I buy comic collections for a number of reasons. Pure entertainment, “behind the scenes” information, interesting comic history and love of the art (or humor). A good book satisfies more than one of these justifications. The latest Doonesbury book, Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau by Brian Walker, hits all of them in spades. […]

Interesting documentary.The National Cartoonists Society’s top honor, The Rueben is named after Rube Goldberg.

I’m not sure how often happens, but Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovch has a feature on his blog called, “Lunch with Luckovich” wherein he takes questions through his blog’s comment section and answers them. As you can imaging, some questions are more interesting than others. Here’s a sample: “you were probably the least talented. […]

Again, I follow a cartoon that made me think with one that just made me giggle.Except that this strip also made me think, after it made me giggle. But it made me think about technical issues.The name of this strip is “Pros and Cons.” For its first three years, it was called “A Lawyer, A […]

I can’t imagine many editorial cartoonists went home early yesterday. On a night like last night, where could one possibly be other than behind the drawing board?Here’s a quick cruise through those I was aware of doing live cartooning/blogging/tweeting of last night’s historic election. Clay Jones did 22 cartoonsDavid Horsey produced several during a 12 […]

   One of the delights of Cul de Sac is that, unlike the characters in other strips about imaginative little children who live in their own dream world, Alice is not withdrawn, unpopular and ignored by her peers. I do not believe that this means that, unlike other cartoonists, Richard Thompson spent his formative years […]

Kevin Kallaugher AKA “KAL” is back from St. Petersburg, Russia where 43 of his cartoons were part of an exhibit sponsored by the US Consulate about American and Russian cartoons. He’s posted photos on his blog.In a related news, KAL will also have a show of his work at the Cartoon Art Museum in San […]

Tonight is a big night for editorial cartoonists. Those wanting to see how a cartoonist covers an election can see a few examples. Arizona Republic’s Steve Benson will be streaming live tonight from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. drawing reader requests. Chicago Tribune’s Scott Stantis will be live cartooning, blogging and “punditing” on WGN America […]

While doing some research for a serialized novel about a kid during Prohibition, I came across this Dorman H. Smith cartoon, which ran in the Plattsburgh (NY) Daily Press on August 27, 1924. I’m not sure it really qualifies as a “classic” except in terms of its age, but it’s an interesting document of a […]

The comic page landscape is still unsettled after Cathy Guisewite’s retirement. Here a few more reports on who’s running what:» The Mansfield News Journal (OH) has picked up Cul de Sac» Big Nate and Freshly Squeezed are picked up by the Appeal Democrat (CA)» Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA) is now running Freshly Squeezed in trialUPDATE: The […]

I’m a weeeee bit late on this one. Tom Racine of Tall Tale Radio has posted his latest podcast last week. Guests include Brookes Eggleston, creator of the webcomic Also Bagels. Also contributing are Jonathan Lemon (Rabbits Against Magic) who talks about cartoonists in movies and I give an audio report about the recent Festival […]

Editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe’s goal of publishing a humor magazine is finally coming off the press. Back in May when the endeavor was announced, Rob wrote: People are quick to point out that with the internet, they can read everything they want on their glowing, irritating computer screen. And for the newspapers it makes sense, […]

After all the sweetness of last night’s candy binge, a little curmudgeonly snicker — it’s not plural and there’s no capital “S” — from Non Sequitur.And an award for Wiley’s choice of characters to carry this gag: The person in the strip least likely to actually do anything to materially aid whatever cause he claims […]

This is the last Cleats strip. Bill Hinds has pulled the plug, as of today.I’m sorry to see the strip go, both as someone who coached his own kids in youth soccer, and as someone who has seen his own boys grow up to be coaches.How’d I get into it? Oh, the usual way …I […]

To commemorate Halloween, I’m posting this 1953 animation of The Tell-Tale Heart based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short-story of the same title.