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.  

For the entire month of December, USA TODAY cartoonist Mike Thompson, along with cartoonists from the USA TODAY Network and the Cagle cartoon syndicate, will provide retrospectives of their favorite work from the past decade.According to USA TODAY: The cartoonists were asked to gather  their 20 favorite cartoons from the past decade into individual collections, and we’ll be […]

The New York Post reports:The 121-year old Dayton Daily News and two other Ohio newspapers will shrink to three days a week from daily publication to appease regulators who on Monday approved a $3.1 billion acquisition of Cox TV stations and newspapers by private equity firm Apollo Global Management. The other two papers facing the […]

NPR covers the cost-cutting that looms on the horizon from the Gannett/Gatehouse merger. From the piece:MIKE REED (CEO of the new Gannett): When you backtrack over a number of years, we have been labeled as an aggressive cost-cutter. And we have reduced costs pretty rapidly over the years. The thing I would point out that […]

I missed most of yesterday’s extravaganza while earning a living, but, based on what I heard on NPR while running errands and on CNN while fixing dinner, Bill Bramhall seems to pretty well sum it up. And if I needed more commentary, Ann Telnaes has once more live-sketched the proceedings. You can see the rest of […]

In the nearly nine years that Mike Curtis and Joe Staton have been doing Dick Tracy special appearances and cameos began showing up fairly quickly. These eventually turned into regular guest starring roles for (mostly) retired comic strip characters. Currently Steve Roper and Mike Nomad are taking a turn as guests in the Dick Tracy […]

above: “Purgatory”Daryl Cagle welcomes Peter Kuper to the Cagle Cartoons family:I’m happy to call attention to our new CagleCartoonist, Peter Kuper, who has joined our newspaper syndication package at CagleCartoons.com, along with our PoliticalCartoons.com store and Cagle.com. See our archive of Peter’s latest cartoons on Cagle.com. Peter has an impressive cartooning resume! He is a […]

Not to single out Benjamin Slyngstad in particular. He’s just one of a whole lot of cartoonists and late night hosts who have decided that Joe Biden should not be president because he said “Malarkey.”And, however he means it, what he says here is probably true.We may be reaching the “Al Gore is a Liar” […]

Burne Hogarth took over the Tarzan Sunday page from Harold Foster and, like Foster, became very famous drawing that feature. After eight and a half years Hogarth walked away from the strip.From a 1982 Comics Scene interview:CS: Why did you leave Tarzan after 10 years? BH: Very simply, you’re talking about United (syndicate) and Tarzan. […]