Matt Wuerker introduces our theme for the day, which is futility.The economy has grown four percent and, for all the hoo-hah, you’d think we’d developed a car that runs on plastic straws.It’s a very good number. It’s the best we’ve done in nearly four years, which is to say, we did it under Obama, too, […]

Robb Armstrong is interviewed by CBS News on Franklin’s 50th Anniversary of his debut in “Peanuts.” Robb Armstrong on Franklin’s 50th Anniversary 

Walt Wallet returned to the Old Comics Home today in an impressive panel by Jim Scancarelli.Many cartoonists are lovers of the classic comic strips and occasionally pay homage to them in their own comic strips. Mark Tatulli’s Lio, Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine, Mike Curtis and Joe Staton’s Dick Tracy, Bill Griffith’s Zippy, and Patrick […]

The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) recently announced a change in format for their Reubens’ Awards weekend from a closed membership-only event to an open-to-the-public European-style comics fest. The Daily Cartoonist interviewed former NCS President and current NCS Foundation President Steve McGarry on the updated event.TDC: This is a big change from the Reubens weekend we’ve […]

(A non-political look at the week just passed.)The few days I spent in Denver last month saved my sanity but left me homesick for the Front Range. People joke about “it’s a dry heat,” but it was ten degrees warmer there than it has been here in New Hampshire and I was far more comfortable.The […]

Joining a growing list of newspapers that have forsaken the idea that the Sunday Comics Section is a circulation builder, the Danville, Kentucky Advocate Messenger will soon drop the Sunday section.Beginning Aug. 20, The Advocate-Messenger will change print publication days to Tuesday through Saturday, no longer producing a printed edition on Mondays. The move to […]

(Ann Telnaes)(L’il Donnie)Jeff Sessions is a busy, busy man, and it’s little wonder that he hasn’t time to cater to every one of Dear Leader’s needs.Telnaes attributes it to his natural tendency to stick his nose into other people’s private affairs, while Norton gets an additional laugh by making it all a bit of confusion […]

A political cartoonist’s career began at The Daily Iowan and launched him into publishing in such outlets as The Washington Post and USA Today. Now, he faces blindness. Joe Sharpnack’s first “Campus Zero,” ran in The Daily Iowan on Nov. 3, 1986. (Daily Iowan Archives)Joe Sharpnack headed to The Daily Iowan with a lifetime of […]

Jim Carrey’s Anti-Trump CartoonsSince 2016, Carrey has created more than a hundred cartoons protesting the Trump Administration, a pastime that borders on the obsessive. “I fight him to the end,” he said recently, citing the Bhagavad Gita.New Yorker contributor Charles Bethea sits down with Jim Carrey about his spare time hobby of editorial cartooning for […]

Mike Luckovich on a topic nobody cares about anymore. As was noted here in a recent Candorville, media attention has largely moved on from separated families despite the problem not having been solved.But about seven hundred kids are now orphaned by the incompetent cruelty of a policy that separated families and then lost track of […]

A week ago I reported that Avi Katz had been fired from his regular Jerusalem Report assignment because he posted an offensive cartoon on his Facebook page. At the time I could find no sure report that the Jerusalem Report had printed the political cartoon. That has changed.Since that time it has been established that […]

1966 – What’s Not So Funny About The FunniesAs noted here it was fifty years ago that Franklin, a young African-American, was introduced into Peanuts. While not a first, it was rare for a non-stereotypical black person to found in the mainstream (read white) comic strips of the day, especially as a regular (or semi-regular) […]

“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?” “I do bite my thumb.” “But do you bite your thumb at us, sir?” (Aside) “Is the law of our side if I say ‘yes’?” (Aside) “No.” “No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I do bite my thumb, sir.” “Do you […]

Editorial cartoonist Jeff Danziger withdrew and apologized for an unflattering caricature of White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. Political cartoonist Jeff Danziger apologized over the weekend for a “body shaming” caricature of White House press secretary Sarah Sanders he produced that was originally set to run in Vermont’s Rutland Herald newspaper. “That particular cartoon is being […]

NPR’s ‘Weekend Edition’ has a piece on the 50-year-anniversary of the debut appearance of Franklin, the first black character featured in Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts.”“Jumpstart” cartoonist Robb Armstrong is featured quite extensively in the piece.From the story:Schulz, however, had been wary of including a black child in the Peanuts gang and was concerned that it would come off as […]