Comic strips of two rows became a rarity in newspapers (Minute Movies, Star Hawks) but in magazines and webcomics they are fairly common, today we look at two double row comics, one from a magazine and one from the interwebs.The Life and Times of Boarder Bob A bit over thirty years ago a young magazine […]

Cartoonist Unions? LEGO Snoopy! The London Cartoon Museum at 20. Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide 2026. Record Number of Journalists Killed in 2025. Comic Creators Once More Try to Organize Another attempt to organize a cartoonists union is in the offing. Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool reports: The fight to establish a union of comic […]

A response to the braggadocio in Dear Leader’s speech. It’s not unusual for the SOTU to include some blue sky self-praise to go along with the more serious policy discussions, but this claim was not only meaningless but flies in the face of the criticism we’ve been hearing both from other governments and from citizens […]

Engineer, professor, and cartoonist Dave McGill has passed away. David John (Dave) McGill October 1939 – February(?) 2026 From the obituary: Dave’s career was in teaching and research from 1966-99 at Georgia Tech, where Dave’s dad had worked his way through college in the 1920s. Dave retired as Professor Emeritus of Civil and Aerospace Engineering, […]

Going back in time with comic strip and comic book artists Frank Robbins and Joe Maneely, children’s book writer-artist Judy Varga, a collection of Lynn Johnston interviews, some early Gahan Wilson cartoons, and a profile of William Heath Robinson the Rube Goldberg of England (or was Rube Goldberg the Heath Robinson of America?).Comic Artist Frank […]

I didn’t stay up for the SOTU, though I recorded it in case something untoward happened, but looking at this morning’s summaries, I gather it was all rather toward.In an entertaining analysis of last night’s festivities, Moira Donegan points out that the Constitution only requires a report, not a speech. I looked it up and […]

ICE OUT Comics Minnesota native Jim Keefe maintains an understandable interest in ICE activities. Especially as the I.C.E. drawdown there seems to be fake and more of a rotation. Yesterday he devoted his Patreon entry to the subject. ICE Out Comics were initiated by Minnesota cartoonists K. Woodman-Maynard (Tuck Everlasting GN), Trung Le Nguyen (Angelica […]

President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address tonight at 9 pm Eastern, one reason I miss living in Colorado, where news and sports came on at a decent hour. Winslow is right: 57% of Americans responding to a NPR/PBS News/Marist poll rate the State of the Union as poor, with the 43% […]

For Yale Alumni Magazine Joshua Kendall ’81 offers what I believe is an excerpt from his forthcoming book about Garry Trudeau ’70. This concerns the Doonesbury comic strip during the second Gulf War: In the early years of his long-running strip, Trudeau repeatedly railed against the Vietnam War. “I got some hate mail for these […]

Kieran Castaño, who has drawn the Ripley’s Believe It or Not panel since 2021, parted ways with BION, Inc. The Daily Cartoonist asked Kieran who left who and, with Kieran’s permission, here is his reply: Kinda both. I was terminated by them after I decided to take time off for the holidays and lied to […]

I suppose we should have seen it coming a half century ago, when people started buying “Archie Bunker for President” merchandise. As I’ve said here often, I watched “All in the Family” for several weeks before deciding that sitting through 20 minutes of racist, sexist jokes wasn’t worth the three-minute “Aw, Archie! You’re so wrong!” […]

The 53rd Annie Awards were presented Saturday evening February 21, 2026. As Mercedes Milligan at Animation Magazine says KPop Demon Hunters was the big winner. This year’s runaway winner was the Netflix/Sony Pictures Animation megahit KPop Demon Hunters, which won all 10 categories it was nominated for — shutting out its top competition Elio (Disney-Pixar), […]

We go to Prince Valiant, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, and The Phantom when seeking pulpish action and adventure for our “Cheap Thrills.” The most sensational of those came from an unexpected source today.Surprisingly it is Judge Parker winning the dramatic continuity award this Sunday. Back to The Phantom for a moment, which had a pensive […]

This is a lovely picture and I agree with her premise that, unless you can get Canadian TV, you aren’t apt to see a lot of curling until the next Winter Olympics. There are several Olympic sports that don’t get much coverage except then, like biathlon, which does feel like a traditional Olympic sport, given […]

The North Country This Week newspapers (both the Potsdam-Canton and the Massenia-Ogdenburg editions) have announced that they have begun running McCauley by Ethan Lyons beginning this week. POTSDAM — A locally created comic strip exploring the transition from life in high school to life after graduation will now be featured in North Country This Week. […]