Jeff Kinney and his Wimpy Kid rule; Detroit is now a kinda, sorta a one newspaper town with two newspapers; some real life inspirations behind some animated characters. 300,000,000 Above are the Amazon Best Sellers in Children’s Humorous Comics & Graphic Novels as of this posting. Jeff Kinney and Dav Pilkey rule. Especially Kinney. From […]

Today is a sort of cartoonists’ holiday. Nobody takes Groundhog Day seriously, except the Chamber of Commerce in Punxsutawney, obviously, but there it is and gag cartoonists can pop out something and enjoy a short day.Editorial cartoonists can get their compensation sometime later in the year by showing Bill Murray waking up to another round […]

Title PanelsA new Sunday Phantom story, “1536” (four hundred years before the February 1936 start of The Phantom comic strip), means a new Sunday Phantom title panel by Jeff Weigel. Speaking of title panels…I’m enjoying the new weekly title panels Caroline Cash is creating for the Sunday Nancy comic strip. The Olivia Jaimes era only […]

Danziger explained it all back in 2018, but it’s a much older story than that. For Americans, as everyone who paid attention in high school social studies knows, the issue of press freedom was raised when we were still a British colony. In 1734, New York’s royal governor charged John Peter Zenger‘s newspaper, The New […]

Hearst editorial page editor John Breunig asks, “Why are editorial cartoonists drawn to Donald Trump?” (or here). How would Dr. Seuss have drawn President Donald Trump? This is what I’m thinking as we launch a new feature showcasing political cartoons of the previous month. Satirists seem to be competing to see who can sketch the […]

Surprises Cathy Commiserating with the people of Minneapolis was an unexpected show of support. Cathy Guisewite got all kinds of love on her Facebook and Instagram pages for sending good thoughts.Also out of the blue came Ben Zaehringer referencing Lewis Carroll’s cautionary tale of “The Walrus and The Carpenter” in In the Bleachers this past […]

I was prepared to jump right into this very non-comical story, and the AAEC has released a statement on it, but I didn’t find enough cartoons this morning on the topic, so it’ll have to wait. But Slyngstad dropped two commentaries, this light-hearted iconic one and a more serious one that you’ll see when more […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has issued a statement about the arrest of Don Lemon: There’s a reason free speech and freedom of the press are the first of the essential liberties enshrined as the Bill of Rights in our Constitution. If people aren’t free to speak and assemble and if the press isn’t […]

As everyone knows Garfield celebrates his birthday every year on June 19 because it was on that date in 1978 that Garfield began his syndicated newspaper comic strip. But cartoonist Jim Davis introduced Garfield and Jon two and a half years before that on January 8, 1976 as a weekly strip in The Pendleton Times. […]

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a national strike going on today to protest ICE, with the slogan “No work, No school, No shopping,” and Matt Davies suggests some alternatives: A quiet walk on the beach alone, communing with nature privately in the forest or skipping a movie along with everybody else.Melania: Twenty Days to […]

Steve Sack returns to the drawing board, KAL shows how he creates and provides a flow chart, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Tessa Hulls is interviewed, Freebies: Comics Research Bibliography and Addenda and The Blue Road to Trump Hell, American Library’s list of Youth Media Awards (the Newbery, the Caldecott, the Alex for Peter Kuper, and […]

The estate of Will Eisner is putting the entire output of Will Eisner that they control through copyright and trademark up for sale, including The Spirit and all of Eisner’s graphic novels and comics.George Gene Gustines for The New York Times reports (or here): Up for grabs are Eisner’s graphic novels, children’s books and instruction […]

If you think that headline is confusing, buckle up. Today, on the first day of the new indie Angoulême festival, Le Grand Off (organized to replace the canceled 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival), the Angoulême International Comics Festival (aka FIBD), along with disgraced 9e Art+ festival manager Franck Bondoux, announced they will sue the Association […]

Anderson nails our current situation well in his latest piece, and addresses a matter that has bothered me for several years.As you can see from his sig, Ratt introduced the concept six years ago. I liked it then, but I couldn’t take the warning literally. It’s an oversimplification to say our Civil War was fought […]

Author and TCJ comics reviewer Frank M. Young looks at the new Nancy by Caroline Cash, with a hat tip to Ernie Bushmiller‘s original and the Olivia Jaimes‘ reboot, at Prospect Magazine. Comics characters often outlive their creators. Some have carried on for decades, others more than a century, picked up by new artists and […]