The Saturday before the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November – 3 days before a major election that will decide the course America will take for the foreseeable future and the major newspaper in the nation’s capitol features fluff for its readers. On the right is an item by Washington Post business columnist […]
Plenty of Halloween comic strips today and this past week but we’re going to go back a bit further. “In October 1989, Garfield woke up to a chill in the house and no sign of Jon or Odie. Over the next six days, things only got weirder. We collected every strip from the week Jim […]
It’s Halloween, which I know because I saw Christmas stuff at the store yesterday. I was going to do a day of Halloween humor, but not much rang my bell. I think holiday comics are like obituary cartoons: It’s mandatory that you do them, but it’s awfully hard to come up with anything very impressive, […]
Ten months ago Caroline Cash took on the Nancy comic strip and she has been inspired by creator Ernie Bushmiller. Cash’s has been the most Bushmilleresque Nancy since Bushmiller’s assistants, who recycled old gags, were replaced with new cartoonists. Jerry Scott’s Nancy was not our Nancy while Guy Gilchrist’s Nancy certainly looked the part but […]
Zyglis is correct that Gen Z’s (18-29) vote at a lower rate than older Americans, though his comparison is problematic, since French youth arose over market basket issues and he’s comparing that with Gen Z people here facing more abstract concepts.As a Dutchman, Wolterink has a seat closer to the disturbances rocking France, and suggests […]
Danielle Corsetto is probably best known for her long-running webcomic Girls With Slingshots which she started soon after graduating college. After her first year drawing and posting GWS, she had enough of a following to work on it full-time. She self published ten GWS collections over the 11 year run. For GWS, she took home […]
Sunny with a Chance of Heat by Tim Tyler is a new comic strip that will soon be a part of the Comics Kingdom lineup. It received a bare bones page at the comics site yesterday with no date given for its debut the first strip showing up today.From the Comics Kingdom description of the […]
There are plenty of politically based “What did you get?” cartoons floating around, but Prickly City managed to be specific, which is one of the benefits of having four panels to work with, and also reflects Ramsay’s experience as a political cartoonist. I’d note, too, that the gags build towards the fourth panel, where Carmen […]
Arthur VK on The Platinum Comics group has posted pictures of his new acquisition – the first original edition of Lenardo and Blandine by Joseph Franz von Goez from 1783 Germany. Andy Bleck presents and translates an edition of the graphic novel.
For not the first time Tom Batiuk gets serious with a Crankshaft “comic” strip storyline this week.Batiuk reaches back 53 years to revisit the subject of a week of strips he did back in the day. While that week of Funky Winkerbean from 1973 was played for laughs Chris Raymond at the GoComics Blog talks […]
The United States and Architectural Record had Alan Dunn, the United Kingdom and Architects’ Journal had Louis Hellman. “Had” because at the age of 90 Hellman will no longer contribute to Architects’ Journal. Emily Booth reports for The Architects’ Journal (or here) that Hellman “is stepping back from his regular slot” and represents a 50th […]
Index on Censorship, a British non-profit organization that campaigns for freedom of expression worldwide, has nominated Ashraf Omar for their 2026 Freedom of Expression Award in the category of Arts. The arts category “celebrates artists and arts producers whose work challenges repression and injustice and defends artistic freedom”Other nominees in the Arts category include Iranian […]
I’ve seen several cartoons over in the humor aisle decrying political ads, but that’s such a common complaint in election years that it suffers from a “boy who cried wolf” element: Complaints in normal campaign races make it hard for the point to stick out in years in which the ads are bitter and rely […]
The Borowitz Report Climbs the Charts after Adding Cartoons After Andy Borowitz announced he was adding cartoons to his The Borowitz Report the site moved up the charts. Said Andy on Facebook: “One day after I announced that TBR would be publishing cartoons, this happened. Note to the mainstream media outlets that are cutting cartoons: […]
Art Spiegelman Employs AI for Newest Work See that gold and white sticker in the upper left corner of the 25th anniversary edition of Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers graphic novel in the above photo? That is AI generated.In an interview with Zach Rabiroff for Publishers Weekly (or here) Spiegelman revealed that […]