David Rowe does have the advantage of a half-day time difference, but I was surprised to find him one of so few to respond instantly to Trump’s decision to skip the 100th Anniversary of the End of WWI because of what is reported to have been a light rain.And it’s a nice merge of the […]

 Mike Thompson – 20 Years at The FreepFriday marks 20 years since I first walked into the front door of the Detroit Free Press as the new political cartoonist for the premier news organization in the most interesting news town in America. And this city and state has never left me wanting for topics for my […]

 One of the world’s most recognizable cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse, is celebrating his 90th birthday on November 18. The date is taken from the 1928 premiere of the animated short film “Steamboat Willie” in which Mickey Mouse made his theatrical debut.Nation Multimedia (Thailand) presents 10 fascinating facts and fun trivia about Mickey Mouse.Among them:Mickey’s first […]

 Patrick McDonnell as Schulz Museum’s Second Saturday Cartoonist – or not On November 10 the Schulz Museum was all set to welcomeaward-winning cartoonist Patrick McDonnell, creator of the comic strip Mutts, to talk about his favorite mutts, from real-life dogs to Snoopy. McDonnell will sign books after his talk, including his newest collection of Mutts […]

Maybe you can see things more clearly from a slight distance, but Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder once more boils it all down to the essential point, aided, I would note, by the fact that his detailed style makes it possible to capture Bill Murray’s best hangdog expression.Simply citing the movie would have been a […]

 The audio interview with new Alley Oop creators Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon at Tall Tale Radio includes a number of reveals – one is that their new Alley Oop comic strips will begin Monday January 7, 2019.  above: Jonathan Lemon’s model sheet for Alley Oop via the New York Times As Andrews McMeel has […]

Tom Racine and Lucas Turnbloom celebrate 10 years of podcasts and interview the new creative team behind “Alley Oop.”http://www.talltaleradio.com/episode-275-alley-oop/

 Enemy of the People: A Cartoonist’s Journey by Rob Rogers coming December 2018.2018 has been an eventful time for Rob Rogers – from staff editorial cartoonist to fired staff cartoonist, and becoming a cause célèbre in the process. Rob writes about the unsettling year and his life leading up to it in a new book. […]

Just because Friday Funnies is a no-politics zone doesn’t mean we can’t be a little thoughtful, and the menopause arc in this week’s Pajama Diaries set me to thinking about women and cartooning and progress and such.This isn’t the first time Terri Libenson has been more frank than most, but let’s start with the idea […]

 Speaking of Social Media Standards… (see Matt Bors)Rachita Taneja had one of her Sanitary Panels comic strips removed from Facebook.Facebook on Tuesday morning took down a comic strip criticising the alleged inconsistent application of its community standards, the framework within which the social media giant takes action against comments and other material reported as offensive. […]

 Before the polls opened in the U.S. on November 6 Matt Bors tweeted:Which resulted in, according to Matt: and Twitter promptly suspended Matt’s account.  People, some well-known, noticed and responded.and Twitter took notice of the objections and restored Matt’s account.   Matt is back on Twitter, though his original tweet is apparently permanently deleted.  Whoops, Matt was suspended again, this second […]

 At the moment, Steve Artley may have the best perspective on the elections.  There were hopes, as there are always hopes, on both sides, but what was predicted is pretty much what happened.IMHO, Trump’s pretending he pulled some great victory is no more inaccurate than cartoons suggesting that the influx of women is going to […]

 Next week David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek will present the 6th Annual Jumble Guest Week.As is their custom they have issued a promotional piece featuring images from the special guest cartoonists but not identifying them.Now the trick is to identify who will be next week’s creators on the Jumble feature.#1 is Crankshaft by Tom […]

I was going to skip politics entirely today, given that some races remain up in the air as I’m writing this and most of the editorial cartoons are either wrong, damned lucky or lukewarm expressions of “Isn’t voting wonderful?” or “And now on to 2020.”There are things we do know, including that a whole load […]

Pogo by Doyle and Sternecky   Steve Breen   Joe Heller   Curtis by Ray Billingsley   Peanuts by Charles Schulz   Dwane Powell   Captain America by Jack Kirby and Syd Shores  Shouldn’t the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November be a national holiday?