In a fraught political time that has been punctuated with acts of political violence, it is the job of our newsroom to be rational and not foment violence and antipathy. Alexis Huicochea The Arizona Daily Star is apologizing for running a political cartoon in its Friday edition: “The Arizona Daily Star published a political cartoon […]
June Brigman, Comic Artist June Brigman joins Mike Manley, Jamar Nicholas, and Steve Conley‘s Pencil to Pencil podcast this week. Brigman has been drawing Mary Worth for ten years and drew Brenda Starr from 1995-2011 before that though she is probably best known for her Power Pack comic books. She is currently drawing “The Pale” […]
Turkish cartoonist Doğan Pehlevan received a 11 months and 20 day suspended sentence for “insulting the president” with a tweet. His attorneys argued that the prosecution did not positively prove that the account even belonged to the cartoonist, nor did the tweet cross lines into an insult.The Istanbul 36th Criminal Court of First Instance rejected […]
I like the fact that Wuerker has given this clown a 10-gallon hat and a six-shooter, because the sort of clown who serves as a distraction, the way this one does, is more like the ones who used to be called “rodeo clowns” until the bullfighters decided it undercut the importance and dangers of their […]
Readers of the Baldo comic strip are used to the occasional guest artists taking on the Sunday page, and less frequently helping out on a week of the dailies. Later this month Baldo creators Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos invite cartoonist Richard Dominguez to take on the art chores as a unique story takes […]
Illustrators spotlighted: Phil Hands, Roz Chast, Stephan Pastis, Stanley Chow, Magreet de Heer, Georgia Dunn, and Patrick Chappatte. Write a Letter To The Editor Illustrated Following up on our Letter to the Editor post we feature Phil Hands’ comic (or here or on Xtwitter) interpreting his and Wisconsin State Journal opinion page editor Scott Milfred […]
The newspapers of the Lee Enterprise group recently had a change of their comics lineup that we thought had been cleared up with them keeping the King Features strips and adding a page of Creators comics. But now a letter to Lee’s Waco Tribune-Herald has a reader upset about the loss of the King comics […]
I had to check to see if I had gotten this from among Stahler’s political cartoons or from his humor panel, Moderately Confused, because he seems more intrigued by human nature than by raw politics. His work is somewhat like Berry’s World, which Tom Falco profiles here along with similar work by Ralph Dunagin.This is […]
Tutelandia by Tute has been a part of Andrews McMeel/Universal Uclick/Universal Press Syndicate since June 2004 according to the GoComics archives (I can trace it via newspapers.com from 2005 to 2007) until September 6, 2026. update: Atanwat notes that Tutelandia returned to GoComics on October 18, 2026 – though not to the Andrews McMeel Syndication […]
Norwegian cartoonist and illustrator Jens K Styve has been a full-time cartoonist for nearly a decade. Not that he wasn’t a cartoonist before, but only after his comic strip Dunce won a comic competition and became a daily comic strip in 2017 was he able to quit his day job. Styve calls Dunce “not quite […]
The Phantom’s cropped comic strips of Wilson McCoy, Al Stoffel’s three decades of writing Bugs Bunny, and Frank Willard’s doppelganger Moon Mullins. The Phantom – The Missing Part During World War Two restrictions were set on pulp paper usage and so newspapers were forced to squeeze their news and features into fewer pages. For syndicates […]
Looks like the Cornell 7 story is going to stick around awhile. That’s a good thing, because it’s a national conversation we need to have. And it’s a bad thing if it simply leaves the impression that Cornell is some unique hell-hole.I like Davies’ cartoon, because there’s an implication that the usual set of college […]
25 years and a few weeks ago a small group of people a couple dozen kilometers west of Calgary started a small weekly newspaper, The Rocky Mountain Outlook (RMO). The first edition was dated September 20, 2001 and included in that issue was a cartoon by Patrick LaMontagne. LaMontagne will tell us that it wasn’t […]
Believe it or not this is another post about Howie Noel, the new Dick Tracy artist, only this time we are focusing on his Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoon panel gig which he took over earlier this year. Jordan Neese for Ripley Entertainment interviewed the new artist for the 108 year old comic panel […]
Apparently, we can take one crisis off the docket. Dear Leader has decided to stop having the taxpayers pay for his self-promoting political ads. As the articles covering it say, he got some serious pushback on the practice, some of which may have been warnings that what he was doing was illegal, but I particularly […]