I’m a recovering Catholic and have been for half a century or so, but it happens that even before I saw Necessary’s cartoon, I was thinking that they never should have stopped burning heretics at the stake. Not all heretics, mind you. Not me, certainly.I’m not Torquemada and I don’t insist on everyone becoming Roman […]
With Patrick McDonnell, Emma Allen, Jim Keefe, Patrick O’Connor, Tatiana Gill, Dan Dare, and the NCS. A Note from Patrick McDonnell In anticipation of a new MUTTS Treasury being released later this month Patrick McDonnell sends a note: There’s something special about sharing our precious time with the beings we love… That spirit is at […]
Andrews McMeel Publishing has joined over a hundred other publishers, booksellers, library associations, free speech advocates to oppose House Bill 7761 that critics say gives the government a heavy hand to determine what books can and cannot appear on school library book shelves. Andrews McMeel’s full statement: The freedom to speak and to read is […]
Always good to touch base with First Dog for a reality check. You can’t get much farther away than Tasmania, and so you can’t accuse him of being too close to the subject, and, as near as I can tell, he’s consistently right throughout, including that discouraging final panel. The Democrats have finally sprung into […]
An update that The Bend Bulletin is once again publishing editorial cartoons – see following the original post. Original March 19, 2026 report: It is through a letter writer to the Bend (Oregon) Bulletin (or here) that we learn the paper has discontinued publishing editorial cartoons: I was disappointed to learn that the paper has […]
To paraphrase Liniers, “The Comics keep on truckin’.” Yes, Liniers gives a hat tip to R. Crumb in the bottom left corner. No hat tip, and no reason for one, in today’s Zippy. But that opening line instantly instantly brought to mind Donovan’s Season of the Witch opening words: “When I look out my window…” […]
I’m choosing “or not,” because neither team is holding up licorice. In fact, it’s really hard to find licorice these days, at least the kind of licorice that would last you through a large part of the movie, or that you could bite off and then spit brown liquid and pretend you were a cowboy […]
From Wikipedia: Jucika is a Hungarian silent comic strip created by Pál Pusztai that ran from 1957 to 1970. The titular character is a young, attractive woman who gets into a variety of comedic situations, often risqué and suggestive. The series satirizes and parodies sexism, with many of the strips involving Jucika navigating unwanted attention […]
Beginning in the late 1940s Sy Barry became a comic artist. First assisting his brother Dan on the Tarzan comic strip, then going freelance into comic books while still helping brother Dan on the Flash Gordon comic strip of the 1950s. His main claim to fame is being the artist for The Phantom comic strip […]
There’s an abundance of cartoons going around based on Melania Trump’s statement in which she denied a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and called for public testimony from his victims. Huck satirizes her famous green raincoat to ask a central question, and it’s obvious from the other cartoonists that their answer is “No.” I wish it […]
Hank Kennedy at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) writes of the pressure being seen by U.S. political cartoonists to suppress cartoons critical of the Trump Administration in an article looking at the United States section of Under Pressure: US’s Erosion of the Right to Cartoon Is No Laughing Matter. Pointing out examples from Ann […]
The Changes This Week When cartoonists are able to see their comic strips in print they notice things and make changes. Case in point is Rosebuds by Dee Parson. Rosebuds began running daily in Dee’s local paper and he was finally able to see it regularly on a daily which resulted in him making s […]
I suppose it’s hardly surprising that someone called “First Dog on the Moon” is somewhat excited about the Artemis II mission, though if you’ve seen his cartoons before, it’s equally unsurprising that he’s also somewhat skeptical about it. This seems to be a common split: People fascinated by the space program are fascinated while people […]
As always the new cartoons aren’t as good as the old cartoons; why children are drawn to rambunctious comic characters; the National Cartoonist Society is looking for a few good Toon Talkers; and new comic awards and how they come to pass. The Fairly Oddparents vs. Peppa Pig New children’s cartoons are less entertaining and […]
Netflix will debut “Due Spicci” (My Two Cents) an animation series by Italian cartoonist Zerocalcare (Michele Rech) on May 27. The show is based on Zerocalcare’s character Zero, loosely based on himself as a socially awkward cartoonist and his friends Secco, Sara and his armadillo.This is his third Netflix series. His first two: “Strappare lungo i […]