The familiar advice to new journalists will never become obsolete: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” It might not have saved Dana Summers (Tribune) this time. It is, nonetheless, doubly-good advice, because to begin with, you should always get confirmation before publishing, no matter what kind of no-deadlines pressure you may […]

Tanks. Jimmy. Meat robots. These are the weirdos that make up the only extended universe that matters: Heathcliff. If all you know about pop culture’s second most famous orange cat is that he eats fish down to the skeleton, well, that’s a good gag. But there’s more to the comic strip than that — for […]

Do you crave high stress, low pay and lack of job security? Pick up a pen (or a Wacom tablet) and join the cartoon community! I’m not referring as much to animation, graphic novels, freelance illustration or other disciplines but SINGLE-PANEL GAG CARTOONS—broken dreams, talking to yourself, unpaid cartoons, stolen work and so much more. […]

Today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) starts off a posting which also begins with my admission that I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Close cover before striking. Void where prohibited.Still, before I started critiquing cartoons regularly in 2010, “fair use” and “copyright” were the first things I looked into, including querying the […]

‘The Bronco Bar Incident’ BAR HARBOR [Maine] — Last season, a driver from New Jersey got his Ford Bronco stuck in the mudflats between Bar Harbor and Bar Island until a salvage company floated it to a sandbar… Now, 12 cartoonists have taken up their pens to draw about the event with the results to […]

Maria Scrivan has decided to pull her Half Full comic from print newspaper syndication. She will continue the panel as a webcomic, albeit on a reduced schedule. Maria informed her fans of the changes with the Monday, May 15, issue. Maria told The Daily Cartoonist: It was a childhood dream come true to see Half […]

*Someone will observe that these are not points of order but points of personal privilege. However, (A) I’ve already used that gag, (B) everything I write is a point of personal privilege and (C) go tell yer mudder she wants you.We’ll start with an easy one: Jeff Stahler (AMS) offers a comparison between today’s hostile, […]

The Washington Post created a page on their website dedicated to comics journalism. The Washington Post Illustrated Reporting page gathers past and present graphic stories from the paper.More about the newly established “landing page” for WaPo cartoonist-reporters at Mike Rhode’s Comics DC. graphics © The Washington Post and/or their respective copyright owners feature image by […]

Blondie Boopadoop, Popeye, Longest-Running Comic Strips, Dennis the Menace, Harold Wilson. Blondie Bumstead, née Boopadoop? Before she married Dagwood Bumstead, Blondie’s name was Blondie Boopadoop. That’s what Wikipedia says, that’s what King Features Syndicate says, that’s what the Library of Congress says. But… was it? Rubbercat.net finds that the prevailing wisdom “while it’s official enough, […]

This is one of those “Where do I start?” days, but Eric Allie (Counterpoint) offers a segue from yesterday, in which I chided Bob Gorrell and Mike Lester for writing Title 42 cartoons before the fact arose that, rather than their expected flood of migrants with the demise of the act, the number of crossing […]

[W]hen Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Sack decided to retire last year after four decades at [The Minneapolis Star Tribune], Opinion Editor Scott Gillespie decided to buck industry trends and announced he had an opinion position to fill: editorial cartoonist. “I would see some job postings at our newspaper, and I would think, ‘That’s important, and I […]

Mike Rhode is a general comics scholar with a particular interest in Washington, D. C. cartoonists as revealed through his Comics DC blog (and, full disclosure, is a friend of The Daily Cartoonist). Yesterday Mike went on a three part self-described “rant” about The Washington Post’s recent treatment of comics and cartoons appearing in the […]

Ed Wexler poses the question of whether Dianne Feinstein learned anything from the results of Ruth Bader Ginsburg lingering on the court so long that Donald Trump got to choose her successor. The answer is “Apparently not,” because Ginsburg was mentally sharp right to the end, while Feinstein has reportedly been less so, needing prompts […]

A belated Happy Birthday to cartoonist Sidney Harris who turned 90 years old last Monday. Having been born on May 8, 1933 Sidney is now entitled to be part of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Strippers society.Magazine cartoonist Sidney Harris has had his cartoons appear in Playboy, The New Yorker, The Magazine of Science Fiction and […]

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Absent from the April accounting: Now to the May releases…Another absentee from the April annals:A highlight of the May releases: