I remain astonished at the lack of notices from newspapers about the weekday Big Nate ending and what is replacing the daily comic strip in the 200 (give or take) papers. We ran a couple notices from newspapers about what would be filling the space. This past weekend it was noted that Wallace the Brave […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced they are taking entries for the 2026 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. The award recognizes the best in political cartooning focusing on state and local issues. The award is named after the late The Sacramento Bee cartoonist Rex Babin who was influential in […]
Featuring the illustrated “Heroes! The Astounding True Story of America’s Comic Book Creators” by Roy Schwartz and Frank Stockton from the Summer 2026 issue of The Smithsonian magazine and the 1933 thesis A History and Analysis of the American Comic Strip by Harry Emsley Wood, Jr. The Summer 2026 America 250 issue of The Smithsonian […]
Yesterday was Bloomsday, in which people who have read Ulysses say “It’s Bloomsday” and if they’re in Dublin they can dress up as Leopold Bloom and walk around the places Joyce wrote about. And I suppose they might eat a kidney, masturbate, be cuckolded and get drunk to recreate the entire day. Keyes is unimpressed […]
Big Nate’s relief pitchers, a true comic strip crossover, not a boring Van Boring collection, the comic strip bad guys, and valuable comic strip art. Relieving Big Nate This past weekend it was noted that Wallace the Brave had replaced the discontinued Big Nate daily comic strip in The Washington Post. Mike Rhode at Comics […]
The night after Lee Mendelson Film Productions had sued a variety of companies for using Peanut’s songs without permission, Stephen Colbert talked about the news story while the house band played a “Linus and Lucy” behind him. Colbert then joked, “Oh no, I hope this doesn’t cost CBS any money!” It did. Billboard reports that […]
Russian artist, caricaturist, and frequent President Vladimir Putin critic Semyon Skrepetsky (real name was Robert Kuzovkov), was shot dead yesterday in Polish city of Biała Podlaska. The shooting is described at close range. Polish police believe the killing was a targeted, but have not offered a motive.Three days prior to the killing, Semyon had protested […]
The Utah Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has shown their respect for Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley with their Lifetime Achievement Award.The Utah Headliners awards ceremony took place June 11, 2026. While Pat is in Portugal he did send his appreciation through an emissary: Last Thursday the Utah SPJ (Soc. […]
Huck and Bramhall both cite the similarity of Neville Chamberlain’s futile attempt to end World War II before it had gone that far and Donald Trump’s announcement of the purported end of his adventure in Iran. Huck gets extra credit for connecting it to Orwell, given that Chamberlain felt he was telling the truth while […]
I don’t know that I should call USA Today your neighborhood newspaper but tomorrow June 16 it will be friendly to Spider-Man and Marvel Comics fans as a Spider-Man comic returns to a newspaper.* They are playing it close to the vest but the promotional material is coming through the USA Today Play setup. That […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for June 2026 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.MAD #600 by THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS MAD #600 features a wraparound cover illustrated by legendary […]
I gather it happened, though I don’t subscribe to Paramount+ and I wouldn’t have stayed up that late anyway. But from what I’ve read, it came off and people who made the effort to be there had a good time, which is unsurprising. If they were apt to view it the way Rowe did, they […]
Peter Gallagher and Heathcliff; The Dartmouth Cartoonists: Mindy Kaling, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Jake Tapper; and Marjane Satrapi cartooning for Le Monde. Heathcliff in The New York Times Calum Marsh for The New York Times profiles Peter Gallagher, “He Made ‘Heathcliff’ Absurd.” On a recent afternoon, Peter Gallagher was wrapping up a lecture on […]
Well That Would Explain It, If Only… On the last Sunday of 2002 a Mandrake the Magicain adventure ended and so did the Mandrake Sunday page. And today we learn why. Mandrake was kidnapped by Sea Hag’s witch sister and kept in her dungeons until now. Which would be a great reveal except Mandrake continued […]
Well, perhaps.It’s clearly a good thing that we defeated the Nazis and thwarted Japan’s imperialism, and the famous raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi is an iconic image of how America rallied in that time of crisis.However, we shouldn’t forget that, while we rallied on the battlefield, we had also rallied on the home […]