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 […]

I said yesterday that I assumed cartoonists would leap to their drawing boards over the US strike into Venezuela and they didn’t disappoint, though their newspapers and syndicates didn’t match their pace. Nearly everything I found came from social media. But today’s headline, “The First 24,” relates to time. I have nearly 24 graphic responses […]

Editor & Publisher reports “Hoffmann Media seizes control at Lee Enterprises:” Lee Enterprises [link added] has entered a new era of financial and board leadership following a $50 million equity investment led by Hoffmann Media — a move that restructures governance, slashes borrowing costs, and signals aggressive plans for transformation. David Hoffmann, principal of Hoffmann […]

A month ago we noted some of the early editorial cartooning awards programs opening the window to submit your work for consideration – National Newspaper Awards, Overseas Press Club, RFK Human Rights, and Sigma Delta Chi. The deadlines for those are still in the future (though National Newspaper Award just barely). Now we have The […]

UPDATE: Things in Caracas changed quickly since this was written, but that hasn’t changed anything here. I assume cartoonists will leap to their drawing boards and we’ll catch up tomorrow.Another New Year’s cartoon as we get back to business, and Turner offers a menu of places where we could use a little hope in the […]

We were anticipating Caroline Cash taking over the Nancy comic strip for a few months before her New Year’s Day debut, unanticipated was Jonathan Lemon‘s takeover on that same New Year’s Day of Thatababy. Unexpected by those of us not paying close attention anyway.Thatababy by Jonathan Lemon – January 1, 2026 When The Daily Cartoonist […]

Was distracted by some other projects lately and fell behind on opining and reporting comic strip news.New Year New ArtCaroline Cash took on the Nancy comic strip on Thursday January 1, 2026 and in showing Nancy through the ages, or artists if you prefer, nailed her opening show.An Old Year’s Day AnniversaryDecember 31, 2025 marked […]

A random collection of cartoons and reactions today: Eddie, being a little kid, has an idealistic view of things and expects all the hoopla about the new year to mean that something is new. His mom has seen more years come and go, but at least remembers younger days.I’ve been seeing things online saying that […]

This is an installment of 2025 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: Dearly Departed) 2025 DEBUTS These comic strips began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2025.VEEFRIENDSby Gary Vaynerchuk (as Gary Vee) and D. J. CoffmanFebruary 23, […]

This is an installment of 2025 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: Dearly Departed)2025 DETOURS/DEVIATIONS Some changes to U. S. newspaper comic strips and panels in 2025. 2025 began with Eric Costello as the guest writer of […]

This is an installment of 2025 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: The Dearly Departed) THE DEARLY DEPARTED These North American newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2025. David LynchJanuary 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025movie and […]

Bill Day takes what I believe to be an unnecessarily pessimistic look at the year ahead.He’s correct that the gloves are off and that Trump and his fellow travelers are not hiding their ambitions. Homeland Security has posted this declaration of plans to deport 100,000,000 “third world” people and if you need a translator to […]

On New Year’s Eve we have a tsunami of political cartoon Best Ofs being issued. We start this round(up) with the Summer (July through September) and Fall (October through December) 2025 picks from The Everett (Wash) Herald who rotates their choices among the Cagle Cartoons cast, including: John Darkow, Michael de Adder, Rick McKee, Dave […]

It was thirty years ago today that, after a ten year odyssey, one of the greatest comic strips ended its run. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson ceased appearing in newspapers on December 31, 1995.Bill Watterson had sent newspaper editors a letter notifying them of the decision to end the strip. As a thank you […]