Exclusive to The Daily Cartoonist is Patrick McDonnell‘s Introduction to The Essential Peanuts.“A Bringing of Happiness” – Introduction by Patrick McDonnellPeople like to celebrate time and numbers—the 75th anniversary of the world’s greatest comic strip, fifty years of one man’s genius, and his nearly 18,000 combined dailies and Sundays. That’s a lot of hours, paper, […]
October 2, 1950, 75 years ago today, began what is inarguably one of the greatest comic strips of all time.Charles M’ Schulz’s Peanuts is celebrating its 75th anniversary and some publications are taking notice.How Charlie Brown Captured the American PsycheCatharine Hughes at The New Statesman gives a brief history and social impact of the comic […]
There’s no Hump Day Shutdown but there is a shutdown of National Parks, which was a last minute decision. The Park Service argued that, with no rangers and other parks officials working, the level of vandalism would skyrocket and there’d be huge delays in rescuing people who stepped into pools of boiling water or antagonized […]
From the Jane Goodall Institute: Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace and world-renowned ethologist, conservationist, and humanitarian, has died at the age of 91 of natural causes. Dr. Jane was known around the world for her 65-year study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania. However, in the […]
Twenty years ago, I sat down and hammered out a quick blog post that became the start of what is now The Daily Cartoonist. The blog began as an excuse to keep tabs on comic syndication and editorial cartooning—the two genres I was most passionate about. I could never have imagined that, 20 years later, […]
Here we will identify the tenth artist to draw baseball card cartoons for Topps who is now known by name. As was the case for the cartoonists featured in Part II, the artist in question here is known to have worked for Topps in other, non-sports capacities – for what it’s worth, the assertion that […]
This being a “where do we start?” moment, we’ll start before yesterday’s gathering of the brass with Marty Two Bulls’ reaction to the Secretary of Defense War’s restoration of medals of honor to soldiers who participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre. Granted, Two Bulls is Lakota and so has a particular reason to feel that […]
Author, cartoonist, and “professional epigrammatist” Ashleigh Brilliant has passed away. Ashleigh Elwood (Ash) Brilliant December 9, 1933 – September 24, 2025From the Santa Barbara Independent: Ashleigh Brilliant, Santa Barbara’s best-known practicing epigrammatist — not to mention newspaper columnist, community activist, perambulator, and all-around eccentric — died September 24 at the age of 91. According to […]
The National Cartoonists Society’s 79th Annual Reuben Awards ceremony recognizes special honorees, celebrates the 2024 nominees and award winners, and pays tribute to those we’ve lost. Open to members and nonmembers, the Awards are a formal, and fun!, celebration of cartoonists and cartooning. Recorded on August 15, 2025 at the Boston Westin Copley in Boston, […]
Davies proves that there’s no situation so dire that you can’t wring a laugh out of it, so long as the laugh is dark and points out the overlying absurdity of things. In this case, he draws an obviously good-spirited, harmless alien, in conversation with an obviously good-spirited civilian, and a half-dozen large, masked men. […]
About one of the most famous and confusing The Far Side panels by Gary Larson.From Keegan Kelly at Cracked: We finally understand the single most confounding Far Side panel that Gary Larson ever put to paper. “Cow Tools” wasn’t a punchline – it was a prediction. So what we all took to be a pitchfork or a […]
Everywhere around the world… Zehra ÖmeroğluIt was back in May we reported: Cartoonists Rights has bestowed the 2025 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award 2025 on Zehra Ömeroğlu, a Turkish cartoonist, who has been the target of criminal prosecution for a cartoon that was published in 2020 and faces a three year prison sentence. Well […]
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. … And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think […]
Super Power SundaySeems we had some children exhibiting super powers in the Sunday comics. Clayton reveals his superpower to little sister Katy in Adam @ Home. While we may be witnessing the rise of the most powerful being in the Comics Kingdom universe. A couple months ago we saw Olive exhibit some kind of ESP […]
President Trump this morning posted a cartoon firing Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. From CNBC: As CNBC points out, “The image appears to be “AI-generated or digitally illustrated,” according to visual analysis by ChatGPT.” No one seems to know if this is real or just a fantasy. Earlier in the day Trump posted an ai generated […]