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Miss Cellany Amid the Cartoonists

by D. D. Degg 2 comments October 7, 2025

New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Campbell comes to BoiseBoise Weekly spotlights Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell prior to her meet and greet at Pengilly’s Saloon. Hilary Campbell is a cartoonist for The New Yorker, comedian and author whose latest project blends humor with vulnerability. Her newest graphic memoir, “The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir About Food, Love […]

It’s Tom Toro’s October

by D. D. Degg 2 comments October 7, 2025

Tom Toro’s favorite Tom Toro cartoons about climate change Tom Toro, who’s been cartooning his way through existential dread at Yale Climate Connections since 2019, has a new cartoon collection out today. It’s called “And to think we started as a book club,” and you can get it from your favorite bookstore. Sara Peach for […]

CSotD: Land of (Intentional) Confusion

by Mike Peterson 15 comments October 7, 2025

It’s not this simple.As Bennett suggests, both sides are getting talking points out of the government shutdown. However, it’s unclear how much each side benefits or is damaged by the situation, in part because of the rhetoric being tossed around and in part because it hasn’t gone on long enough for its effects to be […]

20 Years After the Danish Cartoon Affair

by D. D. Degg 0 comments October 6, 2025

How the West failed the test of the Danish cartoons controversy On 30 September 2005, 12 cartoons appeared in the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, under the headline, ‘The face of Muhammad’. They were commissioned in response to reports that Danish children’s author Kare Bluitgen had been unable to find an illustrator for a book about Muhammad. […]

Tank McNaMarmaduke

by D. D. Degg 4 comments October 6, 2025

Didn’t notice it on yesterday’s Marmaduke, but it was a bit more obvious today.The kids in today’s Marmaduke looked familiar but not Marmaduke familiar. And checking them out there was a noticeable difference in the signature. A “Hinds” was added Sunday and Monday and those kids look suspiciously Cleats-y. But still… it wasn’t the regular […]

CSotD: Repression as a Spectator Sport

by Mike Peterson 9 comments October 6, 2025

We’ll start with a cartoon from Australia that suggests two responses from up here: One is “Glad we could amuse you,” since we have to live with the chaos she depicts. But that draws a second response of “Thank god you’re watching,” because we’d sure hate to have all this unfolding without witnesses.And if the […]

Toons Noted This Past Week

by D. D. Degg 3 comments October 5, 2025

TimingJohn McPherson, who drew this weeks (months?) ago, gets the Good Timing Award this week. When I hear Mark Trail canon I think Ed Dodd canon. Turns out to be earlier this year Jules Rivera canon. There was a time, way before your time Dear Reader, when an insert called Parade was an ever-present part […]

Jeff Darcy Retires

by D. D. Degg 6 comments October 5, 2025

Jeff Darcy, who has been an editorial cartoonist at The Cleveland Plain Dealer for 33 years, is retiring. From today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer is Jeff’s message to his fellow PD staffers: After nearly 40 years producing Editorial Cartoons for Cleveland newspapers, the last 32 with The Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com, I’m sorry to say, “So long,” as […]

CSotD: Downer Jokes and Upper Pups

by Mike Peterson 8 comments October 5, 2025

Arctic Circle makes a point that has long bedeviled me, because I don’t live on the seaside. I also don’t toss away a lot of plastic, though I realize much that goes into recycling bins winds up not being recycled. Meanwhile, landfills have had liners for quite a while and, however much plastic may leak […]

Speaking of 20 Year Anniversaries …

by Mike Peterson 1 comments October 5, 2025

The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, is also turning 20 years old this year. They had a small gallery celebration Friday and, since I drive through WRJ several a day, I dropped by to see the place.I got a kick out of Alison Bechdel‘s piece, which was on the wall (pardon […]

Walking the (Antisemitic) Dog

by D. D. Degg 10 comments October 4, 2025

SACRAMENTO — California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a wave of criticism after the official press account for the governor posted an AI-generated cartoon showing White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller leading former President Donald Trump on a leash. International Jewish News reports: Conservative commentators and several Republican officials said the cartoon trafficked […]

A Three Ring Comic Strip Circus

by D. D. Degg 5 comments October 4, 2025

The Failure of G. B. Trudeau My childhood dream, like the popularity of print newspapers, inevitably faded. I had long been bewitched by the comics pages folded into each edition of the Times-Picayune, the newspaper with which I grew up in my suburb of New Orleans. The pages stood out because of the implicit respect […]

CSotD: An Unhealthy Conversation

by Mike Peterson 8 comments October 4, 2025

Jones is often provocative, slinging purposeful insults, but generally backed by an intelligent political argument. This isn’t a particularly polite cartoon, but he addresses a critical question and, if the Mike Johnson character is ranting incoherently, the elephant cuts right to the nub of the issue: If the GOP has such a reasonable position, why […]

Who Are the Most Active TDC Commentators?

by Alan Gardner 11 comments October 3, 2025

One of the things that sets The Daily Cartoonist apart from other comic-related news sites is its cultivated community of readers. People visit the site each day not only for the news but also for the comments. We’ll be looking at who has been active in the comments the longest, who the most prolific commenter is each […]

US Cartooning Tradition in Peril

by D. D. Degg 5 comments October 3, 2025

In January, the Washington Post spiked a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize–winning Ann Telnaes that criticized the supplicant attitude displayed by the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, towards Donald Trump … She promptly resigned after the incident, the first time one of her pieces had been rejected over its subject. For 31 years, KAL contributed his […]

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