The annual survey from Hireillo (Hire an Illustrator) has released its annual State of Illustration 2025 report, drawing on survey responses from 1,500 illustrators worldwide. The report offers a snapshot of industry trends and the current realities of making a living in the field. Among its findings, the report shows that income growth is declining while mental […]

Another newspaper, this time The Caledonian Record (a family newspaper in Vermont), has decided that political cartoons will no longer be a part of their reimagined opinion page.From Todd Smith Publisher of The Caledonian Record on August 21, 2025: Beginning today, The Caledonian-Record will no longer publish a traditional opinion page or syndicated editorial cartoons. […]

When politicians become desperate, they raise the flag.It’s not the only symbol of our country, but the GOP is already deeply committed to mandatory motherhood and while they’re enforcing non-existent laws against hurling sandwiches, it apparently hasn’t occurred to them to declare throwing apple pies a form of treason.And so here we go yet again […]

UK cartoonists have launched “Cartoonists For Gaza” to respond to the humanitarian crisis, they include Martin Rowson, Roger Langridge, Bryan Talbot, and more. Joining the UK cartoonists are others from across Europe and the U.S. such as Oscar Zarate, Bob Fingerman, James Sturm, and scores more.From John Freeman at downthetubes (with a gallery): UK cartoonists […]

While Peanuts celebrates its Diamond Anniversary Hallmark marks a 65 year partnership with the comic strip.My Facebook has been inundated with ads for unlicensed Peanuts shirts – it didn’t help that I clicked on one of the links, ensuring even more intrusions. This stuff is “not sold in stores” and “only available for a limited […]

Mark Parisi‘s win of The Reuben for the National Cartoonists Society‘s 2024 Cartoonist of the Year is getting some attention in his local papers. Joann Mackenzie writing for the North of Boston Media Group filed the story. As seen in The Gloucester Daily Times: From the same story in The Salem News:The article can be […]

Understanding Trump’s complex relationship with Vladimir Putin begins with understanding Trump in general, and, as Danziger suggests, he’s not complex. He’s chaotic.Trying to oppose Trump is like fighting a drunk: It’s difficult not because he is any stronger or any more skilled than average, but because you have no idea what he’s going to do.There […]

As artificial intelligence infiltrates virtually every aspect of modern life, I had assumed, completely incorrectly, that editorial cartooning was probably more or less immune. Earlier this year, however, I got a rude wake-up call. Several editorial cartoonists first sent me a set of cartoons by Pedro Molina and Rick McKee that had been run through […]

Let’s pretend that there are still cities with two newspapers in the U.S. and this is the other’s funny pages.Tiny TypeThat other paper’s comics section featured a Nick Newman cartoon about our aging eyesight…Which brought to mind today’s Flo and Friends. There are a couple of legitimate fears there but the tiny fonts is more […]

I used mostly funnies yesterday, but in a political context, and I still contend that nothing is funny unless it’s based on reality with a twist, which pretty well describes current politics. It’s not, however, always political. This Frazz, for instance, is philosophical. Instead of downright laughter, Frazz often provides wisdom with a smile. Both […]

“I deeply regret my Facebook post published on May 1, 2025. I respectfully state before the Hon’ble Supreme Court that I never intended to hurt the sentiments of any community, caste, religion, or to insult any party or individual,” the cartoonist wrote. The Deccan Herald reports on the outcome of an issue that went before […]

I’ve had to put on a sweatshirt lately in the wee hours when I write this stuff, though it’s warm when I hit the dog park a few hours later. We’re even seeing a few leaves begin to turn.Meanwhile, our national and international situations are wheeling way out of whack, and the fellow in Weyant’s […]

With: Joe Caroff and 007; Kevin Kalluagher (KAL) and The Economist; Bill Maher and National Lampoon; TYove Janssen and The Moomins; Doris Carr and Marmaduke; the U. S. Mint and Superman; Joe Staton and Dick Tracy; and Carole Curtis.Joe Caroff – RIPFrom Jeré Longman at The New York Times the Joe Caroff obituary (or here): […]

Behind a small window cutout in the front door of the Northeast Portland home sits a furry guard to this New Yorker cartoonist’s upstairs studio. Upon entry, a chair dons a curved sag in its plush cushion, suited for the fluffy multicolored feline, Pumpkin, who, too, makes art in the form of scratch posts. Through […]

Banx offers a wait-a-minute gag. My first response is that it would indeed be good if we could use old, renewable energy in place of the power-suck that happens at data centers. Then the wait-a-minute hit, because, obviously, if we were still running everything on hydropower, we wouldn’t be creating gigantic masses of data. We […]