The Phantom creator Lee Falk told readers a little bit of what happened before that first panel above and a lot, 66 years worth, of what happened after the second panel above, but nothing of the events between those two panels. That lapse of history bothered the current writer of The Phantom comic strip. Says […]
It is the elephant, not the president, who hesitates to dive into an empty pool. They’ve followed him faithfully since his first inauguration, but Republicans have been scrubbing their websites of mentions of Dear Leader and several of them found places they needed to be instead of the half-empty halls of Trumpapalooza. They’re not eager […]
BigGo Finances has reported that the webcomic hosting site Tapas is shuttering: “South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment is terminating service for Tapas, the North American webtoon platform it acquired for approximately ₩1.1 trillion (approximately $809.6 million). The ambitious 2021 investment, intended as a beachhead for the North American market, is effectively being written off just five […]
Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek took home this year’s Inktspotprijs (Inktspot Prize). The award goes to the best political cartoon during the parliamentary year.The judges remarks for Woldhek’s cartoon says, “with an impressive drawing style, the draughtsman combines the grimness and humor in an aesthetically insane image that no longer disappears from your retina.”Honorable mentions this […]
The recent news of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists awards and their commingling with the Society of Illustrators (SoI) has prompted The Daily Cartoonist to list most of the rest of that Society’s 2026 awards, adding to the group’s 2026 Hall of Fame honors that were reported earlier this year. The 2026 Hamilton King […]
I wasn’t going to do any Trump vs. the Press cartoons today, having pretty well exhausted the topic for a while, but Telnaes introduces a new character that cracks me up.The term “work wife” came up with George W and Condoleezza Rice, and I have no doubt that W was faithful to his wife and […]
New Zealand cartoonist and designer Peter Bromhead has passed away. Peter Bromhead May 31, 1933 – August 25, 2026 From Gavin Ellis at Knightly Views: “Peter Bromhead, the cartoonist who has died at the age of 93, would have appreciated the irony in the fact that his only newspaper obituary of any substance was written […]
Andy Donato’s rejected cartoon, P. C. Vey’s last(?) New Yorker cartoon, The Baltimore Sun goes both ways with artificial intelligence, Michael de Adder joins The Order of The Skull Ring. Andy Donato’s Rejected Cartoon Led to Retirement In a move reminiscent of Ann Telnaes quitting The Washington Post a relative of Andy Donato is saying […]
We discussed Dear Leader’s open warfare on the news yesterday, but it’s hardly a one-day story, and Lewis continues her own coverage, with the additional aspect of men in black removing news companies that don’t provide the Truth, which is capitalized because it’s a trademarked product, not a common noun. Notice that she has Truth […]
The Jan. 12 – Jan. 17, 1942 proof sheet for King of the Royal Mounted is missing from the King Features files. Here are those missing strips. The Zane Grey name attached to King of the Royal Mounted was only for promotional/publicity purposes. Grey had nothing to do with the comic strip though presumably he […]
Gil Thorp: three panels, 18 words, 5 word breaks; Sally Forth: three panels, 63 words, no hyphens used. I don’t know who letters the Gil Thorp comic strip but there was plenty of room to elongate the word balloons, reducing the height and doing away with splitting words. And that last word balloon – breaking […]
An Association of Political Artists The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists 2026 convention is winding up today with a meet and greet at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento as part of CrockerCon. Saturday night the cartoonists gathered at the Sacramento History Museum for the “Awards Reception.” Graeme MacKay won “The Rex Babin Memorial Award […]
We’ve discussed this expression before, but it’s a good starting point for today’s conversation and, besides, it’s so universally misunderstood that it doesn’t hurt to point it out again: First of all, for the record,it’s apocryphal and Marie Antoinette never said it. But the way it is phrased in English sounds like she was offering […]
Baseball comic books, didactic comic books, and really old comic books. The 2026 Major League Baseball (MLB) post-season is coming up later this month and All Baseball Comics has issued a trio of MLB licensed comic books telling the history of three of their most enduring franchises. All are written by Josh Frankel while Chicago […]
The New York Times is celebrating its 175th anniversary. Part of that observance is a series they are calling Overlooked where they write obituaries “about remarkable people whose deaths…went unreported in The Times.” Yesterday the remarkable person was cartoonist Hilda Terry (or here). The obituary comes 20 years after Terry’s death and author Joanne Kaufman […]