GoComics’ newsletter reports that after nearly 35 years Wiley Miller will cut his daily workload in half. Starting this week, Wiley Miller is adjusting his workload on his classic satire strip, “Non Sequitur.” New strips will still run Mondays and Wednesdays; Tuesday through Saturday will feature selected reprints pulled from the archive, starting with February 2000. […]
It was in the early 1970s I learned of England’s infatuation with adapting film and TV to comic strips. A fondness that included American big and small screen characters. One of those latter “actors” that came to British comics in the 1960s was Deputy Dawg.John Freeman at downthetubes goes on a search to find Who […]
Librarian (Assistant Curator, Graphic Arts) Legislative Branch Library of Congress From usajobs.gov: The Prints and Photographs Division has one of the largest pictorial research collections in the world with more than 15 million pictures in a variety of visual formats contained in hundreds of individual collections and stored in several locations and remote sites. The […]
What they did when I lived in Plattsburgh was come down to the state park on Lake Champlain. Whamond addresses things from an anglophone angle, but our tourists were francophones from Montreal, which made them particularly uptown and Continental.Which meant that when my son was 16 and working the snack shack on the beach, he […]
A controversy has occurred over two biographical books both of which are titled Charity & Sylvia. The author of the 2014 non-fiction Charity & Sylvia, Rachel Hope Cleves, is accusing the author of the 2026 graphic novel Charity & Sylvia, Tillie Walden, of adapting the 2014 work for the 2026 graphic novel without proper credit […]
Featuring Jonathan Lucia-Wright, Richard Felton Outcault, Tom Racine, John Backderf, and a score of Buffalo area student cartoonists. Caricaturist Hangs Up His Easel Daniel Hickey for the Great Yarmouth Mercury tells of Jonathan Lucia-Wright caricaturing the locals. For the last eight years, a Peterborough man has spent his summer holidays handing out cartoons featuring the […]
Here a generally liberal and a generally conservative cartoonist offer a similar take on the Supreme Court’s finding that, because Roundup’s label doesn’t say it causes cancer, you can’t sue in state courts for Bayer failing to warn you that it causes cancer.Which sounds ridiculous, and there’s a more complex explanation, but it boils down […]
Time has almost run put to get a spot in the National Cartoonists Society’s 2026 Reuben Awards Playbill booklet. July 1 is just around the corner! If you haven’t already, there’s still time to submit your ad for the NCS Conference and Reuben Awards Playbill. Don’t miss the July 1 deadline—reserve your spot in this […]
Editorial cartoonist Paul Fell has passed away. Paul Henry Fell, Jr. January 8, 1946 – June 28, 2026 Friend and associate Shawn Peirce is reporting for the family that Paul Fell has died. If he were reading this, Paul might chuckle and humbly accept the praise – and then he’d likely say something like, “Don’t […]
The day after French head coach Didier Deschamps learned of his mother’s death and excused himself from the French World Cup schedule, Charlie Hebdo posted its Cartoon of the Day depicting the coach lifting an urn labeled ‘mom’ along with the words “Didier Deschamps brings the Cup home.” The cartoon, drawn by Felix, has elicited […]
The future is fun! … The future is fair! … You may already have won! … You may already be there! — I Think We’re All Bozos On This BusWhat if they gave a Great American State Fair and nobody came? That was more or less the scenario on the National Mall this weekend, as […]
Mike Peterson’s Comic Strip of the Day brings up a sore spot with me: the quickly vanishing same day online sources where one can find the Sunday Doonesbury title panel. At the beginning of this year I had three online sites to find that panel. Pete Hegseth took the Stars and Stripes (scroll down) opportunity […]
Cartoonist George Booth was born 100 years ago today – on June 28, 1926. A beloved cartoonist Lambiek Comiclopedia has a fine biography. Both Hogan’s Alley and The Comics Journal have extended interviews with the man from 2018 and 2013 respectively. More personally there are entries tagged “George Booth” from cartoonists Michael Maslin and Mike […]
Dark Side of the Horse doesn’t get a lot of exposure here because it’s not fair use to republish a cartoon without commentary, and there’s rarely anything to say except, “This made me laugh,” which doesn’t count as a critique. But it often makes me laugh.My commentary is that the cartoonist is a Finn, and […]
From Abie the Agent and Nize Baby to Edge City and Pajama Diaries Jewish families have been a part of the funny pages. Now meet The Kichels. From Steve Lipman and The Times of Israel. “The Kichels” is a comic strip that began as a three-month experiment, and will mark its tenth anniversary next year. […]