The Cleveland Plain Dealer has announced that they will not replace staff editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy. From Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn: Our longtime political cartoonist Jeff Darcy retired Sunday after a decades-long career in which he produced thousands of biting and funny cartoons, and I tell you that no one on this staff was […]
Of all the Trump/Nobel cartoons that have appeared in the past 24 hours or so, this is the only one that really cracked me up. Cohen skips all the reasons it didn’t and shouldn’t have and couldn’t have happened, and capitalizes instead on Trump’s preening ego and childlike gullibility, which are at the center of […]
The Harvey Award winners were announced tonight at the end of the New York Comic Con. The Harvey Awards honors books and creators working in sequential art. Additionally, six individuals were inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame. Here are the inductees and the category winners.Harvey Awards Hall of Fame InducteesBook of the YearWinner […]
3,080. Eight years, five months and five days. That is how many days in a row that Clay Jones created and posted a political cartoon to GoComics. As Clay posted today “the streak is over.” Not due to any lack of desire on his part. It should be noted that each one of those cartoons […]
Artist, illustrator, and cartoonist Charles Criner has passed away. Charles Criner November 27, 1945 – September 17, 2025 From the obituary: Charles Criner, renowned African American artist, master printmaker, and beloved Houston cultural figure, passed away peacefully on September 17, 2025, surrounded by family. He was 79. From Black Art in America: During his years […]
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones suffered a stroke this week and says he’s partially paralyzed. On a Facebook post published today, he also indicated that he’s also having to relearn how to use his voice.His post: Dear friends, lovers, and co-conspirators, Unfortunately, this week I had a stroke and my right side is partially paralyzed. This […]
We’ll start with an obvious news story that tells a lot about the depths to which we have plunged. As Alcaraz notes, this year’s Super Bowl gains a special regional flavor as the halftime show features an American performing in Spanish.As Margulies points out there are a lot of lightly educated bigots who have a […]
While Bill Hinds seems to be the permanent cartoonist for Marmaduke now, Kit Mills has stepped in for Rachel Merrill as the Gil Thorp “guest artist” for this week at least. We’ll see how long the guest stays. I can only guess that Rachel needed some time to work on her and Henry Barajas‘ Death […]
The New York Comic Con weekend begins today (Comics Beat covers it in full). Mostly comic books but as usual there are comic strip related projects taking place. Like the Comics Kingdom booth. The National Cartoonists Society will also be there with members showing up throughout the run. The New York Comic Con also issues […]
A bit of a gentle start, since things may get a little rough before we’d done. Granted, Horsey makes Russ Vought look like a mad scientist, offering America a trip in his time machine.But it could be worse, because, beyond that, what Vought offers is a trip back to a time that colors the notion […]
In the last 20 years, I’ve been fortunate to meet and talk to the giants in the field. Here are four of my more memorable ones.Richard ThompsonIn 2007, I was in Washington D.C. for a business trip. Prior to the trip, I had reached out to Mike Rhode and he had offered to round up […]
*A government action “that could never happen here.”We start with a couple Letters to the Editor. To the Cleveland Plain Dealer: When it comes to the Comey indictment, cartoonist Dana Summers has trouble telling R’s from D’s Editorial cartoonist Dana Summers, in his “Payback” cartoon in the Sept. 29 Plain Dealer, apparently believes the indictment […]
The new issue of Seven Days profiles Macanudo cartoonist Ricardo Liniers Siri. Remarkably little seems to happen in “Macanudo,” the daily comic strip created by Ricardo Liniers Siri, the Argentine cartoonist known professionally as Liniers. If you were forced to describe any given Liniers strip purely in terms of plot, you would end up saying […]
Cartooning is a big interest here, but there are other diversions. The American Revolution being one. Bonus is when the two merge. The November 2025 issue of The Atlantic (more specifically here) gets an early jump on the 250th anniversary of The Revolution. And the issue starts off with a wonderful gatefold cover by Joe […]
I’m going to assume that National Mall Walking Day began in the early 80s, since it requires the kind of enclosed shopping mall that was around in those days, but was somewhat rare before and is all but extinct today. And I’d quibble that these people aren’t mall walking, because they have packages, which suggests […]