A new 52-page report documents a troubling rise in threats against cartoonists worldwide has been published. The report finds threats are extending beyond arrests, imprisonment and censorship to include legal harassment and prolonged court battles. It also raises awareness that these threats are not longer confined to authoritarian regimes but are increasing in free-speech friendly […]
Kim is losing her column and we’ll see where that leaves her. But her editor’s comment about not touching the comics is timely, because with Zits going into Mon-Sat reruns, our local paper is down to two current strips, Baby Blues and Pearls Before Swine. It also has six zombie strips and four reruns.Some zombies […]
In 2017 the Laurel comic strip by Brian Nelson graduated from The Worcester Telegram & Gazette weekly off-shoot TelegramTowns, where it had been appearing since mid-2010, to the pages of The Sunday Telegram & Gazette. The year before that Brian started Laurel as a webcomic.Notice I said started in 2009, not created. The Laurel character […]
This isn’t a Juxtaposition of the Day because it’s a Juxtaposition of 23 Years. Bramhall’s is current, Englehart’s ran back when we went into Iraq in 2003 with the same goal of stopping terror. Both cartoons comment on the foolishness of the effort, but Bramhall focuses on the president who blundered into a hopeless maze, […]
Jim McCloskey began his newspaper career on staff with The News-Virginian advertising department from 1986 to 1988. In 1989 he moved to The News Leader art department a few miles away where he began drawing editorial cartoons. In 2012 Jim moved to Mississippi and The Sun Herald for a couple years. “I thought that I […]
We visit “Aquino,” Tom Tomorrow and Ruben Bolling, Patrick McDonnell, Lee Falk, and antisemitism.New Ripley’s Cartoonist Who is Also Mostly UnknownThe new Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoonist “DeJoy“ has, after one week (February 23-28, 2026), given way to another new cartoonist “Aquino” beginning today March 2, 2026. A Ruben Bolling-Tom Tomorrow Funny Times Interview […]
Two days after the attacks on Iran began, the assault continues to dominate political cartooning, though Monday is always quiet as few cartoonists work the weekend.Deering reminds us that Trump had claimed to have obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability and now says the attacks are intended to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. At the […]
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) was formed 80 years ago on March 1, 1946. From the National Cartoonists Society page: The Society was born at a specially convened dinner in New York in March, 1946, that saw Rube Goldberg elected as president, Russell Patterson as vice president, C.D. Russell as secretary and Milton Caniff as […]
Mike started this morning off by giving G. B. Trudeau and Doonesbury the Good Timing Award. Here is the title panel to today’s Doonesbury: Comic Strip Trivia Enjoyed today’s Thatababy and am impressed with Jonathan Lemon’s ability to ape the various named cartoonists’ drawing styles and signing the panel that included one of his current […]
Nice timing on today’s Doonesbury, which was done some time ago but appears just as Dear Leader demonstrates his peacekeeping skills as well as his need for praise.Among editorial cartoonists, it was interesting to see who leapt into the fray and who did not. I recognize that some cartoonists may not be allowed to break […]
Jason Chatfield tours The New Yorker exhibit and we tag along; The Funday Times returns to The Sunday Times; Bob Eckstein on Books and Bookstores; Old Animated Cartoons were Better than their Modern Counterparts (opinion); Healthy Graphics with Gillian Levine; and William Henry Jackson by William Henry Jackson (Bill) Griffith. A Tour of The New […]
The Sunday Zits comic strip will be original material while the daily Zits will remain in rerun status.The Daily Cartoonist contacted the creators of the Zits comic strip and Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman passed our inquiry on to King Features Executive Editor Amy Anderson who graciously responded: Jerry and Jim will continue to create […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was written in the early hours of the morning before American participation was announced. I see no reason to make any changes beyond acknowledging the announcement.This is indeed the new normal. We’re kept up to date on the weather, but the possibility that we were about to be involved in a war […]
Back in the Spring of 2022 editorial cartoonist Steve Sack retired due to a medical condition. After 42 years and 10,000 cartoons, Steve Sack didn’t retire from the Star Tribune in 2022 because he ran out of passion or ammunition for editorial cartooning. At 68, his Pulitzer Prize-winning right hand had failed him—carpal tunnel, nerve […]
Becky Fillinger for The Minneapolis Times conducts a short interview with cartoonist Jim Keefe. Our neighbor Jim Keefe is the illustrator and colorist for the Sally Forth comic strip. He frequently references places in the Twin Cities in the strip – keep reading for fun examples. We talked to Jim about cartooning as a career (he’s had […]