You do understand, O Best Beloved, that people in developed nations don’t live like this, right? Morland sums up how we’re viewed from abroad, and if you pay any attention to life in other countries, you should find it hard to argue with him.Guardian writer Rachel Leingang wrote “Instead of a speech stacked with heated […]
Terry Mosher has twice won the National Newspaper Award and is a member of The Order of Canada. Michael de Adder has twice won the National Newspaper Award and is a member of The Order of Canada. Terry Mosher aka “Aislin” showed Pierre Trudeau tripping Brian Mulroney when the latter retired. “The Tories denounced me […]
With Greg Evans, Paul Noth, Howie Noel, Sandra Bell-Lundy, Matt Kindt, and Keith Frady and Phillip Ginn. Evans’s English Greg Evans has written letters to The San Diego Union-Tribune column Lederer on Language questioning the use of English. Richard Lederer has recently collected and printed a few of them. Greg writes, “I stumble on (and […]
I’m disappointed in last night’s half-dinner, though I hope it lasted enough for everyone to get their selfies, as Telnaes suggested ahead of time. But I wanted to see how it came out, and I guess while we can’t have nice things, we also can’t have not-so-nice things, either. It’s too early to get into […]
MIchael de Adder has been named the National Newspaper Award’s 2025 Illustrated Commentary winner. The National Newspaper Awards (NNA) honors the best in Canadian journalism. The National Newspaper Award announcement: Winner: Michael de Adder, The Globe and Mail, for his political satire on the impact of the Trump presidency. Judges described it as “truly memorable […]
The Glyph Awards, honoring the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color from the preceding calendar year, has announced the nominees for their 2026 slate of categories. Of the nine categories George Gant and his Beware of Toddler comic strip has been named in six. The six categories in which George […]
Garry B. Trudeau biographer Joshua Kendall for The Boston Globe (or here) compares the attitudes of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton with the current resident of The Oval Office. [In 1974 Nixon] wrote Trudeau to request a signed copy of the “ill health resignation” comic strip. And it hung in his office ever since. In […]
I wasn’t blown away by today’s Pearls, at least when I first came across it. The first cartoon websites I visit each morning are humorous, and I got the gag. I even agree that we’d all be happier if we disconnected and lived in the moment. As the saying goes, “Ignorance is bliss.”But the significance […]
UK comics creator, author and editor Barrie Tomlinson has passed away. Barrie Tomlinson February 1938 – April 21, 2026 From John Freeman’s tribute: We’re very sorry to report the passing of comics editor, writer and author Barrie Tomlinson, the genius who not only made TIGER a much-loved weekly sports comic, but who also brought us […]
Let’s add them up. On the Fastrack = over 42 years Safe Havens = nearly 38 years Kevin and Kell = over 30 years Yep, 110 years worth of comic strips from the mind and hand of Bill Holbrook and all continue since their debuts. Cartoonist Bill Holbrook spares a precious 40 minutes talking to […]
This ain’t over yet. As noted before, posting the King James version of the 10 Commandments is not just bringing religion into public schools but specifically bringing in Protestantism, a message to Catholics, Jews and Muslims that their religions are not the official government- approved sects, and to non-church-goers and atheists that their families are […]
Featured in the parade are Luke McGarry, Gary Varvel, W. Heath Robinson. Joe Long, Steve Brodner, John Cuneo, and Tom Richmond with gags, books, lectures, awards, carucatures, and returning to a first love. Luke McGarry Picks a Weird Hill to Die On Luke McGarry, the famous co-cartoonist of KidTown, was interviewed by Comic Beat’s Diego […]
Duke University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) posted an Emory Douglas anti-imperialism/anti-Zionism cartoon to its Instagram page that originally appeared in a 1970 Black Panther newspaper. The e-flier was used to promote a SJP event. Complaints about the nature of the cartoon resulted in Duke University suspending all funds and campus activities for the […]
A simple cartoon can contain a lot of different messages, and Derenne doesn’t tell the reader what to think. She just gives us a visual poke to get the thinking process started.First of all, Trump does peddle a lot of fake news, whether it’s deliberate lies or cockamamie theorizing. By this time, we ought to […]
Years after being completed and then written off (shelved) for tax purposes the animated-live action movie that fans insisted on being released is coming to a theater near you this summer. Jamie Lang at Cartoon Brew has the background of Coyote vs Acme’s road to release. For a film that has already been written about […]