Animator Dante Barbetta was born December 2, 1934 and so joins the Senior Strippers roll. “Friend Bob,” who Dante addresses in those above drawings, is Bob Coar who, for Cartoon Research, informs us of Dante’s long and varied career in animation in his Born to Animate – Dante Barbetta biographical entry to Coar-Toon Rehash. And […]

English comic strip cartoonist Peter Maddocks has passed away. Peter Maddocks April 1, 1928 – November 20, 2024 From The Telegraph: Peter Maddocks, who has died aged 96, was a cartoonist whose whimsical, humorous style appealed to audiences ranging from readers of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph to the Daily Star and from Private Eye […]

There are all sorts of important political issues to address, but there are also a lot of leftover Thanksgiving political cartoons, and it’s too late to keep arguing over the election because that die has been cast. So here’s a Jimmy Craig cartoon which is also about Thanksgiving but made me smile. I didn’t use […]

Barney and Clyde I like the slow creep of the color into the Sunday Funny partnered with the script. Of course it is no longer applicable since B & C dailies are in color; even in their “home’ paper now – though this may have been written and drawn before The Washington Post went color […]

Strangely, for such a popular comic strip that appears in thousands of newspapers and has scores of book collections published, previous little-known miscellany about Garfield continues to surface. A few years ago the pre-Garfield Jon strip surfaced. Now another obscure set of Garfield comic strips are coming to the fat cat’s fandom. About two years […]

Andertoons (AMS) takes a daring step, making a joke based on the reader having a good vocabulary, but which is funnier if the reader has just enough of a good vocabulary to know what the word means and to feel somewhat proud of that. That is, if ubiquitous/ubiquity were more common words, there’d be nothing […]

David Rowe, editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review, has been voted Cartoonist of the Year by his fellow members of the Australian Cartoonists Association. This is David’s 10th Gold Stanley. He was also awarded his 13th Bronze Stanley for Caricaturist and second for Editorial/Political Cartoonist. In other categories, Edmund Iffland received a Bronze Stanley […]

There are “third rails” that must be avoided in the world of comic strips. One of them is religion and specifically talking to God would be a major no-no. So naturally this past week saw RJ and God having a conversation. Michael Fry and T. Lewis risk retribution from, not God, but newspaper readers in […]

The Museum of Australian Democracy has named Megan Herbert as Cartoonist of the Year for its long-running annual Behind the Lines exhibit. The exhibit “celebrates the talent of this country’s best cartoonists, presenting a unique time capsule of the year in Australian politics.” This is Megan’s first win as Cartoonist of the Year. Her work […]

This is a “where to start” day, but we’ll lead off with Non Sequitur (AMS), because, while I don’t blame it all on the media, I agree with Wiley that the states that were so important a few weeks ago are no longer on anyone’s mind. Election promises are famous for being empty, but I […]

We’ll start with a pair of Thanksgiving family thoughts from Dennis the Menace and The Family Circus about the same relative that followed closely on the Comics Kingdom feed. One thankfully, one wistfully. Then the day after Thanksgiving came Flo and Friends and The Flying McCoys with one following on the heels of the other […]

In 1924 King Features Syndicate offered newspapers an illustrated column by cartoonists in their stable. With Fay King, Jack Callahan, James Swinnerton, Pat Sullivan, Walter Hoban, T. E. Powers, H. H. Knerr, Harry Hershfield, F. Opper, A. C. Fera, Al Zere, and Jack Lait.

When I first saw Nick Anderson (Tribune)‘s latest, I thought it was another slightly-late Thanksgiving piece, since it seemed half the cartoons yesterday depicted people gathered around a spread board, and half the cartoons today seem like Thanksgiving gags that should have run yesterday. However, he offers a solid hit on Trump’s War Against Fairness, […]

In 1924 King Features Syndicate offered newspapers an illustrated column by cartoonists in their stable. With Jimmy Murphy, Billy DeBeck, Amram Scheinfeld, Charles Dunn, Winsor McCay, Darrell McClure, George Herriman, TAD, Cliff Sterrett, and George McManus.

Monty’s right. Nobody’s reading the paper today, and it’s only in relatively recent years that they’ve even bothered to print on holidays, which, by the way, had a lot to do with not being able to get them delivered because the kids were at Grandma’s. So you have your characters wish readers a happy whatever […]