I’m going to start out with the most challenging cartoon of the day, Bob Gorrell‘s commentary on the IG Report.Unlike the Mueller Report, this stuff is truly dense, such that the Executive Summary is more challenging than the fine print in most others. A quick reaction is impossible, and a more thoughtful response is still […]

The height of the depression might have been the height of the rule of newspapers, and the major feature in newspapers then was the comic strip. Inflation Calculator says $1,000 in 1933 equals almost $20,000 today. Popular cartoonists were celebrities. and magazines included feature stories about their success. The April 1933 issue of Fortune was one […]

Seattle’s alternative newspaper The Stranger takes exception with David Horsey being a middle-of-the-road editorial cartoonist:Seattle Times‘ editorial cartoonist David Horsey has it in his mind that he is the voice of good old American common sense. He never goes too far to the right, nor too far to the left. He is a moderate, and […]

Starting out with an arc to watch. Some time ago, Adam@Home discovered he’d become a viral meme after somebody took a pic of him at the local coffee shop.Now he’s been approached by a coffee company that wants to make him the face of their brand. Problem is, the money is irresistible but the coffee […]

Well, I’m happy I stated, “I will not guarantee that this is a complete list” at the beginning of this series about comic strip characters guest starring in the Mike Curtis and Joe Staton Dick Tracy strip.Denny Lien, in the comments section of Part Three, noted several misses.Barney Google, Spark Plug, and the store owner […]

Rugrats: The Newspaper Strips Volume One is coming next week. Though what it will look like I couldn’t tell you. Graphic Policy has a preview of, I guess, a vertical version: They also post the page of cartoonists who contributed to the five year strip. Creators Syndicate continues to distribute reruns of the strip.Anime Expressway […]

The good news is that Rob Rogers has found a home for “Brewed on Grant,” his local look into Pittsburgh life. The other good news is that he manages to combine the personal with the universal, which is the key to good writing.The principle is simple but not easy to apply because it falls into […]

So you read the December 7, 2019 Sally Forthbut never thought to check YouTube for the video? Shame!Created and drawn by Francesco Marciuliano, and animated and narrated by Tom Racine The Elf Who Lost His Hand in a Tragic Toy Factory Accident (Holiday Special) is destined to become a beloved annual Christmas viewing tradition .

Part Three of a series highlighting the special guest appearances of comic strip characters that have appeared in the Mike Curtis and Joe Staton version of Dick Tracy. Parts One and Part Two covered the years 2011-2016, this time we cover 2017 to the present.We start 2017 with a very special character as a guest […]

Michael Ramirez points out that the US is carrying most of the burden of NATO, a prominent argument of the New America First crowd.Of course, it’s not that simple, but we’re not invested in complex arguments that require study.It does seem, however, that there is an ongoing bit of confusion over what we spend on […]

Original December 4 post:A new feature showed up on the Creators Syndicate page this week.Caption It! by Steve Breen takes the popular cartoon caption contests and lets the Sunday Funnies readers have a shot at it.From the Creators’ site:“Caption It!” is a new cartoon caption contest that runs every week in this space. Are you […]

The Guardian proudly reports that one of their cartoonists, Rebecca Hendin, won the Political Cartoon of the Year award.The artist Rebecca Hendin has won the political cartoon of the year award for a work in the Guardian that depicted Boris Johnson sitting in a burning room while skipping a joint press conference with Luxembourg’s prime […]

Here’s the story in a nutshell. In May, 1952, after the Russian invasion of Yugoslavia, the principal United Nations countries and the United States declare war. The United States uses atomic bombs against Russian industrial complexes. Soviet forces invade West Germany, the Middle East and Alaska. US forces, in disarray, have retreated on all fronts. […]

Earlier we managed to get through the first three years of special guest appearances by comic characters in Mike Curtis and Joe Staton‘s run on Dick Tracy. Let’s try get through the next three years (2014-2016) in this installment.The guest spots come early as the first Sunday of 2014 presents Vitamin’s co-star. Mary Perkins shows […]

 Gene Kannenberg, Jr., famed librarian, comics historian, and cartoonist, has created a book that Peanuts Inc must publish. It is a 3-D pop-up of the first Peanuts comic strip of October 2, 1950. Check it out on Gene’s Twitter feed or as a widescreen Facebook video.