Jim McCloskey began his newspaper career on staff with The News-Virginian advertising department from 1986 to 1988. In 1989 he moved to The News Leader art department a few miles away where he began drawing editorial cartoons. In 2012 Jim moved to Mississippi and The Sun Herald for a couple years. “I thought that I […]
We visit “Aquino,” Tom Tomorrow and Ruben Bolling, Patrick McDonnell, Lee Falk, and antisemitism.New Ripley’s Cartoonist Who is Also Mostly UnknownThe new Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoonist “DeJoy“ has, after one week (February 23-28, 2026), given way to another new cartoonist “Aquino” beginning today March 2, 2026. A Ruben Bolling-Tom Tomorrow Funny Times Interview […]
Two days after the attacks on Iran began, the assault continues to dominate political cartooning, though Monday is always quiet as few cartoonists work the weekend.Deering reminds us that Trump had claimed to have obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability and now says the attacks are intended to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. At the […]
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) was formed 80 years ago on March 1, 1946. From the National Cartoonists Society page: The Society was born at a specially convened dinner in New York in March, 1946, that saw Rube Goldberg elected as president, Russell Patterson as vice president, C.D. Russell as secretary and Milton Caniff as […]
Mike started this morning off by giving G. B. Trudeau and Doonesbury the Good Timing Award. Here is the title panel to today’s Doonesbury: Comic Strip Trivia Enjoyed today’s Thatababy and am impressed with Jonathan Lemon’s ability to ape the various named cartoonists’ drawing styles and signing the panel that included one of his current […]
Nice timing on today’s Doonesbury, which was done some time ago but appears just as Dear Leader demonstrates his peacekeeping skills as well as his need for praise.Among editorial cartoonists, it was interesting to see who leapt into the fray and who did not. I recognize that some cartoonists may not be allowed to break […]
Jason Chatfield tours The New Yorker exhibit and we tag along; The Funday Times returns to The Sunday Times; Bob Eckstein on Books and Bookstores; Old Animated Cartoons were Better than their Modern Counterparts (opinion); Healthy Graphics with Gillian Levine; and William Henry Jackson by William Henry Jackson (Bill) Griffith. A Tour of The New […]
The Sunday Zits comic strip will be original material while the daily Zits will remain in rerun status.The Daily Cartoonist contacted the creators of the Zits comic strip and Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman passed our inquiry on to King Features Executive Editor Amy Anderson who graciously responded: Jerry and Jim will continue to create […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was written in the early hours of the morning before American participation was announced. I see no reason to make any changes beyond acknowledging the announcement.This is indeed the new normal. We’re kept up to date on the weather, but the possibility that we were about to be involved in a war […]
Back in the Spring of 2022 editorial cartoonist Steve Sack retired due to a medical condition. After 42 years and 10,000 cartoons, Steve Sack didn’t retire from the Star Tribune in 2022 because he ran out of passion or ammunition for editorial cartooning. At 68, his Pulitzer Prize-winning right hand had failed him—carpal tunnel, nerve […]
Becky Fillinger for The Minneapolis Times conducts a short interview with cartoonist Jim Keefe. Our neighbor Jim Keefe is the illustrator and colorist for the Sally Forth comic strip. He frequently references places in the Twin Cities in the strip – keep reading for fun examples. We talked to Jim about cartooning as a career (he’s had […]
But if your name is Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, your dreams just got shattered, because there aren’t enough Republicans to get you passed, or even enough to get rid of the filibuster rule and do it with a mere majority. Sing us a song about how a bill becomes toast.Another blow to Dear Leader’s […]
Comic strips of two rows became a rarity in newspapers (Minute Movies, Star Hawks) but in magazines and webcomics they are fairly common, today we look at two double row comics, one from a magazine and one from the interwebs.The Life and Times of Boarder Bob A bit over thirty years ago a young magazine […]
Cartoonist Unions? LEGO Snoopy! The London Cartoon Museum at 20. Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide 2026. Record Number of Journalists Killed in 2025. Comic Creators Once More Try to Organize Another attempt to organize a cartoonists union is in the offing. Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool reports: The fight to establish a union of comic […]
A response to the braggadocio in Dear Leader’s speech. It’s not unusual for the SOTU to include some blue sky self-praise to go along with the more serious policy discussions, but this claim was not only meaningless but flies in the face of the criticism we’ve been hearing both from other governments and from citizens […]