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CSotD: When Analysis Fails

People have noted that Dear Leader campaigned on a promise of no new wars and of ending the war in Ukraine his first day in office, and yet somehow the war in Ukraine drags on and we appear to have a new war in Iran.Also the price of eggs remains high and groceries in general […]

Al Wiesner – RIP

Shaloman cartoonist Albert Wiesner has passed away. Albert Seymore (Al) Wiesner July 2, 1930 — March 4, 2025For at least ten years Al had contributed a panel cartoon to The Villa’s Voice, a monthly neighborhood newspaper. His comic continued until March of 2020 when the community newsletter took on a different manner of publication due […]

CSotD: Death, Guilt and Other Funny Stuff

How funny is death? Well, the closer it comes the less I fret over it. I’m pretty healthy, but I’m in the home stretch and while I expect another decade, nothing was ever guaranteed, except that Death would show up like Alan Funt — when you least expect it, you’re elected.Unless you’re this guy, who […]

Tea Fougner Signs with Boom!

Tea Fougner, who parted ways with King Features early this year, has signed on as an Executive Editor with the comic book company Boom Studios. Tea Fougner had spent 12 years with King Features Syndicate (KFS) rising to Editorial Director for her last six years with the comic strip syndicate before they ended their relationship […]

2025 AAEC Convention Registration Now Open

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has set up hotel booking and registration for their 2025 Convention being held at Bethseda Maryland from September 11th through the 14th. The lineups for workshops, panels, and events are still in the early stages for both conventions. From the AAEC: Our confab starts Thursday, September 11, with […]

CSotD: Ozymandias Goes To War

Rowe gets a laugh out of Dear Leader’s attack on Iran despite feeling it represents the death of the UN Charter, because there’s absurdity in the arrogance and chaos in the messaging.One of the factors in our liberation of Kuwait was that GHWB had obtained cooperation from a wide array of allies, and then stopped […]

TDC Senior Strippers 2025 Welcome Floyd Norman

A profile of Floyd Norman Disney Legend: Though he prefers to be called a “cartoonist,” few other artists working in animation today can boast a career as varied as that of Floyd Norman. From the 1950s to today, Floyd’s diverse career, insightful viewpoint, and unflinching honesty have truly made him a Disney Legend. Floyd E. […]

Miss Cellany’s Sunday Ministry; or, Clearing the Queue

Walt Disney, Chic Young, Bob Montana, Bill Watterson (Spaceman Spiff), Richard Thompson, Brian Fies, Monicaf, David Fitzsimmons, and other cartoonists and comics related miscellany.Lost Cartoon Art Resurfaces In 1933, B.C. boozers could only drink hard liquor at home, in a speakeasy or in a private club. So some journalists got together to form the first […]

CSotD: Waiting for the cartoonists to catch up

Well, now we know what he was going to do, but it’s a little early to ask for commentary. I’ve seen a few post-bombing pieces from Australia, where they’ve had time to react, but most of the other editorial cartoons have been based, as Ohman’s was, on uncertainty.We’ll give everyone 24 hours to respond, and, […]

Now The Phantom Trading Cards

Following up on our report of Peanuts trading cards (scroll to the bottom) comes news of The Phantom trading cards. And like those Peanuts cards with Schulz art The Phantom cards have art by Sunday Phantom artist Jeff Weigel, but in this case it is new art. From Frew Publications in Australia: The Phantom Generations […]

Cartoonist Profiles 206

With Russell Myers, Wayno, Trygve Olson, Lee Mendelson, Mark Pett, Mr. Fish and Art Spiegelman.Russell Myers As a boy, Russell Benton Myers was fascinated by the comic strips in the newspaper. The family subscribed to two newspapers, the Tulsa World and the Tulsa Tribune. That gave him two sets of Sunday comics sections — a […]

CSotD: Sweet Land of Liberty

This is one of those “where do we start?” days, but we might as well begin with the massive element of self-deception that makes everything possible. Part of it is embodied in the way so many people seem to be accepting both the inevitability and the desirability of our heading off to yet another war […]

More GoComics Updates

Yesterday we noted some recent updates to the GoComics site. Today (it is dated “for the week of June 16”) we have a few more. This week’s site improvements, product enhancements, and new functionality. 💬 Comment on Your My Comics Pages You can now join the conversation directly from your My Comics page(s). Comment on […]

This Week in the Funnies Pages

Let’s start with some highlights. Hard pressed to a better comic strip than Thursday’s Bok versus The Snowbeast’s battle in Flash Gordon Thursday making the jump from overture to aftermath. Absolutely wonderful was the “Bok draws the warm pelt tight around his shoulders” caption.Possibly only bettered by Rose’s authoritarian statement in Wednesday’s Wallace the Brave. […]

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