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Cartoonist Profiles Part CCIV

by D. D. Degg 1 comments February 24, 2025

Deon Parson, Kate Beaton, Barbara Shermund, Art Spiegelman, Colin Whittock, Alison Bechdel, Clay Jones$upr Dee Parson Parson, 29, is the creator of multiple comic strips, including “Life With Kurami” (debuted in 2015); “Pen and Ink” (debuted in 2017); and “Rosebuds” (debuted in 2019). “Rosebuds” has been Parson’s biggest financial success thus far in his career. […]

Sunday Afternoon Roundup

by D. D. Degg 1 comments February 23, 2025

Jeanne Young O’Neil obituary; USPS postage stamps for 2025; Famous Cartoonists School course art; Garry Trudeau versus Mort Drucker and Jerry Dumas; Peanuts collectibles; 2024 children and young adult bestsellers. Jeanne Young O’Neil – RIPJeanne Young O’Neil, the daughter of Blondie creator Chic Young, the sister to current Blondie producer Dean Young, and the inspiration […]

CSotD: Sunday Miscellany

by Mike Peterson 24 comments February 23, 2025

Dave Coverly gets the Crystal Ball Award for having drawn this piece godknowswhen but well before Dear Leader declared himself a king and got plenty of pushback. It wasn’t French Revolution level pushback, mind you, despite his having echoed the Sun King who reportedly said, “L’Etat c’est moi,” which is cousin to “He who saves his Country does not […]

(VeeFriends) Comic Corner – New Sunday Comic for Lee Newspapers

by D. D. Degg 9 comments February 22, 2025

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Feb. 20, 2025 — Lee Enterprises Inc, (NASDAQ: Lee) a leading provider of local news, information and advertising across 72 markets in 25 states, today announced it has entered a partnership with VeeFriends, an entertainment company created by serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, to produce original comics that will publish weekly on weekends across […]

A Marian “Maxine” Henley TwoFer

by D. D. Degg 2 comments February 22, 2025

« From October 1981 until December 2002, Maxine appeared in a head-scratching combination of publications such as San Francisco Chronicle, Heavy Metal, MS, Glamour, Austin Chronicle, LA Weekly, Utne Reader, Asbury Park Press, MAD, Funny Times, and even a newsletter for Hawaiian polygamists. » Maxine is a recent visitor to my brainscape – co-admin RG dragged […]

A Gorey Centennial

by D. D. Degg 2 comments February 22, 2025

EDWARD ST JOHN GOREY, a drawer of eccentric illustrations and a writer of peculiar stories, was born 100 years ago today on February 22, 1925.Unsurprisingly The Edward Gorey House is having a centennial congregate the evening of the 22nd which, unfortunately for most of us, is sold out. (I really want to see the Edward […]

CSotD: Bond and Circuses

by Mike Peterson 8 comments February 22, 2025

It’s a pleasant fantasy, to imagine each bizarre, disturbing development coming along in a separate day. If it did, we could brace for it as Katauskas suggests. But, of course, that’s not how a firehose works, though the unbearable daily terror she posits would be an improvement on the flood that actually occurs.As it is, […]

Reports: The New Yorker at 100

by D. D. Degg 1 comments February 21, 2025

Here is a roundup of articles celebrating the 100th Anniversary of The New Yorker’s publishing debut. We at The Daily Cartoonist featured all the editorial drawings and cartoons from that first issue.Others delved into the history of the magazine. Origins Literate in tone, far-reaching in scope, and witty to its bones, The New Yorker brought […]

Comic Strips – The B Side

by D. D. Degg 7 comments February 21, 2025

GuestsFlash Gordon isn’t the only comic strip with guest creators this week, Dick Tracy began a new story with a guest writer – though the guest writer remains Eric Costello. I understand that Mike Curtis is in ill health, but sooner than later Eric is going to have to get a promotion from “guest” to […]

CSotD: The Friday Follies

by Mike Peterson 10 comments February 21, 2025

The doctor is correct: There’s a lot of bad news going on and not a lot of good news, and all sorts of mostly depressing things to cartoon about. The problem is that the political cartoons don’t have much impact if you don’t pause once in awhile.So here we are, and I’d remind you that […]

‘Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse’ Review

by Alan Gardner 0 comments February 20, 2025

The documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse premieres tomorrow at Film Forum in New York City. Given the current political climate in the United States and abroad, the film serves not only as an educational 90-minute exploration of one of the most influential comic creators of the 20th century but also as a reminder […]

Flash Gordon: Lowland Station Tales by Schkade, et al. – Updated

by D. D. Degg 2 comments February 20, 2025

Cartoonist Dan Schkade is taking a break from drawing the Flash Gordon comic strip. His new Lowland Station Tales episode that started February 10, 2025 begins with an introduction written and drawn by Dan.But after that introductory week the following individual week-long chapters are being drawn by guest artists. First up is “The Gladiator” running […]

Cartoonist Ollie Harrington

by D. D. Degg 0 comments February 20, 2025

More than half a century before Aaron McGruder’s first introduced The Boondocks as a comic strip (and later television series) and decades before the biting social commentary found in Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury and Berke Breathed’s Bloom County, cartoonist and essayist Oliver W. Harrington set a standard for Black readers, combining his signature wit with incisive […]

CSotD: Moscow on the Potomac

by Mike Peterson 12 comments February 20, 2025

Martyn Turner gets to lead off today on the basis of simplicity: Trump is helping Putin to raise the flag of Russia over Ukraine. Extra points for using a symbol of American heroism to mark a moment of American betrayal.You would think, if the Trump administration were going to advocate giving Russia a slice of […]

Glenn Marshall Reviews the Steven Appleby Exhibit

by Alan Gardner 0 comments February 19, 2025

Glenn Marshall took a guided tour through Steven Appleby‘s exhibit Nothing Is Real and writes up a review for Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation website.He begins: I escaped from reality for a couple of hours last week and entered the wonderful world of Steven Appleby at Space Station Sixty Five gallery where I went on a guided […]

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