We’ll start with a cartoon from Australia that suggests two responses from up here: One is “Glad we could amuse you,” since we have to live with the chaos she depicts. But that draws a second response of “Thank god you’re watching,” because we’d sure hate to have all this unfolding without witnesses.And if the […]
TimingJohn McPherson, who drew this weeks (months?) ago, gets the Good Timing Award this week. When I hear Mark Trail canon I think Ed Dodd canon. Turns out to be earlier this year Jules Rivera canon. There was a time, way before your time Dear Reader, when an insert called Parade was an ever-present part […]
Jeff Darcy, who has been an editorial cartoonist at The Cleveland Plain Dealer for 33 years, is retiring. From today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer is Jeff’s message to his fellow PD staffers: After nearly 40 years producing Editorial Cartoons for Cleveland newspapers, the last 32 with The Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com, I’m sorry to say, “So long,” as […]
Arctic Circle makes a point that has long bedeviled me, because I don’t live on the seaside. I also don’t toss away a lot of plastic, though I realize much that goes into recycling bins winds up not being recycled. Meanwhile, landfills have had liners for quite a while and, however much plastic may leak […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, is also turning 20 years old this year. They had a small gallery celebration Friday and, since I drive through WRJ several a day, I dropped by to see the place.I got a kick out of Alison Bechdel‘s piece, which was on the wall (pardon […]
SACRAMENTO — California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a wave of criticism after the official press account for the governor posted an AI-generated cartoon showing White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller leading former President Donald Trump on a leash. International Jewish News reports: Conservative commentators and several Republican officials said the cartoon trafficked […]
The Failure of G. B. Trudeau My childhood dream, like the popularity of print newspapers, inevitably faded. I had long been bewitched by the comics pages folded into each edition of the Times-Picayune, the newspaper with which I grew up in my suburb of New Orleans. The pages stood out because of the implicit respect […]
Jones is often provocative, slinging purposeful insults, but generally backed by an intelligent political argument. This isn’t a particularly polite cartoon, but he addresses a critical question and, if the Mike Johnson character is ranting incoherently, the elephant cuts right to the nub of the issue: If the GOP has such a reasonable position, why […]
One of the things that sets The Daily Cartoonist apart from other comic-related news sites is its cultivated community of readers. People visit the site each day not only for the news but also for the comments. We’ll be looking at who has been active in the comments the longest, who the most prolific commenter is each […]
In January, the Washington Post spiked a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize–winning Ann Telnaes that criticized the supplicant attitude displayed by the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, towards Donald Trump … She promptly resigned after the incident, the first time one of her pieces had been rejected over its subject. For 31 years, KAL contributed his […]
With Matthew Diffee, Larry Day, Yaakov Kirschen, Ruben Bolling, Mort Walker, and the Society of Illustrators.Matthew Diffee New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee will be launching his debut picture book, Zip Zap Wickety Wack with a story time and book signing. One of Maureen’s favorite books of the year, this will make story time fun and […]
Does anybody even care about Ronald Reagan anymore? His presidency (1981-89) is cited as the starting point for the Republican revolution, though many more politicians and commentators were involved in that movement. But Reagan was more than a figurehead; he was active and charismatic and, as Ohman recalls, intent on uniting the nation, even if […]
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 […]