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 […]

Croatian cartoonist Damir Novak was shot and killed by a neighbor after an alleged years-long property border dispute came to a deadly end on February 6. The neighbor committed later committed suicide. Damir was 66.Damir’s first cartoon was published in 1982 in the weekly Međimurje. In the following years he became one of the most prominent […]

Australian editorial cartoonist Jon Kudelka has passed away. Jonathan Oscar (Jon) Kudelka February 22, 1972 – February 8, 2026 Jon Kudelka’s family has announced the passing of the cartoonist: We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday 8 February 2026, surrounded by his family […]

I don’t know that Loper has pinned down the entire Bad Bunny controversey, but he made me laugh and that’s a good thing. Certainly, in the days after the Super Bowl, I’ve seen lots of praise and support for Bad Bunny’s half time show and only general whining from supporters of the Kid Rock alternate […]

The National Cartoonists Society has officially announced the time and place of this year’s Reuben Awards. The 2026 NCS Conference and 80th Annual Reuben Awards Dinner will be held on August 6-8, 2026 in Columbus Ohio, the home of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum and the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival. I’m sure there […]

At the close of this year’s Le Grand Off, the festival awarded the Prix Charlie Schlingo to French cartoonist Guillaume Bouzard for his album Les Vacances chez Pépé-Mémé. The album is described as a short, gag-driven comic about childhood holidays with grandparents, rendered in Guillaume’s trademark crude, elastic offbeat drawing style.The other prize of the night: The “Couilles […]

I hit “record” and shut off the Super Bowl last night, knowing I’d wake up to a bunch of spoilers. However, as I write this, I don’t know who won because as I went through social media picking out cartoons, I saw a lot about how great Bad Bunny’s halftime show was and very little […]

Newspaper illustrator and animated sports cartoonist Grey Blackwell has passed away. Nelson Grey Blackwell, Jr. November 19, 1969 – February 4, 2026 From the obituary: Nelson Grey Blackwell, Jr., lovingly known as Grey, age 56, of Oxford, North Carolina, passed away on February 4, 2026, in his hometown of Oxford. He went on to earn […]

Rex Morgan, M.D. writer/artist Terry Beatty reports that he is home from the surgeons cracking his chest open: Anyhow, I am pleased to report I am out of the hospital, back home, and settling in to a post surgery recovery situation. I hit the markers for hospital discharge sooner than expected, and while not everything […]

Bennett’s commentary on Dear Leader’s interference with the election process is particularly apt, because, like the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, it has no legislative backing, came with no warning and represents an ego that has gone completely off the rails.It’s hardly the first indication that Trump is slipping a cog, […]

Unlike newspapers.com and newspaperarchive.com Library of Congress’ Chronicling America is a free (your tax dollars at work) resource for researching newspapers and magazines. A worthy resource for investigating America’s past – like newspaper comic strips, and other far less important subjects. The LoC is offering a webinar on how to search the site for best […]

Last Sunday’s Wizard of Id became the topic of an Arkansas Democrat Gazette editorial (or here): This past weekend, The Wizard of Id got political. Or not. You might have seen the strip Sunday–a whole strip dedicated to . . . We’re not sure. What was it trying to say? Epstein! … was some folks’ […]

A little late, dated four days after the Big Event, but if you remove the glands under their legs, they reportedly cook up like rabbit or chicken. However, don’t try to eat Phil. Nothing about sentiment, but he’s kind of old and would be pretty tough.Hey, they’re gonna eat your garden. What goes around comes […]

“Political cartoons are dying a slow death. The cartoonists who remain are doing what they can to keep them alive. Others have had to make what was once their job, a hobby.” Bill Day has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years as a staff cartoonist for the Detroit Free Press (1985-1998) and […]