I’m not much for Valentine’s Day, but today’s Wumo cracked me up.For one thing, it’s nice to see a Valentine’s Day cartoon that isn’t based on “Men are so insensitive!” in which the gag is either that he tried but got it wrong or that he completely forgot.In creative terms, those are the Y-chromosome version […]

As many of you know, last November I ran a successful Indiegogo fundraiser to support my efforts with the blog and I help fulfil several lofty goals around a major redesign of the blog both visually and with the content. It’s been awhile, since the topic has come up, so I thought I’d offer an […]

While everyone is obsessing over the potential for an openly gay person to play football, little angels tap-dancing their way into heaven and the president using the same executive powers every president since Benjamin Harrison has used at a higher rate than he has but without being, y’know, uppity or Kenyan about it, Jim Morin […]

Twenty fracking protesters were found guilty of trespassing, but not before the judge used a Calvin and Hobbes strip to encourage them to work within the system rather than break the law to educate people about fracking. Here’s the relevant Calvin and Hobbes strip:From the Post Bulletin: While Winona County Judge Jeffrey Thompson was considering […]

Stan Lee Media is going back into court to assert ownership to the Spider-Man character. It’s a bit confusing how they got there and quite frankly, I wonder how much of it was orchestrated. The best explanation of what’s going on comes from Kevin Melrose over at Robot6: In September, Disney Enterprises, Marvel and Cameron […]

 One of the founding principles of this blog is that a good cartoon spurs not just laughter, but thought. Today’s lesson is on how little the intent of the cartoon directs the tone of those thoughts.If you read the comments (and this is one of the few web sites where they won’t send you into […]

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has announced that he’s taking another hiatus from his daily comic strip to work on the second season of his online sitcom Alpha House. He’ll continue producing the Sunday strip. The daily replacement strips will start in papers on March 3.From the Boston Globe: “It’s a wonderful opportunity, but as I […]

Last month, I linked to news that a Powerpuff Girls cover was being pulled because some felt the art was overly sexual by depicting them in skintight mini-skirts and white stockings. The artist, Mimi Yoon is defending the piece on her Facebook page. my objective was to illustrate modern, pop cultured, SASSY (not sexy), and […]

The UCLA Communications Studies has posted the audio of a speech given by Peanuts creator Charles Schulz in 1971. Unfortunately, even though delivered as a video, it’s only the audio – we don’t see any of the cartoons he draws for the audience.

Mike Lynch revisits the topic of cartoonists using gag writers. Historically, it was much more common than today. Some think using a gag writer is the equivalent of using steroids – a true cartoonist should do both the writing and the art. I used to be squarely in that camp, but I’d much rather see […]

Yesterday I wrote of how what you miss about people once they are gone is the small moments, the casual conversations, the trivial stories. And this morning’s Bizarro touches off a memory of one of those things, with what is, on the surface, just an amusing pun.A type of gag I like, by the way, […]

A hearty thanks to Mike Peterson for sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist last week. If you didn’t get a chance to visit his Comic Strip of the Day blog, just head over there now. Of all the comic commentary blogs, and there are a LOT of them, Mike’s is certainly at or near the top. He […]

Pardon the blasphemous headline, but it wrote itself, so I’m completely absolved of any offense. Now on to the news…From Cartoon Brew: As anticipated, Warner Bros.? The LEGO Movie, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, destroyed the box office with a $69.1 million (estimated) opening. Not only did it become WB?s biggest animated opening […]

Hundreds showed up to a ballroom in Oakland to offer their respects to Wee Pals creator Morrie Turner who passed last month.From the Contra Costa Times: Hundreds of fans, family members and friends dropped by the ballroom of Claremont Hotel on Sunday afternoon to say their final goodbyes to the well-known Oakland-born cartoonist. Turner broke […]

The headline tells the story: I came across three comics in the last 24 hours that seem to me particularly excellent, each for different reasons. Jack Ohman — who moved from the Pacific Northwest to Sacramento a little over a year ago — uses a spare, economic style of storytelling that makes this piece extraordinarily touching, […]