The short answer to the headline question is: Nothing. Though readers of The San Diego Union-Tribune may have thought otherwise. Rick Griffin of the Times of San Diego catches up with former Union-Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen: It was Saturday, Oct. 18 of this year when The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial pages included an editor’s note […]

For those keeping track, Mamdani won’t be mayor of NYC for another month, so it’s a little early to be panicking over what he might do if he becomes the first candidate in recorded history to accomplish everything he promised. Though I say that as someone who lives in a small (14,300) city with free […]

William Peterfield “W.P.” Trent, Jr. was the son of a respected Professor of English. W.P. jr. had an affinity for sketching rather than scholastics and made a career out of cartooning for a number of magazines. Born on December 30, 1902 by the time he and the 20th Century both hit their 20s he was […]

While it’s a lazy Sunday for some of us (I ain’t Christmas shopping yet) it is a pretty busy Bizarro panel. We are accustomed to busy Bizarro Sunday panels and occasionally multipanel Sunday Bizarros, but this Sunday we are gifted with the exceedingly rare sequential Bizarro comic strip. Added bonus is the substantial, and not […]

Older people shouldn’t fret over the ACA, since they’ve got Medicare, but don’t put those paddles down yet. I got an email October 24 from Social Security suggesting I log on and see my new rates, so I logged on and was told they didn’t have them yet. Then, on the 31st, they announced that […]

Almost two months ago, October 2, Peanuts celebrated the 75th year since it debuted. Late this month Peanuts is again in the news as Charles M. Schulz‘s birthday, November 26, 1922, and, of course, the re-airing re-streaming of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving both occurred recently. Following are some news stories covering both events and more. […]

I agree with Kelley so rarely that it’s only fair to let him start off this post-Thanksgiving edition. He’s right. If Democrats said to do those things, it wouldn’t give you permission, though if you wanted to import 400 tons of cocaine into the US, the president might pardon you as a good guy. But […]

Kallaugher and Horsey on Editorial Cartooning Tomorrow Kevin KAL Kallaugher and David Horsey chat about the State of the Art and Cartooning the State: We will have a fun and free-wheeling conversation about cartoons, politics, commentary and creativity. We will welcome comments and questions from listeners. Kal talks with two-time Pulitzer winning cartoonist and columnist […]

$6 Dollars for 6 Months King Features is playing Friday’s Child this weekend by giving a subscription bargain to their Comics Kingdom site. $6 dollars for 6 months! Scroll toward the bottom for the bargain. The NCS Gives Fair Warning The National Cartoonists Society is giving advance notice that they will soon be opening the […]

I’d like to apologize to the world for somehow having exported Black Friday around the globe. There are a lot things we Americans could apologize for, though Dancing with the Stars was not our idea, nor was the Amazing Singing Head, another program I only know about because they run promos during more interesting things. […]

The 70th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism was held on November 27, 2025 in Sydney. David Pope’s “Gaza” was awarded Cartoon of the Year at Australia’s national journalism awards. The Canberra Times noted Pope’s taking the honor for the third time (or here, kinda): David Pope and all the 2025 winners are listed […]

Illustrating the Progress of Art in Journalism (1897) It started a few days ago when Tony Rose uncovered a startling item in an old Editor and Publisher. A 1925 obituary for Albert Wilbur Steele includes a claim that he was “the first American cartoonist to draw a daily cartoon for a newspaper.” Steele, who had […]

I went looking for interesting Thanksgiving cartoons of the past but didn’t find much I hadn’t seen repeatedly since. But having praised big, wide newspapers yesterday, I got a kick out of this 1925 piece by Gluyas Williams. As for this year’s Thanksgiving, Tom Tomorrow offers a panoramic survey of the mess we’re in. It’s […]

News comes from Rachel DeSchepper at GoComics that they have added a new comic panel. Street Scene is by long-time cartoonist Jonny Hawkins. Hawkins, who’s been freelancing since 1986 and has drawn more than 50,000 cartoons, already creates another comic, “Zoolies,” for Tribune Content Agency. But “Street Scene” is personal in a different way—it captures […]

Mark Schultz and Xenzoic Tales; the Tony Auth archives; comic strip writer Tom Sims honored; Jan Eliot interviewed about Stone Soup; and making a living at cartooning isn’t necessarily a pretty picture. Mark Schultz and Xenozoic Tales Prince Valiant writer Mark Schultz in interviewed about his early career when he created the Xenozoic Tales (aka […]