A roundup of stories tangentially connected to comic strips. A history of the Jeep that brings to mind Mort Walker’s army, a non-cartoonist barber creating comic strip promo with a.i., a real cartoonist who has moved on to using skin as his canvas, a comic stripish font for official documents, and a 1960s Saturday Morning […]

The World Cup hasn’t kicked off yet and we’re already reaping the whirlwind that began with FIFA creating a “peace prize” for our president. If Rifai seems to be making a prediction of Trump defacing the World Cup, it’s more on target than FIFA’s awarding him a peace prize two months before he launched the […]

After a night of Bacchanalian revelry day three of The Reuben Weekend gets off to a slow start with nothing scheduled until afternoon giving cartoonists time to recover from the late Reuben Awards presentations. But it is a great afternoon for kids of all ages! Meet Cartoonists! Public Event | Saturday, August 8, 2026 Billy […]

Recently while reading a review of Hal Foster’s Tarzan—The Complete Sunday Comics 1931–1937, I was dismayed to see a young Tarzan’s derrière directed directly in my direction. And it wasn’t just a delineation of a duff, but a full double-wide. With a dimple. If I did a double-take, did readers in the 1930’s? When did […]

I’d have liked to have seen more cartoons about yesterday’s Meet the Press interview, in which Kristin Welker pressed Trump for evidence of his claims and he reacted with the insult captured by Boris, Goris and Rapé, but it having occurred on a Sunday, a lot of cartoonists either decided to wait to make their […]

The San Antonio Spurs are playing The New York Knickerbockers in the National Basketball Association (NBA) finals to claim the 2026 title of the best professional basketball team. The San Antonio Express-News as should be expected is covering the games closely. Unexpectedly (or here): There’s an air of the absurd surrounding the NBA Finals, and […]

Some Stats We’ll start with some encyclopedic entries for comic strips. As The Library sequence (aka The Origin of Ming the Merciless) ends so does Sandy Jarrell‘s stint as guest artist of Flash Gordon. Sandy began this daily run on March 30 and ran through yesterday June 6, 2026. He also drew the April Sunday […]

The knives are out for Graham Platner, the likely Democratic candidate (pending Tuesday’s primaries) challenging Maine Senator Susan Collins in November. Since Platner doesn’t have a legislative record to run on, it’s not surprising that his personal past is taking center stage.Varvel’s cartoon sums up the superficial aspects, with Collins the aging candidate who can’t […]

Mustered cartoonists: Peter Kuper, Justin Eisinger, Michael Maslin, Art Sloggatt, Nicole Hollander, Ham Fisher. Ohio Book Awards A couple of graphic novels are finalists in the non-fiction category of the Ohio Book Awards. Insectopolis is by Peter Kuper who lived in Ohio during his school years, and It Rhymes With Takei is by George Takei, […]

The Washington Star sues The Star, Stars and Stripes sues The Pentagon, and the suits at The Salt Lake Tribune drop the paywall. The Star v. The Washington Star Back in April we were told Washington D.C. was about to once more get a news outlet called The Star. That may take a bit longer […]

Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-??) appears to have voted illegally, a particular problem for someone in a political party that keeps screaming about voter fraud.But it’s not his only problem, or even the main one: While there is no residency requirement for US Senators, Alabama law requires the governor to have lived in the state for […]

In the June 5, 1926 issue Editor & Publisher presented their “Third Annual Directory of Press Features.” The Newspaper Art section listed “Cartoons, Comic Strips, Magazine Covers and Sketches” available to, well, editors and publishers of newspapers and other publications. Note: most of the cartoons listed in the other sections are listed here under “Cartoons.” […]

Roz Chast, Rhode Island School of Design ’77 PT, is honored with an honorary doctorate from her alma mater. From Roz: Very excited to have received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from RISD, my alma mater, today. I had a complicated feeling about art school but absolutely no regrets about going there. I met […]

This week’s rabbit hole technically started last week. Whilst scrolling on Bluesky, I noted Mark Kaufman had reposted a video animation of Nancy dancing to a song on a record player. Since I follow current Nancy cartoonist Caroline Cash and the Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller Bluesky accounts seeing Nancy on my feed is not […]

I’ve cited this anecdote about Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator, in the past, but it’s been awhile since we’ve found ourselves confronted with quite so many “false facts.” Today we call them “alternative facts” and they have become fundamental to our current reality.The latest bit of alternative reality is, in fact, true: The Reflecting Pool on […]