As Prince Valiant continues its historical summarizing so we will continue to follow the sources as Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates draft Cullen Murphy and John Cullen Murphy‘s story from 1982 into a new tale.Following the new introductory panel one by Thomas Yeates we go back to 1982 for panel two. Panels three and four […]
I get up early by most standards, but even earlier this morning because my bedside clock doesn’t change itself, so when I turned on my computer, I realized I’d rolled out an hour earlier than I had to. No worries: I’ll make it up with a nap later and I didn’t have to wait for […]
And then there was the time… when Schott’s Significa and Davey Jones, Michael Maslin and Rea Irvin, Nebelspalter and Rick McKee, Steven Heller and Peter Kuper, and Lynda Barry and Lynda Barry again were all included in a weekend roundup.And then there was the time… Schott’s Significa Included a Chapter on Comic ConventionsJohn Freeman brings […]
Cartoonist Garrick Tremain is 84, widowed and fighting a highly aggressive form of cancer, but he has not lost his sense of humour. Take this example. The local museum in Arrowtown asked him which night would be best for the launch of his new book. “Which knight?” he replied. “You’d better make it Sir Grahame […]
A whole lot of Halloween-themed cartoons are now obsolete, and so, perhaps, are a flood of cartoons about SNAP benefits, given that two separate courts ordered the funds distributed after all. (The “perhaps” being based on the potential for Dear Leader to ignore the courts, or to appeal the decisions.)For the next little while, we […]
From Martin Crookall (2015): Except…The Menace from Jupiter was the last Dan Dare story to appear in Eagle, but before we end this sequence, there’s an oddity to consider. Not a story from one of the Annuals, nor any of the other Eagle-related publications that came out from Hulton, or Odhams, or Longacre. But a […]
So there are more clergy cartoonists than Mike Morgan and Fred McCarthy, who immediately pop into my mind when the subject comes up. The Presbyterian News Service throws a spotlight on a couple of preachers whose side hustles were cartooning for both religious and secular venues. This cartoon [above] is yet another created by an […]
Here’s one of my favorite “actuallys,” because modesty is the least of the Invisible Man’s problems, starting with the fact — and I use the word “fact” recognizing that we’re starting a long way from facts to begin with — but starting with the fact that, actually, in order to be invisible, he’d have to […]
Michael Heath is “a British strip cartoonist and illustrator. Heath has been cartoon editor of The Spectator since 1991.” He turned 90 this month on October 13, 2025 and so joins our list of Senior Strippers.Wikipedia tells us that over the decades Michael Heath cartoons have “appeared in numerous British publications including Punch, Lilliput, the […]
Visiting: Alex Hallat at Jason Chatfield’s place; Sandra Bell-Lundy goes Inside the Kingdom with Alex Garcia; Cathy Guisewite stops by Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett’s ComicsLab; plus Jack Kirby at Yancy Street and Will Henry in Snug Harbor.Drawing with Alex and JasonAlex (Arctic Circle) Hallatt and Jason (Ginger Meggs) Chatfield spend an entertaining hour discussing […]
As we close out October’s celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Daily Cartoonist, I want to present a look forward where we are steering TDC, and what you can expect in the coming months and years.If you haven’t had a chance, please look back at the earlier articles in this #TDC20 series:The FutureI want […]
To start with, nobody takes an MRI as part of a routine physical. I have no idea how an MRI could be “perfect,” since every body is different and at least has its own peculiarities if not its own flaws, but they don’t just give you one for the heck of it, any more than […]
The Fluffy Ruffles Story The job-hunting, resourceful, and decidedly independent heroine became a national sensation shortly after her Feb. 3 premiere in the New York Herald. Fluffy was a pioneering woman in the workplace battling a reversal in fortune by making weekly tries as a journalist, florist, schoolteacher, dairy maid, waitress and more. The full […]
Guest CartooningGuest cartoonist week continues in Gil Thorp and Dick Tracy. Kit Mills ends his four week substitute artist stint at Milford High with this week (October 6 – November 1, 2025). It is presumed that Rachel Merrill will return to Gil Thorp on November 2, 2025. Dave Beaty will continue as the Minit Mysteries […]
We’ll start with my annual Grinchy reminder that it was Linus, not Charlie Brown, who cut all those eyeholes into his sheet. This was Halloween, 1956, when Linus and Schroeder were still toddlers, before they hit the cutoff age where Peanuts characters stopped growing.However, it’s like Star Wars in that things are “canonical” rather than […]