Cartoonists Rights reports that Turkish prosecutors are appealing the July 24 acquittal of cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu. Zehra had been charged with “obscenity” for a 2020 cartoon that appeared on LeMan magazine. In July a court judged that no crime was committed and acquitted her of all charges.From Cartoonists Rights: After a slow and lengthy process of […]

Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill are jointly interviewed about their collaboration on the Gil Thorp comic strip and the Death to Pachuco comic book WILLIAM SCHWARTZ: How did you get the idea to make an “anti-celebration” strip like this? RACHEL MERRILL: From what I understand, our editor Carrie Williams was the one who suggested the […]

I could do an entire day of cartoons in which Trump and Putin discuss the Ukraine war while Zelenskyy remains out of the conversation. It seems nobody in the world thinks it’s fair or right for the invader and an outside party to determine some other nation’s territory and sovereignty.I like Royaards’ piece because he’s […]

The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz by Mark Evanier For many of us, the best part of waking up on Sunday morning wasn’t a cup of Folger’s, but the Sunday comics. My brother and I always fought over who got to read our favorite strips first, and that included Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz […]

Cuban cartoonist Humberto Lazaro Miranda Ramirez, better known as LAZ, has passed away at the age of 64 on August 4.From the Juventude Rebelde (translated) obituary: Known for his infinite ability to draw Cuban reality from a glance, above all, costumbrista, from a very young age LAZ he was attracted to the drawing and linked […]

I wonder if Buffalo is large enough that Trump’s secret police can get away with disappearing people without raising objections? It is, on one hand, New York’s second-largest city, but, on the other, it’s not quite 3.5% the population of Gotham and even less so if you include the entire NYC metro zone. NYS demographics […]

From Palgrave Macmillan comes Cartoon Conflicts: Contemporary Controversies and Historical Precedents Edited by Ritu Gairola Khanduri, Richard Scully, and Paulo Jorge Fernandes. This edited collection of new research highlights the way in which the cartoon – long regarded as a staple of journalism and freedom of expression – faces new challenges in the twenty-first century […]

Midweek Olivia Jaimes began what a series of Nancy strips riffing on her profession. While Richard Thompson in the throwback Cul de Sac show us how those unorganized underground cartoonists probably created those jam comix. Previewing next week’s Reuben Awards yesterday we had Intelligent Life, Macanudo, and Thatababy celebrating recognizable comic strips of the past […]

I was playing around in 1935 newspapers and came across this Art Krenz illustration with the tale of the tape for the upcoming fight between Max Baer (yes, Jethro’s father) and Joe Louis. Sports cartoons often had a lot of word balloons and commentary, but Krenz plays this straight because interest in the fight was […]

A new comic strip is appearing in the Sunday Santa Fe New Mexican! Pacheco Prairie Dog’s Southwest Almanac by Ryan T. Cook began appearing in The Santa Fe New Mexican on July 13, 2025, replacing a long-running column whose author retired. From the July 6 New Mexican: Alex De Vore at the Santa Fe Reporter […]

From Little Orphan Annie (Harold Gray) to The Toxic Avenger (Matt Bors) with Molly and the Bear (Bob and Vicki Scott), Spongebob Squarepant (U.S. Postal Service), Chris Ware (USPS again), Barbara Shermund (Liza Donnelly), and Goofus and Gallant (Garry Myers and Marion Hull Hammel)From Little Orphan to Just Plain AnnieA few days over 101 years […]

The difference between trompe l’oeil and Trump l’oeil is that the first is an artistic technique that relies on the skill of the artist to create an illusion, while the second is a political technique that relies on the loyalty of the viewer to preserve an illusion.Wuerker has it right: There’s nothing clever on the […]

Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes spent some of her teen years and young adulthood in Reno Nevada… Fearless — that’s how the Pulitzer Prize committee described political cartoonist Ann Telnaes’ work when she won the coveted award this year. On Telnaes’ journey to becoming an influential commenter on world events, she made two crucial stops in […]

Architecture is, without question, a serious matter—and, over the centuries, some of the most serious voices in the field have endeavored rigorously to theorize about, define, and interpret it. But what happens when we confront this monumental gravitas through the levity? What if we momentarily set aside the lofty and arcane discourse of celebrated architects […]

There was a flurry of cartoons and wisecracks yesterday after Dear Leader appeared on the White House roof and wandered around for a bit, talking to the press below. I don’t know that it really indicated much of anything beyond a president with too much time on his hands, but Randy Bish managed to bring […]