Filed under: Comic Strips

Respect! Friday 25th February is Arnold Roth’s 93rd Birthday! Here’s a video from the National Cartoonists Society featuring Arnold Roth discussing his career and giving tips to the youngsters. 

For more than 30 years, the Dilbert comic strip has appeared in newspapers across the country, poking fun at the drudgery of office life and micromanagement, topics familiar to millions of working Americans. While the audience and punchlines are a bit more niche, there’s now a cartoon out there specifically for financial advisors, especially those […]

Flo & Friends, which marks its 20th anniversary this year, carries the subtitle “Aging with an Attitude!” Title character Flo is a 65-year-old raising her teenage granddaughter. “When I started, I thought ’65, that’s old,’ so I made Flo 65,” [cartoonist Jenny] Campbell says with a laugh. “I just turned 65 last year, so the […]

From The Times Union: This got us thinking about…movies adapted from the funny pages.Draw on your memory banks for the latest quiz. 1. Penny Singleton played Blondie Bumstead … based on the long-running comic strip by Chic Young. In the 1960s, she turned to cartoons themselves, voicing one of the main characters in what animated […]

A few quick shots before we descend into merriment: Jeffrey Koterba gets the Wordle Award for capitalizing on the fad without screwing things up. He’s right: Five letters. One word. Okay, “Putin” is a proper noun, but at least he didn’t show a bunch of colored boxes that don’t match the gag, which as become […]

Jonny Hawkins tells The Daily Cartoonist: [O]n January 14th on a beautiful Friday evening, I got an email from the acquisitions editor at Tribune (now called Tribune Content Agency) saying they loved Zoolies and wanted to syndicate it.  I was elated.  It was one week before my daughter’s 15th birthday. So, 33 years after it […]

Michael de Adder declares sanctions a failure within hours of the announcement of the first full rounds, mocking Biden’s response as silly and futile.There’s a real temptation to ask “What do you think we should do, then?”Tucker Carlson would, of course, offer a way of dealing with Putin that involves soft lighting and scented oils, […]

Unmute yourself with cartoons! Join Comic Book Legal Defense Fund [CBLDF] and award-winning editorial cartoonists Ruben Bolling, Clay Jones, and Shannon Wheeler for “Editorial Cartooning: A Workshop for Students” on February 23, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. PST (today!). The artists will describe their process for making editorial cartoons, provide tips for effective editorial cartoons, and […]

It is probably no coincidence that one of the Keebler Elves is named Roger. Nor is it likely a coincidence that Roger’s distinguishing feature is his height—he is far and away the tallest of the elves, which could be a hint that he might not be, strictly speaking, an elf but might possess some human […]

That headline: “Potpourri” used to be a category in Jeopardy which I think was a chance to use questions that hadn’t been chosen in previous games. I haven’t seen it in a long time (hence “Art”) but, then, it’s been awhile since I’ve watched Jeopardy, which brings us to Non Sequitur (AMS) and some suppressed […]

Charles Schultz’s beloved beagle, born Oct. 4, 1950, often sat atop his doghouse banging out great opening lines, but alas, he just couldn’t follow through. His first literary lead was, “It was a dark and stormy night,” from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1830 novel “Paul Clifton.”   The missus had a favorite Snoopy strip framed for my […]

I’ve  given up on anti-pineapple-and-ham pizza purity, but I laughed at today’s Andertoons (AMS) anyway.I don’t know if it was the times or the fact that there were a lot of Neapolitans in South Bend, but I came into pizza with very high expectations, and was horrified with what I found when I moved to […]

As we all know the internet, unlike print newspapers, has a limited space. So syndicates must abridge some comic strips on their websites. This has happened most recently with Comics Kingdom’s offerings. The recent revamp has seen a number of the older Sunday comic strips now displaying only eight of their nine panel grid.Inexplicably not […]

It’s Girl Scout Cookie time, and John Darkow offers less of a commentary than a report: The bakeries contracted to supply cookies are having substantial problems in handling the extra business this year.I went to poke around on Google News for this regional coverage, which states that Massachusetts and New Hampshire have been hit with […]

Following the news that The New Adventures of Tarzan will be collected between hard covers comes Dark Horse announcing they will also publish the other Tarzan strip from the E. R. Burroughs website.From The Beat:For years, the Tarzan of the Apes comic strips by Roy Thomas, Pablo Marcos, and Oscar Gonzalez have been available exclusively to subscribers of the Edgar […]