Vincent Alexander at Cartoon Brew offers Exhibits A Through P: Wile E. Coyote’s Historic Case Against Acme. The long-awaited Coyote vs. Acme comes crashing into theaters this weekend. In honor of Wile E. Coyote’s legal battle against the Acme Corporation, we’re taking a look at some of the most memorable Acme products throughout the Road […]
The Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC) has announced the dates of its 2026 convention, a gathering it is calling “a popup mini congress.” The poster for the event states it will be a “no frills” friendly gathering of cartoonists. The assemblage will take place a week after the AAEC convention at the gateway to “Lake […]
Readers of Nine Entertainment’s The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers were greeted Friday morning with the papers’ longtime editorial cartoonist Cathy Wilcox‘s farewell cartoon. In an article bidding Wilcox farewell The Sydney Morning Herald (or here) wrote: Award-winning cartoonist Cathy Wilcox has been drawing cartoons for the Herald since 1989. For four days […]
The New Yorker’s Cartoon Slide Show Tribute To Edward Frascino In remembrance of Edward Frascino The New Yorker has posted a gallery of Frascino cartoons. The Comic Strip That Originated as an Old-Time Radio Comedy Okay so it isn’t the book, but Commonplace Fun Facts takes a very thorough look at the history of the […]
From the late 1970s to the early 1980s when Fran Matera had lost his job ghosting the art for the Rex Morgan, M.D. comic strip (1975-1978) and had not yet started drawing The Legend of Bruce Lee (1982-1983) comic strip. Matera was “slumming” in comic books and other odd jobs. Matera was always submitting comic […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) convention is just three weeks away and events there and around it are taking shape. Members-only and the public schedules are available at the AAEC website. Sacramento organizer Maryellen Burns is involved in coordinating a number of events some lasting a month beyond the convention weekend. The Association […]
In the most recent entry of his Inkslingers series Rob Stolzer appreciates the talent of H. M. Wilder. Wilder was a wonderful figurative artist, much on the order of his contemporaries A.B. Frost and T.S. Sullivant. All three of the cartoonist-illustrators had the ability to capture a figure’s movement at the apex of an action. […]
The Houses of Parliament has lost a number of pieces of art. The Lancashire Telegraph headline: Barbara Castle art among pieces missing from Westminster With the subhead: A satirical cartoon depicting Baroness Barbara Castle as Florence Nightingale is among dozens of missing artworks from the Houses of Parliament. While other news stories give prominent coverage […]
It is not unusual for editoonists to use sports in their cartoons, especially during the time surrounding The Super Bowl, The World Cup, March Madness, and other big sports events. It is natural for them to analogize the game of the day with the politics of the day. And of course they celebrate the home […]
Here it is only a month to go in the 2026 Major League Baseball (MLB) season and we haven’t checked in with Eric White’s updated research into “Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons?” In previous installments White has identified many of the cartoonists who decorated the backs of Topps baseball cards from the “classic” […]
For the first time, I think, Randy Milholland has brought Whaler Joe into the Popeye comic strip proper. But who is Whaler Joe? As explained in the next panel Whaler Joe was Popeye’s foster father. Whaler Joe is not some johnny-come-lately, he and the situation was created by Popeye creator E.C. Segar. Popeye was created […]
Kinks Komiks For the second Sunday on a row The Kinks’ “Lola” lyrics are featured in The Funny Pages. Unlike last week when it was used as a sly quip about the subject of the song, this week it is a crack at the inebriated vocalist. And as we move down the comic strip feed […]
James Madden at The Australian is reporting (or here) that Cathy Wilcox has given notice to The Sydney Morning Herald that she will be leaving her position as editorial cartoonist at the company. Cartoonist Cathy Wilcox is leaving The Sydney Morning Herald, after a career spanning more than three decades. It is understood Wilcox, 63, […]
In a brief item titled “Did You Know That ‘The Family Circle/Circus’ Is Still Being Written and Printed” Tony Gattis for Daily Kos gets nostalgic about The Family Circus by Bil Keane and the Not Me gremlin. In April 1975, Keane introduced an invisible gremlin named “Not Me” who watches while the children try to […]
Comic book writer Roger McKenzie has passed away. Roger McKenzie November 8, 1950 – August 21, 2026 McKenzie’s death was announced on his Facebook page: Early this morning, Peepster-in-Chief Roger McKenzie passed away peacefully in hospice care. He’d been dealing with end-stage heart failure and kidney disease for the past several months. He was certain […]