I cried when they shot Medgar EversTears ran down my spineAnd I cried when they shot Mr. KennedyLike I’d lost a brother of mineBut Malcom X got what was comingHe got what he asked for this timeSo love me, love me, love meI’m a liberal! — Phil OchsCharlie Kirk was shot yesterday shortly after noon […]
Anniversary LogosBecause of Facebook’s weird algorithms I didn’t see the Blondie at 95 poster for the comic strip’s September 8, 2025 95th anniversary celebration until just recently. The Phantom at 90 poster comes from the Chronicle Chamber website. The Phantom’s 90th anniversary will arrive on February 17, 2026. The Spokane Spokesman-Review has updated their longest […]
In “Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons, Part I“, we examined the cartoons made by the small number of artists for whom we possessed prior documentation of their work on baseball cards for Topps. In that introductory article I also announced that subsequent installments would provide identifications of five previously anonymous Topps baseball cartoonists. […]
I often have to pause and decide whether to put a Paul Noth piece in the political folder or the humor folder. Even his cartoons that don’t seem to reference a particular politician have significant bite.Obviously, this one hints at a specific person, but it contains an element of plausible deniability, not that cartoonists need […]
A roundup of items about editorial cartoonists from around the world. Dateline: Philippines WHAT WAS supposed to be a routine posting of a cartoon illustration to mark National Press Freedom Day on Aug. 30 is turning out to be another TomasinoWeb controversy in the making. La Stampa received instructions to revise the material from one […]
Last week for the first time I am aware of since Olivia Jaimes took over the Nancy comic strip in 2018 it went into rerun status, using Jaimes strips from various past years beginning on Tuesday September 2. Okay, she gets a break like all the other cartoonists. And setting up alternative cartoonists like they […]
I can’t argue with Ramirez on this one: Those four nations are certainly a threat to democracy.But it seems like looking out the window at the neighbors’ place while the smoke detectors are going off in your own house. It is a good and proper thing to worry about the folks next door, but you […]
This is a strange one. The awards were held on September 6 at Coff’s Harbour (Australia) but there has been no news reports about the 37th Annual Rotary Cartoon Awards. Instead the organization is releasing the results of the half dozen categories at the rate of one per day, and apparently news agencies and the […]
Al Hirschfeld, Ann Telnaes, Keith Knight, Floyd Norman, Pat Oliphant and thousands, well hundreds anyway, more (like Gilbert Shelton and Jeff Danziger) at the AAEC Convention, the Small Press Expo, and the Galway Cartoon Festival.Strokes of Genius: Hirschfeld at the Algonquin From Art News Now: New York, NY – The Al Hirschfeld Foundation will join […]
Several reversals to cover today, so we’ll start with one Steve Kelley probably wishes he could have back. The cartoon is based on an incident in Thursday night’s Philadelphia/Dallas game in which Eagles player Jalen Carter was ejected for spitting on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, which Kelley transformed into an accusation that leftists are spitting […]
Hand lettering has been around as long as publishing (pre-Gutenberg). While newspapers perforce went with machines for printing, cartoons were almost entirely hand lettered from the beginning until relatively recently.> note: the craft hasn’t disappeared completely <From Todd Klein: …lettering involves putting in all the words on a comics page, as well as the balloons […]
Rea Irvin’s The Smythes; F. Opper, R. & G. Dirks and J. Swinnerton jam; the Leffingwells’ Little Joe; McDonnell’s Mutts and Schulz’s Peanuts; and Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich and Flash Gordon makes some three. Rea Irvin was The New Yorker’s first art editor and creator of the magazine’s iconic mascot, the butterfly enthusiast Eustace Tilly. […]
We’ll start in a good mood with a cartoon that hits several bullseyes. It’s the time of year where, if you haven’t got your woodpile already set up, you’re in trouble because green wood invites chimney fires. And, yes, chopping wood is such a practical, important task that you can fool yourself into thinking it’s […]
Medical Emergency Alert in Rex Morgan, M.D. Finally, after two months of no Doc Rex (since July 5, 2025), we will get the star of his eponymous comic strip back in action! Or so you would have thought. But Dr. Morgan is a no show, instead it is some anonymous attending physician who happens to […]
CBS Mornings today helps celebrate 75 years of Beetle Bailey with an eight minute segment with The Walker Bros.: Brian, Greg, and Neal (the report even shows “The Walker Bros.” signed strip Betty Boop and Felix.)A nice history of Mort, Beetle, and The Walker Brothers.