Spring finds our two young cartooning women, Ann Telnaes and Liza Donnelly, enjoying the European countryside as they travel to their joint exhibition at the Maison de Dessin de Presse, Morges which runs through May 2025.Here we join them in Switzerland as they walk through the exhibit. A pdf guide to the exhibit. The pair […]
Eye Lie Popeye by Marcus Williams debuted on Comics Kingdom today (ignore that Friday May 9 date). While the official story of this Popeye story claims that “the series has already made waves since debuting during Free Comic Book Day [of 2024]” it had partially appeared earlier episodically as a webcomic preview in late 2022. […]
I couldn’t decide whether to comment on politics today or pick out some funny stuff from the comics page, so I’ll compromise and discuss the ridiculous flying emolument, which Anderson accurately depicts as a clear example of corruption and self-dealing. Clarence Thomas must certainly be gnashing his teeth over having sold out for so little, […]
It seems a fairly new YouTube uploader is taking cartoonists’ original cartoons, “re-imagining” (read: swiping) them through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and then passing them off as their own.Pedro X. Molina noted and provided samples: I found this online and thought you might find it interesting. I have no problem with the ethical use […]
Pope Leo XIV has gained the approval of cartoonist Patrick J. Marrin who, having ended his Francis comic strip with the recent death of Pope Francis, will begin a comic with the new Pope titled The Leo Chronicles.Pat Marrin posted a new, still titled Francis, strip today continuing The Adventures at The Vatican. Pat has […]
I’m somewhat surprised at the number of cartoons about the Pope still being done, but Schot has done a nice job of contrasting Leo XIV with Donald Trump. It’s almost cheating to simply lay out the differences like this, but I’ve often said political cartoonists should be journalists, and there’s nothing wrong with reporting if […]
Political cartoonist and illustrator Ralph Schlegel has passed away.Ralph Alan Schlegel August 5, 1920 – May 1, 2025 Ralph Schlegel was six years old when had his first political cartoon published. He chuckles now remembering, “It was in the Schlegel Weekly Newspaper my family published three times a year.” His father, Henry Schlegel, was a […]
The Born Loser, Frank and Ernest, Calvin and Hobbes, Frazz, Bizarro/Bizarfield, Tom the Dancing Bug, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Big Nate, Eye Lie Popeye, Mutts and, of course, more.The Born Loser archive at GoComics only goes back to 1994, so those of you who didn’t see the debut strip from May 10, 1965 on […]
I like Bennett’s Mother’s Day cartoon, but I really hate the ongoing inspiration.Lalo Alcaraz had farmed the same concept for Mother’s Day in 2017, during the first Trump administration, and reposted it again this year, since the wall, and the issue, not only haven’t gone away, but have become more relevant as ICE begins snatching […]
Sidney Strube Before the great Carl Giles was employed to entertain and delight readers with his cartoons in the Daily Express, his predecessor at the paper had been just as prodigious in the years preceding him. Sidney Strube first joined the Express in 1912 and would remain one of its superstars for more than 35 […]
The New Yorker, The Lockhorns, Flash Gordon, Phil Miller, Jim Steranko. Yaakov Kirschen, and John Donohue are in the spotlight.Since Mike ends with a video I’ll start with a video. N.Y.C.’s ROOF Studio partnered with Le Truc, the creative collective within Publicis Groupe, alongside The Condé Nast Creative Marketing Team and Human, to create an […]
This took me a minute, after which I felt foolish for having not gotten it right away.There is no relationship so genuinely wonderful that Maeve cannot screw it up. Between Friends doesn’t provide a lot of belly laughs; the humor is more a sigh of recognition at human frailty, and regular readers know the inevitable […]
Sometimes you just have to up and walk away. When you are a political cartoonist your two sources of wherewithal are brains and hands. When limitations are put on what your mind can think creative people, for their own mental health, must leave. So Ann Telnaes left. Which may be the best decision she has […]
A New York City paper will be introducing a new comic strip page to its readers next month. No, not the New York Post. And certainly not The New York Times. Instead the monthly The Village Star-Revue will begin running a comic strip page edited by cartoonist Marc Jackson with its June 2025 edition. From […]
Yesterday was VE Day except in the United States, where it was “Victory Day For World War II,” according to our president, who celebrated by posting this image of marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, a hill just west of Berlin that was named for German composer Johann Sebastian Suribachi.Or maybe, just maybe, Dear […]