Pat Bagley opens today’s conversation with the accusation the lawmakers intentionally remain uninformed, tossing in the idea that, not only do they reject facts, but that they find the distortions and selective reporting of Fox News comforting.It’s not entirely clear whether Bagley, who comments on both national and local issues, is speaking of Congress or […]

Today’s Shoe saw Ben Lansing take over the Sunday cartooning chores.Gary Brookins turned the daily Shoe over to Ben Lansing (and Pluggers over to Rick McKee) in September 2020, but held on to the Sunday Shoe – up to last week. Gary announced his retirement last month on his Facebook page: In January, 1979, my […]

Michael de Adder poses a question for which there is no answer because the question itself makes no sense, but he’s saved credibility by having put the proposal in the mouth of the elephant.There is a current argument over the Biden administration’s refusal to compromise on whether to raise the debt ceiling, but we can’t […]

A Modern Day Battle Over Prince ValiantBrian Kane, the preeminent Prince Valiant scholar, and Gary Groth, the preeminent Prince Valiant book publisher, are at odds over a six part Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant Sketchbooks series with King Features seemingly caught in the middle. Rich Johnston, at Bleeding Cool, carries both sides. Brian Kane: “I was […]

This Batch Rejection (AMS) is decidedly relevant, given the amount of theft and piracy in our virtual world. I differentiate between the two because piracy is purposeful while theft is still theft but somehow can maintain a level of petty innocence.Which is to say that, while everyone knows pocketing an apple from the display inside […]

Heart to HeartA Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious PlanetBy the Dalai Lama, illustrated by Patrick McDonnell A year and a half ago Patrick McDonnell took an extended vacation from his Mutts comic strip to collaborate with the Dali Lama; that project reaches bookstores on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 (available for pre-order now). […]

King Features and Legible Partner to Entertain Canadians Online Comics distributor King Features Syndicate has partnered with online bookstore Legible to provide digital content for Canadian readers. Excerpts from the press release via Business Wire: Legible Inc. is delighted to announce that it has partnered with King Features Syndicate, a Division of Hearst Entertainment & […]

I don’t mind the fact that I often disagree with cartoonists and other political commentators. Not only does it give me something to write about, but I’d be suspicious of a system in which everyone agreed with everyone else, mostly because there’s never been one.Still, I think it’s possible for everyone to agree, for example, […]

The respected and beloved British cartoonist David Sutherland, who has drawn the weekly Beano comics’ The Bash Street Kids for the past 60 years, has passed away. From the British comics site Down the Tubes: The news has just broken, and comes shortly after the announcement an OBE for services to Illustration. He had drawn […]

Dave Granlund has drawn both amusement and ire on these pages for years. The local cartoonist’s works are published on the opinion pages of this newspaper and others nationwide each week. Dave Granlund is profiled in his local newspaper, The Waconia (Minn) Patriot. The feature article celebrates Dave having three cartoons in Cagle Cartoons’ Top […]

I might have saved this Non Sequitur (AMS) for a day of political cartooning, but, instead, I’m using it to introduce a comedy/editorial mashup.We’ve always had “alternative facts,” but we’ve only weaponized them recently. There were people who believed fluoride was a communist plot and that Elvis was alive, but they were dismissed as cranks. […]

Adam Zyglis, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist for The Buffalo News, showed love for Damar Hamlin in a mural displayed in the seriously injured Buffalo Bills player’s town on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. WHEC-TV covers the story with an Adam interview. For more (and better) pictures of the mural go to Adam Zyglis’ Twitter page.

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 […]