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 […]
Engineer, professor, and cartoonist Dave McGill has passed away. David John (Dave) McGill October 1939 – February(?) 2026 From the obituary: Dave’s career was in teaching and research from 1966-99 at Georgia Tech, where Dave’s dad had worked his way through college in the 1920s. Dave retired as Professor Emeritus of Civil and Aerospace Engineering, […]
Going back in time with comic strip and comic book artists Frank Robbins and Joe Maneely, children’s book writer-artist Judy Varga, a collection of Lynn Johnston interviews, some early Gahan Wilson cartoons, and a profile of William Heath Robinson the Rube Goldberg of England (or was Rube Goldberg the Heath Robinson of America?).Comic Artist Frank […]
I didn’t stay up for the SOTU, though I recorded it in case something untoward happened, but looking at this morning’s summaries, I gather it was all rather toward.In an entertaining analysis of last night’s festivities, Moira Donegan points out that the Constitution only requires a report, not a speech. I looked it up and […]
ICE OUT Comics Minnesota native Jim Keefe maintains an understandable interest in ICE activities. Especially as the I.C.E. drawdown there seems to be fake and more of a rotation. Yesterday he devoted his Patreon entry to the subject. ICE Out Comics were initiated by Minnesota cartoonists K. Woodman-Maynard (Tuck Everlasting GN), Trung Le Nguyen (Angelica […]
President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address tonight at 9 pm Eastern, one reason I miss living in Colorado, where news and sports came on at a decent hour. Winslow is right: 57% of Americans responding to a NPR/PBS News/Marist poll rate the State of the Union as poor, with the 43% […]
For Yale Alumni Magazine Joshua Kendall ’81 offers what I believe is an excerpt from his forthcoming book about Garry Trudeau ’70. This concerns the Doonesbury comic strip during the second Gulf War: In the early years of his long-running strip, Trudeau repeatedly railed against the Vietnam War. “I got some hate mail for these […]