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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Letters to the Editor of The Dallas Morning News: One by one I have seen media outlets across the country bend the knee and kiss the ring of the new regime. … The paper has taken 10 steps backward by completely dropping Doonesbury on Sundays, not just every time it offends the editors’ sensibilities. This […]
Danziger tells us what we ought to already know, but “ought to” is critical, because there are way too many people — by which I mean voters — who have no idea how schools work or why we have a Department of Education in the first place.The notion that Trump/Musk are bringing an end to […]
During an email exchange (Hi Grant) it was revealed to me that the Detroit Free Press (Freep) was a part of the Gannett/USA Today Network that was not following corporate orders to run some combination of The Gannett 34. The full daily Gannett comics lineup of 33 (no Sunday only Foxtrot) below.Instead the Detroit Free […]
TCJ: In your experience, how has the role of a syndicate changed from 2008–2009 to now? TEA FOUGNER: I’d just like to set the stage a little bit for folks who aren’t familiar with how syndication works. Syndication is a way for syndication clients (usually newspapers, but increasingly websites and other digital clients) to bring […]
I’m picky when it comes to variations on the old fish-swallowing-fish concept. First, it needs to be applicable, and, in this case, it is: Trump has swallowed the Republican Party — as demonstrated by the confirmations of his unqualified cabinet — and Musk is clearly in charge of Trump, as demonstrated by that jaw-dropping spectacle […]
The first issue of The New Yorker was cover dated February 21, 1925. But as we all know periodicals are on the newsstands, and newsstands were prolific in 1925 unlike today, several days, sometimes even weeks, before the date printed on magazine covers. From Defining New Yorker Humor by Judith Yaross Lee: [T]he first issue […]