Last night The Ringo Awards were presented at the Baltimore Comic Con. Among the winners was Olivia Jaimes’ Nancy comic strip, and Matt Bors’ The Nib site.  BEST COMIC STRIP OR PANEL * Amazing Spider-Man, Stan Lee/Larry Lieber, King Features Syndicate * Bloom County, Berkeley Breathed, Andrews McMeel Universal * Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau, Andrews McMeel […]

Original October 19 post: Charles Schulz’ Peanuts is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed comic strips around and for good reason. Schulz didn’t just aim to make simple greeting card jokes but wrote sincerely out of issues and anxieties within his own life, such as his childhood issues in school, complications in relationships, and […]

 We’ll start today with an “I told you so,” illustrated by Wiley Miller, because I had been telling people to get up here and look at the leaves by Columbus Day Weekend.It was a very good, not quite spectacular year, with a lot of color though a little bit muted. Dr. Johnson said the Giant’s […]

Editorial Cartoonist Rusins Kaufmanis has passed away. Rusins Kaufmanis March 27, 1925 – September 20, 2019Globe and Mail cartoonist 1960 – ???? Ottawa Citizen editorial cartoonist 1963 – 1989From the Ottawa Citizen obituary:He remained interested in politics, people, and especially humour to the very end. In his last week, when initially told by a doctor […]

Andy Marlette cartoon from January 2019:I don’t remember a lot of fuss over this when it first appeared.But now, going out on Barbara Streisand’s Twitter feed yesterday – Boy Howdy!  Renowned entertainer Barbra Streisand tweeted a gruesome cartoon on Saturday in an apparent attempt to express her displeasure with President Trump during his ongoing feud […]

So how is it that a politically potent art form has collapsed in the past few years to the point where perhaps two dozen full-time cartoonists work for US papers, as against hundreds a century ago? Simple, says Ted Rall, the country’s best-known “alternative” cartoonist: It was murdered. We think Ted Rall is right, which […]

Alex neatly answers my usual “where to start” question because I should have pointed out this development when it started, which was Monday. Start there and catch up.I don’t know if it’s a complete game change for the strip, which is generally centered on Britain’s business community, but, then again, it hardly matters because the […]

If you’re not happy with Christmas in stores before Halloween…I’m used to cartoonists getting a week or two into January before pasting the correct copyright notice on those strips. And maybe even getting a bit of a jump by doing it early, say the last week of December. But I think Dana Summers is so […]

Gary Varvel was recently interviewed by a local radio station. He acknowledged the new world of editorial cartooning saying. “We’re going to have to adapt … You want to gain an audience, but you don’t just want to give stuff away.”Gary’s 15 minute WIBC radio interview with Tony Katz. Yeah, as seen above, I lifted this […]

Reply All brings up the concept of wasting time, and, naturally, the answer is to schedule it, making it a cousin of “Let’s do something spontaneous!”My friend Charley’s entire life was spontaneous, and it was exhilarating to be around him, though part of his nature was that he wasn’t around for long. But he’d look […]

The artistic abilities of David G. Brown are displayed each week in the L.A. Sentinel through his graphic commentary on current events. His political cartoons on the Opinion page reveal Brown’s incredible skill of transforming pressing issues into amusing presentations. David also uses his talents in other areas:Brown has excelled in other aspects of graphic design. […]

For an upcoming edition of the Inquirer’s Currents section, the paper’s Sunday opinion pages, we’re dedicating three full pages to editorial/political cartoons … … We’re interested in cartoons inspired by local Philadelphia news … Cartoons can be either multi-panel or single panel. Our only strict criteria is that your cartoon highlights an opinion on a […]

Patrick Bagley responds to a report that the TSA in Salt Lake City found 7 guns in 7 days in carry-on luggage. Six were loaded, the seventh person was also carrying ammunition.As he suggests, careless gun ownership leads to tragedy. How often? How often is too often?I’m not against guns, but I don’t like living […]

Cartoonist and Army officer Vernon Grant had a unique ability to capture the soldier’s perspective during the Vietnam War. The Stars and Stripes contributor was the latest in a long line of social commentators to grace its pages during times of war, the most notable being Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin during World War II. […]

Buffalo News editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis talks.In 2015, Zyglist became the third editorial cartoonist for the Buffalo News to win a Pulitzer Prize following Toles (1990) and Bruce Shanks (1958).“I would draw a cartoon on something like the Charlie Hebdo or something on a global issue, and all of a sudden I’m getting people sharing […]