The 20th Century newspaper comics were bookended by two masters of the art. Winsor McCay’s full page Little Nemo was a near-perfect example of the early comic strip (you’d think someone who began their career as a poster artist would be better at lettering). At the other end of the century was Bill Watterson whose […]
Today is Humpday, but it’s also Tax Day, and so since there are cartoons that will be out of date by tomorrow morning, we’ll take a hybrid comedy/politics look at the day.Matson seizes on a familiar approach, but while his “filing status” section is pretty much as seen before, his check-offs are specific political criticisms […]
Marvel legend Jack Kirby will be honored on May 11 in New York City with a new street sign designating Essex Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets as “Jack Kirby Way”. The effort was spearheaded by author, writer, and pop culture historian Roy Schwartz who shepherded the application, a resident petition drive of support, several […]
Playboy has announced that New Yorker cartoonist Asher Perlman will be their Cartoonist in Residence for their Spring 2026 issue. Playboy noted in their announcement that this is the first edition to only feature a single cartoonist. Asher says he will be providing 10 cartoons. When asked who approached who, Asher says that the magazine […]
Art professor, artist, and underground cartoonist Frank Stack, aka Foolbert Sturgeon, has passed away. Frank Huntington Stack (aka: Foolbert Sturgeon) October 31, 1937 – April 12, 2026 From the obituary: Frank Stack, artist, cartoonist, educator, and pioneer of underground comics, passed away on April 12, 2026, at MU’s University Hospital. Stack is widely recognized as […]
I’m a recovering Catholic and have been for half a century or so, but it happens that even before I saw Necessary’s cartoon, I was thinking that they never should have stopped burning heretics at the stake. Not all heretics, mind you. Not me, certainly.I’m not Torquemada and I don’t insist on everyone becoming Roman […]
With Patrick McDonnell, Emma Allen, Jim Keefe, Patrick O’Connor, Tatiana Gill, Dan Dare, and the NCS. A Note from Patrick McDonnell In anticipation of a new MUTTS Treasury being released later this month Patrick McDonnell sends a note: There’s something special about sharing our precious time with the beings we love… That spirit is at […]
Andrews McMeel Publishing has joined over a hundred other publishers, booksellers, library associations, free speech advocates to oppose House Bill 7761 that critics say gives the government a heavy hand to determine what books can and cannot appear on school library book shelves. Andrews McMeel’s full statement: The freedom to speak and to read is […]
Always good to touch base with First Dog for a reality check. You can’t get much farther away than Tasmania, and so you can’t accuse him of being too close to the subject, and, as near as I can tell, he’s consistently right throughout, including that discouraging final panel. The Democrats have finally sprung into […]
An update that The Bend Bulletin is once again publishing editorial cartoons – see following the original post. Original March 19, 2026 report: It is through a letter writer to the Bend (Oregon) Bulletin (or here) that we learn the paper has discontinued publishing editorial cartoons: I was disappointed to learn that the paper has […]
To paraphrase Liniers, “The Comics keep on truckin’.” Yes, Liniers gives a hat tip to R. Crumb in the bottom left corner. No hat tip, and no reason for one, in today’s Zippy. But that opening line instantly instantly brought to mind Donovan’s Season of the Witch opening words: “When I look out my window…” […]
I’m choosing “or not,” because neither team is holding up licorice. In fact, it’s really hard to find licorice these days, at least the kind of licorice that would last you through a large part of the movie, or that you could bite off and then spit brown liquid and pretend you were a cowboy […]
From Wikipedia: Jucika is a Hungarian silent comic strip created by Pál Pusztai that ran from 1957 to 1970. The titular character is a young, attractive woman who gets into a variety of comedic situations, often risqué and suggestive. The series satirizes and parodies sexism, with many of the strips involving Jucika navigating unwanted attention […]
Beginning in the late 1940s Sy Barry became a comic artist. First assisting his brother Dan on the Tarzan comic strip, then going freelance into comic books while still helping brother Dan on the Flash Gordon comic strip of the 1950s. His main claim to fame is being the artist for The Phantom comic strip […]
There’s an abundance of cartoons going around based on Melania Trump’s statement in which she denied a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and called for public testimony from his victims. Huck satirizes her famous green raincoat to ask a central question, and it’s obvious from the other cartoonists that their answer is “No.” I wish it […]