It’s getting really hard to avoid politics on Hump Day, but, then again, everything Roz Chast does is political in the wider, sociopolitical sense. It’s generally true anyway, because even a Three Stooges pie fight is based on working class hatred of the wealthy and privileged.There’s a kind of John Oliver/Jimmy Kimmel penetrative insight going […]
Italian cartoonist Sergio Tarquinio, another of our Senior Strippers, has passed away. Sergio Tarquinio October 13, 1925 – January 12, 2026 Another Senior Stripper who had reached the age of 100 has passed away this month. From JiJi Press: Rome, Jan 12. – (Adnkronos) – From the immediate post-World War II period to the mid-1980s, […]
Italian-Belgium cartoonist Dino Attanasio, one of our Senior Strippers, has passed away. Dino Attanasio Eduardo (Dino) Attanasio May 8, 1925 – January 17, 2026 From rtbf (via Google): Dino Attanasio passed away on January 17, 2026, in his hundredth year. A major figure in Franco-Belgium comics, he was one of the architects of the golden […]
Other cartoonists have suggested a “What would you say?” scenario over how Americans would be outraged if another country were to seize our president the way we grabbed Maduro, but Prickly City, as a strip, has the real estate to ask the question and propose a possible answer.And, as a strip, it has the ability […]
“The canaries in the coal mine are not dead yet, but they’re twitching on the ground.” Jack Ohman, being an editorial cartoonist and columnist, has opinions which he expresses in a 45 minute interview with Rich Ehisen and Tim Foster posted at the Capitol Weekly Podcast today. Prompted by the interviewers Jack touches on a […]
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 […]