In 2004 The Chicago Tribune set the record straight: First off, there is no Tom the Dancing Bug. Nowhere in Ruben Bolling’s 700-odd “Tom the Dancing Bug” comic strips does an insect, named Tom or otherwise, shake its groove thang. Second, there is no Ruben Bolling. No, “Tom the Dancing Bug” — an esoteric, form-bending […]
The Association of Canadian Cartoonists named Marc Beaudet and Michael de Adder as winners of the 2025 “Townsies,” formally known as The George Townsend Award. The Townsie is a two part award, one for the best Anglophone cartoon and one for the best Francophone cartoon. Michael de Adder’s award winning cartoon:
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is about people who don’t realize how little they know about a particular topic. It’s not confined to stupid people and could apply, for instance, to a well-qualified, highly educated physician who spouts nonsense about tectonic plate shifting despite geology not being his area of expertise.There aren’t many people who are universally […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for October 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Our mid-month October Hey Kids! Comics! list had scores of books. When we started getting news […]
Frew’s The Phantom reaches #2000, Walt Handelsman The Saints Caption Contest sets a record, a new Bob Staake book coming, news deserts and digitals – a report, Jason Chatfield on Substack as an alternative revenue stream, and The Kinks get a comic strip mention.The Phantom #2000Missed it. Frew Publications in Australia earlier this year published […]
Brodner hits on a couple of levels with this one. When Nikita Khruschev said “We will bury you,” most Americans took it as a threat, given that it was the middle of the Cold War. But it was an idiomatic expression meaning “We will be here when you’re gone,” similar to saying “We will dance […]
Cartoonist Beth Wolfensberger Singer‘s comic strip for The Boston Globe today reminds me that there are a few Edward Gorey items waiting in the queue to be cued up, and what better time than the eve of Halloween Eve eve eve eve to do so. And how better to start than with Edward Gorey’s recently […]
As we look back at the last 20 years of The Daily Cartoonist, its history would not be complete without talking about the sometimes contentious four year period between 2007 and 2011 when the comment section often became the center of heated discussions about webcomics and the future of print comics. Most comment threads were […]
The Ol’ Perfesser, Casey Stengel, added to his fame by becoming the first manager of the New York Mets, who racked up 40 wins and 120 losses that year, prompting Stengel’s famous quote, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”It seems a good question at the moment, to which I would add another from his volume […]
The art of today’s October 26, 2025 Sunday Prince Valiant page is credited to “Foster Murphy Yeates.” That’s Hal Foster, J. C. Murphy, and Thomas Yeates – all the signatures in the artists’ own styles by the way.As Aleta spins her tale of the past, Yeates has reached into the past for the illustrations. For […]
Updates on political cartoonist Clay Jones and Dick Tracy writer Mike Curtis, remembering Jules Feiffer and the WWII life of Charles Schulz, cartoonist Paul Dorin on gag cartoon clichés and comix pioneer Robert Crumb on paranoia, and Casper the Friendly Ghost is 80.Clay Jones Update Clay Jones is back to writing (dictating) on his Claytoonz […]
There are a lot of cartoons about the renovation/destruction of the White House, but I like Matson’s take because it not only captures the ambitious glorification involved but the combination of fantasy and madness behind the action.If nothing else, we no longer have to ask if Dear Leader believes the things he says, because as […]
Movie poster artist Drew Struzan has passed away. Howard Drew Struzan March 18, 1947 – October 13, 2025From Tracy Brown’s L. A. Times obituary via The Seattle Times: LOS ANGELES — Drew Struzan, the artist who created some of the most recognizable posters for movies including “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Blade Runner” […]
The Fearsome FluffyFrom Wikipedia: Fenrir (Old Norse ‘fen-dweller’) or Fenrisúlfr (Old Norse “Fenrir’s wolf”, often translated “Fenris-wolf”), also referred to as Hróðvitnir (Old Norse “fame-wolf”) and Vánagandr (Old Norse ‘monster of the [River] Ván’), is a monstrous wolf in Norse mythology. In Old Norse texts, Fenrir plays a key role during the events of Ragnarök, […]
This certainly set a foul mood for the day. It’s perfectly valid to criticize Hamas, or the Netanyahu government, or ours. But I cannot understand the editing process by which this got through at Tribune or posted at GoComics, and I sincerely hope no newspaper editor would choose to run this hateful slandering of two […]