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A Caravan of Whatnots

by D. D. Degg 2 comments September 24, 2025

Steamboat Willie in court; Watership Down in France; Patron the Dog out in Ukraine; and a brand new “Cartoonist” fragrance joins Journalist and Editor-in-Chief.Law Firm Takes Disney to Court over PD Steamboat Willie Use Mickey’s century-old steamboat finds itself in hot water, as Orlando-based law firm Morgan & Morgan has filed a lawsuit (published online […]

Pictures of Reuben

by D. D. Degg 0 comments September 24, 2025

A couple hundred photos of this year’s 79th Reuben Awards weekend have been posted. David Folkman and Robert Pollack through Hogan’s Alley present about a hundred pictures.And the National Cartoonists Society has dropped another hundred or so to Dropbox and want more.

CSotD: Humpday Happens

by Mike Peterson 17 comments September 24, 2025

This would have been a great bit of timing if Blazek had scheduled it for yesterday instead of last Saturday. For my part, if I were going to have a press conference about a particular drug, I’d make sure I could pronounce it before I made an ass of myself in front of the whole […]

Jake Tapper Jokes He May Have to Go Back to Cartooning (A History)

by D. D. Degg 5 comments September 23, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday night after being briefly suspended by Disney last week, a decision celebrated by many on Monday night, including Jake Tapper. But the CNN host doesn’t expect President Trump’s attacks on free speech to end with Kimmel, and Tapper’s got a contingency plan for when he himself becomes […]

Cartoonists and Comic Strips, etc.

by D. D. Degg 5 comments September 23, 2025

Annie Tempest, Edward Gorey, Beth Wolfensberger Singer, Glenn Fleishman, and Brian Walker.Jackson-Stops  and  Annie Tempest and Tottering by Gently Estate agency Jackson-Stops has unveiled a new advertising campaign with the strapline “Whether country or town, Jackson-Stops is the national estate agent locals recommend” featuring an animated cartoon starring the much-loved Tottering-by-Gently characters created by Annie […]

CSotD: The Divine Right of Trump

by Mike Peterson 10 comments September 23, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel is apparently back on the air, or will be tonight. I’m holding off my belief until it happens, but, even if it happens, Sinclair’s ABC stations won’t carry the program and we’ll see how viewers like that, but I’ll bet the FCC won’t land too hard on them for failing to serve their […]

Society of Illustrators Awards 2025

by D. D. Degg 0 comments September 22, 2025

The Society of Illustrators’ 2025 Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony & Dinner is coming up on October 9, 2025. Society of Illustrators Hall of FameThe Daily Cartoonist noted the Hall of Fame Laureates back in April when they were first announced. Recently The Society has announced other awards for 2025. Whether these will be presented […]

Political Cartoonews

by D. D. Degg 2 comments September 22, 2025

David Haldane, One of the World’s Best Cartoonists David Haldane is set to appear at The Word, in South Shields, on Wednesday, September 24, as part of the venue’s WRITE Festival. Ryan Smith at The Shields Gazette proudly announces the appearance of their homegrown cartoonist David Haldane, who became “one of the world’s best cartoonists,” […]

CSotD: Odds and Ends (Mostly Odd)

by Mike Peterson 24 comments September 22, 2025

Today’s lead-off was an odd coincidence, since it appeared the day after a conversation at the dog park with a Spanish teacher and my friend who speaks Brazilian Portuguese, about the need to not only teach kids a second language but to teach them about the culture in which it is spoken.One of the oddities […]

Hey Kids! Free Comics!

by D. D. Degg 5 comments September 21, 2025

Remember 60, 70 years ago when annotated collections of Mauldin and Herblock cartoons were published with appreciated regularity? Truth be told I got most of mine later on from used bookstores. But I was reminded of those when the Tribune Content Agency offered up a pdf of Kevin Kreneck‘s “Dangerous Days and Really Long Nights: […]

Tim Eagan – RIP

by D. D. Degg 3 comments September 21, 2025

Editorial and alternative cartoonist Tim Eagan has passed away.Timothy Charles (Tim) EaganMay 31st, 1944 – August 25th, 2025 From the obituary: …The Government major carried him to Hastings College of the Law and to a brief career of practicing law, most notably as a Deputy District Attorney in and around San Jose, California. But he […]

CSotD: The Whole World Is Not Watching

by Mike Peterson 17 comments September 21, 2025

Pickles provides us with an excellent starting point, because, as noted here yesterday, we should keep some sense of humor amid the wreckage of a fine country. Not only does it give us the spirit to keep going, but it gives us the strength to keep resisting.Most Americans aren’t in any great danger of being […]

Cartoon from Major Player Enters NYC Mayor’s Race

by D. D. Degg 8 comments September 20, 2025

NEW YORK (PIX11) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams took jabs at Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a political cartoon posted on his X account Saturday evening. Matthew Euzarraga for PIX11 reports that NYC Mayor Eric Adams and his team has posted a (what looks to be an AI generated Joseph Nebus, below, has […]

Catching Up with Jerry Dowling, Sports Cartoonist

by D. D. Degg 0 comments September 20, 2025

[Jerry] Dowling was The Enquirer’s sports cartoonist from 1967 to 1995, covering the best period of Cincinnati sports. The Reds of the 1970s, the Bengal’s beginnings and two Super Bowls, the rise and fall of Pete Rose. At 85 he’s still drawing. I noticed on his drawing table unfinished caricatures of Courtis Fuller and the […]

CSotD: Laughing While It’s Still Legal

by Mike Peterson 8 comments September 20, 2025

I’ve seen this Paul Noth cartoon before, but he’s run it on his current blog and it seems timely though I wish it didn’t. There’s also a social media comment that seems applicable: “Elect a clown, expect a circus,” though he’s wrong: We’re not the only ones who don’t find things so funny.This Sipress piece […]

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