I knew someone was going to do this, but if it’s not surprising, it is well done, because Jones had the sense not to clutter it up with additional images or unnecessary commentary. And I don’t like labels, but he made it a headline instead, which works for me. And he always adds context at […]

Derf Backderf has written a historical graphic novel, with a character of his own making thrown in, to tell the story of a group of socialists fighting the authoritarian government of their time. The Dissidents: Autocrats! Vigilantes! Communists! And Cartoonists! by Derf Backderf is scheduled for a September 2026 release from Abrams ComicArts. From the […]

Starring Lynda Barry, Jon Kudelka, Paul Noth, Amy Kurzweil, the dynamic dou of Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy, and an A.I. Scott Adams! Let’s start this post off with a smile. Lynda Barry If you are anything like me just the sight of the lovely Lynda Barry makes you smile. And if can see her […]

Might as well lead off with the one in dubious taste. Jones doesn’t mind pushing things and I agree with his premise that only crooks wear masks. He’s not the first person to point out that all sorts of law officers manage to get through their workday without hiding their identities and there’s no reason […]

Last April we reported that Solidarity and AfriForum had filed a complaint with the Press Council South Africa against the Daily Maverick after a Zapiro cartoon was published that suggested that AfriForum and Solidarity were claiming there as a genocide of white farmers in South Africa. The Deputy Ombudsman initially ruled against the paper, but […]

Great West Media’s St. Albert Gazette welcomes Ralph Hagen as its new editorial cartoonist. The Gazette is launching a new ongoing weekly cartoon, which will feature the talents of Stony Plain cartoonist Ralph Hagen. Albertan cartoonist Ralph Hagen will juggle humour, satire with local happenings. Most of us know Ralph Hagen as the creator of […]

I’m not really introducing a new thing called “Follow-Up Friday,” but we seem to have a lot of topics hanging around, but getting new spin.I’ve seen a meme that mocks people who said they couldn’t understand Bad Bunny’s Spanish, saying that the Epstein Files are in English and people can’t seem to understand them, either. […]

ASIFA-Hollywood will present the 53rd Annual Annie Awards for excellence in animation on February 21, 2026. That is when the winners in the 32 categories will be handed their awards, but a few special “Juried Annie” have been announced in anticipation of the big night. Among the special honorees are… Presented by ASIFA-Hollywood, the Ub […]

Italian activist/artist Gianluca Costantini will be attending and live-drawing this year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC) to distill complex geopolitical issues into a “visual language that can engage a wider audience.” This year’s MSC will be held February 13-15. Over a thousand dignitaries and heads of state will attend. This is Gianluca’s second MSC. He hopes […]

A collection of newsy items and comic strip commentary featuring Tayo Fatunla, Jason Chatfield, Alex Hallatt, and Charles M. Schulz; with Our Roots return to a New York newspaper, The Bobby Fuller Four, the end of the line for Peanuts, peeing in the comics, babysitting and babies, and tributes to St. Valentine. Tayo Fatunla reports […]

In case you missed it, Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday in order to throw an astonishing Mean Girl Hissy Fit because Representatives had the gall to ask her questions she didn’t want to answer. In another era, it would have been the end of her days in government, but she was […]

with Dr. Sheena C. Howard, The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, King Features Syndicate Production Chief Frank Chillino, Daryl Cagle Selfies, and Professor Sterling Haynes Awarded Emerging Artist Honor. Dr. Sheena C. Howard, Black Comics Writer and Researcher Dr. Sheena C. Howard is an author and researcher of Black culture. Here she is known […]

The world’s oldest continuously published newspaper comic is 125. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Weatherbird first appeared on the paper’s front page on February 11, 1901. Created by staff cartoonist Harry B. Martin a prototype first appeared in The Post-Dispatch’s classifieds on February 2 before debuting on the front page as The Weatherbird nine days later. […]

We’re coming up on another obligatory non-holiday which you have to observe but for which you don’t get time off. Blazek is right that the apostrophe belongs before, not after, the S, though if you poke around in the origins of the day you might stumble across more than one St. Valentine, and, besides, as […]

The Simpsons first appeared on TV in 1987 and a few years later became a long-running (still-running) weekly animated sit-com. As was the custom in the 1990s popular cartoon shows became fodder for syndicates to develop them as newspaper comic strips – think Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rugrats). By 1999 was so popular King Features […]