I’ll confess to having paid more attention to the wretched excess in Venice than it deserved, which is any. But, unlike the couple in Milbrath’s cartoon, I did have my chair swung around the other direction, and I have also been paying attention to the wretched excess being foisted upon us all in Washington.According to […]

Comic book writer and editor Jim Shooter has passed away. James Charles (Jim) Shooter September 27, 1951 – June 30, 2025 it is being reported that comic book writer, editor, and publisher Jim Shooter has passed away. Comic book writer Mark Waid informed the world on his Facebook page: RIP Jim Shooter, 1951-2025. I’ve just […]

Letters to the Editor: Praise and Religion, and The 4th of July; Government Censorship; The Ducktown Weekly; The New York Times For Kids; and more Mafalda.LoC: Praise for Some and Objections to Religious ComedyA letter writer to The Daily Hampshire Gazette: Now, more than ever, when the Gazette arrives each morning, I skip the headlines […]

No specific commentary on this one, beyond marveling that Dan Piraro makes Sundays such a pleasure. There used to be more Sunday strips that featured painstaking art, but a lot of them are gone and the two whose Sundays I enjoyed most — Mark Trail and Prince Valiant — have been converted to a simpler […]

From Biographic is everything you need to know about Christiano Ronaldo: Andrews McMeel has their GoComics site fixed, now they need to work on the newspapers’ e-editions. Speaking of Steve McGarry – he returned to KidTown today after handing it over to Luke McGarry for June. I always thought Bob Scott used actual newspaper Sunday […]

I’ve been having a debate with myself over when you say a person is misinformed and when you call them a deliberate liar. It’s a debate the entire nation has been sucked into. The third possible category is “raving looney,” however, and if you’d like a fairly detailed justification for that one, I strongly recommend […]

From the Library of Congress blog: While participating in the Library’s Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA), [Lucy Havens] had the privilege of contributing to the Library of Congress’ Of the People initiative by researching the representation of Black cartoon and comic creators in the Library’s Comic Book Collection. Like all media, cartoons […]

featuring Bill Watterson, Frank Frazetta, Rama Duwaji, Bob Fingerman, Alison Bechdel, Peter Kuper, Joe Dator, Charles M. Schulz, Shel Silverstein, and Art Spiegelman.Updates The original art by Bill Watterson for the first appearance of Spaceman Spiff in Calvin and Hobbes sold in a Heritage Auctions sell-off for nearly half a million dollars. A record for […]

Canada Day is this Tuesday and I don’t actually have a Canadian cartoon handy, but we’ve just further bollixed our relationship with our second largest trading partner — Mexico is first; we have a talent for not following the money — and things are beginning to sound like this Edison Lee. When I was covering […]

Vermont cartoonist and writer Jeff Danziger has been scoffing at the powerful and skewering politicians for half a century. His cartoons have been syndicated in newspapers around the world, and he’s been nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize. He still draws every day using a blue pencil and churns out about 300 cartoons a year, […]

After webcomics (Ozy and Millie, Raine Dog) and syndicated comic strips (Phoebe and Her Unicorn) cartoonist Dana Simpson mostly moves on to graphic novels and new challenges. “I believe that there are unicorns” – Wm Shakespeare March 29th saw the end of an era as Phoebe and Her Unicorn ceased daily publication in newspapers- although […]

Today is the Big Day — the start of three Big Days — if you think the Bezos/Sanchez wedding is the event of the season. For my part, I’m mystified by the whole thing, though, unlike Le Lievre, I wouldn’t imply that the entire $50 million should have been spent on the homeless instead.I’d put […]

Following up on the obscenity trial of Zehra Ömeroğlu in Turkey comes great news: After five long years of proceedings, punctuated by postponements, the Istanbul Court of First Instance finally ruled in favor of acquittal on Thursday, June 26. The Turkish cartoonist was tried for “obscenity” for a cartoon published in LeMan magazine in 2020 […]

The Strange Case of Merlin’s World of Marvels This week saw Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) drop Merlin’s World of Marvels from their lineup. There is an amazing dearth of information about the feature. The Wayback Machine shows it was available from AMS since at least 2019, but an Andrews McMeel Universal pdf “fact sheet” shows […]

I wish Kikkert hadn’t bothered adding a caption to this, since its meaning is clear, but I like the thought of helpless deportees being dumped off on a random desert island, because some of the other places we’re dumping them off are just as unable to sustain the people already there and every bit as […]