Editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant has passed away. Patrick Bruce (Pat) Oliphant July 24, 1935 – July 13, 2026 Cormac Dodd at The Sante Fe New Mexican is reporting the death of Pat Oliphant. Pat Oliphant, a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist whose cutting sketches critiqued power and corruption in U.S. politics over a lengthy career that […]
The San Diego Comic-Con is next week and while we have noted the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame inductees for 2026 with comic strip credits we never got around to give the comic strip bona fides for the nominees. From the Eisner Awards page: The Eisner Awards Hall of Fame judges have chosen 16 nominees […]
The trial for Egyptian cartoonist and translator Ashraf Omar has been delayed yet again. Last May the trial was pushed back until today for reasons of “witness discussion.” The new trial date, set for October, is to allow for “for the presence of the first witness (the investigative officer) and its discussion” according to a […]
The war on the press is no joke, and for more on that, check out On The Media’s latest installment. It’s also nothing new; Trump has devoted plenty of energy towards making people doubt what they hear on the news, labeling anything he disagrees with as “fake news” and launching middle-school insults at women reporters […]
Yea or nay on those vertical comics? Liza Donnelly in the spotlight. A tough comics quiz (Flash Gordon has a superpower?). Bill Mauldin, drawn to combat. The Adventures of Superman drawn by Joe Shuster. Comic Stew Fun(ny book). A comic tradition began 90 years ago. The Case for Vertical Comics Julian Lytle at K-ComicsBeat makes […]
The author and compiler of the cartoon book “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust” is claiming the book was cancelled by the editor/packager and the publisher due to his refusal to include a forward condemning recent actions by Israel and the United States. From Carl Campanile for The N.Y. Post: Rafael Medoff, the author of the book […]
I like the idea of a horse/llama hybrid, though it’s not genetically possible. But llamas have some advantages, since they are both surefooted and soft-footed, so can traverse all sorts of wilderness without tearing it up, and they can be housebroken, which horses, notably, cannot. And if you are nice to them, they don’t spit; […]
Patrick M. Reynolds built his cartooning career on illustrating history with such comic strips and features as Flashbacks, Texas Lore, and Big Apple Almanac. But… It was with Pennsylvania Profiles that he began the history lessons, it was his own backyard. Reynolds retired a few years ago but as Ron Devlin at the Republican Herald […]
Canadian cartoonist Mike Constable has passed away. Mike Constable 1943 – July 3, 2026 Cartoonist, animator, humorist, syndicator, street performer, social activist.From Bado: It is with great sadness that I learned that cartoonist Mike Constable lost, last Friday, his battle with Alzheimer’s disease. From Canadianaci: He studied sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and […]
There seems to be an epidemic of “I Told You So, Maine” erupting across the nation, or at least erupting across the editorial cartooning world. I kind of thought I’d covered the Graham Platner thing the other day and we would move on, but I was mistaken.Bramhall isn’t particularly snarky in his commentary, which plays […]
Dominique Musorrafiti for RetroFuturista interviews Ralph Steadman in “Beautiful Splatter.” From the introduction: …later attending the London College of Printing during the 1960s. This period proved highly productive, as he established himself by contributing to major publications including Punch, Private Eye, The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone. He permanently altered the […]
“You thought it was a joke and so you laughed You laughed! You know you laughed. I heard you laugh! You laughed and laughed and laughed.” When I noted the week-long amorous adventure of Brad and Toni in the Luann comic strip the reaction was a general “pfft, c’mon” over my reservations that it may […]
As with the best of political humor, Margulies gets a laugh alongside a sigh, but my first reaction was “Who cares what Chris Christie thinks?”He had his shot and he blew it. One of my father’s gripes about the steel industry was that it took in his generation when they came back from the war, […]
The Society of Professional Journalists announced the Sigma Delta Chi Awards for work done in 2025 Thursday night July 9, 2026. For Editorial Cartooning the award was given to Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News. Judges said: “These are challenging days for editorial cartoonists, it’s easy to get so angry the results are hot instead […]
But before we get to this week’s comic strips we need to catch up to a couple from last week. Didn’t mention Marco Finnegan‘s guest stint as Gil Thorp artist last week ’cause I was waiting to see if the gig lasted longer than a week. It didn’t, Rachel Merrill returned this week. I only […]