Notes on newspaper comics from the past week. Since Randy Milholland got the Popeye assignment a few years ago he has been trawling through the hero’s history for characters. Now he has landed Popeye Junior. Is this meeting of Swee’pea and Junior a first? This Popeye adventure started 16 months ago on August 22, 2024. […]
Amsterdam cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards claimed this year’s European Cartoon Award last night at the annual European Cartoon Award ceremony held in The Hague. His cartoon focused on the death and destruction of Palestine by Israel and the fecklessness of the United Nations. Emanuele Del Rosso, Head of the European Cartoon Award had this to say […]
There is an expression within the Cold Water Rescue community, “They’re not dead until they’re warm and dead.” It comes from having pulled people out of icy water with no discernible signs of life, only to find that they can be revived by appropriate action as they warm up. Only when they are warm and […]
Before there was cartoonist Tom Tomorrow there was cartoonist Dan Perkins. “This Modern World, the long-running, award-winning satirical comic that Dan Perkins publishes under the pen name Tom Tomorrow, came to life in Iowa City during the mid-’80s. Perkins first began sketching the strip while working at a downtown copy shop, though his passion for […]
The Benito Beet Beat Facebook page has won the right to post anonymous cartoons criticizing the local government. From sanbenito.com: San Benito County and the First Amendment Coalition reached a settlement in a case involving a social media page that posted content that was allegedly threatening toward local officials and their families. Under the settlement, […]
Dennis Green is gone, but his rant lives on, not because it applied to a football game, but because it continues to apply to people who look a threat straight in the eye and decide not to see it. Green said what he should have said, but that’s what nobody ever says because we’d rather […]
It’s that time of year when The Bests of 2025 starts making their appearances, and first out of the starting blocks is Roll Call’s political cartoonist R. J. Matson. Some subjects seem to be evergreens, at least for the duration of the current administration. ‘Cap’-py days are here again — Capitol Ink’s best of 2025 […]
Jules Chin Greene at Popverse reports a new WEBTOON initiative to assist their cartoonists to “nurture talent and ‘fuel creative careers’ of the creators on its platform” including expanding monetization opportunities: So what does this all mean in practice? The Creator Program will have “expanded monetization opportunities, new convention and event support, and new educational […]
Golding offers a Banksyesque tribute to Australia’s new age limitations on social media. The first thing to note is that kids under 16 are not being banned from going on-line. Rather, as of Wednesday, they’re banned from accessing 10 social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, Kick and Threads. Which […]
Wages of Sin cartoonist Keith Brown has passed away. Keith Edward Brown March 19, 1963 – December 10, 2025 The family has notified friends and fans through social media that Keith Brown has passed: It breaks my heart to have to post this today. But my loving and wonderful husband Keith has passed. Keith’s career […]
Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco‘s Never Again!..And Again…And Again…And Again three page graphic documentary on the Gaza tragedy issued earlier in 2025 will go on exhibition in Paris with the original art and preliminary drawing to sold with moneys going to UNICEF for the aid on the ground to Palestinian children. From La Galerie Martel […]
It happens, and I’m leading off with Clay Jones’ version because he acknowledged what is known in the trade as a “Yahtzee.” I hate it when another cartoonist does the same idea that I draw, but honestly, this one doesn’t surprise me, as this might be an obvious joke. Oh well. If similar cartoons drop […]
From Animation Magazine comes the Animated Feature Nominees for the 83rd Golden Globes. Details, like the KPop Demon Hunters phenomenon also being nominated in the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement Globe and a third Golden Globe nomination for its blockbuster song “Golden,” are reported in the Ramin Zahed story. Ramin notes that in the past […]
Science Fiction artist and cartoonist Grant Canfield has passed away. Robert Grant Canfield November 21, 1945 – October 21, 2025 From the obituary: He was born in Belmond, Iowa, making his way through high school and the Eagle Scouts in Decatur, IL, then heading west for college and continuing west until 1970, when he arrived […]
In case you missed it, the world has shifted, and, as Eliot predicted, not with a bang, but a whimper. A bang you would have noticed, and perhaps resisted. A whimper sneaks up, and yet, once it is in place, you wonder how you could have missed it before. Or perhaps you don’t, which is […]