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The Daily Cartoonist, practicing the Fairness Doctrine, suggests some Third Party Candidates.All characters © the current copyright holders

Guy Venables speaks for the world and most of us in America as well. I wasn’t even going to address the election today, because I’m burned out on it and there’s nothing new anyhow.At this stage, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus. I saw somebody on Facebook — a grownup, mind […]

Even Edison Lee (KFS), though far too young to vote, understands what’s at stake tomorrow. I remember the anticipation and sense of helplessness in 1968, when we were, as the song said, “old enough to kill, but not for voting.”Lowering the voting age to match the draft age made sense, though — technical point — […]

For the penultimate Fort Knox Sunday comic strip cartoonist Paul Jon Boscacci told us, “I have a special collaboration with Marvel/Pixar/Disney artist, Norman Felchle, on the upcoming November 3rd Sunday.” Norman Felchle does the Memorial Day Fort Knox Sunday page, but not the Veteran’s Day Sunday. So I assumed that the “special collaboration” would be […]

With Steve Breen, Wayno, Glenn Fleishman, Ruben Bolling, Paul Robinson, and Jimmy Johnson.By Appointment Only – A migrant family waits for the chance of safety in the United States. At inewsource Sofía Mejías-Pascoe reports on a family seeking safety; in a sidebar Steve Breen illustrates it.Update: Apparently Mike Peterson entered the high bids on the […]

Fantasy artist Greg Hildebrandt has passed away.Gregory J. (Greg) Hildebrandt January 23, 1939 – October 31, 2024Greg’s wife Jean Scrocco posted to social media about her husband’s passing: The light has gone out in my life. At 12:36 pm this afternoon the love of my life, my best friend and soulmate passed away. Greg was […]

NJ Advance Media has announced its intention of ending the print editions of The (Newark) Star-Ledger (the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey according to Wikipedia) and sister papers The Times of Trenton and The South Jersey Times. The newspapers will continue as daily online newspapers: The Star-Ledger will cease publishing a print newspaper and […]

Dogs and Halloween aren’t always a good combination, but today’s Bliss (Tribune) brought back a memory of a ridgeback who enjoyed dressing up. Some of my dogs have tolerated it, some haven’t, but he thought it was fun, so one time I put him in a Canadiens jersey, balanced a hockey helmet on his head […]

Comics Kingdom (CK) has issued submission guidelines for cartoonists attempting to get placed on the CK digital platform – a great step toward being distributed to print newspapers by King Features Syndicate.King Features Editorial Director Tea Fougner introduces the submissions guidelines with a few do’s and don’ts. Friends, we are so excited to introduce our […]

So when Garry Trudeau mentioned that “the last time a Doonesbury strip featured four near-identical drawings of the White House was in 1988” my OCD kicked and I had to find it.But first let me agree with the Joseph Nebus reply to the Trudeau comment: The four panel White House strips early on became iconic, […]

The Unwarranted hatred for Comic Sans; The Comics Courier, a tabloid comics criticism newspaper; a Bob Foster obituary; the Kansas City studio of Walt Disney; and an Amber Waves Comics Kingdom news item.New Comic Amber Waves Brings Heartfelt Tales of Childhood to Life This crisp fall week welcomes a new strip available on Comics Kingdom […]

Below are the title panels of the Sunday Dennis the Menace comic strips for October. One is not like the others. “That’s different!” was my reaction to seeing today’s Dennis the Menace, and the difference continued beyond the title panel with the absence of those muted pastels of the past few years. Then toward the […]

Chef and cartoonist Phil “Bunk” Griffin has passed away. Philip M. (Bunk) Griffin June 17, 1940 – October 16, 2024From the family obituary: A lifelong resident of [Saranac Lake], he was by professional cook, having worked in The Dew Drop Inn, Tyson’s, The Mar-Mac, and finished out his career at the Adirondack Medical Center, where […]

This Buckets (AMS) is as close to the Washpo/LATimes thing as I’m getting today. As I wrote yesterday, I’m impressed that the Post has allowed so much pushback from staff, so it’s pretty clear that nobody in the front office feels they speak for the CEO.OTOH, I’m somewhat confounded by all the calls not to […]

V. T. Hamlin’s Alley Oop; Bob Chambers’ Halifax; Pogo’s letterers Walt Kelly, George Ward, and Henry Shikuma; and a couple cartoonist self-portrait galleries.Sunday Adventures in History with Alley Oop Alley Oop portrays the exploits of a time-traveling caveman (yes, you read that correctly). The comic, which has been running since 1932, was created by V.T. […]