At the close of this year’s Le Grand Off, the festival awarded the Prix Charlie Schlingo to French cartoonist Guillaume Bouzard for his album Les Vacances chez Pépé-Mémé. The album is described as a short, gag-driven comic about childhood holidays with grandparents, rendered in Guillaume’s trademark crude, elastic offbeat drawing style.The other prize of the night: The “Couilles […]
I hit “record” and shut off the Super Bowl last night, knowing I’d wake up to a bunch of spoilers. However, as I write this, I don’t know who won because as I went through social media picking out cartoons, I saw a lot about how great Bad Bunny’s halftime show was and very little […]
Newspaper illustrator and animated sports cartoonist Grey Blackwell has passed away. Nelson Grey Blackwell, Jr. November 19, 1969 – February 4, 2026 From the obituary: Nelson Grey Blackwell, Jr., lovingly known as Grey, age 56, of Oxford, North Carolina, passed away on February 4, 2026, in his hometown of Oxford. He went on to earn […]
Rex Morgan, M.D. writer/artist Terry Beatty reports that he is home from the surgeons cracking his chest open: Anyhow, I am pleased to report I am out of the hospital, back home, and settling in to a post surgery recovery situation. I hit the markers for hospital discharge sooner than expected, and while not everything […]
Bennett’s commentary on Dear Leader’s interference with the election process is particularly apt, because, like the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, it has no legislative backing, came with no warning and represents an ego that has gone completely off the rails.It’s hardly the first indication that Trump is slipping a cog, […]
Unlike newspapers.com and newspaperarchive.com Library of Congress’ Chronicling America is a free (your tax dollars at work) resource for researching newspapers and magazines. A worthy resource for investigating America’s past – like newspaper comic strips, and other far less important subjects. The LoC is offering a webinar on how to search the site for best […]
Last Sunday’s Wizard of Id became the topic of an Arkansas Democrat Gazette editorial (or here): This past weekend, The Wizard of Id got political. Or not. You might have seen the strip Sunday–a whole strip dedicated to . . . We’re not sure. What was it trying to say? Epstein! … was some folks’ […]
A little late, dated four days after the Big Event, but if you remove the glands under their legs, they reportedly cook up like rabbit or chicken. However, don’t try to eat Phil. Nothing about sentiment, but he’s kind of old and would be pretty tough.Hey, they’re gonna eat your garden. What goes around comes […]
“Political cartoons are dying a slow death. The cartoonists who remain are doing what they can to keep them alive. Others have had to make what was once their job, a hobby.” Bill Day has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years as a staff cartoonist for the Detroit Free Press (1985-1998) and […]
Two recent events brings about what should be the final Scott Adams –Dilbert posting here. First it has long been stated that [T]here are no surviving copies of the [1997 Dilbert live action TV] pilot. But there is at least one print of the Dilbert live action pilot and John Mohr for Defector reviews it. […]
As DD Degg reported the other day, the ridiculously deep cuts at the Washington Post are making most observers feel that either Jeff Bezos is a raving incompetent or he has lost interest in the toy he bought and never quite figured out. Goris is far from the only one to capitalize on the slogan […]
Comic Strip Roll Call: Dick Tracy, Molly and the Bear, Gil Thorp, Nancy, The Phantom, The New Adventures of Queen Vitoria, The Gumps, Mutt and Jeff, Gasoline Alley, Ignatz Mouse and Krazy Kat, Happy Hooligan, and The Yellow Kid in Hogan’s Alley.With Matthew K. Manning and Howie Noel‘s six week turn as guest creators on […]
John Darkow’s ICE cartoon bemoaned, Goofus and Gallant, #ComicsforLiam, #ICEOutComics, new NY Times Awards, Bill Suddick Speaks, and former Washington Post cartoonist Michael de Adder cartoons The WaPo. We start with…The Modern Schutzstaffel? There are columns, social media posts, and cartoons comparing the current ICE organization to the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany. A letter […]
As the Rock Man told Oblio, “You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.” The point — no pun intended — is that “You got to open your mind as well as your eyes. But first you got to get yourself together; Dig yourself.”Pett is right about the […]
Featuring Hägar the Horrible, Dick Tracy, Prince Valiant, The Amazing Spider-Man, Caspar Milquetoast, and Milt Gross; with a special appearance by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Hägar the Horrible debuts above: A rare look at the Sunday color debut of Dik Browne’s Hägar the Horrible courtesy of Larry Levine. Dick Tracy Deaths Rare on the […]