Rain dampened, but did not discourage, demonstrators in White River Junction, where we lined the road through town and across the bridge into New Hampshire. The larger crowds were, naturally, in the larger cities, Montpelier and Burlington in Vermont and Concord, Manchester and Portsmouth in New Hampshire, but there were good turnouts even in the […]
Art Spiegelman biography and career timeline As a prelude to their airing of the Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse documentary on April 15, 2025 PBS presents a “timeline [that] explores Art Spiegelman’s life and the major milestones in his career” from his birth in 1948 to 2025’s collaboration with Joe Sacco on “Never Again […]
With the stock market, and more importantly GoComics, crashing we could use some laughs. Magic Bus Gracie gets on the bus that takes her to school. Too much the Magic BusHector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos offer an alternative reality in this past week’s Baldo.Reality Checking Reality CheckReality Check misses it by thaaat much. In […]
Lucky timing from RAM: This strip ran the morning after Dear Leader announced the tariffs, before the markets could react — Trump had delayed his announcement until after closing — and so was drawn even earlier than that.The markets were already shaky, but nowhere approaching the thundering crash we’re still experiencing, thanks to the jaw-dropping […]
Illustrator Robert McGinnis has passed away. Robert Edward (Bob) McGinnis February 3, 1926 – March 10, 2025From the obituary: Renowned painter/illustrator Robert E. McGinnis (those who knew him firsthand called him Bob) died at the age of 99 in Old Greenwich on March 10, 2025. Bob was one of the most prolific illustrators of the […]
Searching for Hy Eisman at newspapers.com Newspapers.com doesn’t carry the Newark News so I can’t get It Happened in New Jersey from there, but here’s a February 20, 1955 story from the New York Sunday News about Hy’s comic being exhibited. After years of ghosting comic strips for Alfred Andriola (Kerry Drake) and Vern Greene […]
Jen Sorensen starts us off with a plain statement: The Bill of Rights is no longer part of our government, or of our daily lives. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press can be restricted if people speak or write things that go against official policy, and freedom of religion means the freedom to […]
With cartoonists Carol Lay, Ali Fitzgerald, Andrea Beizer, Bill Bettwy, Colleen Doran, G. B. Trudeau, Paul and Brad Anderson, Jeff and Bil Keane, Larry Lieber, and Gilbert Shelton and Ted Richards (with Willy Murphy and Gary Hallgren).Reading Room: Comics For Earth In 1952 the lead character in cartoonist Walt Kelly’s popular “Pogo” comic strip found […]
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. ICYMI, our president actually said “An old fashioned term that we use — groceries — I used it on the campaign. It’s such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. ‘Groceries.’ It’s a bag with different things in it.”This is, of course, the same president who believes that […]
(April 2, 2025) — Haddam Killingworth News has announced that the work of cartoonist Robert Summers will appear in the weekly print edition of the paper, which is delivered on Thursdays. His cartoon strip, called “Shiver Me Timbers,” is about the lighter side of the life and times of those who enjoy the water, boats, […]
Well, nobody’s perfekt, and Mother Anderson couldn’t have seen how April Fools Day was going to play out on this continent.Whether Elon wanted to buy votes or buy friends, he came out of Wisconsin with neither, despite having spent $20 million hoping to put a Republican on the state supreme court and give the party […]
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The Society of Illustrators has revealed it class of inductees for their 2025 Hall of Fame. They are:Rudy Gutierrez Kadir Nelson Tim O’Brien This is the first year since 2011 without an inductee that has a direct connection to cartooning.It is also the shortest list since 1994. The number of inductees in recent years average […]
No April Fool’s gags as such today, given how predictable they are each year, but Dave Coverly has managed to stumble onto a case of “It’s funny, ’cause it’s true,” which will do just as well.Behold the 30-meter hollow concrete head of Fernando Marcos, which rose over a planned golf course and resort in the […]
Chris Waldron, Chief Digital Officer at Andrews McMeel Universal, was kind enough to answer a few questions we sent him regarding the new GoComics rolling out tomorrow. Let’s mention that we at The Daily Cartoonist are paid subscribers to GoComics (and Comics Kingdom). That said I was more interested in the effects the new site […]