This is going to be a grumpy day, but let’s start with Jimmy Margulies (KFS)‘s commentary on Mike Johnson’s ascension to the speakership, because at least it made me laugh. Granted, as the emperor in this Oren Bernstein cartoon notes, humor isn’t necessarily a great weapon and it’s not at all required in political cartooning, […]

The Australian Cartoonists Association celebrated their 39th Annual Stanley Awards Saturday evening.The Australian Financial Review reports on one of its own taking the top prize: The Australian Financial Review’s editorial cartoonist David Rowe [link added] has won the Australian Cartoonists Association’s Gold Stanley for best cartoonist of the year. This is the ninth time Rowe […]

Arlo and Janis (AMS) make sensible preparations for Tuesday night. My apartment is at the back of the landlords’ house and so I don’t get trick-or-treaters, which is good because my current dog is not used to knocks on the door. But in days of larger dogs and a place with heavier traffic, I had […]

The big comic strip news is Dan Schkade‘s all-new, reinvigorated Flash Gordon. Dan sat with Zack Quaintance of The Beat for an interview. DAN: We’ll be travelling all across Mongo in the wake of this global revolution. We’ll spend time with the familiar royal characters of course, like Prince Vultan, Witch-Queen Azura, and Queen Fria, who I […]

You can tell this is an old Arlo & Janis (AMS) — it’s from 2000 — because I don’t think many people defrag their hard drives anymore, or, at least, it’s not as easy to climb into the guts of the machine as it was back in the days of C-prompts.I don’t have a better […]

It’s Saturday in Australia. Admittedly early Saturday but the weekend has started nonetheless. And that means… The Australian Cartoonists Association annual Stanleys Conference and Awards weekend is October 28 and 29, 2023 in St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria. The Awards Dinner will be Saturday night. For the updated weekend program, go here. The various award categories […]

Timing matters, and Lee Judge (KFS) offered this cartoon yesterday. That, plus the elephants, indicates that he meant the metaphorical war in the Capitol, not the actual shooting war that has once again burst out, this time in Maine, but which was too late to be part of his consideration.But the question applies there, too. […]

For 20 years Chuck Legge drew editorial cartoons for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, a liberal voice in a conservative Alaskan climate. Then, in the name of better local content the paper’s new publisher got rid of the cartoonist providing local commentary. Below the headline, an editorial added that “Legge was never shy about his political […]

It’s no laughing matter. Austerity, consolidation and platform disparity undermine cartoons and comics. “I’m expecting some problems.” Editor & Publisher looks at the current situation of newspaper syndicated editorial cartoons and comic strips. Ginger Meggs is an institution in Australia, where the beloved comic strip — about a “red-haired larrikin” living in the suburbs — […]

Wiley Miller lived in New England for some years, which he proves with this Non Sequitur (AMS). It’s nice to live in the Northern Forest because autumns are spectacular, but, yes, timing is everything and those “from away” must learn that it’s nearly impossible to plan a trip ahead of time that will put you […]

While comics have appeared in print since the late 1800s, it wasn’t until 1989 that “Black women characters drawn by a Black woman’s hand have been given a voice on the comics page in the mainstream press,” says cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft. Thirty-four years ago, her comic strip, “Where I’m Coming From,” was first published in […]

Eighty years ago Batman and Robin swung from comic books onto newspaper pages on October 25, 1943. The 13th Dimension presents the first 13 comic strips by Bob Kane with Bill Finger and Charles Paris.********** Further back in time Euronews takes a look at “The day the US invented the newspaper comic strip. Maybe.” Author […]

Robert Ariail depicts the Republican elephant whistling past the graveyard, and it certainly seems the GOP is coming apart at the seams and could, indeed, cease to exist.The Whigs, however, may not be the best example of that, though they did go from being able to put candidates in the White House — not exactly […]

The new book by cartoonist Roz Chast, I Must Be Dreaming, was released today and is being talked about and reviewed by all the major outlets. So The Daily Cartoonist, which dreams of playing with the big boys, joins in.A day late, we missed the launch at Museum of the City of New York yesterday.The […]

By Alan Rusbridger: Imagine having a job which involves deliberately causing offence. Imagine going to work to ridicule, belittle, savage and generally humiliate others. We would shun such bitter and twisted people, right?  Not if they were cartoonists. Unless we were ourselves unlucky enough to be in their crosshairs, we might well laugh with them. […]