Painter, illustrator, and cartoonist John Dusko has passed away.John Andrew Dusko, Jr. April 3, 1933 – October 7, 2023 From the obituary: John Andrew Dusko, 90, passed away on Saturday, October 7, 2023, at the Reading Hospital. He was the husband of Annie E. Dusko. John began formal art instruction at the age of 12. […]
This classic xkcd may not quite express my long-term financial plan, but I’m glad I have been saving funny pictures, because, between Jim Jordan cartoons that are suddenly irrelevant, and divisive, nasty commentary on the Middle East — plus the fact that few political cartoons post anything new for Monday anyway — I was in […]
They say there’s nothing new under the sun or on the comics page. But … How Tim Rickard has a couple characters talking over each other in Brewster Rockit is new to me.Not quite as ingenious, but along the same lines is today’s Tarzan. Well, not really along the lines. As noted in the comments, […]
The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip went into rerun status four years and seven months ago with the promise of a new rebooted Spider-Man comic strip forthcoming. That never happened, and now King Features Syndicate and Marvel Comics have ended the newspaper distribution of The Amazing Spider-Man reruns with the Saturday October 21, 2023 issue. Early […]
Following 9/11, I used this Peter Schrank cartoon in my school presentations. It’s brilliant not simply because the world was, indeed, traumatized by the event, but because he melded both that horror-stricken face and Munch’s original drawing of the bridge with the image of people fleeing down the street from the collapsing buildings.And it didn’t […]
Coming soon: report on threatened cartoonists worldwide Oct 20, 2023 | News CARTOONISTS RIGHTS are pleased to announce a new report – Cartoonists on the Line – covering the situation of cartoonists and threats to their freedom of expression, written jointly with colleagues Cartooning for Peace, and supported by our partners FREEDOM CARTOONISTS. This report […]
Never Been Deader by Tommy Devoid has been picked up by a print newspaper.From the October 20(?) Great Bend (Kansas) Tribune: The new comic strip that explores the afterlife in a humorous, “Never Been Deader,” premiers on the Great Bend Tribune comic pages starting today. The Tribune is the first paper in the nation to […]
Brazilian cartoonist Amorim (Cartoon Movement) leads us off today with a reasonable critique of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza, where Israel’s response to the horrific Hamas attacks has combined air attacks on suspected terrorist sites with warnings to civilians to evacuate an already crowded area, while food, water, fuel and electricity have been cut […]
Attention Editorial Cartoonists! It’s time to start sorting your best of 2023 for the 2024 award season. Yesterday the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization sent out a notice that they are now open to receive submissions for the new cycle – editorial cartoons published in 2023. The deadline is January 12, 2024.The Herb Block […]
King Features Syndicate, which introduced the character in 1934, will relaunch the comic strip “Flash Gordon” beginning Sunday after a two-decade absence — featuring a new look and a new artist. (The Sunday and daily strips will be available online and in print.) The Daily Cartoonist broke the news earlier this month and now King […]
As Constant Readers know, I do politics on some days and humor on others, but I’m often conflicted by in which category I should put Tom the Dancing Bug (AMS). Ruben Bolling’s talent for satire may not make me laugh aloud but it often prompts a grim smile.This one prompts a grim smile in grim […]
British cartoonist Tony Husband has passed away. William Anthony (Tony) Husband August 28, 1950 – October 18, 2023Tony’s son Paul broke the news (X/Twitter and Facebook): I hate to post this because I know how many of you are going to be affected by it. Yesterday my Dad, Tony Husband, passed away as he was […]
Cathy Wilcox cites a phenomenon as old as war itself, the need to objectify and make “other” our opponents in order to get past our natural reluctance to attack them. There are times it’s more obvious than others: My father, a WWII vet, remarked on the difference between the European Theater — where the enemy […]
Lemont Brown was created by Darrin Bell in 1993 as a comic strip in UC Berkeley’s Daily Californian. Ten years later, on October 19, 2003, the character began his national syndication as the star of Candorville. above: the first Candorville comic strip as reprinted in Thank God for Culture Clash.below: the first three dailies (October […]
Know, O children, that there was a time when coffee tables across the nation were covered with magazines – Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Companion, True, Look, Reader’s Digest. Field & Stream, and so many others – and those magazines carried a dozen or so gag cartoons in each and every issue. It was an […]