Might as well get my annual fruitcake rant out of the way. There will be a kabillion cartoons twixt now and Dec 25 about how awful fruitcake is, but in this Off The Mark (AMS), Mark Parisi gives us a close-up that explains the problem.Traditional fruitcake is a dense, dark loaf full of brown sugar […]
Winners of The 2023 Ellwood Atfield Political Cartoon of the Year Awards have been announced. Ellwood Atfield with The Political Cartoon Society and the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation hosted the awards which were presented on December 5, 2023 and announced on the Ellwood Atfield X/Twitter feed. Winner of The Low Trophy (Winner, Political Cartoonist of the […]
Occasionally The Daily Cartoonist goes off-trail with some tenuous links to newspaper comics and cartoons…Shaenon K. Garrity at Publishers Weekly checks into WebToons and webcomics getting hard copy editions. Forget swiping right. Online comics are racking up readers, and the test of success is how far readers will scroll on down. As demand for graphic […]
The resumption of war in Gaza is no rumor, though Glen LeLievre manages at least to inject a note of dark comedy, noting the futility of the recent ceasefire. There are all sorts of ways this could have been a maudlin reflection, but the Warner Brothers cartoon mood, IMHO, is more eye-catching and effective.By contrast, […]
Artificial intelligence, the Voice referendum, the cost-of-living crisis, King Charles III’s coronation and the Matildas. These are just some of the events featured in political cartoon exhibition Behind The Lines for 2023, at Canberra’s Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD). This exhibition asks us to laugh, but it also asks us to reflect, discuss, listen and learn.” Canberra’s […]
Red and Rover (AMS)Daddy’s Home — CreatorsLola — AMSYesterday’s comics page didn’t have a Juxtaposition so much as a three-strip pile up. One might suspect that all of the comic strip people live in the same town, but Red and Rover don’t even live in the same year as the others, being in an unspecified […]
Pearls Before Swine, Calvin and Hobbes, Herman, Junco Canché and Lalo Alcaraz (La Cucaracha), Rich Torrey (Hartland), Rip Haywire, Mike Manley (Judge Parker and The Phantom), and more Mutts (but not Guard Dog).While we hate to argue with the Wise Ass on the Hill, his knowledge does have limits. Friday Pig, seeking enlightenment, went to […]
When the little newspaper on Long Island revealed the cascade of lies under which George Santos was elected, it touched off a storm of political cartoons and memes and jokes and not a lot more.Kevin Kallaugher sidesteps the new rash of “Santos is gone” cartoons to focus on why Santos is gone and what it […]
King Features Syndicate has released the 2024 Directory displaying their offerings to newspapers. From King Features: From its many popular comic strips and panels to columns by well-known personalities, incisive editorial cartoons to a wide variety of puzzles and games, King Features covers the world with informative, entertaining features for today’s readers. We’ll highlight their […]
Today’s Pearls Before Swine (AMS) is how we know that Stephan Pastis either (A) is older than we thought or (B) went to a conservative Catholic school or (C) is channeling terrorized older Catholics.I only had two years of Catholic school before we moved to the wilds and I started going to public school, but […]
Insanity Streak, the comic panel by Australian Tony Lopes, was introduced to North American funnies fans two months ago when Comics Kingdom began running it on their website. Now King Features Syndicate will be introducing the comic to newspaper readers in the U.S. (and Canada?). King recently released a press kit for Insanity Streak announcing […]
King Features Syndicate has released a press kit for Alice by Andrea E. Beizer.In February of 2023 the strip began appearing on Comics Kingdom but it has been around, off and on, since 1984. Or maybe 1985.King Features’ strip description: Alice’s struggles to find her way in the world as a woman and an individual […]
I had no intention of highlighting any more Kissinger cartoons, since they have all been pretty much the same, and, as I noted in yesterday’s round-up, he was Jewish and therefore would have barely expected to appear before the Pearly Gates at all, and certainly not in front of St. Peter.But Peter Brookes manages to […]
The drama in this month’s Mutts comic strip has attracted nationwide attention.The Associated Press (AP) released a feature story with quotes from cartoonist Patrick McDonnell about animal cruelty in general and his Guard Dog character in particular. And in a rare moment of a comic strip getting deserved attention newspapers and news outlets across the […]
Henry Kissinger died last evening, too late in the day for American cartoonists to do more than replay some of their previous commentaries on the man. Steve Brodner‘s cover for Nation was only a few months ago, on Kissinger’s 100th birthday, and his dripping blood frosting offers a Reader’s Digest guide to the doctor’s accomplishments, […]