California Gov. Jerry Brown issued a proclamation declaring today, April 15, as “Rex Babin Day” in the Golden State.Here’s the text of his declaration: PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA “It is difficult not to write satire,” observed the Roman poet Juvenal at the close of the 1st Century A.D. Few understand […]

The Cartoonist Studio’s second annual “So Ya Wanna be a Cartoonists” has declared a winner. This year the winner goes to Greg Wallace, an illustrator and caricature artist, who’s feature Nothing is not Something bested over 125 other cartoonists over 10 weeks of voting by fans and professional cartoonists. As the winner, Greg’s feature will […]

We learned this week that there is no “Republican War on Women” and that Republicans are actually pro-choice and rather militant about it.No, not that kind of choice. In fact, Jan Brewer, Arizona’s Republican governor, just signed a bill into law stating that life begins before sex, which will help in the party’s ultimate goal […]

Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter is one of my most important stops of the morning, despite the fact that about 90% of what he talks about relates to comic books, which are a different medium from the strips I talk about. For one thing, the sheer volume of stuff he posts every day means that I’m going […]

Rudy Park writer Matt Richtel (aka Theron Heir) tells me he’s taking a year off and turning over the writing duties for Rudy Park to the strip’s artist Darrin Bell. Matt cites needing to take a break to focus on other matters such as his family, his reporting for The New York Times and his […]

Michael Cavna follows up from an earlier post regarding Candorville creator Darrin Bell’s cartoon about Trayvon Martin with another post about how readers reacted to the cartoon. Here’s a sample:While I frequently laugh out loud while reading the comics in The Washington Post, I don’t remember ever crying over them. But Friday’s strip [April 6] […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is collecting money from its members for the Sebastian Babin Education Fund. The fund was created after Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin passed away last month after battling cancer. Sebastian is the 10-year old son of Rex and his wife Kathleen.From their website:Rex was a hard-working and devoted […]

Okay, this The City strip is actually from last week or last strip or however often Derf updates. GoComics doesn’t seem to be updating its non-dailies very well and I’ve had to go poke around for some of the political cartoons.Most of what I had missed was that apparently when Mike Wallace got to heaven, […]

Last month when the Scripps Howard Awards were announced, absent was the announcement for the Colleges M. Schulz Award for best college cartoonist. I’m told by the foundation that the category has been discontinued due to the lack of entries to merit its continuance.The award was first given in 1980 and several recipients have gone […]

Russ Cochran is set to print a new publication called The Sunday Funnies – a monthly 32 page, 22″x16″ comic section containing historical Sunday pages going back to 1895. Features will include Gasoline Alley, Little Nemo, Krazy Kat among others. The publication starts shipping in November.From Russ’ website:Each issue of THE SUNDAY FUNNIES will be […]

Four Swedes will have their day in Danish court tomorrow after their December 2010 arrest for allegedly planning to attack the newspaper offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper – the newspaper that published the 12 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.From the Washington Post:The trial will be the second major criminal process involving the controversial […]

I have a daughter-in-law who is a psychology professor and to whom I periodically send good shrink toons that she can use to liven up lectures or that may simply give her a laff. But I’ve told her she has to keep track of Pros & Cons on her own because it’s so consistently funny […]

In my haste to report that Matt Bors had won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award, I neglected to note the award was also given to Marty Two Bulls (different circulation category). Marty is the editorial cartoonist for the Indian Country Today Media Network. He’s worked as a commercial designer and graphic […]

This week’s Edge City starts a three-week series dealing with the Holocaust. In the series, the family visits a local barber who was a holocaust surviver. In an interview with King Features, the strip’s co-creator Terry LaBan says that it’s a topic they’ve wanted to do before but until now, hadn’t found a way to […]

Fantastic news from the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. If you’ve not had the opportunity to visit the library and museum, it’s a near spiritual experience.Press release:The Ohio State University Libraries is thrilled to announce that The Hershey Foundation of Northeast Ohio has answered the Schulz Challenge with a multi-year grant […]