Stephen Collins on the perils of shopping in a strange supermarket, and thoughts on that topic could be a book, and an interesting one.I had the great good fortune to be a biz writer in a small city when a fourth grocery chain came in, and they were not only willing to talk to the […]

 Longtime MAD contributor Sergio Aragonés just can’t imagine a world without MAD. Aragonés sees MAD as a way of presenting people’s foibles and the world’s problems with humor. “Instead of crying, you laugh at it,” he said, suggesting the magazine’s influence has reached a swath of humanity that includes politicians lampooned in its pages. “They say, […]

 Clay Jones’ cartoon yesterday was about the Social Media Summit and political cartoonists.Clay expanded on his thoughts, about the Executive Branch’s desire for what amounts to a state run media, in his column following the cartoon:Donald Trump is hosting a “social media summit” today at the White House. This morning, he tweeted, “A big subject […]

The new Nancy is hardly the only strip featuring a rude, self-absorbed main character, but, at least so far, it goes beyond simply laughing at her rudeness.Confucius said, “In vain have I looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself,” and expanding the search to […]

 Hector Cantu writes the comic strip Baldo, the only nationally syndicated comic strip about a Latino family.   John Yang: Even more dramatic was the 2007 April Fool’s day strip. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers wrongly accuse Tia Carmen of being in the country illegally and take her away in handcuffs. Hector Cantu: It was just […]

Jimmy Margulies comments on the feds having tapped into state licensing bureaus to get all our biometric information.I’m not worried about being deported, because they can force you out of your country without making you move an inch. I feel like the guide in the old joke: “We’re not lost; we’re right here. The path […]

 Editorial cartoonist Ben Garrison’s invitation to a White House Social Media Summit has been withdrawn.After news of the White House inviting Ben Garrison was made public, a backlash from all sides of the political spectrum erupted over the Administration asking an accused Anti-Semitic cartoonist to meet with the President.When news of the invite broke a […]

 GoComics has high hopes for its newest feature.Currently online-only, Ask A Portly Syndicate Person will, no doubt, soon be syndicated to thousands of newspapers and church bulletins around the world, and quickly shame the circulation numbers of Garfield, Blondie, and Peanuts. This will feature is expected to reach the pinochle of success. Below: the second (July […]

 A sure sign of the Apocalypse.The Orlando Sentinel published black-and-white comics Wednesday morning.I wish I had a simple explanation for why our comics appeared in black and white today. The simple answer is it was a mistake. The complicated one that that the page was set “as full color enhanced black, meaning all the text […]

Joe Shuster was born on this day in 1914, and while he probably didn’t sit up in the Toronto hospital to read the newspaper that day, his father may have had a chance to do so in those pacing and chain-smoking days..Couldn’t find any Toronto papers on-line, and there weren’t a whole lot of comic […]

More letters to editors ’bout comics and cartoons. God is just. KAL is not.KAL has sunk to a new low with his Sunday cartoon. Not only does he continually disrespect President Donald Trump, but now he disrespects Almighty God himself.Diane of Freeland accuses KAL of blasphemy.  100% off basePrejudging the president’s Fourth speech leads to a cartoon […]

 The Toronto Star and a Halifax artist are being criticized over the publication of an editorial cartoon depicting Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister Lisa MacLeod.The drawing comes after MacLeod was in the news due to vulgar language she reportedly directed towards Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk at a Rolling Stones concert near Barrie over the […]

 (Pat Bagley) (Jim Morin)We’ll start today with two cartoons l like because they get it.There are all sorts of “America is the Greatest” and “Girls Rule, Boys Drool” cartoons making the rounds, several of them demanding equal pay, though pay isn’t based on win/loss records but on revenue.Well, the women are bringing in the revenue, but, […]

 Every two years about this time King Features releases their Syndicate Directory.They have recently released the 2019 Directory edition (in pdf). Some notes:Maritsa Patrinos gets credit in the Six Chix entry, and Wayno gets same with the Bizarro listing. Maritsa took on duties this year, Wayno last year. Rina Piccolo gets Rhymes With Orange credit. Rina […]

I have a number of links where I find cartoons and I tend to link back to those places, my intention being to help my readers find cartoonists to follow and to build traffic for those cartoonists.But if linking you back to your syndicate or your Facebook or Twitter page isn’t helpful — particularly if […]