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CNN interviewed Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers to discuss the paper’s recent decisions not to run Rob’s work.https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/06/06/cartoonist-anti-trump-sketches-cut-from-paper-tapper-lead.cnn

Huffington Post UK is reporting that The Guardian has rejected a Steve Bell editorial cartoon, about the death of Palestinian medic Razan al-Najjar, as being anti-Semitic. Cartoonist Steve Bell denies using anti-Semitic tropes saying in a couple e-mails to the paper:“I cannot for the life of me begin to understand criticism of the cartoon that […]

As the ads inform us, it’s only 10 days until Father’s Day.The same June 17th date will debut Daddy Daze, and there is activity showing that launch is getting closer.King Features has set up the Daddy Daze page at the syndicate’s website, which features some samples of the new comic strip.The Daddy Daze official website […]

Juxtaposition of 15 Years (Ann Telnaes, July 7, 2003) (Ann Telnaes, June 7, 2018)This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a fanfare.Nearly 15 years ago to the day, Telnaes captured an array of horrors, because it wasn’t just Bush and his cronies — Ashcroft in this case — piping a […]

From Vice.com comes an article about The Woman Behind Nancy [who] Has Made an 80-Year-Old Comic Funny Again.The long-running comic was recently taken over by Olivia Jaimes, who’s shifted the focus from boomer humor to jokes about Snapchat, apps, and Twitter bots.Author Grant Pardee, for Vice, says Nancy isfor the first time since the Eisenhower […]

Cartoonist Jim Keefe recently revealed how he released some pressure 20 years ago when he was being laid off from the King Features art department – by way of the Flash Gordon comic strip.  Meantime Jake Rossen at Mental Floss has been collecting Things You Might Not Know about various comic strips. These include:11 Fun […]

Waiting for Hogan’s Alley magazine’s fantastic photo feature of the 2018 Reuben Weekend which, if past practice is any indication of future results, will present hundreds of pictures of hundreds of cartoonists; until then here’s a few others from the gala. Lynn Johnston has posted about receiving the NCS Medal of Honor. Can Lynn see the […]

This blank panel represents several cartoons that got the Supreme Court’s decision in Masterpiece Cake Shop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission wrong.As said here yesterday, the decision was only about the hearing before that commission, not about whether the baker had the right to refuse service, though the confusion is not unprecedented.In the 1966 landmark […]

Rob Snyder is the Spirit’s publisher, and also a photographer, writer, copy editor, editorial cartoonist, headline writer and ad salesman. He’s also the weekly paper’s sole comic strip artist. The first stripJust learning of this funny local weekly comic strip. It began November 15, 2017 in the Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, W.V.). The Spirit […]

First look at the animated Addams Family movie! Courtesy MGM and Behind The Thrills comes a peek at the upcoming (next year) animated movie feature of Charles Addams classic creation. Warning: link contains an earworm! Jules Feiffer Has Never Been HappierFeiffer expresses great enthusiasm for his latest project, which is something he never imagined would actually […]

Over at The Comics Journal, R.C. Harvey writes at length about pioneering African-American cartoonist Ted Shearer and his syndicated comic “Quincy.”Ted Shearer from the article:“When I gave my name over the phone in arranging for an appointment, I suppose they figured that ‘Shearer’ was Irish. But when I showed up for the meeting and the […]

Garfield’s 40th Anniversary book “Age Happens” is being released on his 40th Birthday, June 19th.The book features a foreword from longtime fan and Pulitizer Prize-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda of Broadway’s “Hamilton.”Buy it here.Twitter: @garfield@Lin_Manuel

Kevin Siers may have done the unforgiveable and read the decision, written by Justice Kennedy, the concurrence by Justice Kagan, the less striking concurrence by Justice Gorsuch and the passionate dissent by Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayer, as well as Thomas’s concurrence, which emphasizes the art-aspect.Despite a flood of angry, pro-LGBTQ cartoons, this was not a […]

[William Wilson’s] “Wallace the Brave” comic strip, which he pens under the name of Will Henry, is now in more than 100 newspapers across the U.S., including the Houston Chronicle where it begins Sunday.And the Houston Chronicle is where this piece introducing readers to their newest comic strip appears.  Will Henry’s Wallace the Brave remains […]