Yea or nay on those vertical comics? Liza Donnelly in the spotlight. A tough comics quiz (Flash Gordon has a superpower?). Bill Mauldin, drawn to combat. The Adventures of Superman drawn by Joe Shuster. Comic Stew Fun(ny book). A comic tradition began 90 years ago. The Case for Vertical Comics Julian Lytle at K-ComicsBeat makes […]
The author and compiler of the cartoon book “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust” is claiming the book was cancelled by the editor/packager and the publisher due to his refusal to include a forward condemning recent actions by Israel and the United States. From Carl Campanile for The N.Y. Post: Rafael Medoff, the author of the book […]
I like the idea of a horse/llama hybrid, though it’s not genetically possible. But llamas have some advantages, since they are both surefooted and soft-footed, so can traverse all sorts of wilderness without tearing it up, and they can be housebroken, which horses, notably, cannot. And if you are nice to them, they don’t spit; […]
Patrick M. Reynolds built his cartooning career on illustrating history with such comic strips and features as Flashbacks, Texas Lore, and Big Apple Almanac. But… It was with Pennsylvania Profiles that he began the history lessons, it was his own backyard. Reynolds retired a few years ago but as Ron Devlin at the Republican Herald […]
Canadian cartoonist Mike Constable has passed away. Mike Constable 1943 – July 3, 2026 Cartoonist, animator, humorist, syndicator, street performer, social activist.From Bado: It is with great sadness that I learned that cartoonist Mike Constable lost, last Friday, his battle with Alzheimer’s disease. From Canadianaci: He studied sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and […]
There seems to be an epidemic of “I Told You So, Maine” erupting across the nation, or at least erupting across the editorial cartooning world. I kind of thought I’d covered the Graham Platner thing the other day and we would move on, but I was mistaken.Bramhall isn’t particularly snarky in his commentary, which plays […]
Dominique Musorrafiti for RetroFuturista interviews Ralph Steadman in “Beautiful Splatter.” From the introduction: …later attending the London College of Printing during the 1960s. This period proved highly productive, as he established himself by contributing to major publications including Punch, Private Eye, The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone. He permanently altered the […]
“You thought it was a joke and so you laughed You laughed! You know you laughed. I heard you laugh! You laughed and laughed and laughed.” When I noted the week-long amorous adventure of Brad and Toni in the Luann comic strip the reaction was a general “pfft, c’mon” over my reservations that it may […]
As with the best of political humor, Margulies gets a laugh alongside a sigh, but my first reaction was “Who cares what Chris Christie thinks?”He had his shot and he blew it. One of my father’s gripes about the steel industry was that it took in his generation when they came back from the war, […]
The Society of Professional Journalists announced the Sigma Delta Chi Awards for work done in 2025 Thursday night July 9, 2026. For Editorial Cartooning the award was given to Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News. Judges said: “These are challenging days for editorial cartoonists, it’s easy to get so angry the results are hot instead […]
But before we get to this week’s comic strips we need to catch up to a couple from last week. Didn’t mention Marco Finnegan‘s guest stint as Gil Thorp artist last week ’cause I was waiting to see if the gig lasted longer than a week. It didn’t, Rachel Merrill returned this week. I only […]
Nor should we listen to those who say “The voice of the people is the voice of God,” for the turbulence of the mob is always close to insanity. — Alcuin to Charlemagne, 798 AD“Friends, I want to remove any cause for contention between you two fine fellow-Democrats”HerblockI missed getting to vote in 1968, because […]
Vermont’s favorite alternative newspaper Seven Days has released its annual Cartoon Issue cover featuring Vermont’s newest cartoonist laureate Stephen Bissette with an interview inside. And a whole lot more as Dan Bolles tells us: In a Seven Days interview, Bissette said his primary goal during his three-year tenure is to produce a history of cartooning […]
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) used a cartoon to object to portions of the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act moving through congress. The cartoon shows veterans standing before a firing squad of bureaucrats and media and is drawing heat from the bill’s sponsors. (In the update added two House members quoted in the original […]
Opening with one political cartoon, largely because I disagree. Trump’s clodhopper interference in the World Cup didn’t destroy the integrity of soccer. It merely pointed out the lack of integrity of FIFA, which — as has been noted here and everywhere else — wasn’t in doubt to begin with. If the red card kerfuffle made […]