A cartoon drawn in a small frame can highlight an incident, a context or a political situation in its entirety. Working as a cartoonist in newspapers, I have had a variety of experiences over the years. Once, at an event, a friend of mine was introducing me as a “journalist.” Someone nearby interrupted, saying, “Oh, […]
Back in the days when Art Fleming hosted, Jeopardy had a category called “Potpourri” which mostly consisted of leftovers from previous games. Since they no longer use it, I will. If Molina had run this earlier, I’d have used it with yesterday’s critique of Michael Ramirez’s anti-wind cartoon. But I still like it, because he […]
Wannabe No More Since we covered the debut of Wannabe by Luca Debus on Gocomics a year and a half ago … and that it left GoComics for Webtoon earlier this year, we might as well pass on the news that Luca has ended Wannabe as of today. (h/t Mario 500 for the heads-up.) From […]
The folks at the San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) have released the souvenir book of the event and as has been their habit for the past several years they have kindly made it available to all by way of a free pdf issue. As seen it cover features the 75th anniversary of the Peanuts gang with […]
Deering quotes a familiar piece of doggerel, enlivening it with looks of consternation that end in panic, which well replicates how Dear Leader has gone from shrugging off the Epstein issue into a shotgun flurry of bizarre distractions, the only material result having been that Coke is making their periodic “throwback” releases of sugared versions […]
Our look at the recent fourth wall comics kinda sorta started 15 years ago as Petey Otterloop spent the summer of 2010 at Cartoon Camp. Those strips have been showing up in Andrews McMeel Syndication’s Cul de Sac reruns during this July (starting here on the GoComics site). But this weekend saw a few comic […]
Notables: Keith Williams, Al Milgrom, Nick Anderson, S D Phadnis, Stan Kelly, James Thurber, and more. Inkwell Award to The Phantom Artist Keith Williams Among the awards handed out lately let’s not overlook The Inkwell given to Keith Williams. From the Inkwell Awards announcement: New Bedford, MA/USA–July 22, 2025) The Inkwell Awards, a non-profit devoted to promoting […]
There is a “Why all the surprise?” element to our current situation. A large part of it has to do with siloing, with the fact that, in today’s media market, there are a good number of people who only take their information from partisan sites, and I’ll admit that most of what I see from […]
The San Diego Comic Con hosted The Eisner Awards Friday night and there are a few categories among the mostly comic book groupings that connect to our subject matters of comics-mostly-other-than-comic-books. Below are some of those categories’ cartoonist finalists we occasionally feature with the winners bolded. Feeding Ghosts by Teresa Hulls was a Pulitzer Prize […]
Fifty years ago this month George Danby became a professional editorial cartoonist when he was published in The Bangor Daily News, now George will be entering the Maine Press Association Hall of Fame. George was 18 and July 14, 1975 marked the beginning of a career that has lasted to today. Danby became the Monday […]
Pour yourself a bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, because I’m not in the mood for discussing important things today. I didn’t guffaw at the joke — It’s okay but not mind-bending — but I liked the center panel a lot and I also thought Hammie’s shrug was well captured. Even on a frivolous day, […]
From the deepest darkest parts of the comics page comes Wallace the Brave, The Argyle Sweater, Rip Haywire, Over the Hedge, Prickly City, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Rubes, Thatababy, Tarzan, Zorro, Prince Valiant, and Tom the Dancing Bug. From Giggles to Gruesome Got a seven-year-old in my life who complains that her Dad takes […]
Fresh off an approved $1.5 billion streaming contract with Paramount, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, took a blowtorch to President Donald Trump and their show’s parent company Paramount Pictures, in a bawdy season 27 premiere episode. The episode’s plot revolves around Trump suing anyone who doesn’t agree with him—including the […]
There’s not much to add to or analyze in Jennings’ cartoon. Children are living as grotesque skeletons and dying in unconscionable numbers. The obvious, simple solution would be to give them food, but instead they have to die. It’s all rather complicated. The whole world is watching, and, as Pope says, putting together their sternest […]
A couple items I’ve been sitting on for too long. 2025 Buffalo News Editorial Cartoon Contest Winners From The Buffalo News and Adam Zyglis (or here): On June 23rd, we honored the winners of our annual Editorial Cartoon Contest with a wonderful ceremony at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site. Our local students always display such […]