An interesting article by Resham at StratNews Global (New Delhi, India) about China effectively using cartoons on social media platforms to shape narratives of international events to Americans, western nations, India, and Japan. China seems to have deliberately outsourced its foreign policy messaging to cartoonists. Political cartoons and poster art have quietly been elevated into tools […]
Six weeks after Pittsburgh Post-Gazette union employees returned to work following a court win and a union vote Block Communications announced it will shut down the newspaper completely – print and digital. From Pittsburgh’s Trib Live by Megan Trotter And Megan Swift: Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced Wednesday they would cease operations on May […]
French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo has created yet another controversy—this time depicting French journalist, writer, and filmmaker Rokhaya Diallo in a banana belt dancing in front of an all-white audience with the caption: “The Rokhaya Diallo show ridicules secularism around the world.” The cartoon was drawn by Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau and published in its December 24 print […]
A Cathy Wilcox editorial cartoon about the Australian governments actions investigating the Bondi Beach killings has caused a backlash and is being targeted as antisemitic. From The Nightly: A cartoon in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers today portraying demands for a royal commission into the Bondi Beach massacre as being orchestrated by […]
The Phantom is 90, Modesty Blaise is 63, Hugo Hercules is 123. and the 100 year old cartoons of Billy Bornes.The Man Who Cannot Die is BornNext month is the 90th anniversary of Lee Falk and Ray Moore‘s The Phantom.The Phantom Fan begins their celebrations early: In February of 1936, a young writer named Lee […]
Thank God it’s Hump Day, coming just as things began to be scary. But we’ll ease into the humor with Rabbits, which would be echoing what I said yesterday except that this strip ran Sunday. Credit where credit is due, and much of the suspense ahead is seeing if the public rises to challenge the […]
On a comics page long ago in a newspaper world far away from today’s practice adventure lived. At times during the 1930s, ’40s, and into the ’50s adventure strips outnumbered the “comic” strips. Now we are hard pressed to find even one on a newspaper’s comics page.Outis Funetti mourns the loss of adventure strips on […]
With First Amendment Essay and Editorial Cartoon Contest young winners; half a billion views for animated feature K Pop Demon Hunters; Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra on the cover of the 2026 New Yorker wall calendar; Scott Adams waiting for his “come to Jesus” moment; and praise for a retiring cartoonist Walt Handelsman.2025 WNAF Editorial […]
Jennings introduces today’s theme with what should be an obvious point, though perhaps it takes someone from outside the US (He’s British) to ask the question: Why all the surprise?To be fair, this is how history works. There have been all sorts of dubious figures who have come to power, but nobody who suddenly, like […]
Author, historian and biographer Michael Schumacher has passed away. Michael James Schumacher May 22, 1950 – December 29, 2025From the obituary: Michael was an accomplished author having published numerous articles in local and national magazines, newspapers, and publications. Michael had the opportunity to interview many national figures, artists, authors, politicians, and athletes over his career. […]
13 months ago Liniers delighted us with a weeklong adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.” I expect to be as thoroughly enamored with his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream” this week in Macanudo.Guest CreatorsDeeper in 2024 we saw the retro-stylings of Howie Noel as he drew the adventures of Dick Tracy […]
The Comic Art Museum in Brussels features an exhibit called “The nature of Wauter Mannaert” featuring the work of Wauter Mannaert. From the exhibit website: Enter the universe of Flemish comic book author Wauter Mannaert: a world where ancient myths are crossed with today’s problems, where the city really begins to live and the personal […]
Belgian cartoonist Descheemaeker has been busy and his page at Cartoon Movement is worth visiting to see his commentaries on the invasion of Venezuela. I particularly like this piece, first of all for the artistry, but also because “Pirates of the Caribbean” is an example of cultural hegemony, in that the phrase would not come […]
Have added Diamond Lil to our 2025 list of Departures and Rubes to the 2025 Deviations list. Diamond Lil has been in rerun status since the September 29 dailies and the October 12, Sundays.As for Rubes – In Spring of 2025 the panel went new for Monday Tuesday Wednesday and rerun for Thursday Friday Saturday […]
Walt Handelsman retired from editorial cartooning at the end of last year. He then compounded that affront by having the temerity not to do the traditional farewell cartoon. Despite those sins we celebrate Walt’s worthy career which began in the very late 70s and early 1980s when he returned to the Baltimore area after college […]