The Lake County Journal/Shaw Local touted their cartoonist Tom Beck sweeping the recent 2025 Northern Illinois Newspaper Association Awards. show (or here): Lake County Journal cartoonist Tom Beck recently swept the Best Use of Humor category at the 2025 Northern Illinois Newspaper Association Awards. Beck has placed in this category in years past, but this […]
It’s come to this: The President has declared any opposition to him as “sedition” to be punished with execution. My own Congressional Representative is on the list of people Donald Trump has said should be hanged for having said that members of the military are not required to follow illegal orders.Advocating the law and reminding […]
This may seem like an odd place to start, but it’s actually perfect. In case you missed it, FIFA, the organization that runs the World Cup tournament, recently announced that it has a brand-new Peace Prize and strongly hinted that it will present it to Donald Trump on December 5 when they draw the matches […]
A Turkish court has ordered the release of LeMan satirical magazine cartoonist Doğan Pehlevan under judicial supervision in a case that had kept him behind bars since July on charges of insulting the president, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. From Turkish Minute: Last Friday an İstanbul court ordered Pehlevan’s release pending trial on the charges of […]
On another “Where do we begin?” day, we’ll start with what was yesterday’s Deflocked, which is somewhat unremarkable, since cartoonists have been pointing out our astonishing talent for ignoring reality, except that YouTube TV and Disney resolved things Friday night, so I was gobsmacked to see a syndicated strip pick it up three days later.Particularly […]
The National Press Foundation has announced Matt Wuerker as the winner of the 2025 Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons. Matt Wuerker of Politico has won the 2025 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation. “Wuerker’s portfolio goes beyond the daily headlines to […]
This is when I first heard “Yankee Go Home!” I was eight, Ike was president and Vice-President Nixon was visiting Venezuela.As these cutlines read, the wreath-laying didn’t happen and Nixon scarpered on home. He was quite shaken by the event, which cracked the shatter-proof glass in his limo and shattered the image of the US […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for November 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection, vol. 12 by Milton Caniff The saga continues in Terry and […]
Clay Jones draws! The Norman Rockwell Comic Strip! Score Bunny by Henrik! The Award Winning Peter Kuper!A Clay Jones Update and New Drawing Clay Jones is making remarkable progress with an attitude that is positive and retaining his sense of humor. Clay writes: This caricature of Trump is the first drawing I have attempted since […]
Pett lays it out: It’s not so much that people resent the wealthy. It’s that they resent the wealthy standing on their throats. They resent living paycheck-to-paycheck in a world in which CEOs make 285 times what they pay their workers. And, assuming there is no compromise by year’s end, they’ll resent watching the uber-wealthy […]
Cartoonists swipe file? Al Capp and Jesus? Webtoon a non-profit?JuxtapositionJuxtapositions, like the above, happen frequently, colleague Mike Peterson occasionally features them in his columns. He could feature them every day if he so wished. But it seems that controversy has arisen over just such a comparison of cartoons. Two of the cartoons won awards this […]
If you’ve read Gulliver’s Travels, you’ve encountered a verbal nicety of those days, which is that nobody calls anyone a liar. Rather, they accuse him of “saying The Thing That Is Not.” You would also encounter such roundabout language throughout the D’Artagnan Romances, although, in those stories, people skirt the word “liar” narrowly, not to […]
The expression “2 a.m. in the sophomore dorm” goes back at least to Usenet days. It refers to overly idealistic ideas and nonsensical proposals that arise in the wee hours of the morning among people who have not yet learned how the world works and who base their judgment on how the world should be […]
Running the Gamut: Comic Stripping (Wannabe)! Editooning (Jack Ohman)! Magazine Cartooning (Liza Donnelly)! Comic Booking (Donut Squad)! Animating (Legal Rights Reverting)! More Comic Stripping (Dogs of C-Kennel)!Wannabe by Luca Debus Enters The Kingdom A few people relayed the new to me news to me that the Wannabe comic strip by Luca Debus has signed onto […]
Matt Wuerker sings of arms and the man with a Veterans Day cartoon. There aren’t as many “Little boys saluting tombstones” cartoons as usual, which is good, but, then, there aren’t as many cartoons marking the holiday at all, which is puzzling and, IMHO, not good. Most of the veterans who get the day off […]