It is no longer a question “Is Artificial Intelligence stealing your art?” It is now a statement “AI is stealing your art.”The National Cartoonists Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists are sharing Twitter threads about the theft of intellectual property, specifically tied to cartoonists and artists. We kick things off with Ted Rall‘s […]

(Martyn Turner)(Matt Pritchett)Asked and answered.The Gnomes of Zurich may have lost some of their luster to the Cayman Islands for sheltering wealth of dubious province, and some of their nation’s reputation for neutrality in blocking aid to Ukraine, but Davos continues its tradition of hosting meetings of the super-wealthy in a planning session that calls […]

Animator (Sita Sings the Blues), comic strip creator (The Hots), and all-round cartoonist Nina Paley had her most recent effort to self-publish foiled by IndieGoGo. From Post Millennial: On Friday, the crowdfunding site IndieGoGo canceled a campaign by cartoonist, comic creator, and gender-critical radical feminist Nina Paley after the project had exceeded full funding. IndieGoGo […]

Rod Emmerson comments on Prince Harry’s book, and I appreciate that he is commenting on the impact of the book and on its massive sales rather than on its content. Now that the book has been out for several days, it is malpractice — a fancy word for “incredibly irresponsible and stupid” — to talk […]

Dean of Profession Talks a Little Shop by C. G. Bush A cartoon is an editorial drawn instead of written. Perhaps it has an advantage over an editorial because those who cannot read can always understand the picture language. Half the alleged cartoons are not cartoons – they are comics. A cartoon must have a […]

10 Years of This is Fine, Marvel Covers Disney, Snoopy’s Moon Mission, Gannett Gonna Gannett, Remembering Jack Bender. You’ve probably seen it: A smiling cartoon dog sits at a table, coffee mug on hand, as a room goes up in flames. “This is fine,” the dog assures himself. It’s been a decade since its creator […]

(Frazz — AMS)(Marc Murphy)Like most American holidays, today will be marked by schools, banks and the post office being closed and everyone else going about their business as usual. We don’t have as many holidays as other countries, and we barely keep the ones we have.Caulfield is young enough to be puzzled by how long […]

Five drawings from the mid-20th century by Carl Barks, famed Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comic book artist, have been recently brought to the public’s attention to the delight of the artists fans. [The columnist emailed] Michael Barrier, a Barks scholar whose “Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book” was published in 1982, […]

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2023 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. A couple late listings from last month: Back to New Year new books. top image Peanuts by Charles Schulz © Peanuts […]

I was dismayed to read the absurd piece by a Cleveland editor in which he said that, while readers like comics, he doesn’t, and so he doesn’t care that they do. Though, granted, I appreciated his proving my long-time dismissal of editors as cloth-eared lumpkins who don’t understand the art form.His ignorant rant, however, points […]

The Cleveland Plain Dealer replaced the defunct Funky Winkerbean comic strip with Beetle Bailey which led to some complaints. We went with Beetle Bailey, and nary a day has gone by since without someone writing me to question that decision. They say Beetle Bailey is a sexist, violent cartoon that was rightly removed from our […]

Stephen Collins reflects on the death of water cooler TV, a combination of too many things to watch, too many ways to watch and too many choices of when to watch. (Larger version here)It comes hard on the heels of a whole lot of Festivus references, which reminds us of the days when we all […]

There was a duet of sorts in today’s comics between Over the Hedge and Macanudo. Excerpt above is Over the Hedge © by Michael Fry and T. Lewis Excerpt below is Macanudo © by Liniers

It is a rare thing to stumble across a syndicated comic strip that isn’t in Allan Holtz’s book, but that’s what I did the other day. Mrs. Contrary by Marion Farley ran for about 14 months from 1922 to 1923. And Marion Farley is as rare as her comic strip in the history books, not […]

Joe Heller is only one of many cartoonists raising the issue of egg prices, along with an army of meme-creators posting variations on a guy giving his GF a carton of eggs instead of a diamond. So no particular criticism of Heller, but a more generalized: “So what?”Ask Google “Why are egg prices so high?” […]