March 20 Update: Dana has revealed what is happening with the Phoebe and Her Unicorn comic strip: I’m bringing the daily newspaper strip to an end. The Sunday comics will continue, but as of March 30, 2025, I’m finished with daily comic strips. And just as, in the strip, Phoebe has moved to a new […]
Canada’s National Newspaper Awards has announced the finalists for the 2024 awards and in the category for Editorial Cartooning the finalists are Michael de Adder of the Halifax Chronicle Herald/The Globe and Mail; Gabrielle Drolet of The Globe and Mail; and Patrick LaMontagne of the Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun.The cartoonists’ portfolios, along with all the other […]
Cartoon artist John Peck, also known as The Mad Peck, has passed away.John Frederick Peck aka The Mad PeckNovember 16, 1942 – March 15, 2025 From the WPRI obituary: John Peck, the artist behind the poster who signed his art as “The Mad Peck,” died at the hospital on Saturday after a sudden illness, according […]
The Trump administration’s crack down on foreign visitors has raised both questions and risks for international comic creators who may be planning to visit the US or Canada to attend comic conventions. As the recent R.E Burk case has made clear, there is a higher risk of being denied entry and detained if authorities suspect […]
I like First Dog’s observation “It is so bad they are even doing ICE things to white people.” After all, Trump began his war on foreign folks by attempting to ban all Muslims from entering the country and by condemning Latinos with “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are […]
The New York Transit Museum is celebrating The New Yorker’s centennial with an exhibit called Commentary on the Commute: A Century of The New Yorker’s Transportation Cartoons that will open next week in the Museum’s Grand Central Gallery & Store. The exhibit will showcase cartoons and magazine covers from 57 artists.The exhibit highlights the humor, […]
GoComics has set the date for when the new, improved site will rejigger itself. From a March 18 message to GoComics subscribers: We continue to put the finishing touches on the updated GoComics, and we have an official launch date: Tuesday, April 1! (No fooling.) GoComics Blog has also noted the relaunch date: Exciting news: […]
British cartoonist R.E. Burke has been released from US custody and returned to the UK last night. She spent three weeks in an immigration detention center in Tacoma, WA after she was turned away from entering Canada due to a visa mix-up and she tried to re-enter the US.A GoFundMe fundraiser was set up to […]
Telnaes points out that this isn’t the first self-betrayal in our history, and she could have gone back to the beginning of the nation and added the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which would seem particularly upsetting because they were written and passed in the lifetimes of the Founders. Then again, they were the […]
British cartoonist Sally Artz recently celebrated her 90th birthday on March 14 (yeah, we’re a couple days late here). Having been born in 1935 she joins TDC’s Senior Strippers group of 90+ plus year old comic strippers. From the University of Kent British Cartoon Archive Sally Artz biography: Sally Artz was born in north London […]
The New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly was on yesterday’s Sunday NYTReadalong to discuss the exhibition she curated for the Society of Illustrators entitled Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration. The interview is below. Her 30 minute segment starts around minute 00:11:50 through 1:26:00.The exhibition opened January 8 and runs through May 3 at […]
Greg and Karen Evans and Luann fans around the world are celebrating forty years of the comic strip. On Sunday March 17, 1985 a thirteen year old Luann began appearing on comics pages. Greg and Karen have a few celebratory items at their Luann Fan site. “How Luann Begann” is Greg telling how his dream […]
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with the McCoy brothers, but this 2013 strip echoes my feelings. Back when I was in an Irish pub band, we had mixed feelings about March 17, because it was an excellent payday but one we hated for just the reason the McCoys illustrate above.In fact, a year […]
The Free Lance–Star’s iconic newsboy statue, Lance, has returned to its longtime home in downtown Fredericksburg. For two decades, the bronze statue stood watch in front of the newspaper’s front entrance off Amelia Street, between Douglas Street and Washington Avenue. When the newspaper moved out of downtown in 2016, Lance came along and was installed […]
Okay, this is political, but Doonesbury has always been a mix of humor and politics. And it’s a point worth making: People have noted that Clinton shrank the deficit, but I haven’t seen this kind of detail, and the contrast between a well-thought-out plan unfolding over time and the wacky, unaimed destruction currently going on […]