The Freedom Cartoonists Foundation has announced their selection for the 2026 Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award. Jimmy “Spire” Ssentongo of Uganda will be presented the award in a ceremony tonight. Palestinian cartoonist Safaa Odah is unable to leave her homeland for political reasons but will receive her prize at a future date. Safaa is a […]
Poor Volodya had to cut back the annual Victory Day Parade in Moscow this coming Saturday, reportedly because all the impressive arms and armor normally seen at that time are in Ukraine and can’t be spared, or, in some cases, made operative.But what are friends for? After a 90-minute phone call, his pal Donald announced […]
Last week two Jewish men were stabbed in a North London street. On taking the attacker down police took action according to that Guardian article: An officer uses Pava spray to try to subdue him before the suspect is shot with a Taser. The suspect falls to the ground and officers kick him in the […]
Yesterday, in a prelude to World Press Freedom Day, Anthony Feinstein for The Globe and Mail checked in on the history of political cartooning holding those in power to account from the beginning to now, sometimes risking the cartoonists’ freedom and lives. When political cartoonists challenge the world’s most powerful people. (Or here.) The strongman […]
A new irregular feature: Etc., where I feature political cartoons that don’t fit into a major topic but that I found interesting or amusing. The risk is that I won’t have much to say beyond “Wow,” and posting cartoons without commentary does not qualify as “fair use.” Not that I’d be alone in doing that, […]
Clover Press made its name in comic strip circles by publishing “The Master Collection” of Milton Caniff‘s Terry and the Pirates. Then there is The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug series. The publisher has recently switched their comic strip endeavors to affordable softcover editions of previously published hardcover collections. There was Dick Tracy Collection 1941-1944 […]
Alan Dunn architectural cartoonist; Brian Fies graphic medicine artist, U of Missouri cartoon archives.Alan Dunn Architectural CartoonistLast year we noted a Gabriele Neri article for Architectural Record about cartoons relevant to that magazine and the profession it spotlights. There was a note mentioning New Yorker cartoonist Alan Dunn. Little did we suspect that Neri was […]
I was always skeptical of teachers who said, “I’m tough, but fair.” I knew teachers who were tough but fair, but none of them ever said so and they didn’t have to, because we knew it. The ones who proclaimed it were, instead, rigidly harsh and felt “fair” meant having everything go their way.It is […]
Feminist cartoonist and Sylvia creator Nicole Hollander has passed away. Nicole Marilyn Hollander (née Garrison) April 25, 1939 – April 23, 2026 It is being credibly reported on social media that cartoonist Nicole Hollander has passed away. From Michael Bonesteel: NICOLE HOLLANDER, the edgy and entertaining creator of “Sylvia,” passed away last night. She was […]
The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) has announced their shortlist for their GMIC Awards for outstanding health-related comic projects completed and/or published in 2025. There are three categories, long-form, short-form, and educational, with five finalists in each category. Winners will be announced at their annual conference in Baltimore on July 25.Here are the finalists:EducationalLong FormShort […]
The Freedom Cartoonists Foundation will be marking World Press Freedom Day on Monday, May 4 with two events: the inaugural “Cartooning for Freedom” Exhibition and a ceremony to present the 2026 Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award. “Cartooning for Freedom” ExhibitionThe exhibit opens today and runs through May. It features 60 cartoons selected by FreedomCartoonists […]
A few things that stood out this week. Scott Ketcham‘s wildly off-model Dennis the Menace and Joey didn’t bring about the amount of comments I thought it would. Though it sticks out like a sore thumb I am not bothered by it. For those who are there’s another Scott Ketcham panel coming next week. Will […]
Today is May Day, which is International Workers Day, aka Labour Day, marking the Haymarket Square Riots, which began May 1, 1886, and culminated in the explosion four days later.Whamond notes the calls this year for a general strike, but I don’t think America is a general-striking sort of country. I recall that the Mai-Juin […]
Comics and Libraries, Mafalda and Montreal, and N.Y. Times on Gerry Conway.A Digital Catalog for Libraries I’m sorry to say it has been a long time since I regularly patronized my local libraries. It seems they are far more modern than what once was and comics are a large part of that new century look. […]
When cartoonists get together they talk about any number of things: non-Euclidean geometry, post-Rawlsian public reason, the price of tea in China, etc. GoComics has taken that idea and narrowed it down to comics.Kathy Hilliard tells us: GoComics is rolling out a new feature that might be of interest: “Cartoonist to Cartoonist” – in which […]