In what has to be the cartooning story of the year Ann Telnaes left The Washington Post after they refused to run her cartoon of billionaire oligarchs paying tribute to Donald Trump. Says Ann: When I made my decision to leave, I knew this would be the end of my thirty year career as an […]
This is an odd time of the year when you might as well take a vacation because nearly everybody else is going to. When I was a reporter, it meant that the only stories to cover were about fires and accidents because you couldn’t get hold of sources so you could write anything more substantive, […]
The Best Ofs came fast and furious today from The Guardian(twice), The Globe and Mail, Cagle Cartoons, The Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Hindu, The Times, WhoWhatWhy, CALÓ, and The Las Vegas Sun.The Gaurdian presents The Best of Fiona Katauskas Cartoons 2025. Best of Michael de Adder [Part 1] from The Globe and Mail. A […]
Editorial cartoonist Mike Beckom has told The Daily Cartoonist he will be retiring at year’s end: I began this journey over 22 years ago as a way to honor my Dad after he died. He’d taught me to draw when I was 4-5 and always encouraged me to ‘do something with my talents’. Gathering my […]
By now you should have three partridges in pear trees, four calling birds and three French hens, or at least three notices from UPS saying they will be delivered tomorrow and will require signatures, in which case you should keep your eyes open because they’ll be left on the porch in the snow.Meanwhile, we’re getting […]
From Il Post (via Google Translate from the Italian): On Christmas Eve 1925, 100 years ago, the London newspaper Evening News published a children’s story it had commissioned from the English writer Alan Alexander Milne. In a short introduction, Milne described his five-year-old son, Christopher Robin, coming down the stairs dragging a large teddy bear […]
It is that time of year when cartoonists, newspapers, and websites pick their favorite (what they call “the best”) editorial cartoons from the previous twelve months. Here are some early “Best of 2025” collections. The retiring, but not shy, Walt Handelsman splits his choices into three categories: New Orleans local (or here) and Louisiana state […]
Bennett’s day-after cartoon would have been easy to nit-pick a year or so ago, because half of us wanted the exchange immediately while half of us were pleased, so using Uncle Sam would have been unfair.However, waking up on Boxing Day to find that he bombed another country and then spewed about 150 screwy messages […]
Recommended Reading, Public Domain 2026, Cartoonist Writes, Recommended Reading PEN America has released the Longlists for their 2026 Literary Awards The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. The only comics-related book on the various lists is Dan Nadel‘s Crumb: A Cartoonists Life. Filled with comics is […]
As Linda Matchan of The Boston Globe tells it (or here): Peter Hotton, a beloved editor at The Boston Globe for half a century and the writer of a popular column, was a newspaperman of the old school. Hotton loved Globe history. He loved old news photos. He loved bringing his kids to Morrissey Boulevard […]
December 25, 1975* — Older Strips # — Special Materials
In 1952, a year after Associated Press Newsfeatures delivered the six part The Story of Santa Claus to newspapers, they brought out the six part Behind the Christmas Story. Again drawn by AP art director Ed Gunder and probably (there is no proof) written by AP correspondent Sherry Bowen who had written AP’s The Story […]
Nancy is one of a handful of ongoing comic strips that can trace its origins back to over a hundred years, the others include Gasoline Alley, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, and Popeye.*So naturally those comics pass into other cartoonists’ hands over time. That time has come for Nancy.GoComics’ latest […]
We’ll let Mads Horwath reply to all the strips in which kids try to be good in the week before Christmas, hoping to make up for 51 weeks of normal behavior. The idea of Santa Claus rewarding good children and punishing bad children goes back a long way, and I have to hope that not […]
Leman No More From Balkan Insight: For 40 years the weekly satirical magazine Leman was published in Turkey. But on June 26, a cartoon appeared depicting Gaza under fire and featuring two figures named Muhammed and Musa [Moses]. Five employees were arrested; the editor-in-chief could not be, however, as he was abroad. Meanwhile, prison sentences ranging […]