The master of the Art of the Deal may be recognizing that his good pal Vladimir doesn’t actually respect him that much after all.Whamond is hardly the only one to note the gap between Trump’s campaign promise to end the war in 24 hours and his switch to what people are interpreting as a whine.MacKinnon […]

Comic book artist and creator Jack Katz has passed away. Jacob (Jack) Katz September 27, 1927 – April 24, 2025Andrew Kunka, close associate of Jack Katz, let fandom know that the creator has passed away: Jack Katz passed away yesterday. He was 97. I had gotten to know Jack after I wrote an article that […]

Good Timing? Bad Timing? The above Pearls Before Swine appeared two days after the announced death of Pope Francis. Some, who know nothing of lead times, took it as a swipe at that passing. Others took for what it was – just a case of timing. I agree with Stephan Pastis about obituary cartoons but […]

I guess 250 years is pretty good, but it does seem a shame the country couldn’t have survived a little longer. The error in Horsey’s cartoon, I fear, is that the lamps are going out all over America, which is a riff on a different war, but we’ve had plenty. I hope this isn’t the […]

The National Newspaper Awards has named Michael de Adder of the Halifax Chronicle Herald and the Globe and Mail winner of the 2024 Editorial Cartooning division. Gabrielle Drolet of The Globe and Mail and Patrick LaMontagne of the Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun were finalists as reported last month. This will be updated when the National Newspaper […]

News with Doug MacGregor, Charlie Daniel and Brad Boring and the SEC-NCS, David G. Brown, Pat Bagley, and a fact check on a viral Trump-Xi tariff cartoon.Doug MacGregor Doug MacGregor has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years. He got his professional start at the Norwich Bulletin in eastern Connecticut in 1980. He […]

Another of those “no politics” days where you can’t avoid some politics. I like the notion of anything with a foreign country in its name being more expensive, and the idea of companies charging tariffs on things that shouldn’t have tariffs is funny.Except if it happens, and maybe it did and maybe it didn’t. A […]

The New England Newspaper & Press Association’s [NENPA] Better Newspaper Competition is New England’s largest journalism recognition program. NENPA has announced their Better Newspaper Competition winners for 2024. In the Editorial Cartoon division they have awarded the honors to Hakan Sahin of the Harvard Press 1st Place; Tim Newcomb of Seven Days 2nd Place, and […]

Independent Bookstore Day is held on the last Saturday of April every year. So naturally the 900-pound gorilla of book sales decides to have that and surrounding days as the weekend of their Spring sales event – doing what they can to ruin any effort by the small independents to survive. For anyone out and […]

Arcadio Esquivel reaches for one of my least favorite images, the notion that cavemen mated by bopping women over their heads and dragging them away. This fits no primitive society I’m aware of; in all the hunter/gatherer societies I’ve read about, women are the cornerstones and they make the decisions about who will marry whom, […]

Magazine illustrator Mark Zingarelli has passed away. Mark Alan Zingarelli July 11th, 1952 – April 18th, 2025From the obituary: Mark attended The Ivy School of Professional Art for a short period before going to the University of Pittsburgh majoring in art and film-making. He left before graduation to pursue an animation opportunity in San Diego […]

Last week we discovered The Cartoon Factory Ltd. a small syndicate servicing weekly and bi-weekly newspapers that distributed comic strips and panels from July 5, 1981 to March 28, 1982. The full roster of The Cartoon Factory could be run on one page.The cartoonists and comic titles remained the same throughout the syndicates existence as […]

You may recall that the Biden administration had a plan to hire IRS staff, mostly to replace retired staffers and augment customer service personnel, but with an eye towards greater enforcement of tax cheating in the upper levels of income. This was immediately branded (i.e. “lied about”) as a plan to send jackbooted thugs after […]

The New York Times famously does not print cartoons or comic strips, but they did on Earth Day. Don Addis (1935-2009) made it into many magazines and newspapers during his time as an editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator (Briny Deep, Babyman, and The Great John L) but not The New York Times. Until now. […]

Earlier this year we noted that Advance Publications’ newspapers, known as Advance Local, were following in the paths of other groups* by going with unified comics pages for their print newspapers.Not long after that news item Advance’s The Oregonian reported to their readers on the changes forthcoming. I saved that story until newspapers.com’s thirty day […]