Jake Tapper of CNN talks to Matt Bors about editorial cartooning in general and Matt’s work specifically. Also includes a Toon-off between the two. Jake holds his own.

Charles Schulz owned a home Minneapolis for three years (1955 to 1958). For the first time in 50 years, that home is up for sale. The St. Paul Business Journal reports that aside from two wall murals painted by Sparky (which will be removed), there’s very little evidence that the 4,500 square foot home was […]

I haven’t seen a lot of Benghazi cartoons that — even when I agreed with them — weren’t kind of obvious. So I like this Kevin Siers cartoon because it’s also delightfully silly, and that may ultimately be more effective than trying to drive home the point that the Benghazi brigade cannot possibly have any […]

The blog sponsor this week is Bearman Cartoons. Bearman has been a frequent commentator on this blog. He’s better known for his editorial cartoons, pop culture cartoons, social media cartoons and caricatures.This month, Bearman is running his annual charity challenge. For everyone who uses his name “Bearman” in a cartoon he will donate $10 to […]

A big thanks goes out to Greg Kogan of GagCartoons.com for sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist last week. GagCartoons.com is an online platform that allows cartoonist to upload their backlog of published and unpublished gag cartoons that Greg promotes, markets and licenses them for you. You focus on being a great cartoonist, he focuses on selling […]

Great news for Gil fans (at least those who read The Providence Sunday Journal). After Gil creator Norm Feuti retired the strip, the Journal received “outcries from hundreds of readers” and reached out to Norm to see if he’d continue to create the strip for them. The result is a weekly installment of Gil that […]

Some extraordinary news out of Providence, RI, to counterbalance the depressing news out of NYC.Norm Feuti has announced that reader outcry has induced the Powers That Be at the Providence Journal to reinstate “Gil” as a Sunday-only strip. For now, you’d have to either buy the ProJo or go here to see it, but Norm’s […]

Oh, good. I was hoping for a good Mother’s Day strip and Jeff Corriveau came through with a Deflocked that emphasizes yesterday’s point about character-driven comedy.Corriveau throws a lot of mud at the wall and it doesn’t all stick, but, when it does, it’s fabulous stuff.It’s hard to preserve the freshness of the Acerbic Animal, […]

This is going to be a backwards posting, and you’ll understand at the end. But, as long as it’s going to be backwards at all, it might as well be completely backwards:Juxtaposition of the Day (Bizarro) (Speed Bump)Well, obviously it’s not the same castaway. Better rescue Piraro’s guy first. Coverly’s guy says he’s fine for […]

Tom Richmond, President of the National Cartoonists Society, has posted a letter to the New York Post regarding their decision to drop their comics page. Full letter below: Dear New York Post, It is with great disappointment, and no small amount of confusion, that I learned of the New York Post?s recent decision to entirely […]

At the end of yesterday’s screed posting, I promised to be funny today. It wasn’t a lie. I just didn’t know what would turn up on today’s menu to be commented upon.But Joe Heller’s take on climate change and science deniers is kind of funny, except, y’know, for the part where the fool votes. But […]

I’ve had a couple of reports and seen some tweets saying that the New York Post has eliminated their comics page – their entire page that ran anywhere from 7-9 comics. I haven’t seen any official articles from the Post explaining their decision. If anyone knows what’s going on, please send me a link.Update: Jim […]

Comes word via a Facebook posting by Hilary Price that the New York Post is dropping its comic page as a cost-cutting move. I haven’t got a second source on this and don’t know her initial source, but I know and trust her personally, so while we can all hope someone got it wrong, I’m […]

The Herblock Foundation has posted video of this year’s winner, Jen Sorenson, acceptance speech.

Jim Borgman has posted several early sketches and brainstorms of Zits that he co-created with Jerry Scott. Among the revelations – Zits was almost named: