The Lake County Journal/Shaw Local touted their cartoonist Tom Beck sweeping the recent 2025 Northern Illinois Newspaper Association Awards. show (or here): Lake County Journal cartoonist Tom Beck recently swept the Best Use of Humor category at the 2025 Northern Illinois Newspaper Association Awards. Beck has placed in this category in years past, but this […]
Michael Maslin links to a few original art auctions from classic New Yorker contributors. One being a ca. 1937 Peter Arno College Humor cartoon, another being a 1941 Charles Addams New Yorker cartoon. The former went for $506 the latter for $24,381. A third original art from a Barbara Shermund Pictorial Review cartoon sold for […]
It’s come to this: The President has declared any opposition to him as “sedition” to be punished with execution. My own Congressional Representative is on the list of people Donald Trump has said should be hanged for having said that members of the military are not required to follow illegal orders.Advocating the law and reminding […]
Cartoonist and graphic artist Dick Weidman has passed away. Richard Kenneth (Dick) Weidman July 13, 1930 -November 8, 2025From the obituary: In late 1948, Dick eagerly joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where his talent contributed to mapping the South Pacific, Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, and Southern California. He drew cartoons for several Army newspapers, […]
After a month off Rachel Merrill returned as Gil Thorp artist for only two weeks before handing it off to Kit Mills again for an undetermined guest artist run. While Guest Jumbler week at Jumble keeps rolling along.Loose Parts this week brought back memories for old Marvelmaniacs. New GoComics Standards GoComics has published their set […]
This may seem like an odd place to start, but it’s actually perfect. In case you missed it, FIFA, the organization that runs the World Cup tournament, recently announced that it has a brand-new Peace Prize and strongly hinted that it will present it to Donald Trump on December 5 when they draw the matches […]
From the United Kingdom we have Modesty Blaise and Philip Sidney Woodford, from the USA West Coast we have new museums in Portland and Los Angeles, in Washington D.C. we have rumors of a Jake Tapper graphic novel, but we start with an update on the troubled Angouleme International Comics Festival in France.Angouleme Update France […]
An addition to your “Complete” Calvin and Hobbes to make it complete, the Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, and the Deer Hunting sports cartoons of Gregg Klees.Let’s start off with a reminder that there is only one day left to be a part of the Kickstarter that guarantees you receive volumes one and two of […]
Crabgrass is set in an unspecified past and Tahuid Bondia is reading my mind, because I was just thinking of how, when I was a kid, every boy had a jackknife and how unlikely it would be for any kid to have one today. I know I had one at eight, because we spent that […]
Saran is concentrating her monthly Substack newsletter this year on The New Yorker and recently it involved interviewing Emma Allen the New Yorker cartoon editor for the past eight years.The introduction to Saran Wrapped Letters inteview with Emma Allen: I am thrilled that Allen took the time to answer my questions so thoughtfully, despite the […]
A Turkish court has ordered the release of LeMan satirical magazine cartoonist Doğan Pehlevan under judicial supervision in a case that had kept him behind bars since July on charges of insulting the president, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. From Turkish Minute: Last Friday an İstanbul court ordered Pehlevan’s release pending trial on the charges of […]
On another “Where do we begin?” day, we’ll start with what was yesterday’s Deflocked, which is somewhat unremarkable, since cartoonists have been pointing out our astonishing talent for ignoring reality, except that YouTube TV and Disney resolved things Friday night, so I was gobsmacked to see a syndicated strip pick it up three days later.Particularly […]
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 […]