French cartoonist Sergio Goizauskas better known as Serguei passed away on January 8 at the age of 69. Born in Argentina. He had a 45 year run at Le Monde where he was described as “not a political or current cartoonist, but rather a poet capable of drawing.”From Lucas Delattre at Le Monde (translated via […]
So we noticed that Scott Stantis has been missing from the Smerconish Cartoon Corps (Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, Rob Rogers, Scott Stantis) of late, his last being the day after Christmas. So we went to the source and asked about it. Scott told The Daily Cartoonist that “I am stepping away from editorial cartooning to […]
Creating a multi-panel, multi-gag comic poses an obvious problem: You have to be insightful with each panel, and most cartoonists do well to produce five in a row when they’re producing a single comic each day without trying to tie them all into a specific theme.McFadden is lucky while the rest of us are not, […]
The Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman exhibit “Never Again!.. And again… And again…” currently at the Paris Galerie Martel art gallery has been extended another week. Originally scheduled to close tomorrow, visitors can view Joe and Art’s “graphic and political dialogue around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” on Gaza until January 17.Additionally, €80,000 was raised off of selling […]
Drew Litton has created Slippery Slopes, a new comic strip exclusive to the Vail Daily.The Colorado sports cartoonist and editorial cartoonist has created a comic strip that is neither sports- nor political-centric, rather it is a loving and humorous look at Colorado’s Rocky Mountain area.The comic strip first appeared at the end of December 2025. […]
The world views with horror the killing of Renee Good, but Wilcox expands upon its significance by pointing out Dear Leader’s threats against Iran if it uses violence against demonstrators there. She has logic on her side in pointing out the hypocrisy, both in the shooting itself and in the government’s mullah-like denunciations of the […]
We got Big Nate, Bazooka Joe, The Family Circus, Channel Chuckles, FurBabies, The Ducktown Weekly. The Comics Paper, B.C., New Adventures of Queen Victoria, and Doonesbury.Missed it by two days. Big Nate debuted in newspapers on January 6, 1991 and Lincoln Peirce celebrates at GoComics Blog by ignoring the original core cast, instead profiling a […]
Berkeley Breathed let his Facebook followers know that The Bloom County Boys will be moving to Patreon: Opus, Bill, Steve and your Bloom County family are moving! …To a new home more expansive than social media. We invite our readers to join us for the gang’s continuing adventures, plus behind-the-scene peeks at 45 years of […]
Stegelin’s New Year’s cartoon didn’t take long to come true, but, then, it’s not as if we didn’t know things would fail. Steve Bannon’s advice to the rightwing was to “flood the zone with sh*t,” and it has been working: We barely begin to deal with one outrage before the next occurs and the earlier […]
An interesting article by Resham at StratNews Global (New Delhi, India) about China effectively using cartoons on social media platforms to shape narratives of international events to Americans, western nations, India, and Japan. China seems to have deliberately outsourced its foreign policy messaging to cartoonists. Political cartoons and poster art have quietly been elevated into tools […]
Six weeks after Pittsburgh Post-Gazette union employees returned to work following a court win and a union vote Block Communications announced it will shut down the newspaper completely – print and digital. From Pittsburgh’s Trib Live by Megan Trotter And Megan Swift: Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced Wednesday they would cease operations on May […]
French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo has created yet another controversy—this time depicting French journalist, writer, and filmmaker Rokhaya Diallo in a banana belt dancing in front of an all-white audience with the caption: “The Rokhaya Diallo show ridicules secularism around the world.” The cartoon was drawn by Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau and published in its December 24 print […]
A Cathy Wilcox editorial cartoon about the Australian governments actions investigating the Bondi Beach killings has caused a backlash and is being targeted as antisemitic. From The Nightly: A cartoon in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers today portraying demands for a royal commission into the Bondi Beach massacre as being orchestrated by […]
The Phantom is 90, Modesty Blaise is 63, Hugo Hercules is 123. and the 100 year old cartoons of Billy Bornes.The Man Who Cannot Die is BornNext month is the 90th anniversary of Lee Falk and Ray Moore‘s The Phantom.The Phantom Fan begins their celebrations early: In February of 1936, a young writer named Lee […]
Thank God it’s Hump Day, coming just as things began to be scary. But we’ll ease into the humor with Rabbits, which would be echoing what I said yesterday except that this strip ran Sunday. Credit where credit is due, and much of the suspense ahead is seeing if the public rises to challenge the […]