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Cartoonist Profiles CCV

by D. D. Degg 0 comments March 1, 2025

A Stan Mack interview; a Milton Caniff profile; a Tim Jackson appreciation; a John Rose video interview; a visit with Rob Moreland; and a Colin Whittock obituary.Funny Friends: an interview with Stan Mack Funny TimGreg Lynch for The Dayton Daily Newses’ Mia Beach presents a short interview with cartoonist Stan Mack. You originally had a […]

Advance Papers March in with New Unified Comics Pages

by D. D. Degg 2 comments March 1, 2025

Advance Publication newspapers are revising their comics pages this month.The other day we noted that MLive Media, an Advance group, would add more comics in mid-March 2025. Jeff Glick, Director of Enterprise Content & Design for Print at Advance Local, informed us that it wasn’t just the Michigan group revising and adding to their comics […]

CSotD: The Whole World Is Cringing

by Mike Peterson 18 comments March 1, 2025

Sometimes it’s easier to be a gag cartoonist than a political cartoonist, but this is not one of those times. I had, briefly, planned to run humorous pieces today while I waited for the editorialists to catch up, but fortunately they leapt to their drawing boards, because, like Sipress, I don’t find anything very funny […]

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore – If I Did…

by D. D. Degg 0 comments February 28, 2025

Billy Ireland’s New Yorker Centennial Celebration! New Yorker Centennial Celebration! Join us on Saturday, March 1 for a special program celebrating the centennial of The New Yorker magazine and a reception for our new exhibit, See Anyone You Know? The New Yorker Cartoons and Covers of Edward Koren. This event is FREE and open to the public. No […]

This Week in Comic Stripping

by D. D. Degg 2 comments February 28, 2025

Breaking Cat People NewsTaking a break from breaking cat news is Breaking Cat News getting into breaking people news this week. People news involves those in control of our lives and governments, and Georgia Dunn goes there: Georgia leads off the comments by telling her readers why: For folks not loving a strip touching on […]

CSotD: The Way We Live Now

by Mike Peterson 8 comments February 28, 2025

I’m tempted to invite you to read Joel Pett’s cartoon, thank you for coming and remind you to tip your waitress, because he manages to pack an awful lot of current events into his piece, with greedy billionaires and without a lot of exaggeration or irony to puzzle the reader.Obviously, they’re not this direct, but […]

MLive Media Adding Comics

by D. D. Degg 5 comments February 27, 2025

The MLive Media Group has announced it is adding comic strips to their print editions. Two new comics to their Sunday Funnies and 12(!) to their daily comics pages: Starting March 18, our eight Michigan newspaper titles are adding 8 new comic strips to our Sunday newspaper lineup – 6 will be available in our […]

CSotD: The Center Cannot Hold

by Mike Peterson 4 comments February 27, 2025

I hadn’t planned on featuring any more “list of accomplishment” cartoons, since, as said the other day, they were fairly identical and uninspired, but Matson has broken through with this piece, since we’ve entered a moment when the oligarchs seem to be losing their grip.Specifically, Republican lawmakers have been advised by their leadership to stop […]

The Press: Audits & Other News

by D. D. Degg 10 comments February 26, 2025

Report on 2024 Newspaper Circulation The combined average daily circulation of the 25 largest audited newspapers in the US dropped 12.7% in the year to the end of September 2024, new data shows. The figures, supplied to Press Gazette by the Alliance for Audited Media, show that none of the top US titles increased their […]

CSotD: I Believe We Could Use Some Laughs

by Mike Peterson 8 comments February 26, 2025

This is as political as I plan to get today. I’m awash in political cartoons with sarcastic responses to Musk’s demand that people tell five things they accomplished last week, mostly showing Trump filling out the form and varying from okay to more than okay but only a couple reaching brilliant.Ali Solomon, however, frames it […]

2025 Eisner Hall of Fame Class – Their Comic Strip Credentials

by D. D. Degg 0 comments February 25, 2025

A panel of judges have chosen 21 (21!) cartoonists and related people to be automatically inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame for 2025 with another six (out of 18 nominee) cartoonists to be voted on by fans for inclusion in the class of 2025 for a total of 27 entries this year joining the […]

CSotD: Cartoons Call For Comments

by Mike Peterson 13 comments February 25, 2025

Given the tumult we’ve been going through since Inauguration Day, the flow of political cartoons has been steady but has ranged from nuanced to absurd, sometimes out of extreme views one way or the other, other times because of the complexity of subject matter.It definitely makes me hope that, when GoComics unveils their new website […]

Comic Strip News and Nonsense

by D. D. Degg 5 comments February 24, 2025

Count Me Out/InAfter 11 and a half years cartoonist Graham Nolan has moved his weekly Sunshine State comic strip from GoComics to his own Compass Comics site. It sounds as if the archives at GoComics will not be there for long: To have it in two places is to fracture the audience. I want fans […]

Comic Strip Updates

by D. D. Degg 16 comments February 24, 2025

VeeFriends and LeePapers; Doonesbury Done in Dallas; Comics Come in for Candorville Cuts. VeeFriends Debut Newspaper Comic Strip If you were like me you would have thought that the images of the comic strip with the publicity surrounding the debut of VeeFriends in Lee newspapers was the actual February 23 comic strip. It wasn’t.With thanks […]

CSotD: Monday Miscellany

by Mike Peterson 7 comments February 24, 2025

This cartoon is both depressing and encouraging, being an external viewpoint from Denmark. He’s right that we’ve fallen into the clutches of partisan lunatics, though perhaps you have to be old enough to remember the Cultural Revolution to comprehend the realities of an army of extremist disciples roaming the country looking for unfaithful citizens to […]

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