So there are more clergy cartoonists than Mike Morgan and Fred McCarthy, who immediately pop into my mind when the subject comes up. The Presbyterian News Service throws a spotlight on a couple of preachers whose side hustles were cartooning for both religious and secular venues. This cartoon [above] is yet another created by an […]
Here’s one of my favorite “actuallys,” because modesty is the least of the Invisible Man’s problems, starting with the fact — and I use the word “fact” recognizing that we’re starting a long way from facts to begin with — but starting with the fact that, actually, in order to be invisible, he’d have to […]
Michael Heath is “a British strip cartoonist and illustrator. Heath has been cartoon editor of The Spectator since 1991.” He turned 90 this month on October 13, 2025 and so joins our list of Senior Strippers. Wikipedia tells us that over the decades Michael Heath cartoons have “appeared in numerous British publications including Punch, Lilliput, […]
Visiting: Alex Hallat at Jason Chatfield’s place; Sandra Bell-Lundy goes Inside the Kingdom with Alex Garcia; Cathy Guisewite stops by Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett’s ComicsLab; plus Jack Kirby at Yancy Street and Will Henry in Snug Harbor. Drawing with Alex and Jason Alex (Arctic Circle) Hallatt and Jason (Ginger Meggs) Chatfield spend an entertaining […]
As we close out October’s celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Daily Cartoonist, I want to present a look forward where we are steering TDC, and what you can expect in the coming months and years. If you haven’t had a chance, please look back at the earlier articles in this #TDC20 series: The […]
To start with, nobody takes an MRI as part of a routine physical. I have no idea how an MRI could be “perfect,” since every body is different and at least has its own peculiarities if not its own flaws, but they don’t just give you one for the heck of it, any more than […]
The Fluffy Ruffles Story The job-hunting, resourceful, and decidedly independent heroine became a national sensation shortly after her Feb. 3 premiere in the New York Herald. Fluffy was a pioneering woman in the workplace battling a reversal in fortune by making weekly tries as a journalist, florist, schoolteacher, dairy maid, waitress and more. The full […]
Guest Cartooning Guest cartoonist week continues in Gil Thorp and Dick Tracy. Kit Mills ends his four week substitute artist stint at Milford High with this week (October 6 – November 1, 2025). It is presumed that Rachel Merrill will return to Gil Thorp on November 2, 2025. Dave Beaty will continue as the Minit […]
We’ll start with my annual Grinchy reminder that it was Linus, not Charlie Brown, who cut all those eyeholes into his sheet. This was Halloween, 1956, when Linus and Schroeder were still toddlers, before they hit the cutoff age where Peanuts characters stopped growing. However, it’s like Star Wars in that things are “canonical” rather […]
In 2004 The Chicago Tribune set the record straight: First off, there is no Tom the Dancing Bug. Nowhere in Ruben Bolling’s 700-odd “Tom the Dancing Bug” comic strips does an insect, named Tom or otherwise, shake its groove thang. Second, there is no Ruben Bolling. No, “Tom the Dancing Bug” — an esoteric, form-bending […]
The Association of Canadian Cartoonists named Marc Beaudet and Michael de Adder as winners of the 2025 “Townsies,” formally known as The George Townsend Award. The Townsie is a two part award, one for the best Anglophone cartoon and one for the best Francophone cartoon. Michael de Adder’s award winning cartoon:
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is about people who don’t realize how little they know about a particular topic. It’s not confined to stupid people and could apply, for instance, to a well-qualified, highly educated physician who spouts nonsense about tectonic plate shifting despite geology not being his area of expertise. There aren’t many people who are […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for October 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. Our mid-month October Hey Kids! Comics! list had scores of books. When we started getting news […]
Frew’s The Phantom reaches #2000, Walt Handelsman The Saints Caption Contest sets a record, a new Bob Staake book coming, news deserts and digitals – a report, Jason Chatfield on Substack as an alternative revenue stream, and The Kinks get a comic strip mention. The Phantom #2000 Missed it. Frew Publications in Australia earlier this […]
Brodner hits on a couple of levels with this one. When Nikita Khruschev said “We will bury you,” most Americans took it as a threat, given that it was the middle of the Cold War. But it was an idiomatic expression meaning “We will be here when you’re gone,” similar to saying “We will dance […]