got was a few possibilities but mostly bunk. Beetle Bailey with eyes, Dagwood with glasses and no cowlicks, Cathy with a regular nose, the Danish Ferdnand with an English mustache, and more. Mad Cave’s King Features Comic […]
The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in […]
Some new information, at least for me Philip Potempa for The Post-Tribune/Chicago Tribune passes on a hamburger soup recipe (or here) and as an introduction to the dish he recalls the Wimpy character from the Thimble Theatre comic strip. In that process he mentions the distribution numbers of the current Popeye comic strip: “Once seen […]
The Australian Cartoonists Association has announced the finalists in the running for the 2026 Gold Stanley.From the Secretary of the Australian Cartoonists Association (ACA) Peter Broelman: “The Australian Cartoonists Association is pleased to announce the five finalists for its prestigious Gold Stanley award for Cartoonist Of The Year to be announced at the 42nd Annual […]
Okay, one political comment and then we’ll move on. I liked it when you no longer had to stop to pay tolls, though whether you had a transponder or were billed by a camera, it meant there was a record of where you had been. And for that matter, if you bought gas or food […]
Earlier this month the Roy Lichtenstein: Like New exhibit opened at the Whitney Museum in N.Y., N.Y. Jamie Martinez for Arte Fuse toured the exhibit and shares his thoughts. “At first glance, and on my first visit, the exhibition seemed a bit flat. But as I walked through the fifth floor, with a few pieces […]
TV anchor and journalist and part time cartoonist Jake Tapper has turned into a graphic novel historian with The Butcher: The Decades-Long Hunt for Klaus Barbie, One of the World’s Most Notorious Killers as the writer and artist of the true story of the Barbie escape and the Nazi hunters who tracked him down.From Top […]
A follow up to our story earlier and the mentioned in Mike’s column today – there is a free streaming screening of the Democracy Under Siege documentary Oct. 29. It requires a ticket, but tickets are free. We here at The Daily Cartoonist encourage everyone to watch it. If you are not able to watch […]
Bad news: Metro has cut their cartoonist, Guy Venables, effective the end of November. Granted, Metro isn’t exactly the Times of London, but then again, it seems aimed at giving people what they want to read. I would think good cartoons would fall under that category.Venables has been a frequent flyer here, because his work […]
Today’s CSotD by Mike Peterson brought to mind something I’ve noticed lately. Something that struck again today with Eric Allie‘s regular Friday cartoon at Smerconish and happened last month with an A. F. Branco cartoon. Both are riffing off of K. C. Green‘s This is Fine dog cartoon. Neither gives credit to the cartoonist who […]
A second suspect in the murder Russian artist Semyon Skrepetsky has been detained. From Polska Agencja Prasowa (Polish Press Agency) we learn: According to court spokeswoman Marta Smiech, the suspect allegedly provided the perpetrator with a weapon, a means of transport and a mobile phone application that enabled the victim’s vehicle to be tracked. The […]
Venables posted this yesterday, so I don’t suppose it got to as many people as it usually would, given how many sites in Britain and Europe went dark. I did see that the Guardian stayed up, but I read their US edition, so that tells me little. Anyway, I got a vacation from obsessively checking […]
Report by Raven Saunt of The Daily Mail: “Bo’s Bagels in Harlem was recently engulfed in heated discussion over its wooden advertising board crafted in the shape of a cartoon bagel wearing sunglasses. “The life-sized cutout, created by artist Tom Sanford, featured white sneakers, teeth grills that spelled out ‘Harlem World’ and a gold ring emblazoned […]
There’s still a lot of unknowns about how/why The Daily Cartoonist was taken offline for nearly 36 hours—at least officially. What we do know is Hostwinds, where we host TDC, took everything offline after discovering a breach in their systems. Circumstantially, I suspect this might be related to the new security flaw that was discovered […]
We’re not doing politics today, but I’ve seen so many Thelma and Louise themed political cartoons, and I’m so sick of Elon Musk, that Toro’s putting them together made me laugh.At least the Delorean could be retrofitted as a time machine.Speaking of movies, this would make a truly horrifying one, but even as a cartoon, […]