The (Spokane) Spokesman-Review is acting on their comics poll from last summer.First, we asked our readers to rate all of our current comics. Then we had our readers rate several new comics. We were blown away. Thousands and thousands voted. And not just online. The U.S. Postal Service nearly made its 2019 budget numbers simply […]
I haven’t done an exact count, but there appear to be approximately a kabillion political cartoons this morning explaining that the technical failures in reporting the results of the Iowa Caucus show that the Democrats are doomed, Trump will win and we can all go home now.Only Pat Bagley draws my point of view, which […]
Editorial and sports cartoonist Bil Canfield has passed away.William Newton (Bil) Canfield October 8, 1920 – January 30, 2020sports cartoonist, editorial cartoonist The New Jersey Star-Ledger is reporting the death of Bil Canfield:William (Bil) Canfield, who entertained millions of newspaper readers as an editorial cartoonist, died peacefully on January 30th at his home in Phoenix, Ariz., […]
The Spokane Spokesman-Review is adding Planet to Earth by Jody Zellman as a weekly panel.The Spokesman-Review announced the signing:Zellman competed with nine other artists during autumn to score a weekly gig as the new cartoonist in The Spokesman-Review. “Earth to Planet,” which turns 3 this the summer, won the reader’s choice competition and will run […]
Cartoonist Kenneth Mahood is a Senior Stripper! Born February 4, 1930.From the Irish Comics Wiki:After working at a solicitor’s office and as an apprentice lithographer, he became a full-time artist in 1949. He sold his first cartoon to Punch at eighteen, and became a regular contributor. As a painter, he had his first one-man exhibition […]
Matt Wuerker admittedly picks a bit of low-hanging fruit on this one, going for an obvious commentary on a ridiculous Trump blunder, but it beats hell out of the more obvious, less detailed wisecracks involving a Sharpie and harking back to Dear Leader’s ridiculous re-drawing of a weather map.Both play upon the fact that the […]
Animator, and vital Astrodome/Astroworld figure, Ed Henderson has passed away.From the opening of the Dome in 1965 through 1983, Ed Henderson’s entertaining animations were featured centerfield on the “Astrolite” screen. Edgar Baum (Ed) Henderson, Jr. November 14, 1924 – January 25, 2020 From the obituary:Ed returned to Houston in the early 1960s and joined forces with Judge […]
Posting this Joy of Tech is a bit of a cheat, given that they’ve posted a new cartoon since, but it states the situation so well that I’m giving myself permission to break my own rules.I have two elements of concern with Facebook.Privacy is one, though I continue to subscribe to the theory that the […]
It seemed to me that there were a few comic strips this weekend that perfectly encapsulated what the creations are about.Jef Mallet’s Frazz, for example. Pure Frazz. Or Sunday’s Scary Gary by Mark Buford. If you’re wanting to let someone know about the comic strip, you gotta include the above. Susan Camillari Konar‘s February 2nd turn at […]
After nearly 35 years Steve Sack has retired from the Doodles feature. During that same 35 years it has been a team effort, now, beginning February 2, 2020 (below), it will be a Chris Foote solo project.Pulitzer Prize-winning Steve Sack told The Daily Cartoonist:I decided to step back mainly because I have other projects I […]
The Austin American-Statesman, after giving readers a sampling, has opened a poll to decide what will replace The Pajama Diaries on Sundays:A few weeks ago, we started running “Nancy” in our Sunday comics section, after the creator of “The Pajama Diaries,” Terri Libenson, announced she was retiring the strip. We are considering “Nancy” and three […]
The blog’s 10th anniversary is Thursday, but we’ll celebrate it today because cartoonists often use Sunday to mark something in the coming week and also because I have nothing more to say at the moment about impeachment or coronavirus.So there is the first Comic Strip of the Day entry, back when it truly was one […]
The Lily was the first U.S. newspaper by women. We’re bringing it back.For all things comics in Washington DC we turn to Mike Rhode – if he don’t know, he’ll find out. And recently he discovered a new secret area of comics from The Washington Post.As Mike at his ComicsDC site explains:Since about 2016! the […]
After five years and more than 300 caption-less cartoons, Bruce Plante and the Tulsa World have decided to end their Cartoon Caption Contest.Bruce Plante told The Daily Cartoonist that participation from amateur gag writers in the area was not as it had been in prior years, that he could use a free day during the […]
I’ve complained about cartoonists taking their own sweet time to respond to breaking news but there was no such problem Friday, as the GOP Senators voted, as RJ Matson puts it in an echo of Watergate, not to hear any witnesses or see any evidence.He’s not the only cartoonist to summon the ghost of Richard […]