Cartoonist and biographer Bill Griffith has an obsession with Ernie Bushmiller and Nancy and Sluggo. In the past seventeen strips that trio, or some combination of them, have been mentioned in four of his Zippy the Pinhead comics, including today’s. So fans of Griffith, Bushmiller, and comics looked forward to the release of his graphic […]
Today will be a combination of the absurd and the frightening, so we’ll start somewhere in the middle with Graeme MacKay’s commentary on the price of Christmas trees. The scout troop in our town square is selling them for $65, about the same price as the local co-op, but I haven’t checked prices elsewhere because, […]
More missing Vintage Judge Parker (KFS) strips, and this week’s content glitch includes a pretty significant plot development.
Peter Evans has been contributing editorial cartoons to The Islander News of Key Biscayne for nearly 30 years. During that time his cartoons have drawn negative comments. A cartoon about the current Israeli/Hamas War is no exception. For example: The November 30 edition had a cartoon depicting the battle between Israel and Hamas. I object […]
Break of Day arrived on the Comics Kingdom roster when it relocated to its new home last Spring [link added]. However, the online strip goes back to August 29, 2011 [link added], when it was picked up for syndication. Its origin dates back even further to 2003 in the college newspaper, The Wright State Guardian, […]
Matt DaviesClay JonesBy now you’ve heard that Time magazine has named Taylor Swift its Person of the Year, which I capitalize because they’ve managed to make it into a Big Freaking Deal despite a few damp squibs and obvious choices over the years.You can tell that Matt Davies has daughters, because he doesn’t seem particularly […]
Harry McCracken in Scrappyland Preeminent Scrappy historian Harry McCracken returns, after a two year absence, to present a print off-shoot of the 1930s animated character: The Complete Scrappy Comic Strip “by” Charles Mintz. Says Harry: Among Scrappy rarities, few items are as tantalizingly obscure as the Scrappy newspaper strip. Though perhaps “newspaper strip” is a […]
Cartoonist Chris Browne passed away early this year, now much of his, and his wife Carroll who predeceased him by a few years, estate is going up for sale. KELO of Sioux Falls South Dakota reports: Now 10 months after his passing much of his estate is going up for sale at his home on […]
Might as well get my annual fruitcake rant out of the way. There will be a kabillion cartoons twixt now and Dec 25 about how awful fruitcake is, but in this Off The Mark (AMS), Mark Parisi gives us a close-up that explains the problem.Traditional fruitcake is a dense, dark loaf full of brown sugar […]
Winners of The 2023 Ellwood Atfield Political Cartoon of the Year Awards have been announced. Ellwood Atfield with The Political Cartoon Society and the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation hosted the awards which were presented on December 5, 2023 and announced on the Ellwood Atfield X/Twitter feed. Winner of The Low Trophy (Winner, Political Cartoonist of the […]
Occasionally The Daily Cartoonist goes off-trail with some tenuous links to newspaper comics and cartoons…Shaenon K. Garrity at Publishers Weekly checks into WebToons and webcomics getting hard copy editions. Forget swiping right. Online comics are racking up readers, and the test of success is how far readers will scroll on down. As demand for graphic […]
The resumption of war in Gaza is no rumor, though Glen LeLievre manages at least to inject a note of dark comedy, noting the futility of the recent ceasefire. There are all sorts of ways this could have been a maudlin reflection, but the Warner Brothers cartoon mood, IMHO, is more eye-catching and effective. By […]
Artificial intelligence, the Voice referendum, the cost-of-living crisis, King Charles III’s coronation and the Matildas. These are just some of the events featured in political cartoon exhibition Behind The Lines for 2023, at Canberra’s Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD). This exhibition asks us to laugh, but it also asks us to reflect, discuss, listen and learn.” Canberra’s […]
Red and Rover (AMS)Daddy’s Home — CreatorsLola — AMSYesterday’s comics page didn’t have a Juxtaposition so much as a three-strip pile up. One might suspect that all of the comic strip people live in the same town, but Red and Rover don’t even live in the same year as the others, being in an unspecified […]
Pearls Before Swine, Calvin and Hobbes, Herman, Junco Canché and Lalo Alcaraz (La Cucaracha), Rich Torrey (Hartland), Rip Haywire, Mike Manley (Judge Parker and The Phantom), and more Mutts (but not Guard Dog).While we hate to argue with the Wise Ass on the Hill, his knowledge does have limits. Friday Pig, seeking enlightenment, went to […]