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A reminder that there are only two days left until the National Cartoonists Society auction to benefit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is over.      Shown here are some getting high bids, but there are scores of great original art pieces at bargain prices still available. Check it out and, if possible, put in your own […]

Leroy Lockhorn (KFS) asks a question that has occurred to me, too. You’d think there would come a moment when everyone would shudder, recoil in horror and mend their ways, but if so, it’s overdue.Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve long pointed out that the medieval marketplace included some truly appalling entertainments that delighted some […]

© DC ComicsThe Jewish co-creators of the comic book superhero Superman will be posthumously inducted into the Jewish American Hall of Fame (JAHF) in a virtual ceremony that will take place in November. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster developed the superhero as well as his companion characters Clark Kent, Lois Lane and others. It took […]

John Hambrock is nearing 15 years of creating The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. Edison Lee — a 10-year-old with a talent for science and an urge to push boundaries — takes an optimistic view of the world. And, after 15 years of writing a daily comic strip, so does Edison’s creator, John Hambrock. “I […]

Bruce MacKinnon may have posed more questions than he intended with this cartoon, which appropriately shames the Catholic Church for its role in the ghastly scandal of the residential schools.It also brings up the fact that Canada’s cascading revelations seem to have begun with Newfoundland’s Mount Cashel Orphanage, whose pattern of sexual and physical abuse […]

A dozen years ago Brian Fairrington at Cagle Cartoons created a political cartoon with a religious scenario. Fittingly the cartoon has a habit of being resurrected, albeit in an altered state. Recently in a Devon Parish magazine.There are several transgressions with this, not the least of which is why a publication edited and produced by […]

Well, I’ve led a complicated life. One of the reasons I’ve been doing all this stuff…I had a career before I really went into cartooning. At one point after I got out of the army I had a job writing publicity stuff for an agent, and then I worked for a newspaper reporter. I was […]

Andy Marlette (Creators) begins our Halloweeneen celebration with a reminder of what scares at least some of us.The weirdest part of this is that these people are more scared of precautions than they are of actual danger.Wait, no.The weirdest part is that they don’t want to do what experts tell them because they’re following the […]

In Huntington Beach, California students at Golden West College have begun discussing whether to replace their mascot with a more acceptable alternative. Once they come up with a consensus, they could make a recommendation to the administration, but that hasn’t happened yet. No decisions have been made about anything, but it’s become a hot topic […]

A nearly ten year old David Horsey cartoon about Republicans refusing to acknowledge global warming is causing a bit of a ruckus in Connecticut. TOLLAND — A political cartoon used in one of the questions on a seventh-grade social studies reading comprehension test at Tolland Middle School is at the center of a controversy on […]

“I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.”  – – – – Bill Mauldin (October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003)William Henry Mauldin, better known to the world as Bill Mauldin, was one of the most popular and influential cartoonists of the twentieth century. In 1975, Bill Mauldin gave […]

Nick Anderson (Counterpoint) manages the only tasteful riff I’ve seen on that accidental movie set shooting.It’s not a real gun and GOP claims of a stolen election are equally fake and, alas, they’re both equally deadly.The question is not whether Donald Trump believes his Big Lie — he’s been a bullshit artist all his life […]

If you ask cartoonist Pat Byrnes, the best comeback in history is in the Bible and was brought to us by cartooning. The Pharisees tried setting a trap for Jesus, to which he responds by drawing in the sand. Born and raised in an Irish Catholic family in Detroit, Byrnes is now a renowned cartoonist […]

Not long after I posted this issue The AFRO posted an item about Hambone’s Meditations.I’m putting that notice up top for those who have already read this entry.       Readers of The Commercial Dispatch and dozens of other Southern newspapers in the early 20th Century were greeted often, sometimes daily, sometimes on the front […]