Olive and Popeye began on August 30, 2022 with the team of Shadia Amin creating the adventures of Olive on Tuesdays and Randy Milholland doing the same for Popeye on Thursdays.But after a year Shadia gave up the assignment back on August 22, 2023 saying: Hi all! Today my last strip of Olive & Popeye […]
Since I’m trying to get out of town for the AAEC Convention in San Francisco, I intended to feature funny stuff this morning rather than getting bogged down in details. However, everything seemed to require explanations, so we’ll start with today’s Betty (AMS).I think of this topic as the place on the Venn diagram where […]
Eighty-one years ago Walt Kelly introduced the world to Pogo Possum in a comic book.For the next five years Pogo and Albert the Alligator appeared in those Animal Comics and in a couple Four-Color specials. Then in late 1947 Pogo and friends entered into a kind of limbo. Walt Kelly continued contributing to The Brownies […]
The Staunton News Leader is part of Gannett’s USA TODAY Network, and so their comics page will now consist of that newspaper’s choice among a selection of comics as handed down by headquarters in Gannett’s effort to standardize the group’s funnies. Unfortunately Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by local cartoonist John Rose, which The News […]
There was a substantial mix of cartoons this morning about the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House, some of them clearly drawn before the vote, others done with apparent haste after the matter had been decided in the late afternoon.Clay Bennett (CTFP) does well with a depiction of the monster shorn of […]
The Star Tribune is moving on without an editorial cartoonist, following an announcement Monday that Mike Thompson would be moved from a full-time role to a freelance position. The independent Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Mike Thompson, who the newspaper hired in April of this year as a staff editorial cartoonist, will now cartoon for […]
A rejuvenated Flash Gordon comes twenty years after the last new Flash Gordon comics appeared in newspapers and 90 years after the comic strip first appeared in newspapers. The new daily and Sunday adventures will continue with, and be faithful to, the characters of Flash, Dale, and Zarkov … and Ming.From the King Features Press […]
Good to see that Barry Blitt is as confused as I am.I didn’t stay up to watch the debate, figuring I could pick up the analysis the next morning, but all I got from the analysis the next morning was a reassurance that going to bed was the right choice, since nobody seemed to think […]
Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz returns to The Canton Repository today as part of the USA TODAY Network’s comics pages standardization resolution, the strip is a component of their Group 2 of comics. As today is also the anniversary of Peanuts’ October 2, 1950 debut, The Repository found it fitting to highlight the comic strip […]
Clay Jones marks National Newspaper Week (Oct 1-7) with this reminder of a major factor in the decline of newspapers: The odd belief that, while a cup of coffee costs money, information “wants to be free.”Maybe information wants to be free, but the people who compile it want to pay their rent and buy groceries. […]
note: The Daily Cartoonist has no idea if other USA TODAY Network newspapers will follow and run profiles of local newspaper cartoonists; it is our hope that more will take up the banner, and so we add “Part One” to our header. Prior to the USA TODAY Network standardizing their comics pages tomorrow a couple […]
Zack Mosley had been working for Dick Calkins on Buck Rogers and Skyroads for years. In 1933 he developed his own aviation strip and as part of an expanding of The Chicago Tribune and The New York Sunday News comics sections his strip, On The Wing, debuted as a Sunday only page on October 1, […]
The last minute continuing resolution renders a lot of this past week’s political cartoons obsolete, but Paul Noth’s panel is not only worthy of inclusion anyway but can serve as a reminder that, while the immediate crisis may have (mostly) passed, the overall problem remains.As others have observed, the Constitution was written with the presumption […]
On Friday cartoonist Scott Adams appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show to discuss his infamous comments made early this year on his podcasts.When asked about the effects of being dropped Scott replied (via Real Clear Politics): You know the weirdest thing about this is that it did not cause trauma for me. It didn’t make […]
Yesterday we highlighted Patrick McDonnell’s promoting his new book in Mutts, so it’s only fair we do the same with Stephen Pastis now. Tomorrow’s Pearls Before Swine will have a gag about Stephan’s “world” tour, which begins next month. Not on the tour calendar is Pastis starting out closer to home, but The Santa Rosa […]