Blondie and Dagwood and … Blame Blondie by Dean Young and John Marshall (actually Elmo) for this post’s title. So is John Zakour and Scott Roberts’ Working Daze situated in the city where Dagwood works? Lou from Dagwood’s favorite diner showed up in the Working Daze panel today.One more Blondie as part of today’s synchronicity […]
I wasn’t going to feature any political cartoons today, but this one not only made me laugh but is extraordinarily topical, given that it has just been revealed that our Secretary of Defense set up a personal Signal chat on his personal phone on which he gave friends and family advance details about the attack […]
So GoComics seemingly has set up someone to make sure that the Sunday strips now have the black plate included after weeks of that being a problem on a few strips every Sunday. This week only Rose is Rose got through, but they fixed it very quickly so only Arcamax was caught blackless:But there is […]
The New Yorker cover artist Gretchen Dow Simpson has passed away. Gretchen Dow Simpson May 17, 1939 – April 11, 2025From The Providence Journal obituary: Gretchen Dow Simpson, the acclaimed painter whose depictions of the American Northeast graced 58 covers of The New Yorker, died peacefully in Providence, Rhode Island on April 11, 2025, surrounded […]
Today is Easter in the Western Christian churches, and a rare chance to catch Caulfield in error, because, while the date is different each year, it’s not random and is the first Sunday after the full Moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox, as explained by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, who certainly […]
Jim Keefe remembers Jay Kennedy; Jay Kinney recalls his underground comix days; Rick Marschall presents W. C. Fields, cartoonist; Allan Holtz present W. C. Fields the comic strip; Brian Walker of The Cartooning Walker Family profiled; and the Art Spiegelman documentary; and Randy Milholland honors Hy Eisman in today’s Popeye.Jay Kennedy I first met Jay […]
Nigerian cartoonist Obe Ess has passed away. Olaseinde Obe (Obe Ess) 1952 – April 2025Nigerian newspaper The Nation has reported the death of Obi Ess: Of the Obe clan from Igbara Oke in Ondo State, Obe Ess — Olaseinde Obe — had cemented his name in the pantheon of Nigerian newspaper cartoon greats (if not […]
This was amusing when it ran last week, but not nearly as funny as RFK Jr has made it seem since. Either he’s becoming less guarded in his statements or else his jumbled logic, which doesn’t really qualify as logic, is building to a crescendo. There’s more measles popping up around the country, which isn’t […]
We’ll start with an editorial cartoon that uses a comic strip character of a Pulitzer Prize-wining cartoonist. Dave Whamond does a very good Opus, created by Berkeley Breathed whose Bloom County won a Pulitzer. Dave has also used Charlie Brown and a psuedo-Dennis the Menace lately. The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, has joined a small […]
Brad Holland Brad Holland, an artist whose conceptual work and iconoclastic ways delighted — and often maddened — generations of art directors, died on March 27. He was an early bloomer. While his fellow ninth graders were winning blue ribbons in art class for drawings of cocker spaniels and hot rods, he once told an […]
We are an information society, and Moudakis is right that disinformation is strewn throughout the world, though you don’t have to hunt for it. It will find you.I’ve often wondered not so much who starts gossip, because growing up in a small town you knew who the gossips were, both the hateful Almira Gulch types […]
Baldo By Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos debuted 25 years ago on April 17, 2000. On Tuesday morning, the Dallas County Commissioners Court honored North Texan Hector Cantú for co-creating the nationally syndicated comic strip Baldo. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the comic, which follows the life of the titular character “Baldo,” […]
Let’s start with the low-hanging fruit before we tackle more complex issues. Dear Leader has had another physical, and, while Telnaes suggests that you never know what you’re going to find when you look under the hood, we have once again heard nothing but good news. Unlike the Great Alphonse Capone, he’s apparently not syphilitic, […]
The New Yorker magazine has just managed to insult Christians and Jews alike with a cartoon depicting the Last Supper in its April 14, 2025, issue. It’s tone-deaf. It’s outrageous. It probably earned Sacks a pretty penny. It’s not funny. Phyllis Zagano at the National Catholic Reporter takes umbage at an Adam Sacks cartoon that appeared […]
In 1980 John Michael Pugh, Susanne M. Pugh, and David K. Batsche, all of Mason, Ohio, joined together to form a syndicate to distribute comic strips to weekly and semi-weekly newspapers. In pursuit of that goal they began soliciting comic strip and panel submissions from cartoonists. By mid-1981 The Cartoon Factory, Ltd. had signed a […]