In the world of comic art, artists are often dubbed ink-slingers based upon not only the volume of ink used, but the activity in which that ink is slung. Grin and Bear It! “Lichty works fast. His style is apparently slapdash; he pencils in outlines and features, and then brushes on tones or color. (He […]
A recent cartoon by Adam Zyglis involving natural disasters and the MAGA philosophy has right wing voices objecting to the “rules for thee, not for me” hypocrisy hitting home. “Now is not the time.”From Carlos Garcia for The Blaze Media: ‘Twisted, vile, and shameful’ The Buffalo News published a political cartoon appearing to mock right-wing […]
Dear Leader has announced another set of tariffs, which he claims will likely be modified once he has concluded trade deals with the nations involved, which is most of them, or possibly more than all of them, since he once said “There’s 200 countries. You can’t talk to all of them.’’You certainly can’t, because there […]
Seven Days Cartoon Issue; The Duckton Weekly #12; Alley Oop new and old; all-new Bloom County; where, oh where, has my Zoolies gone; Ed Steckley caricatures the Reuben Award nominees.Seven Days Cartoon Issue Seven Days has published their annual Cartoon Issue for 2025 with a charming When Harry Met Ali jam cover by Harry Bliss […]
Editorial cartoonist Steve Benson has passed away.Stephen Reed (Steve) Benson January 2, 1954 – July 8, 2025 The Arizona Mirror is reporting the death of Steve Benson: Steve Benson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist known for his sharp wit and incisive commentary on American politics, has died at the age of 71. After being laid […]
Sorensen reframes matters in current, rather than traditional, terms, and it’s hard to disagree with her suggestion that we stop pretending things are the same as they’ve always been. It seems time to, as Howard Cosell put it, “Tell it like it is.”It’s hard to avoid knowing that things have changed, and if for some […]
Joe Wos and Alice in Wonderland; Dan O’Neill and The Air Pirates; Krazy Kat and Comics Kingdom; The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and vertical comics; Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury, and Trump; Spongebob Squarepants and the United States Postal Service.Let’s kick this off with a couple Kickstarters. Chère Noble and Joe Wos are teaming up […]
Another of those “Where to begin?” days, as we look into things said and unsaid, implied, inferred and wise and idiotic. Mostly, for today, the latter.Let’s start in Texas, where it remains unclear what part cuts to NOAA and the NWS played in the tragedy, and what part is due to lack of a functional […]
At the 79th Annual Reuben Awards in Boston on August 15, 2025, the National Cartoonists Society will posthumously award the NCS Medal of Honor to Robert “Chance” Browne and Christopher “Chris” Browne, in recognition of their career excellence and enduring contributions to the art of cartooning. The National Cartoonists Society will honor cartooning brothers Chance […]
Portugal, I am led to believe, has a sizable community of American expatriates. Editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley has increased that number. From Pat’s Facebook page (also posted to Bluesky): In a few hours I will fly out of Salt Lake City to begin a new chapter in Portugal. One doesn’t just suddenly wake up and […]
Between commentary on a holiday now past and pending legislation now passed, the political folks need to do some catching up. Meanwhile, the funny people have done fairly well lately.I’ve somewhat given up on chopsticks, though I got good with them in the 70s when authenticity seemed important and we were eating short-grained brown rice, […]
Chicago Tribune artist Arnold Arnam passed away. Arnold (Arn) Arnam June 7, 1934 – June 20, 2025From the funeral home obituary: Arnold Arnam, affectionately known as “Arn” to all who knew him, age 91, a talented graphic artist and illustrator whose distinguished career spanned decades at the Chicago Tribune, passed away on June 20, 2025, […]
The Sunday Post is embracing its new Sunday comics section. The Washington Post? No. The Connecticut Post? No. The Palm Beach Post? No.The New York Post? Not hardly. If you guessed The Dundee Scotland Sunday Post reward yourself with clootie pudding. From John Freeman at downthetubes: The Sunday Post is one of the remaining newspapers […]
We’ll start with the conclusion, which, as Chappatte explains it, is that we’re finally honest with each other, or at least that we’ve reached a point where things are becoming plain.Of course, the empty rhetoric continues, explaining how this is such a wonderful deal for the average person and assuming that nobody will look behind […]
The Society of Professional Journalists has announced the recipients of the 2024 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism. In the Editorial Cartooning category for 2024 the honoree is Adam Zyglis.In announcing Adam as the winner the judges said (in the 53rd minute time frame): Zyglis is an artist of very few words but […]