Jane Pauley of CBS Sunday Morning receives 2025 Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Tampa. Also honored at the Bowtie Ball gala was Doonesbury cartoonist Garry B. Trudeau with the 2025 Poynter Distinguished Service to Journalism AwardJennifer Orsi at Poynter reports on the 2025 Poynter Bowtie Ball: TAMPA, Florida (Nov. 16, 2025) — Legendary television […]
The National Press Foundation has announced Matt Wuerker as the winner of the 2025 Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons. Matt Wuerker of Politico has won the 2025 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation. “Wuerker’s portfolio goes beyond the daily headlines to […]
This is when I first heard “Yankee Go Home!” I was eight, Ike was president and Vice-President Nixon was visiting Venezuela.As these cutlines read, the wreath-laying didn’t happen and Nixon scarpered on home. He was quite shaken by the event, which cracked the shatter-proof glass in his limo and shattered the image of the US […]
Webtoonist Jung Ji-hoon wins Yellow Kid Comic of the Year award for ‘The Horizon’From Yoon So-YeonYOON at Korea JoongAng Daily: Korean webtoonist Jung Ji-hoon, who goes by the pen name JH, won the Yellow Kid Comic of the Year award at the Yellow Kid and Gran Guinigi Awards. “The Horizon” (2016) is a dystopian drama series about […]
The other day we took Lennie Peterson to the woodshed for claiming all cartoonists work like he does. A couple days later Lennie responded to our objection thru his comic strip The Big Picture.Well, this time we agree with him completely, especially with that panel where he mentions us by name.Also yesterday the WaynoBlog linked […]
Tank raises the popular question of why football coaches are better paid at Div I schools than professors, and then half answers it. Filling the stadium is a good source of revenue, but teams only play a half-dozen home games, so that the Colorado Buffalos, who apparently have the most expensive tickets at $517 but […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for November 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection, vol. 12 by Milton Caniff The saga continues in Terry and […]
Clay Jones draws! The Norman Rockwell Comic Strip! Score Bunny by Henrik! The Award Winning Peter Kuper!A Clay Jones Update and New Drawing Clay Jones is making remarkable progress with an attitude that is positive and retaining his sense of humor. Clay writes: This caricature of Trump is the first drawing I have attempted since […]
Pett lays it out: It’s not so much that people resent the wealthy. It’s that they resent the wealthy standing on their throats. They resent living paycheck-to-paycheck in a world in which CEOs make 285 times what they pay their workers. And, assuming there is no compromise by year’s end, they’ll resent watching the uber-wealthy […]
Cartoonists swipe file? Al Capp and Jesus? Webtoon a non-profit?JuxtapositionJuxtapositions, like the above, happen frequently, colleague Mike Peterson occasionally features them in his columns. He could feature them every day if he so wished. But it seems that controversy has arisen over just such a comparison of cartoons. Two of the cartoons won awards this […]
One of the first things Lincoln Peirce did when he arrived at Colby as a first-year student in 1981 was go to the office of the Colby Echo and pitch the student newspaper on a comic strip. That strip, which ran in the Echo until Peirce graduated in 1985, was called Third Floor, named after […]
If you’ve read Gulliver’s Travels, you’ve encountered a verbal nicety of those days, which is that nobody calls anyone a liar. Rather, they accuse him of “saying The Thing That Is Not.” You would also encounter such roundabout language throughout the D’Artagnan Romances, although, in those stories, people skirt the word “liar” narrowly, not to […]
Princess Bride Adapted to Comic StripsIt seems that every scene of The Princess Bride will eventually find its way into Dan Schkade’s Flash Gordon. From earlier this year: And now insects of unusual size. Shrinkflation in the ComicsIt wouldn’t surprise me to see the dozen carton of eggs reduced to ten with no reduction in […]
If you can’t trust cartoonists, who?Like Monty I read the daily comics, unlike Monty mostly online since my local only carries six comics, two of the three mentioned above. Barely moving on we come to Daddy Daze where we find out that we can’t trust cartoonists. Rory out of The Barn is just flat out […]
The expression “2 a.m. in the sophomore dorm” goes back at least to Usenet days. It refers to overly idealistic ideas and nonsensical proposals that arise in the wee hours of the morning among people who have not yet learned how the world works and who base their judgment on how the world should be […]