It is one thing that we comic strip fans are aware of the situation, but when newspaper editors, who are on the whole no more knowledgeable than the general newspaper reading public about comic strips, are taking notice it is a warning sign to the short form sequential art. Last week The Gloucester Daily Times […]

Last week, on May 4, 2026, The Gloucester Daily Times informed their readers why they could no longer find the newspaper’s comics page. From the unsigned editorial (or here): In today’s paper, you’ll notice that while all your favorite puzzles are available, we’ve decided to eliminate the comics in our weekday print editions. This is […]

The nominees for the 2026 Doug Wright Awards and Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame inductees have been announced.The nominees are:Best Book The Nipper (Emerging Talent)The Pigskin Peters Best Small or Micro-Press BookThe Egghead (Best Kids’ Book)Additionally Emily Hearn (1925–2015) and Mark Thurman, the co-creators of The Mighty Mites, which appeared for many years in Owl magazine; and Arch Dale (1882–1962), an editorial cartoonist […]

The trial for Egyptian cartoonist and translator Ashraf Omar was to begin yesterday, but has been delayed until July 13 for reasons of “witness discussion” according to Ashraf’s attorney, Khaled Ali. Ashraf has been in custody since detained since July 2024 on four charges after he was arrested and seized from his home. The current […]

Statues of famous people are not unusual in the United States: There is a statue of “Rocky Balboa” in Philadelphia and a slew of statues of real-life athletes as well. However, Wednesday’s dedication of a statue of Donald Trump on the grounds of his private club in Florida has drawn both praise and criticism, much […]

Avery Silfer has been a cartoonist and illustrator for the New Mexico Daily Lobo, the independent newspaper at the University of New Mexico, for a number of semesters. Now she is moving on as graduation nears. Leila Chapa and Paloma Chapa at The Daily Lobo say hail and farewell. For the past year, Daily Lobo […]

Mrs. Olsen is a lot more understanding than a lot of commenters on GoComics and Comics Kingdom who seem to be in a constant state of aggravation over a lot of comic strip characters. Some more than others: Comic strips are visual first script second and when Mallard Fillmore came up my first reaction was […]

I got a particular laugh out of this RWO, because I worked at a paper where they had mugshots of the staff on a bulletin board in the break room. It was handy, because you could learn the names of people in other departments who you ran into in only a superficial way.But it became […]

Paul Noth Collected Paul Noth, newly crowned Cartoonist Laureate of Wisconsin, has collection of his cartoons coming out in October and we now have the cover of I Am Going to Eat You and the opportunity to pre-order it. The Complete Zap Comix A month earlier, in September 2026, comes The Complete Zap Comix Box […]

More on Patrick Lamontagne World Press Freedom award, Nazi Germany’s pressure on cartoonists, and an argument that comics are NOT for Kids. Patrick LaMontagne Receives International Award A week and a half ago we reported on the World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Award winners. As a followup here is The Calgary Herald noting that […]

The Lakes International Comic Arts Festival is taking fire from British politicians for inviting Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj to be one of 13 guest cartoonists for their 2026 event in October. Critics, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, are demanding public funding be withdrawn and the cartoonist be disinvited. At issue are two of Emad’s cartoons […]

Today is Victory Day in Russia, though yesterday was VE Day elsewhere in the world. Russia marks the day the papers were signed, rather than the day the war ended. And today, as mentioned before, they’re marking the day with a parade that, Adams notes, doesn’t feature the usual display of weaponry, because their tanks […]

A thrill for any syndicated cartoonist is to see their handiwork in print in the newspaper delivered to their front door (or mailbox as the case may be.) So it is with Joe Wos and his MazeToons. Alexis Papalia at The Tribune-Review informs the paper’s readers: Those in the habit of heading to the comics […]

A roundup of good tidings about comic strip and magazine cartoonists feauring Wayno®, Lincoln Peirce, Sy Barry, Liza Donnelly, Gideon Smiley, Harry Bliss, and cartoonists from The Saturday Evening Post of the 1950s and 1960s. Wayno’s Reuben Portfolio As noted here Wayno® is a finalist for this year’s Silver (divisional) Reuben as Best Newspaper Panel […]

Etcetera Days are when I feature interesting political cartoons that don’t spark a full-throated rant.Today’s headline is a catch-phrase Yul Brynner had in The King and I, and while he and Deborah Kerr (and Marnie Nixon) did wonderful work in the movie, I would have thought there wouldn’t be much contemporary interest in the story […]