Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for December 2025 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. The Smythes by Rea Irvin Rea Irvin was The New Yorker’s first art editor and creator […]

Not sure what motivated Bennett on this one, but I know why it resonated with me. For some half a century, I imposed journalistic ethics on myself and did not register with a political party. Granted, I was generally in sympathy with one over the other, but I never voted a straight ticket and some […]

Hank Kennedy for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) looks at the editoons of right-wing cartoonists during Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor of New York City. [FAIR is rated “Left-Center biased based on slightly favoring the left politically and High for factual reporting” according to Media Bias/Fact Check.] Right-wing political cartoonists, for obvious reasons, had […]

Otto Soglow’s New Yorker Spot Art New Yorker cartoon editor Emma Allen waxes wonderfully over the magazine’s Otto Soglow spot art. The New Yorker doesn’t easily let go of the old stuff. Recently, our copy department retired the hyphen we’d kept in “in-box” for longer than anyone should keep anything in an inbox. But “teen-ager” […]

Let’s start with something guaranteed to offend somebody: I’m okay with death. We all die eventually and maybe my stoicism makes it easier to deal with but I can’t think of a major religion in which a well-prepared death is seen as bad. It’s sad, but it makes sense to deal with it, and Bizarro […]

In a situation that began yesterday and worsened today Dilbert creator Scott Adams is telling viewers: “I am paralyzed below the waist. I can’t move any muscles. I do have feeling – just can’t move any muscles.” “The solution is to ambulance me to a facility to get radiated. They’re gonna try to radiate that […]

Notes on newspaper comics from the past week. Since Randy Milholland got the Popeye assignment a few years ago he has been trawling through the hero’s history for characters. Now he has landed Popeye Junior. Is this meeting of Swee’pea and Junior a first? This Popeye adventure started 16 months ago on August 22, 2024. […]

Amsterdam cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards claimed this year’s European Cartoon Award last night at the annual European Cartoon Award ceremony held in The Hague. His cartoon focused on the death and destruction of Palestine by Israel and the fecklessness of the United Nations. Emanuele Del Rosso, Head of the European Cartoon Award had this to say […]

There is an expression within the Cold Water Rescue community, “They’re not dead until they’re warm and dead.” It comes from having pulled people out of icy water with no discernible signs of life, only to find that they can be revived by appropriate action as they warm up. Only when they are warm and […]

Before there was cartoonist Tom Tomorrow there was cartoonist Dan Perkins. “This Modern World, the long-running, award-winning satirical comic that Dan Perkins publishes under the pen name Tom Tomorrow, came to life in Iowa City during the mid-’80s. Perkins first began sketching the strip while working at a downtown copy shop, though his passion for […]

The Benito Beet Beat Facebook page has won the right to post anonymous cartoons criticizing the local government. From sanbenito.com: San Benito County and the First Amendment Coalition reached a settlement in a case involving a social media page that posted content that was allegedly threatening toward local officials and their families.  Under the settlement, […]

Dennis Green is gone, but his rant lives on, not because it applied to a football game, but because it continues to apply to people who look a threat straight in the eye and decide not to see it. Green said what he should have said, but that’s what nobody ever says because we’d rather […]

It’s that time of year when The Bests of 2025 starts making their appearances, and first out of the starting blocks is Roll Call’s political cartoonist R. J. Matson. Some subjects seem to be evergreens, at least for the duration of the current administration. ‘Cap’-py days are here again — Capitol Ink’s best of 2025 […]

Jules Chin Greene at Popverse reports a new WEBTOON initiative to assist their cartoonists to “nurture talent and ‘fuel creative careers’ of the creators on its platform” including expanding monetization opportunities: So what does this all mean in practice? The Creator Program will have “expanded monetization opportunities, new convention and event support, and new educational […]

Golding offers a Banksyesque tribute to Australia’s new age limitations on social media. The first thing to note is that kids under 16 are not being banned from going on-line. Rather, as of Wednesday, they’re banned from accessing 10 social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, Kick and Threads. Which […]