Posted on: February 18, 2014

There’s been some changes in the comic line-up at the Charlotte Observer. They picked up Brian Anderson’s Dog Eat Doug and being a local, they gave him some press.

ABC News interviews 92 year-old Al Jaffee who is still drawing the iconic MAD Magazine fold-in feature which is celebrating 50 years in the magazine.Also discussed – the fold-in that didn’t run (skip to 1:17)

I saw this story last year, but doesn’t look like I linked to it. Background: Army Sgt. Kimberly Walker, a big fan of SpongeBob SquarePants, was murdered last Valentines Day. Her family erected a large SpongeBob SquarePants headstone over her grave site. The cemetery initially approved the headstone, but after complaints they later removed them. […]

 Since this arc on Betty has just started, I’ll give you both yesterday’s and today’s. Such a deal.Betty is a kind of stealth strip because it doesn’t get a lot of chatter and it doesn’t often knock you onto the floor with laughter, but it regularly sneaks up behind you with intelligent humor and commentary.I’m sure this […]

Johnny Hart’s B.C. turns 56 today. I’m surprised that this is the first time I’ve seen the first strip.

My thanks to Keith Brown for sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist this week. Keith is the creator of the webcomic Wages of Sin. The strip was a 2013 winner in Cartoonist Studio “Best Strip” contest. Keith’s strip is updated frequently on Facebook. Make sure you “Like” his page to get the strip on your wall each […]

Liza Donnelly, via a cartoon at the Nib, raises an issue that I’ve been scratching my head over for about 30 years, but which now has taken on a new dimension under the relatively new term “slutshaming.”That is, back when Madonna appeared on the scene in the 80s, she was more of a puzzler than […]

When one reads most online bios of Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, most start with a birth date and then quickly jump to his time at Kenyon College where he drew cartoons for the college paper. But before Kenyon College, Bill contributed cartoons to his high school newspaper and yearbook. To my knowledge, these […]

I like this Kevin Siers panel for the message itself but I’m particularly impressed with his ability to make good use of an odd and viral news story.The story itself is as bizarre in its way as the phenomenon Siers uses it to comment on.With regards to the actual zoo, it took a lot of […]

(Kal Kallaugher) (Matt Bors)A fascinating pair of commentaries from a couple of my favorite commentors.I’m having trouble figuring out why we seem so reluctant to take Karzai at his word when he tells us to get out.Maybe we’re expected to ignore it; Maybe the State Department recognizes it as some of that same posing we in […]

I’m not much for Valentine’s Day, but today’s Wumo cracked me up.For one thing, it’s nice to see a Valentine’s Day cartoon that isn’t based on “Men are so insensitive!” in which the gag is either that he tried but got it wrong or that he completely forgot.In creative terms, those are the Y-chromosome version […]

As many of you know, last November I ran a successful Indiegogo fundraiser to support my efforts with the blog and I help fulfil several lofty goals around a major redesign of the blog both visually and with the content. It’s been awhile, since the topic has come up, so I thought I’d offer an […]

While everyone is obsessing over the potential for an openly gay person to play football, little angels tap-dancing their way into heaven and the president using the same executive powers every president since Benjamin Harrison has used at a higher rate than he has but without being, y’know, uppity or Kenyan about it, Jim Morin […]

Twenty fracking protesters were found guilty of trespassing, but not before the judge used a Calvin and Hobbes strip to encourage them to work within the system rather than break the law to educate people about fracking. Here’s the relevant Calvin and Hobbes strip:From the Post Bulletin: While Winona County Judge Jeffrey Thompson was considering […]

Stan Lee Media is going back into court to assert ownership to the Spider-Man character. It’s a bit confusing how they got there and quite frankly, I wonder how much of it was orchestrated. The best explanation of what’s going on comes from Kevin Melrose over at Robot6: In September, Disney Enterprises, Marvel and Cameron […]