July saw a few changes in a few comics, including the abandonment of a long-standing (long-sitting?) tradition in a long-running strip. Jimmy Johnson is celebrating 40 years of Arlo and Janis. Today he notes that, other than the very early Arlo, that character’s appearance has changed the least. Which can’t be said for Marvin by […]
Daryl Cagle proudly notes that his syndicate is the exclusive image provider to Cartoons for the Classroom: You may remember Newspapers in Edication (NIE) from decades ago when they would deliver stacks of newspapers to classrooms across America; they are still around and have been partnering with the AAEC (Association of American Editorial Cartoonists) for […]
Matson gets mileage out of Dear Leader’s obsession over windmills, melding it with his obsession over Obama, though neither have much real-world impact on him. The Obama thing likely stems from the fact that spreading birther lies elevated him from regional blowhard and reality TV figure into national politics. Perhaps under stress, he falls back […]
Fifty-five years ago in 1970 Zap Comix #4 (1969) was adjudged to be obscene. Forty-five years ago (1980) Disney Corp. washed their hands of the Air Pirates Collective (1971). Brought to mind because today the mailman delivered Dummy #2 – the Air Pirates issue. John Kelly with the help of Edwin Pouncey, Mark Newgarden, and […]
A local news website run by a disgraced former state lawmaker who has faced child sex charges and espoused racist views is taking fire for posting racist AI-generated cartoons aimed at a Republican state lawmaker. Prescott eNews, which covers news in Prescott [Arizona] and the surrounding communities in Yavapai County, is facing pointed criticism for […]
Jon Farley, a retired teacher, was arrested for carrying an enlarged version of a Private Eye cartoon at a Palestinian solidarity rally. Farley was arrested under the Terrorism Act for suspicion of supporting a proscribed organization. Last month, after the pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action spray-painted two RAF refueling jets, the group was added to the […]
San Diego Comic Con is over, and I had to look up the San Diego Chicken to see if he was still around and he is, though Ted Giannoulas is now 71 and has to limit the physical comedy a bit. I think SDCC is like Grateful Dead concerts (were) and Mardi Gras in New […]
featuring Sir Quentin Blake, Gluyas Williams, Doug Marlette, Dirk West, Helen Hokinson, and William Hogarth. Quentin Blake Ask ChatGPT to create a portrait of Quentin Blake in the style of Quentin Blake and the results are so preposterously bad, it’s tempting to think that artificial intelligence might not be the death of everything that is […]
A cartoon drawn in a small frame can highlight an incident, a context or a political situation in its entirety. Working as a cartoonist in newspapers, I have had a variety of experiences over the years. Once, at an event, a friend of mine was introducing me as a “journalist.” Someone nearby interrupted, saying, “Oh, […]
Back in the days when Art Fleming hosted, Jeopardy had a category called “Potpourri” which mostly consisted of leftovers from previous games. Since they no longer use it, I will. If Molina had run this earlier, I’d have used it with yesterday’s critique of Michael Ramirez’s anti-wind cartoon. But I still like it, because he […]
Wannabe No More Since we covered the debut of Wannabe by Luca Debus on Gocomics a year and a half ago … and that it left GoComics for Webtoon earlier this year, we might as well pass on the news that Luca has ended Wannabe as of today. (h/t Mario 500 for the heads-up.) From […]
The folks at the San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) have released the souvenir book of the event and as has been their habit for the past several years they have kindly made it available to all by way of a free pdf issue. As seen it cover features the 75th anniversary of the Peanuts gang with […]
Deering quotes a familiar piece of doggerel, enlivening it with looks of consternation that end in panic, which well replicates how Dear Leader has gone from shrugging off the Epstein issue into a shotgun flurry of bizarre distractions, the only material result having been that Coke is making their periodic “throwback” releases of sugared versions […]
Our look at the recent fourth wall comics kinda sorta started 15 years ago as Petey Otterloop spent the summer of 2010 at Cartoon Camp. Those strips have been showing up in Andrews McMeel Syndication’s Cul de Sac reruns during this July (starting here on the GoComics site). But this weekend saw a few comic […]
Notables: Keith Williams, Al Milgrom, Nick Anderson, S D Phadnis, Stan Kelly, James Thurber, and more. Inkwell Award to The Phantom Artist Keith Williams Among the awards handed out lately let’s not overlook The Inkwell given to Keith Williams. From the Inkwell Awards announcement: New Bedford, MA/USA–July 22, 2025) The Inkwell Awards, a non-profit devoted to promoting […]