The Constitution turned 238 yesterday, including the first 10 amendments, aka “The Bill of Rights.”In case you’ve forgotten, or went to a school that didn’t teach history, it was a struggle to come up with a governing document that everyone could agree with. There was a substantial debate in the newspapers between Founders who believed […]
Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons? Part III Here in Part III, we will identify the last of the three contributors to the 1960 set. My identification will be based entirely on stylistic comparisons, as I do not have any external corroboration that the artist I will name ever worked in any capacity for […]
Newsday illustrator Tony D’Adamo has passed away. Anthony F. (Tony) D’AdamoJune 12, 1931 – September 15, 2025From the obituary: Born with a remarkable artistic talent, Tony dedicated his life to his craft. After graduating from the prestigious School of Visual Arts in New York City, his early career flourished in the vibrant world of comic […]
Funny you should mention it, Jen. My friend and I were discussing movies we were supposed to like but didn’t, which included a mashup of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and the Lion in Winter called “Guess Who’s Coming to the Crusades,” in which Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine exchange witty suburban repartee some […]
Featuring John Rose, Gilbert Shelton, Terri Libenson, Steve Breen, Chris Schweizer, Rich Powell, Drew Friedman.Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and John Rose John Rose, who since 2001 has been the cartoonist for the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith strip, will be at the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History at 1 p.m. Sunday for […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for September 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.E Is for Edward A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey E Is for […]
The difference in our nation doesn’t get much starker than this, to which someone might say “Yeah, but how many people even remember Kennedy’s inauguration?”It’s a fair question. I turned 10 a week after he was inaugurated, so I remember him, but not in a political context. I remember that he was president and that […]
From Newsday: On Sunday afternoon, Newsday issued a written apology, calling the cartoon “insensitive and offensive.” “We deeply regret this mistake and sincerely apologize to the family of Charlie Kirk and to all. We made an error in judgment. The cartoon has been removed from our digital platforms,” the statement said. It went on: “In […]
Olivia Jaimes retires, Caroline Cash takes on the Nancy comic strip. [L]ast week, we noticed black-and-white reruns on GoComics running in place of Jaimes’ bright, spare colored panels. These were “Nancy” strips from the Ernie Bushmiller days, who wrote and drew the comic from 1925 until his death in 1982. Wait. Where’s Olivia? True to […]
Political cartoonists have been having a field day with the message Donald Trump allegedly submitted as part of a birthday book assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday. That “allegedly” part is beginning to fray a bit, given that Trump sued the Wall Street Journal for publishing it and denied that it was his signature on […]
The 2025 Ignatz Awards were presented at the end of The Small Press Expo in Rockville, MD. The winners are below along with the cover of their work.Outstanding AnthologyOutstanding ArtistOutstanding CollectionOutstanding ComicOutstanding Graphic NovelOutstanding MinicomicOutstanding Online ComicOutstanding SeriesOutstanding StoryPromising New TalentThe Ignatz Award recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning and honors “exceptional work that […]
From Thrilling Detective (coarse language warning): JOHN SHAFT is one of the few private eyes probably best known outside the shamus gang for his theme song (Peter Gunn‘s the only other one I can think of). In Shaft’s case, it’s Isaac Hayes’ Academy Award-winning, percolating, throbbing slab of funk that served as the theme for the […]
Early this morning we got this message while trying to find today’s Little Alley Oop page:At the time of this writing the entire Alley Oop page at GoComics is unavailable, not just the Sunday strip: I will assume it is down to fix the problem and today’s Little Oop will be up sooner or later. […]
I was hoping to do another day of humor while we wait for a few facts to emerge, but we don’t seem to be waiting for facts, so here we are. One Sunday strip will have to suffice.When Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” in 2017, it touched off a lot of mockery. After […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) is holding its annual convention this weekend and, unlike previous recent gatherings our own Mike Peterson is not reporting from the convention floor this year. So we are relying on the cartoonists’ social media platforms to inform us of what is happening. Courtesy of AAEC President Marc Murphy‘s […]