Seems like a quiet day in the cartooning universe, but a lack of stark drama allows for some more quiet appreciation.For example, in his weekly taking-of-the-wheel at Bizarro (KFS), Dan Piraro touches on one of my pet peeves — see what I did there? — which is “Lady and the Tramp Syndrome,” a bit of […]

Coin of the RealmForget Bitcoin and Game Stop, invest in gold – 999.9 Fine Comic Gold. Initially inspired by the simple question of a child – “What does a tickle look like?” – the Mr. Men Little Miss characters have become some of the most instantly recognisable in the world. Featured in more than 90 […]

Cartoonist Brian Turner (aka Renrut) has passed away.   Brian William Turner December 15, 1949 – January 31, 2021writer, cartoonist, researcher, and educatorFrom the obituary:Brian was a prolific writer who worked diligently on his novels, articles, books, and research projects right up to the weeks before his death. One of a handful of baseball historians […]

I noted yesterday that I could have done a full day of nothing but “Ted Cruz in Mexico” cartoons, and, as it turns out, I’d have still had enough left over to do it again today.Someone complained that people are forgetting the far more significant horrible things he’s done and maybe so, but I used […]

ZED is walking, talking dryer lint. ZED by Duane Abel has been around for 25 years (last Fall) and has now gained its 25th newspaper in eastern Montana: Now the 41-year old artist has added Montana to his list of two dozen small town weekly newspapers, from as far as away California, to New York […]

© The Ashville Citizen, 1928 Reactions to cartoons about Rush Limbaugh’s death are starting to come in,including this Power Line take on the comparatively mild Steve Sack obitoon.© Star Tribune/Steve Sack The Star Tribune observed the death of Rush Limbaugh with an editorial cartoon … By editorial cartoonist Steve Sack — I think of him as […]

(Ann Telnaes — WashPo)(Matt Davies — AMS)We could have a full day of nohting but Cruisin’ Cruz cartoons, but here are two and they pretty much tell the story (nice snow shovels), though it’s important, I suppose, to note:(A) Cruz lied about having promised his daughters a vacation and simply taking them there and coming […]

Cartooning the Mid-20th Century Newsroom Cartoonists and other artists, working in newsrooms, captured and caricatured their working lives, including their colleagues, in these places. What follows is a small sample of the images I have gathered in my research for my new book on the history of the American newsroom from the 1920s through the […]

Racist Cartoons Help Incite an 1898 North Carolina Massacre>> Warning: historically racist caricature and content << When a mob bent on insurrection stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, some onlookers labeled the event “unprecedented.” But the United States has witnessed coups d’etat before—both attempted and successful—within its borders. In 1898, white supremacists in […]

Later this year Ziggy will celebrate 50 years as a syndicated comic panel/strip.On 27 June 1971, a new comic made its debut in American newspapers, Ziggy. Created and drawn by cartoonist Tom Wilson, Sr., the strip chronicled the experiences of the ill-fated title character… Although the subject matter for Ziggy was the mundane, its public […]

Francis (AMS) leads today because, for all the bonding in a hyperconnected world, we Americans are still awfully fixated on ourselves.There was a time when one of the wire services here did a “Top 10 Stories of the Year” list each January, and they finally came under fire for including US sporting events and the […]

The School of Visual Arts highlights cartoonist Ray Billingsley with an interview. Raised in Harlem, Ray Billingsley was still a kid himself when he started drawing for the magazine Kids at the age of 12 … He debuted Curtis in 1988. Distributed by King Features, Curtis—a multilayered tale of an urban African American family of […]

February 15, ’21 saw the first signed daily Shoe comic strip by Gary Brookins in five months.There is no announcement at Shoe Comics, or on Gary’s Facebook about his return to the daily comic.When Gary retired last year he kept his hand in the game by continuing to do the Sunday Shoe. Now, for this […]

This isn’t actually an editorial cartoon, except that it is.It’s one of HJ Ford‘s illustrations for Andrew Lang’s 1894 retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Blockhead Hans,” a story that suggested Andersen had a low opinion of the press in general and of editors in particular.There are enough editors in the world who think I’m a […]

Smidge and Friends by Ayla KreelakThe weekly Nunatsiaq News has introduced a new comic strip by a young local cartoonist They also introduce cartoonist Ayla Kreelak: Kreelak’s comic strip, which started as her own personal project, offers a glimpse into Inuit culture from the perspective of a young woman who aspires to be a graphic […]