On Friday, as the BDN news staff paused from covering the manhunt, we started to notice something happening. “I was seeing normal people, friends of mine from outside politics or journalism, sharing that cartoon. It was just poignant,” BDN politics editor Mike Shepherd said. The idea quickly came together to merge Danby’s art with a […]

If I’m going to use a New England-based Halloween pun in the headline, I should start with a New England-based comic, so here’s Wallace the Brave (AMS)‘s landscape of Snug Harbor, RI, to which I would add that social media has been full of wet blanket discussions of what candy is no good, but the […]

Can any one translate the entire message from today’s Free Range?for thing that … was … you … dying because ????? When I look out my windowMany sights to seeAnd when I look in my windowSo many different people to be They’re strange, so strange This ain’t your father’s Gil Thorp. (Must be the season […]

In 1993, the New Yorker published a cartoon featuring two dogs sitting at a computer. With a paw resting on the keyboard, one says to the other: “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”Today, the iconic image still resonates, holding the record as the most reprinted New Yorker cartoon in the magazine’s history. Earlier […]

This is going to be a grumpy day, but let’s start with Jimmy Margulies (KFS)‘s commentary on Mike Johnson’s ascension to the speakership, because at least it made me laugh. Granted, as the emperor in this Oren Bernstein cartoon notes, humor isn’t necessarily a great weapon and it’s not at all required in political cartooning, […]

The Australian Cartoonists Association celebrated their 39th Annual Stanley Awards Saturday evening.The Australian Financial Review reports on one of its own taking the top prize: The Australian Financial Review’s editorial cartoonist David Rowe [link added] has won the Australian Cartoonists Association’s Gold Stanley for best cartoonist of the year. This is the ninth time Rowe […]

Arlo and Janis (AMS) make sensible preparations for Tuesday night. My apartment is at the back of the landlords’ house and so I don’t get trick-or-treaters, which is good because my current dog is not used to knocks on the door. But in days of larger dogs and a place with heavier traffic, I had […]

The big comic strip news is Dan Schkade‘s all-new, reinvigorated Flash Gordon. Dan sat with Zack Quaintance of The Beat for an interview. DAN: We’ll be travelling all across Mongo in the wake of this global revolution. We’ll spend time with the familiar royal characters of course, like Prince Vultan, Witch-Queen Azura, and Queen Fria, who I […]

You can tell this is an old Arlo & Janis (AMS) — it’s from 2000 — because I don’t think many people defrag their hard drives anymore, or, at least, it’s not as easy to climb into the guts of the machine as it was back in the days of C-prompts.I don’t have a better […]

It’s Saturday in Australia. Admittedly early Saturday but the weekend has started nonetheless. And that means… The Australian Cartoonists Association annual Stanleys Conference and Awards weekend is October 28 and 29, 2023 in St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria. The Awards Dinner will be Saturday night. For the updated weekend program, go here. The various award categories […]

Timing matters, and Lee Judge (KFS) offered this cartoon yesterday. That, plus the elephants, indicates that he meant the metaphorical war in the Capitol, not the actual shooting war that has once again burst out, this time in Maine, but which was too late to be part of his consideration.But the question applies there, too. […]

For 20 years Chuck Legge drew editorial cartoons for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, a liberal voice in a conservative Alaskan climate. Then, in the name of better local content the paper’s new publisher got rid of the cartoonist providing local commentary. Below the headline, an editorial added that “Legge was never shy about his political […]

It’s no laughing matter. Austerity, consolidation and platform disparity undermine cartoons and comics. “I’m expecting some problems.” Editor & Publisher looks at the current situation of newspaper syndicated editorial cartoons and comic strips. Ginger Meggs is an institution in Australia, where the beloved comic strip — about a “red-haired larrikin” living in the suburbs — […]

Wiley Miller lived in New England for some years, which he proves with this Non Sequitur (AMS). It’s nice to live in the Northern Forest because autumns are spectacular, but, yes, timing is everything and those “from away” must learn that it’s nearly impossible to plan a trip ahead of time that will put you […]

While comics have appeared in print since the late 1800s, it wasn’t until 1989 that “Black women characters drawn by a Black woman’s hand have been given a voice on the comics page in the mainstream press,” says cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft. Thirty-four years ago, her comic strip, “Where I’m Coming From,” was first published in […]