Alarmed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement impact in their communities, Minnesota cartoonists have launched an effort to spread the word about ICE’s abuses and to call on other artists to share what they are witnessing in their own communities.The seed of this movement came from graphic novelist K. Woodman-Maynard after she created an editorial for […]
This, unfortunately, is a good way to start the week. It’s unfortunate because, yes, that could be you being grabbed off the street, beaten, jailed and deported. As we’ve seen, you can even be a citizen. Heck, as we saw with the snatching of Ogalala men, you can have roots here further back than the […]
Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) has dropped the comic quip panel Graffiti from its list of syndicated features recently (the past few days). It may have been dropped from the GoComics roster last month. A Google search has The Chicago Tribune GoComics portal showing it for Saturday December 27, 2025.Update: The Orlando Sentinel GoComics portal confirms […]
A bit of synchronicity: We were just talking about this at the dog park yesterday. Actually, we were talking about the fact that it’s coyote mating season, and apparently they become aggressive then. But we don’t have coyotes. We’ve got foxes, whose mating season is over now.You know when the foxes are mating because the […]
It’s National Popeye the Sailor Man Day; Alison Bechdel on the what is needed to start a commune; the complete (not an exaggeration) history of the Museum of Cartoon Art by Brian Walker; and the Society of Illustraor’s 2026 Hamilton King Award goes to The BalbussoTwins. The 2026 Hamilton King Award The Society of Illustrators […]
Cartoonist Jorge Pacheco has started a comic strip in his local newspapers. The Lewiston Tribune and The Moscow-Pullman Daily News (both in Idaho) began running Lewiston Cop today.Matt Baney at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News introduces readers to the new comic and the cartoonist: The Comics section in today’s paper features the debut of “Lewiston Cop,” […]
Canada has never been a non-aligned country; they were in both World Wars before the US shook off its isolationism. But Carney’s outreach to China reminds me of something a former official of Cambodia told me, which is that even supposedly non-aligned nations need to make friends, and Cambodia had thrown in with the Americans […]
Famous in the annals of comic strip circulation boosting is the early 1954 ousting of the then three-year-old Beetle Bailey comic strip from the pages of the Tokyo/Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes. The publicity was a windfall for Mort Walker‘s comic strip with a tripling of newspaper clients within a few years. It could […]
With the cancellation of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the city of Angoulême has organized a new local, independent festival called Le Grand Off to be held January 29 through February 1, 2026, the same days as the cancelled international festival.The four day festival will include 150 events be held throughout the city at 60 […]
As noted yesterday, drawing for Politico gives Wuerker more latitude in creating cartoons that make intellectual demands on people. This, however, is a good example of a cartoon that would do well in a general-circulation magazine in the category of “comforting the afflicted.” I’m not sure it would be as effective in converting anyone to […]
The reactions to Scott Adams‘ death, like the comments in our obituary, varied greatly depending on the point of view of those responding as whether they were or were not a fan of the cartoonist. President Trump and MAGA were fans, but…there had to be a better way to pay tribute to a cartoonist than […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for January 2026 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.Silly Symphonies Collector’s Box Set by Ted Osborne, Merrill De Maris, Al Taliaferro, Earl Duvall and others […]
If you’ve ever been in a play, you know that after a rehearsal, the director gathers the cast and provides a list of notes on what went well and what could have gone better in hopes of improving the next run-through. Given the death of the paper in a major city, Bish’s use of the […]
Cathy Commiserations, Thatababy, Archie, Baseball America, Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Andy Capp, Rosebuds, and For Better or For Worse; plus Awards – The Splats, The Eisners, and Graphic Medicine. Including a 1950-2023 timeline of The Most Widely Circulated Syndicated Comic Strips.Cathy Guisewite, who took an extended sabbatical, has returned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of […]
We mentioned in passing the intellectual comic properties from 1930 that entered public domain status on January 1, 2026. Here we’ll take a deeper dive into those newspaper strips. Arguably the most famous of the comics is the Mickey Mouse comic strip that began on January 13, 1930. Of the tens of thousands of comic […]