Phoebe Howell is celebrating her tenth birthday this week.A celebration that corresponds with the 10th anniversary of Heavenly Nostrils making its webcomic debut on April 22, 2022.As cartoonist Dana Simpson explains she had ended her Ozy and Millie webcomic and had planned on changing her career – leaving comics and try illustration.That never got past […]

Matt Davies illustrates the plight of Floridians canceled by the self-proclaimed opponents of Cancel Culture.Someone — though not Mark Twain — said that America is on a tilt and all the loose nuts slide into Southern California, but it’s getting hard to believe they’re not actually falling straight down. And, however absurd and depressing and incredible […]

Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) has announced the signing of Brian Crane’s Pickles comic strip. The date for the move from Washington Post Writers Group to AMS is given as July 1, 2022 (a Friday).  Kansas City, MO (April 18, 2022) ­ Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) will assume sales and distribution of Pickles by Brian Crane, […]

Christina “Steenz” Stewart‘s Heart of the City comic strip has been collected in a book.    The Riverfront Times features a story on local cartoonist Steenz and their book. St. Louisan Steenz Stewart finds inspiration everywhere — from the moment they wake up till the moment they fall asleep — they’re finding ideas for their […]

Tom Tomorrow sets the stage today by extending the Republicans’ strategy of fear- and hate-mongering into the absurd, for the benefit of anyone who didn’t think it was already there.And let’s note, in particular, that fifth panel, because, in a functioning democracy, it seems unbalanced to blame one party for trying to destroy everything. But […]

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports on the offense. Metroland Media’s seven Simcoe County newspapers ran a cartoon last week that pictured the Pope saying “I’m sorry” to what appears to be an Indigenous woman and man, who respond “How $orry?” Metroland Media is a subsidiary of the Torstar Corporation, and has newspapers in the Simcoe […]

Comic strips yesterday and today seems to have jumped the gun on National Cartoonists Day.Superheroes were the theme for today’s comics.Rex Morgan, M.D. has recently started a story about a costumed vigilante, but today Terry Beatty took it a step further showing a trio of self-appointed cos-playing do-gooders. © North American SyndicateTom Batiuk and Chuck […]

Comics Kingdom picked April 20th to add Legalization Nation to its lineup. (Unknown if they added it at 4:20 a.m. this morning.)© Brian Box BrownLegalization Nation is a pro-cannabis comic strip by cartoonist Box Brown. When it was first announced earlier this year Comics Kingdom said it would be a weekly strip. It was also […]

Jason Chatfield takes a shot at audience members who seem to wish they’d been the ones invited to speak on the stage, or perhaps to conduct the interview. The usual comment here would be “There’s one in every crowd,” but there seem to be at least three or four.Audience mikes should have an automatic eight-second […]

 2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Winners The Beat and The Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to reveal the winners of the tenth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize Award in both the Print Comics and Webcomics categories. Each of the 2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award winners will receive a $1000 prize and a Wacom One Creative Pen […]

 Derf Backderf’s short comment, as he wrapped up this year’s MOCCA Festival, was enough to send me scrambling to the Internet to order a copy of Aimee de Jongh’s “Days of Sand,” and, if that’s not enough of a compliment to Derf — author of “Trashed,” “My Friend Dahmer” and “Kent State: Four Dead in […]

According to Lewiston (Maine) Sun Journal columnist Mark LaFlamme: So, I was just hanging around, minding my own business, when I started to notice a new cartoon populating the Sun Journal pages. In one of them, the proposed Lewiston homeless shelter and the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department building were presented as homeless people on a […]

Comic strip historian Allan Holtz is moving his Stripper’s Guide blog to Comic Strip History website. Hello, fellow strippers. After a decade and a half hosting this blog here on Google’s Blogger interface I have decided that it is time we graduate to adulthood, taking the training wheels off. I have been working with a […]

 A different sort of Juxtaposition to start the day: The famous lines from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Silver Blaze,” combined with Ann Telnaes’ righteous outrage over the revelations of Senator Mike Lee’s texts, outlining his plan to cooperate in overturning the 2020 elections.The texts caused an uproar on social media, but, as in the Sherlock Holmes […]

“An Easter Egg is a term used to describe a hidden detail …” Today’s Sally Forth has an obvious homage to The Killing Joke comic book. © King Features Syndicate © DC ComicsBut as Francesco Marciuliano points out Jim Keefe goes far beyond that one panel.  Terry Beatty hid an easter egg in last Sunday’s […]