Early this morning we got this message while trying to find today’s Little Alley Oop page:At the time of this writing the entire Alley Oop page at GoComics is unavailable, not just the Sunday strip: I will assume it is down to fix the problem and today’s Little Oop will be up sooner or later. […]
I was hoping to do another day of humor while we wait for a few facts to emerge, but we don’t seem to be waiting for facts, so here we are. One Sunday strip will have to suffice.When Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” in 2017, it touched off a lot of mockery. After […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) is holding its annual convention this weekend and, unlike previous recent gatherings our own Mike Peterson is not reporting from the convention floor this year. So we are relying on the cartoonists’ social media platforms to inform us of what is happening. Courtesy of AAEC President Marc Murphy‘s […]
Humberto Aguirre’s “Top Five in Comic Cats” A cat defeated by Mickey Mouse, a robot cat from the future, a thriller cat, a porn cat, and a transgender cat. The comic universe is a space populated by pornographic cats, robot cats, and sadistic and obscene cats that often opened the way for that species to […]
The gag here is that the scale doesn’t go that far, though if Whitehead realized that when he drew this cartoon he’d have added more beer cans. Jefferson wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,” and he was a Deist. I’m agnostic and I feel the same way, so […]
Navied Mahdavian, Tom Gauld, Alison Bechdel, Michael Maslin, and Jason Chatfield with Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher.Navied Mahdavian Navied Mahdavian [link added] is a former 5th-grade teacher who is currently working as a full-time cartoonist. His work has been featured in The New Yorker [link added], The LA Times, NPR, Reader’s Digest, and Wired. He moved to […]
Sunday: To Comma or Not To Comma and Two Title PanelsTwo words in Rubes and two words in Cowtown, both with the proper use of the comma or lack thereof.I think my favorite part of The Sunday Funnies was the dinosaur vignette in Little Oop‘s title panel. Also, for no reason I can discern, the […]
Yesterday I said that anyone doing a Charlie Kirk cartoon a day later would have to do something particularly good. Some did well, some not so well, but I like Guffo’s piece, because he doesn’t over-reach but he has something to say. Kirk’s murder is a blow against freedom, and it’s perfectly valid to say […]
From American Studies a couple days ago: The September 11, 1875 edition of the Daily Graphic illustrated newspaper featured “Professor Tigwissel’s Burglar Alarm,” a series of 17 images from the young cartoonist Livingston “Hop” Hopkins (1846-1927) that constitute the first newspaper comic strip in American history. I haven’t been able to find a complete digitization […]
Items from here and there and everywhere about this and that and the other: Artificial Intelligence; 2024’s best selling graphic novel; editorial cartoon contest for high schoolers; Al Roker animated; street fighting cartoonist; media compliance; protecting the children (from sex).AI-eee! AI “art” is already encroaching on our comics spaces. There have been allegations of its […]
I cried when they shot Medgar EversTears ran down my spineAnd I cried when they shot Mr. KennedyLike I’d lost a brother of mineBut Malcom X got what was comingHe got what he asked for this timeSo love me, love me, love meI’m a liberal! — Phil OchsCharlie Kirk was shot yesterday shortly after noon […]
Anniversary LogosBecause of Facebook’s weird algorithms I didn’t see the Blondie at 95 poster for the comic strip’s September 8, 2025 95th anniversary celebration until just recently. The Phantom at 90 poster comes from the Chronicle Chamber website. The Phantom’s 90th anniversary will arrive on February 17, 2026. The Spokane Spokesman-Review has updated their longest […]
In “Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons, Part I“, we examined the cartoons made by the small number of artists for whom we possessed prior documentation of their work on baseball cards for Topps. In that introductory article I also announced that subsequent installments would provide identifications of five previously anonymous Topps baseball cartoonists. […]
I often have to pause and decide whether to put a Paul Noth piece in the political folder or the humor folder. Even his cartoons that don’t seem to reference a particular politician have significant bite.Obviously, this one hints at a specific person, but it contains an element of plausible deniability, not that cartoonists need […]
A roundup of items about editorial cartoonists from around the world. Dateline: Philippines WHAT WAS supposed to be a routine posting of a cartoon illustration to mark National Press Freedom Day on Aug. 30 is turning out to be another TomasinoWeb controversy in the making. La Stampa received instructions to revise the material from one […]