Filed under: Comic Strips

It wouldn’t be so bad if they kept just publishing the black plate and skipping the color. Oh well. Here’s the fix.

This is funny to start with, but also sparks a memory of a woman I went out with very briefly, shortly after both of our divorces, but long enough after mine that I could detect subtle warning signs.Like the fact that she and her now-ex had been building a semi-custom townhouse which originally had a […]

The British financial-centric comic strip Alex by Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor has ended after 38 years. Alex is a satirical daily comic strip set mostly in the financial world. Its eponymous (anti-) hero is a cynical, materialistic, status-obsessed banker. The strip (and he) casts a cynical eye over news stories, politics and corporate life, […]

So to catch everyone up, GoComics apparently now updates at 3 a.m. Eastern Time, which likely only effects me, Arcamax quit updating a whole slew of political cartoons about a month ago, and Counterpoint now has a new format for its subscribers that includes more comics more often.And I’m still here every day.Andy Warner has […]

Flash Gordon and Dale Arden re-imagined, Tom the Dancing Bug re-imagines Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts; Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem debuts in 1937; also: Sunnyboy Sam from 1937; comic strips from the Museum of Modern Art; Frazz in reruns explained; a couple changes from GoComics; and some Vintage changes at Comics Kingdom.Who’s WhoRemember […]

Two weeks ago we discovered The Cartoon Factory Ltd. a small syndicate servicing weekly and bi-weekly newspapers that distributed comic strips and panels from July 5, 1981 to March 28, 1982. The full roster of The Cartoon Factory could be run on one page.The cartoonists and comic titles remained the same throughout the syndicates existence […]

As usual, I can’t separate politics from humor, and Private Eye doesn’t often try. Here’s the cover of their latest issue, and I was already sick of the memes based on that photo, so their playing with it amuses me.There’s also an AI animation of the scene, in which Zelenskyy stands up and flattens Trump. […]

I like to alternate humorous and political cartoon days, but sometimes the categories cross so here we are. Mike Baldwin has the least political of the funny cartoons today, but the Boring Company is owned by Elon Musk. He claims he thought of the name while stuck in a traffic jam, which is problematic because […]

Barbara Brandon-Croft made history as the nation’s first Black woman cartoonist to break into mainstream press with her groundbreaking comic strip “Where I’m Coming From,” which debuted in the Detroit Free Press in 1989. By 1991, Universal Press Syndicate was distributing her work to more than sixty mainstream newspapers internationally, where it continued until 2005. […]

With the death of Pope Francis so also comes the end (apparently) of Patrick J. Marrin’s Francis comic, though nothing official has been announce as far as I know. The Lambiek Comiclopedia entry for Pat Marrin has a detailed history of the Francis comic strip: On 13 March 2013, the Argentinean Bishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio […]

A roundup of cartoon and comic items finally being posted featuring Harry Bliss and You Can Never Die, Paul Kirchner and the bus, Jeff Kinney and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the disassembly of Garry B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury, the editorial cartoons of The Simi Valley Acorn that are not editorial cartoons, and Heritage Auction is […]

Comic book artist and creator Jack Katz has passed away. Jacob (Jack) Katz September 27, 1927 – April 24, 2025 Andrew Kunka, close associate of Jack Katz, let fandom know that the creator has passed away: Jack Katz passed away yesterday. He was 97. I had gotten to know Jack after I wrote an article […]

Good Timing? Bad Timing? The above Pearls Before Swine appeared two days after the announced death of Pope Francis. Some, who know nothing of lead times, took it as a swipe at that passing. Others took for what it was – just a case of timing. I agree with Stephan Pastis about obituary cartoons but […]

Another of those “no politics” days where you can’t avoid some politics. I like the notion of anything with a foreign country in its name being more expensive, and the idea of companies charging tariffs on things that shouldn’t have tariffs is funny.Except if it happens, and maybe it did and maybe it didn’t. A […]

Magazine illustrator Mark Zingarelli has passed away. Mark Alan Zingarelli July 11th, 1952 – April 18th, 2025 From the obituary: Mark attended The Ivy School of Professional Art for a short period before going to the University of Pittsburgh majoring in art and film-making. He left before graduation to pursue an animation opportunity in San […]