Phil Leeming (ca. 1915 – 1962) has disappeared from the history books, or at least has been demoted to assistant gagwriter after the fact. From the 2004 syndicate promotional ad for the Marmaduke panel: [Brad] Anderson created the character of Marmaduke in 1953. While cartoonist Brad Anderson (1924 – 2015) was certainly integral to the […]
Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for, either as a coronation of the king or as a moment of unified rebellion against egotism and fascism. Looks like God is planning a test of his own, to see how many people will turn out in the rain either to cheer or to protest.I’m often […]
Tomorrow will be a massively busy day across the United States. The No Kings protests are scheduled in multiple cities in every state. In Washington, D.C. Trump will finally get his “imma-tyrant-too”, I mean, military parade. Despite the congestion that will bring, I highly recommend those living in the DC area to go to the […]
The New Yorker posted and then deleted a pre-scheduled Joe Dator cartoon on Thursday June 12, 2025.The Daily Mail reports: The New Yorker’s Instagram page was met with outrage [when it] posted a cartoon poking fun at the pains of air travel hours after a fatal plane crash in India. In a statement, a representative […]
From Kevin Kallaugher: Check out KAL Draws The Line The final artwork [not shown here] took about 8 hours to complete. It is approximately 12 inches wide, but the original scribble (below) that inspired the cartoon was a mere 3 inches wide. Many more at our Support Your Local Cartoonist page!
Tomorrow is the Big Parade, and, in Pett’s cartoon, King Donald wonders why nobody is saluting as the horrors of the past five months pass in review. “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” works in reverse as well, however, and there are plenty of people in this country joyfully feasting on what has happened […]
We all know newspapers have seen better days. As Alex Hallatt notes in her latest “Cartooning in the Age of AI” installment at her Illustrated Epistle Substack cartoonists “need multiple sources of income” not least because: Surviving newspaper websites and are losing views to AI searches (which show newspaper content without the reader needing to […]
When we were reading Hamlet in college junior year, the professor asked the purpose of the gravedigger scene. We went around the seminar table talking about comic relief and the need to ease the tension and onward and so forth and the wisdom flowed like fine wine.Then he pointed out that Shakespeare was maintaining a […]
Sydney Morning Herald cartoonist John Shakespeare has passed away. John Shakespeare 1961 – June 9, 2025The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) broke the sad news (or here): John Shakespeare, one of Australia’s most loved newspaper artists, died on Monday evening of cancer. He was 63. “Shakes” worked at the Herald for 39 years before taking a […]
George Herriman and Krazy Kat! Richard Felton Outcalt and The Yellow Kid! Frank Frazetta and Buck Rogers!The surreal brilliance of George Herriman It was sheer coincidence that led to the intersecting of reading “Which Language Is the Richest in Words?,” an article from Interpreters & Translators, full-page Inc. by Toni Andrews, followed by an engaging […]
Jennings is an ocean away, but he focused on Compton, name-checking an old-school rap with the scene of confrontations between authorities and citizens, as discussed in this next-day description of local residents cleaning up.Those who live there are looked down upon by the forces of ICE and Donald Trump, with a sense of bullying and […]
From Comics Kingdom we check in on The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Mutts, Rosebuds, and The Family Circus plus a trip to The Kingdom of Id. The Plane, The Plane One of our phavourite games to play here at Chronicle Chamber is trying to guess what direction Tony DePaul‘s stories will go. If you have been […]
Featuring Jules Feiffer, Jane Rosenberg, Quino and Mafaldo, Lynda Barry and other autobiographical cartoonists, Steve Bonello. Cyril Tighe, Matt Groening, and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes on sale.Jules Feiffer, PlaywrightCartoonist Jules Feiffer was the author of Little Murders (1967), Feiffer’s People (1969), Knock Knock (1976), Elliot Loves (1990), among other plays and was remembered in […]
A bit of poetic license here: The tanks are in DC waiting to rumble past Trump’s collection of contributors in a Soviet-style display of macho goodness. They haven’t been deployed in LA, despite several Tank Man cartoons.I hope at least a few people know that Tank Man only slowed the tanks down for a moment […]
The Washington Examiner (I know, I know) published an article this morning by Mark Judge titled “Celebrating Superman’s Jewishness.” The writer begins with people doubting Superman’s Jewishness: Yet, in his origins, different names, and even his costume, Superman is a deeply Jewish creation. With a new Superman movie about to be released and American Jews […]