Ugandan human rights activist, academic and cartoonist Dr. Jimmy Spire Ssentongo has been told he has 14 days to pay a fine of 30 million Ugandan shillings or face three months in jail. The Ugandan High Court found Spire had violated a contempt order restricting him from publishing content deemed damaging to Kampala International University’s […]
A roundup of news items with comic strips and single panel cartoons, award winning cartoonists interviewed, and book bulletins. The Legend of Groomer A brief history of the Groomer comic strip by Ricardo Martínez and Nacho Moreno is recounted by El Mundo America as the comic strip found its way from Spain to North America […]
Cartoonists have leapt on the story of Donald Trump being sneaked off of Air Force One onto a different plane to fly from Ankara to London because of a rumored Iranian assassination plot. We’ll delay Humpday for 24 hours to look at some of the best commentary, but keep your eyes open, because there’s more […]
The Reuben Award weekend has come and gone and across the socials (Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, etc.) a wonderful array of photos and anecdotes from the celebratory convention are appearing. Far too many to link to, but there are some entertaining blogs and Substacks The Daily Cartoonist can direct readers. Cartoonist Dee Fish enjoyed the convention […]
The Small Press Expo has issued a statement to the public that it will not participate in the boycott of the Montgomery County Conference Center where they have staged their expo for the last 20 years. The local hotel, restaurant, and casino workers employees unions called for a boycott last May to protest the omission […]
Clay Jones, being an editorial cartoonist, is open about expressing his opinions even concerning fellow cartoonists (read the “Creative note” here). Clay has voiced his displeasure about a cartoonist hiding behind a pseudonym, about one reusing political caricatures, and most recently accusing a team of copying his cartoon. (Aside: all those criticized cartoonists are distributed […]
Largely unrelated cartoons today as I clean out my cache, starting with a colorful Odyssey piece by Hajjaj. I’m about done with Odyssey references but that doesn’t mean a particularly apt piece won’t still catch my eye. A cartoonist would have to come up with something astoundingly brilliant for yet another wooden horse cartoon to […]
Signe Wilkinson, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, has donated original drawings to the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.From the news release: Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has announced the donation of a significant collection of editorial cartoons and originals to Annenberg Library Archive, which will […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has announced that Kit Anderson will be its 2026-27 Fellow. Anderson is an Ignatz- and Nebula-nominated cartoonist who graduated from CCS in 2022.From CCS: She’ll be working on a medieval adaptation for an anthology, making short comics, and collaborating with her agent on several pitches. After spending the last […]
With John Trever, Jay Inthammavong, Jack Ohman, Pedro X. Molina, Matt Golding, Megan Herbert, Cathy Wilcox, and Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy. The Vet and The Cadet John Trevor Interviewed on 50 Years of Cartooning Karen Moses for The Albuquerque Journal talks to editorial cartoonist John Trever about his 50 years of “Using humor to make […]
The leftists who have always attacked centrists are beginning to seem less extreme these days. In the days of Clinton and Obama, it was easy enough to say that, while there were things you wished they would or wouldn’t do, on the whole, they served well and had a broad sense of how a decent […]
It’s pretty well established that Randy Milholland has studied Popeye‘s comic strip history. So I have to wonder… When today’s Popeye guest-starred Jeep and his “intradimenshkinal” talents was Randy aware that it was exactly 90 years since Professor Brainstine explained the hows and whys of Jeep’s mysterious powers? Which instantly brought to mind: I couldn’t […]
Webtoons and Marvel; Sy Barry; Bill Watterson; Charles Schulz; Keith Knight; and a few dozen historical comic strips.Marvel Comics in the Webtoonverse Marvel Comics has announced plans to create original digital comic strips for Webtoon, the leading vertical webcomic site. The comics will feature X-Men, Deadpool, and a teenaged Tony Stark. Rich Johnston at Bleeding […]
A lot of comics have pinged memories lately, but we’ll start with an unpleasant one, because Merthiolate and Mercurochrome were indeed the go-to antiseptics for small cuts and scrapes back in the day, and here’s more than you need to know about them. They were a good reason not to go crying to your mother […]
President Trump has made known his desire to spread United States control around the world. He has mentioned making Canada, Greenland, Mexico, the Panama Canal area, and Cuba U.S. territories or states. Beyond the Western Hemisphere, he has stated wishes to rule the Gaza Strip and Iran, even Iceland. He has, for all intents and […]