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 […]
Last week for the first time I am aware of since Olivia Jaimes took over the Nancy comic strip in 2018 it went into rerun status, using Jaimes strips from various past years beginning on Tuesday September 2. Okay, she gets a break like all the other cartoonists. And setting up alternative cartoonists like they […]
I can’t argue with Ramirez on this one: Those four nations are certainly a threat to democracy.But it seems like looking out the window at the neighbors’ place while the smoke detectors are going off in your own house. It is a good and proper thing to worry about the folks next door, but you […]
This is a strange one. The awards were held on September 6 at Coff’s Harbour (Australia) but there has been no news reports about the 37th Annual Rotary Cartoon Awards. Instead the organization is releasing the results of the half dozen categories at the rate of one per day, and apparently news agencies and the […]
Al Hirschfeld, Ann Telnaes, Keith Knight, Floyd Norman, Pat Oliphant and thousands, well hundreds anyway, more (like Gilbert Shelton and Jeff Danziger) at the AAEC Convention, the Small Press Expo, and the Galway Cartoon Festival.Strokes of Genius: Hirschfeld at the Algonquin From Art News Now: New York, NY – The Al Hirschfeld Foundation will join […]