Last month John Rose celebrated being hired by King Features Syndicate to succeed Fred Lasswell as the cartoonist for the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comic strip.But it wasn’t until May 21, 2001 that the first strip carrying the John Rose signature appeared.© King Feature SyndicateHappy Anniversary John! Another Twenty?

If mockery could solve our problems, we’d have no problems at all. And then the political cartoonists would all be out of business.I suppose this Rob Rogers piece won’t change the minds of the nincompoops who nod along with Rep. Andrew Clyde’s claim that the January 6 rioters were simply a group of peaceful tourists.But […]

Announcing the 2021 Davenport International Cartoon Contest! Anyone may enter the contest. Grand Prize: $750 * First: $500 * Second: $300 * Third: $200 * (5) People’s Choice: Ribbon The entry fee is $25.00 (US Dollars), for each cartoon entered. Subject: Contemporary political, economic and social ideas of interest; an “Editorial Cartoon.” Your entry must […]

Edison Lee (KFS) doesn’t say everything I’ve been thinking about this, but he says enough.One of the things popping up on my social media feed again lately has been calls for term limits.We’ve got term limits. They’re called “elections.”If they don’t work, the answer is in this comic strip, because Congressmembers spend way too much […]

I don’t remember the characters of The Wizard of Id and B.C. comic strips mingling except in promotional material like the above. That changed Monday.I liked this. There is an internal logic that a potion or incantation of the Wizard’s went wrong and he ended up where he did. Also both the characters meeting are […]

Ann Telnaes is hardly the only cartoonist to show people — particularly Republican politicians — wearing their covid masks over their eyes, but she does some of the best caricatures in the business and keeps up with Who’s Who in Washington.And she doesn’t insult your intelligence with labels. She assumes you keep up with the […]

K. C. Green, creator of the internationally famed “this is fine” internet meme, is taking his humor to King Features with the new  Funny Online Animals comic strip.© KC Green KFS editor Tea Fougner introduces the new comic: Wow! I’m so thrilled to introduce you to our newest members of the Kingdom, the FUNNY ONLINE […]

Clay Jones used his Twitter account to let his Facebook followers know that he had been suspended because the Facebook Artificial Intelligence doesn’t recognize satire and humor. Clay Jones’ Facebook account was back on the streets this morning.

Let me start the day by declaring that I don’t like most of these cartoons very much, but it’s not my job to like cartoons.Ed Hall’s take offers a good starting point, however, and it’s also not his job to be liked.This is a play on sentiment, dead children being an obvious tug at the […]

Pop Culture scholar and historian M. Thomas Inge has passed away.Milton Thomas (Tom) Inge March 18, 1936 – May 15, 2021 As CBR noted in their subhed: “M. Thomas Inge [was] one of the very first academics to cover comics as a college course and one of the earliest scholarly comics writer[s].”Tom Inge has long […]

This is hardly new: It’s an illustration from a 1903 book of nursery rhymes by Charles Robinson, who did much more elaborate work elsewhere and go have a look, because it will be worth your while though you can also read that nursery rhyme book here.As with most nursery rhymes, there are a kabillion interpretations of […]

“Who is Bill Mauldin?” reads lamppost banners outside the Monroe Building, where “Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin & the Art of War” opened Friday at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 104 S. Michigan. Mauldin not only changed how Americans viewed World War II but how we think about war and the military. At a […]

In a blast from the past journalists at The Chicago Tribune and The New York Daily News are speaking with one voice, imploring anyone with big pockets to save them. Running out of time and hope, more than 100 Chicago Tribune employees and supporters held a rally at the newspaper’s West Town printing plant Saturday […]

2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? — Ezekiel 18  David Horsey’s 2002 cartoon applies as well 19 years later, though today we speak of missiles, not individual terrorists or tanks.Details change, the Middle East […]

Broadcaster and cartoonist Mike Mundt has passed away. Michael Elmer (Mike) Mundt September 6, 1953 – May 7, 2021 From the obituary:He graduated from the University of Idaho in 1976 with scholastic emphasis in Architecture, Electronics, Engineering, and Broadcast Communications. His early broadcast career was as a Broadcast Engineer for KUID-TV and as an instructor of […]