Jules Chin Greene at Popverse reports a new WEBTOON initiative to assist their cartoonists to “nurture talent and ‘fuel creative careers’ of the creators on its platform” including expanding monetization opportunities: So what does this all mean in practice? The Creator Program will have “expanded monetization opportunities, new convention and event support, and new educational […]
Golding offers a Banksyesque tribute to Australia’s new age limitations on social media. The first thing to note is that kids under 16 are not being banned from going on-line. Rather, as of Wednesday, they’re banned from accessing 10 social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, Kick and Threads.Which is […]
Wages of Sin cartoonist Keith Brown has passed away. Keith Edward Brown March 19, 1963 – December 10, 2025The family has notified friends and fans through social media that Keith Brown has passed: It breaks my heart to have to post this today. But my loving and wonderful husband Keith has passed. Keith’s career as […]
Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco‘s Never Again!..And Again…And Again…And Again three page graphic documentary on the Gaza tragedy issued earlier in 2025 will go on exhibition in Paris with the original art and preliminary drawing to sold with moneys going to UNICEF for the aid on the ground to Palestinian children.From La Galerie Martel Paris […]
It happens, and I’m leading off with Clay Jones’ version because he acknowledged what is known in the trade as a “Yahtzee.” I hate it when another cartoonist does the same idea that I draw, but honestly, this one doesn’t surprise me, as this might be an obvious joke. Oh well. If similar cartoons drop within […]
From Animation Magazine comes the Animated Feature Nominees for the 83rd Golden Globes. Details, like the KPop Demon Hunters phenomenon also being nominated in the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement Globe and a third Golden Globe nomination for its blockbuster song “Golden,” are reported in the Ramin Zahed story. Ramin notes that in the past […]
Science Fiction artist and cartoonist Grant Canfield has passed away.Robert Grant Canfield November 21, 1945 – October 21, 2025From the obituary: He was born in Belmond, Iowa, making his way through high school and the Eagle Scouts in Decatur, IL, then heading west for college and continuing west until 1970, when he arrived in San […]
In case you missed it, the world has shifted, and, as Eliot predicted, not with a bang, but a whimper. A bang you would have noticed, and perhaps resisted. A whimper sneaks up, and yet, once it is in place, you wonder how you could have missed it before. Or perhaps you don’t, which is […]
Dr. Bruce MacKinnon Editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon joins a small group in the cartooning community who can legitimately put the honorific “Dr.” before his name.From St. Francis Xavier University and Education News Canada: St. Francis Xavier University graduated nearly 300 students during its Fall Convocation 2025 today. Bruce MacKinnon, one of Canada’s foremost editorial cartoonists, […]
An exhibit entitled “Faces of Peace” in the Church of the Holy Spirit (Bern, Switzerland) is being criticized as anti-Semitic for displaying portraits of journalists killed in Gaza. The artwork was created by Italian free-speech activist Gianluca Costantini.From Der Bund (translated with Google): The Jewish author Hannah Einhaus is always outspoken when she suspects antisemitism . She […]
An expression emerged during Watergate that it wasn’t the crime but the cover-up that doomed Nixon. It mostly came from his defenders, who envisioned a wall between the burglary at the Watergate and everything that followed, with an innocent president drawn into the cover-up of a crime he hadn’t known was happening.Tapes and testimony showed […]
Back when I was that age corporal punishment in schools was alive and well, at least in the religious school I attended, and a comeback like that would have sent me to the principal’s office for a meeting with “the board of education”; if not an immediate slap upside the head. A Public Service for […]
Walt Handelsman’s LAST Cartoon Caption ContestWalt Handelsman‘s retirement isn’t only the end of his political cartooning, it is also the end of his Caption Contest. NOLA.com announces the last chance to caption a cartoon drawn by Walt.Emi Brudge’s Last OliveA while back I wondered what was going to happen with the newspapers that were carrying […]
I don’t know that stupidity always wins, but I do know it has the inside track. The fad of biting into detergent pods passed by quickly, but it did happen and was quite a tribute to peer pressure and general idiocy.OTOH, looking back on my own misspent youth, I don’t picture 10 kids standing around […]
It’s that time of the year again, Thanksgiving is over and all of your Christmas/Hanukah shopping is done, the only thing left to do, other than drawings your daily editorial cartoons, is to go through your 2025 archives and decide which ones should be sent for consideration to the various award committees.Here is a list […]