Gerard Alsteens, better known as Gal, turns 85 today. He is one of the oldest and beloved political and social cartoonists still working in Belgium. He’s best known for his social commentary.His cartooning career started in 1960 in the magazines De Nieuwe and De Zwijger. Since 1983 his work has been published in the weekly magazine Knack. You […]
New Zealand cartoonist Eric Heath has passed away. Eric Walmsley Heath November 28, 1923 to July 27, 2025We sad to learn that one of the most senior of our Senior Strippers has passed on. From the obituary: He was 101 years old and had just celebrated 75 years of marriage to Barbara… WWII veteran, brilliant […]
Nearly 400 artists and 12 associations are signatories to a petition threatening to boycott the 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival. The petition accuses the festival’s contracted management company, 9eArt+, of retaliating against a female employee who reported a rape at the 2024 event and criticizes the festival’s organizers (FIBD) for not only resisting efforts to […]
Dave Brown offers the most generous take on Dear Leader’s tariff tantrum, in which he takes aim at the big bad world out there in his most America First way, but does more damage to Uncle Sam and his American constituents.It’s unintentional, but there it is: However random and nonsensical the tariffs placed on each […]
With Paul Karasik, Karen Evans, Stephan Pastis, Liza Donnelly on Mary Petty, a raft of cartoonists in the Homer Davenport Cartoon Contest, and the Florida Agricultural Department will define “cartoon.”Inkpot AwardsThe Vineyard Gazette reported that local cartoonist Paul Karasik has received an Inkpot Award: “It’s hard to catch me by surprise, but in this case, […]