Since Mike reminded some of us how old we are, let’s prepare ourselves with the recently released first print issue of The Nib, which deemed it apropos to debut with a Death Issue.The Nib has previewed a bit of the premiere issue’s contents at its site.For the younger generations, who plan to stick around on […]

Tom Cheney gets the top spot for drawing a tin-can telephone with a taut string.He’s originally from my part of the world, which is a good thing in itself, but the important thing is that he’s old enough to remember when comic books were for kids and had instructions for a tin-can telephone in about […]

Walt Kelly’s Pogo first appeared in a comic strip 70 years ago today. hat tip Tom Heintjes for abovePogo, of course, first showed up in a comic book seven years earlier. On the other hand Ripley’s Believe It or Not first (digest) comic book was 70 years ago this year.It was a hundred years ago this […]

So here we are, and, as Jim Morin notes, we’ve even had an FBI investigation of the latest charges against Brett Kavanaugh, which was conducted along the same lines as the administration uses in exploring environmental science: Round up the stuff that supports your position and avoid the parts that don’t.Which would just be liberal […]

Rocko Jerome was there (see comment below)!Rocko, who is a freelance writer not an artist, so don’t let that above image scare you, gives a detailed (written) report of his attendance at the Olivia Jaimes panel at the CXC festival.The moderator of the discussion was a woman named [Shena], the editor of Nancy on behalf […]

Chris Britt‘s former newspaper, the Springfield (Illinois) State Journal-Register, reports that the editorial cartoonist…has received multiple death threats in connection with his recent cartoon depicting the praying 10-year-old daughter of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.In an interview Chris told the State Journal-Register:“The reaction is unbelievable,” Chris Britt told the SJ-R in a phone interview […]

This Maddie Dai cartoon from the New Yorker struck me at an opportune time, which is to say, just after CXC, which featured a large collection of young cartoonists hawking their books, many, many of which fall into that third category.I remarked to someone closer to my demographic that it made me once more grateful […]

So we’ve reached the point where only purveyors of altie-comics like Tom Tomorrow have the chops to handle the absurdity of this mess.I wish people would stop talking about whether Kavanaugh and his pal assaulted this particular girl on that particular date in that specific house. It’s not that I don’t believe her, but, as […]

Fox News reports:A left-wing editorial cartoonist faced backlash over the weekend for drawing a cartoon that critics say mocked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh‘s 10-year-old daughter, Liza.A right-wing “anonymous Twitter user” was upset over a recent Chris Britt cartoon reworking a portion of Brett Kavanaugh’s opening statement before the September 27 Senate Judicial hearing, and […]

After 75 years America’s maid is no longer being regularly published. September 29, 2018 was the date of the last Hazel panel distributed by King Features Syndicate. above: the last syndicated Hazel panel (odd choice in this age-of-assault climate) Hazel was a cartoon panel created by Ted Key that first appeared February 13, 1943 in the […]

It isn’t really anywhere; It’s somewhere else instead. — A.A. MilneJamestown is probably classified as “Western New York,” though it has many aspects of “The Southern Tier,” as well, both of which are good things. You can get beef on weck there and you’ll see rolling hills and, in about another week, some good leaf […]

Daddy Daze Gets Spot in Local Paper John Kovaleski and his new Daddy Daze comic strip will get a spot in The Gettysburg Times.Kovaleski has served on the board of the National Cartoonists Society and has ghost-written for well-known strips. His work has appeared in Mad magazine and many other publications. He has illustrated sequences […]

I was hoping to post a bunch of cartoonists recapping their attendance at the 2018 AAEC Convention in Sacramento, but there seems to be a dearth of such retrospectives. I guess they had to rush to this week’s CXC festival where Mike Peterson is detailing the AAEC’s participation even as we type.However there are a […]

I expected Rob Rogers‘ session — the second of two “Cartooning in the Age of Trump” presentations at CXC — to be the highlight of my weekend, and it was. The above two panels from his 24-panel Nib cartoon, “I Was Fired For Criticizing Trump,” which ran in July, provide an insight into why.Some cartoonists […]

Annie’s Li’l Orphans by Stan Drake and Bill YatesAround the early 1970s(?) bigfoot partnered with realistic to produce a strange hybrid comic strip.Annie, drawn by Stan Drake, was a counselor at Wanderland Orphanage, whose kids were drawn by Bill Yates.  According to Bill Yates’ introduction to the strip Stan Drake drew Annie using a model and […]