“Have you seen them?”I have an appetite for dumb jokes and Matt Percival offers an excellent example, because people losing their glasses on their foreheads is a very old gag with little potential, while dogs digging up the yard searching for buried bones is ditto, but when you put them together … well, it’s not […]

Leonard Deakyn (L. D.) Warren (editorial cartoonist and Wallace Allan (Wally) Wood, comic artist.From Wikipedia: Leonard Deakyn “L.D.” Warren (December 27, 1906 Wilmington, Delaware – May 14, 1992) was an American editorial cartoonist. Warren graduated from Camden High School in Camden, New Jersey, where his family eventually moved. Warren worked at the New Jersey Courier […]

Sarah’s Scribbles has entered the world of gaming with an all-new interactive experience. From cartoonist Sarah Anderson and An Infinite Story: A new interactive storytelling game launches today as cartoonist/illustrator, and author of the webcomic Sarah’s Scribbles, Sarah Andersen, presents her latest project: Sarah Andersen Comics “After Owning a Cat,” in partnership with An Infinite […]

My initial response to this Cathy Wilcox cartoon was negative, and I still think it is politically unfair, if only because she features Biden, Harris and Walz decrying violence when it is the Democrats who have attempted to limit the problem. There’s a great deal more hypocrisy in the “thoughts and prayers” approach of those […]

Shares of Gannett Are Soaring Today Analysts at Citigroup placed Gannett on a “90-day positive catalyst watch” this morning. Shares of the large publisher Gannett (GCI 18.66%) zoomed 18% higher this morning after Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet placed the stock on a “90-day positive catalyst watch” and upgraded his rating to neutral. Bazinet believes the […]

A Calvin and Hobbes Happy Meal? A Smithsonian History of MAD. Professor Alison Bechdel! Peanuts Library Cards. The CXC Festival. And a Calvin And Hobbes Reading Guide.A Calvin and Hobbes Happy Meal?Cartoonist Jim Engel has rediscovered a late 1980s proposal of his for a McDonalds Happy Meal set of toys featuring Bill Watterson’s Calvin and […]

I love the first panel of this Wallace the Brave (AMS) and I love Amelia because we didn’t have enough girls like her when I was a kid, though we voted one of them prom queen senior year which indicates that the appreciation of such women was present. The Angels sang “My boyfriend’s back and […]

The Baldo comic strip, co-created by Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos, is recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month by featuring Latino guest artists for the strip’s five Sunday comics being published between September 15 and October 15. “There are tons of creative, talented artists who never get a chance to be a part of the funny pages,” […]

The Omaha World-Herald carries the four page Lee Enterprises Sunday comics supplement of 18 comics! The new Lee Enterprises comics full four-page Sunday color King Features Syndicate comics section includes The Family Circus by Jeff Keane Blondie by Dean Young and John Marshall Zits by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman Beetle Bailey by The Walker […]

If you’ve wondered why I feature Clay Jones here so often, only part of it is that I tend to agree with his point of view. The major reason is that he produces a cartoon every day, including a fair number that don’t knock me out and don’t appear here. I mention this because it’s […]

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2024 release.Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Singular Sensations: A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States by Michelle Ann Abate What do The […]

Jim Keefe, Jason Chatfield, Bob Eckstein, Michael Maslin, Darrin Bell, RL Crabb, Richard Marschall, Kyle Bravo, and Wayno. Keefe improvisesSally Forth artist Jim Keefe discusses that unusual and inventive middle panel in today’s comic strip. Chatfield packs up his old kit bag I travel a lot, which I’m lucky to do. I like getting out […]

Pearls Before Swine (AMS) offers a yes-but-no discussion of our situation. There certainly are a lot of people siloed in their own little belief centers, and that’s a problem in a democratic system where people are supposed to make informed decisions.But there is such a thing as truth, and there is such a thing as […]

Michelle Ann Abate, Associate Professor of Literature for Children and Young Adults, has a new book: Singular Sensations – A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States (Rutgers University Press), “the first book-length critical study to examine” single panel comics. It is not a history of the comic panel genre, it is an […]

Cartoonist Pete Songi has launched a new digital magazine called The New Cartoonist. The inaugural issue is 48 pages long and features over 50 cartoonists along with interviews, articles, and animation videos. The cover was drawn by Mark Winter (AKA Chicane).Pete says the idea for the magazine dates back several years and was inspired by a short-lived UK publication called The Cartoonist. In […]