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Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, and Rob Rogers join in a live chat with Michael Smerconish at 7 pm today. The three cartoonists each provide exclusive content to the Smerconish newsletter every week.

Saturday morning cartoons — like payphones, video rental stores, and TV guides — are one of those cultural touchstones that meant so much to older generations, but are as meaningless as a wireless telegraph to younger ones — gone within a lifetime. The first cartoon to air on a Saturday morning was “Crusader Rabbit,” four-minute-long […]

On Friday, as the BDN news staff paused from covering the manhunt, we started to notice something happening. “I was seeing normal people, friends of mine from outside politics or journalism, sharing that cartoon. It was just poignant,” BDN politics editor Mike Shepherd said. The idea quickly came together to merge Danby’s art with a […]

Can any one translate the entire message from today’s Free Range?for thing that … was … you … dying because ????? When I look out my windowMany sights to seeAnd when I look in my windowSo many different people to be They’re strange, so strange This ain’t your father’s Gil Thorp. (Must be the season […]

In 1993, the New Yorker published a cartoon featuring two dogs sitting at a computer. With a paw resting on the keyboard, one says to the other: “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”Today, the iconic image still resonates, holding the record as the most reprinted New Yorker cartoon in the magazine’s history. Earlier […]

The Australian Cartoonists Association celebrated their 39th Annual Stanley Awards Saturday evening.The Australian Financial Review reports on one of its own taking the top prize: The Australian Financial Review’s editorial cartoonist David Rowe [link added] has won the Australian Cartoonists Association’s Gold Stanley for best cartoonist of the year. This is the ninth time Rowe […]

The big comic strip news is Dan Schkade‘s all-new, reinvigorated Flash Gordon. Dan sat with Zack Quaintance of The Beat for an interview. DAN: We’ll be travelling all across Mongo in the wake of this global revolution. We’ll spend time with the familiar royal characters of course, like Prince Vultan, Witch-Queen Azura, and Queen Fria, who I […]

It’s Saturday in Australia. Admittedly early Saturday but the weekend has started nonetheless. And that means… The Australian Cartoonists Association annual Stanleys Conference and Awards weekend is October 28 and 29, 2023 in St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria. The Awards Dinner will be Saturday night. For the updated weekend program, go here. The various award categories […]

For 20 years Chuck Legge drew editorial cartoons for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, a liberal voice in a conservative Alaskan climate. Then, in the name of better local content the paper’s new publisher got rid of the cartoonist providing local commentary. Below the headline, an editorial added that “Legge was never shy about his political […]

It’s no laughing matter. Austerity, consolidation and platform disparity undermine cartoons and comics. “I’m expecting some problems.” Editor & Publisher looks at the current situation of newspaper syndicated editorial cartoons and comic strips. Ginger Meggs is an institution in Australia, where the beloved comic strip — about a “red-haired larrikin” living in the suburbs — […]

While comics have appeared in print since the late 1800s, it wasn’t until 1989 that “Black women characters drawn by a Black woman’s hand have been given a voice on the comics page in the mainstream press,” says cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft. Thirty-four years ago, her comic strip, “Where I’m Coming From,” was first published in […]

Eighty years ago Batman and Robin swung from comic books onto newspaper pages on October 25, 1943. The 13th Dimension presents the first 13 comic strips by Bob Kane with Bill Finger and Charles Paris.********** Further back in time Euronews takes a look at “The day the US invented the newspaper comic strip. Maybe.” Author […]

The new book by cartoonist Roz Chast, I Must Be Dreaming, was released today and is being talked about and reviewed by all the major outlets. So The Daily Cartoonist, which dreams of playing with the big boys, joins in.A day late, we missed the launch at Museum of the City of New York yesterday.The […]

By Alan Rusbridger: Imagine having a job which involves deliberately causing offence. Imagine going to work to ridicule, belittle, savage and generally humiliate others. We would shun such bitter and twisted people, right?  Not if they were cartoonists. Unless we were ourselves unlucky enough to be in their crosshairs, we might well laugh with them. […]

The Jordan in this case is Jim Jordan. The Columbus Dispatch, an Ohio newspaper juuust outside of Jim Jordan’s Congressional district, noted (Newsweek used the word “mocked”) the Representative’s failed attempt at getting the Speaker’s gavel with cartoons. From The Dispatch introduction: In the end, U.S. Rep Jim Jordan did not tap out of his […]