An odd piece today from Prickly City (AMS), where the meaning of Labor Day, and of holidays, has apparently disappeared entirely.Well, perhaps not so odd, given that we’ve largely stopped honoring holidays in this country. We’ve not only got fewer holidays than many other countries, but we only take a handful of them as holidays […]

Lucien De Gieter, born September 4, 1932, turns 90 today and becomes one of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Strippers.Lucien’s entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia: Lucien De Gieter is a Belgian comic artist, since the 1960s a prominent artist for Spirou magazine and best known for his comic series ‘Papyrus’. De Gieter began his association with […]

A new Trubble Town book is the rational for a new Stephan Pastis interview.    © Stephan Pastis STEPHAN: Yes, I’m sure I will be doing that once again. I try to draw 14 Pearls strips every week that I’m home, which buys me 26 free weeks a year to write other books and travel. […]

The Waco Tribune-Herald informed readers of major changes coming:In two weeks the Tribune-Herald will roll out a complete overhaul of our daily comics and puzzles pages, as well as our Sunday comics section. Readers tend to react passionately when we change mainstays in the paper, so consider this a heads-up. We’re shifting our focus from […]

Mr. Boffo reminds me of when I got a subscription to the New Yorker for donating to my NPR station. I enjoyed leafing through and looking at the cartoons, but, while the articles were well-written and interesting, I couldn’t plow through them before another issue arrived.It was like some literary form of the Sorceror’s Apprentice: […]

It appears Andy Marlette, the last staff editorial cartoonist for a Gannett newspaper, has left his position at The Pensacola News Journal.The Andy Marlette page at PNJ.com seems to indicate that thecartoonist no longer is on staff at The Pensacola News Journal.Andy’s farewell(?) column and cartoon is behind a paywall so we don’t know if […]

Thirty-five years ago, come next weekend, cartoonist Mark Parisi began self-syndicating a weekly comic panel he titled “off the mark” which everyone, through force of habit, capitalizes to Off the Mark. Next Saturday, Sept. 10, Gloucester cartoonist Mark Parisi celebrates 35 years of syndication of his cartoon panel “Off the Mark.” Back when he was […]

I was surprised to hear yesterday’s news about the dip in NAEP reading and math scores over the past year, not because of the dip itself but because it was being discussed as if there were something surprising about it.Anyone who thought you could achieve the same results with 30 kids on Zoom that you […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonist announced today that Masha Zhdanova was named the winner of The 2022 John Locher Memorial Award.The John Locher Memorial Award is a contest for emerging cartoonists, ages 18-25, whose work demonstrates both clear opinions and strong artistry on political and social topics.The Judges statement: Masha’s appealing loose drawings blend […]

Underground/alternative cartoonist and editor Diane Noomin has passed away. Diane Noomin (née Diane Robin Rosenblatt) May 13, 1947 – September 1, 2022 The news of Diane’s passing is being shared on social media.From Charles Kochman on the afternoon of September 1:I am so sorry to share the news that Diane Noomin passed away earlier this […]

“The Catholic Cartoon” is an online comic strip written and illustrated by 19-year-old Joshua Masterson of Volo, Ill. A product of Catholic homeschooling, part-time produce clerk and the fifth of 10 children, Mr. Masterson has attracted tens of thousands of followers on Instagram since his first comic in April, with each post regularly getting hundreds […]

I take some comfort from Cathy Wilcox‘s cartoon, not because she’s a shining beacon of hope but because it’s good to know that so many of the problems we face are universal. In case you were thinking of chucking it all and moving to Australia.The most distressing part is that, as suggested, we can’t even […]

In August 1928, Philip Francis Nowlan published a short story called “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. Six months later, in March of 1929, he published a sequel, “The Airlords of Han”. The hero of both of these novellas was a man named Anthony Rogers. In between those two pulp stories […]

The National Cartoonist Society will hold its annual Reubens Convention in two weeks – on September 15th and 16th. The Reuben Divisional Awards and The Cartoonist of the Year winners will be announced the evening of September 16. 

What: The U.S. Postal Service will celebrate the centennial of the birth of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz with 10 new fun-filled stamps. The first-day-of-issue event for the Charles M. Schulz Forever stamps is free and open to the public.  When: Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, at 12 p.m. PDT  Where: Charles M Schulz Museum & Research […]