In the early nineties, I spent countless hours digging through foreign publications, hunting for lessons and inspiration. I translated articles, wrote essays, and hoped my fellow Iranian artists would catch the spark I felt. I wanted them to see the magic tucked between the lines, the way Western cartoonists held power to account with nothing […]
Bennett commented that this cartoon is based on an old joke; I assume it’s the one about the fellow who fell 14 stories and fortunately survived, but, unfortunately, had fallen from15.I have no idea how many stories we’ve fallen so far, but I know it’s going to be a mess when we hit the ground. […]
Editorial cartoonist Christian Daigle (“Fleg”) has passed away. Christian Daigle (aka Fleg) 1963 – August 1, 2025We first learned of Christian Daigle’s passing from Guy Badeaux:As Guy notes his passing was not unexpected, especially by Christian himself. From last month: From Jérôme Blanchet-Gravel of Libre Média: On August 1, 2025, cartoonist Fleg passed away from […]
A True CrossoverStarting off this week is a true crossover. not just guest appearances. Sometime in the not-so-distant past Bob Scott, who lives in Southern California and whose comic strip Molly and the Bear appears on Andrew McMeel’s GoComics, got together with Deon Parson, who lives in Indiana and whose Rosebuds comic strip appears on […]
We’ve had some smoky days here, but — looking at the AirNow.gov map — nothing like what they’re seeing in the Midwest and certainly not what they’re seeing in large swaths of Canada. We had readings of 83 yesterday, just shy of the “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” level, but high “Moderate” enough that people reported […]
Gerard Alsteens, better known as Gal, turns 85 today. He is one of the oldest and beloved political and social cartoonists still working in Belgium. He’s best known for his social commentary.His cartooning career started in 1960 in the magazines De Nieuwe and De Zwijger. Since 1983 his work has been published in the weekly magazine Knack. You […]
New Zealand cartoonist Eric Heath has passed away. Eric Walmsley Heath November 28, 1923 to July 27, 2025We sad to learn that one of the most senior of our Senior Strippers has passed on. From the obituary: He was 101 years old and had just celebrated 75 years of marriage to Barbara… WWII veteran, brilliant […]
Nearly 400 artists and 12 associations are signatories to a petition threatening to boycott the 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival. The petition accuses the festival’s contracted management company, 9eArt+, of retaliating against a female employee who reported a rape at the 2024 event and criticizes the festival’s organizers (FIBD) for not only resisting efforts to […]
Dave Brown offers the most generous take on Dear Leader’s tariff tantrum, in which he takes aim at the big bad world out there in his most America First way, but does more damage to Uncle Sam and his American constituents.It’s unintentional, but there it is: However random and nonsensical the tariffs placed on each […]
With Paul Karasik, Karen Evans, Stephan Pastis, Liza Donnelly on Mary Petty, a raft of cartoonists in the Homer Davenport Cartoon Contest, and the Florida Agricultural Department will define “cartoon.”Inkpot AwardsThe Vineyard Gazette reported that local cartoonist Paul Karasik has received an Inkpot Award: “It’s hard to catch me by surprise, but in this case, […]
The National Cartoonist Society will be celebrating their 79th Annual Conference and Reuben Awards in two weeks on August 14 and 15, 2025 (with a little wrapping up on the 16th) in Boston, Massachusetts. The biggest part of the “weekend” is the awards which will be handed out on Friday night, the 15th. There be […]
Might as well start this morning’s collection of funny comics with one that didn’t make me laugh. Harry Bliss often features rural beauty, and this one brought back a memory.I was doing a light Sunday feature about people with side jobs, one of whom was an old guy in Upper Jay whose yard contained racks […]
Memes as Comics debate; Alden Global tries to snipe the Hearst buy of Dallas Morning News; and six large tablets for reading comics (i.e.: comic books) and one small tablet for not.More about Michelle Ann Abate’s Memes as Comics position It’s undeniable that the rise of the Internet had a profound impact on cartooning as […]
There is no reason for Garg, who had earlier complained that Alley never took him on Oop’s time-traveling escapades, to remember the siege at Troy. But there is good reason for Alley Oop to remember it. The Name GameThen Bill Holbrook play’s mind games as On The Fastrack‘s Mars Mission group gets to know each […]
The countermeasures indeed do not seem to be working, though a cynic would suggest that the whole matter might fade and become yesterday’s news if Dear Leader would stop saying things that keep it front and center.After all, we saw a gunman kill a Minnesota legislator and her husband and shoot another legislator and something […]