Nigerian cartoonist Obe Ess has passed away. Olaseinde Obe (Obe Ess) 1952 – April 2025Nigerian newspaper The Nation has reported the death of Obi Ess: Of the Obe clan from Igbara Oke in Ondo State, Obe Ess — Olaseinde Obe — had cemented his name in the pantheon of Nigerian newspaper cartoon greats (if not […]
This was amusing when it ran last week, but not nearly as funny as RFK Jr has made it seem since. Either he’s becoming less guarded in his statements or else his jumbled logic, which doesn’t really qualify as logic, is building to a crescendo. There’s more measles popping up around the country, which isn’t […]
We’ll start with an editorial cartoon that uses a comic strip character of a Pulitzer Prize-wining cartoonist. Dave Whamond does a very good Opus, created by Berkeley Breathed whose Bloom County won a Pulitzer. Dave has also used Charlie Brown and a psuedo-Dennis the Menace lately. The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, has joined a small […]
Brad Holland Brad Holland, an artist whose conceptual work and iconoclastic ways delighted — and often maddened — generations of art directors, died on March 27. He was an early bloomer. While his fellow ninth graders were winning blue ribbons in art class for drawings of cocker spaniels and hot rods, he once told an […]
We are an information society, and Moudakis is right that disinformation is strewn throughout the world, though you don’t have to hunt for it. It will find you.I’ve often wondered not so much who starts gossip, because growing up in a small town you knew who the gossips were, both the hateful Almira Gulch types […]
Baldo By Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos debuted 25 years ago on April 17, 2000. On Tuesday morning, the Dallas County Commissioners Court honored North Texan Hector Cantú for co-creating the nationally syndicated comic strip Baldo. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the comic, which follows the life of the titular character “Baldo,” […]
Let’s start with the low-hanging fruit before we tackle more complex issues. Dear Leader has had another physical, and, while Telnaes suggests that you never know what you’re going to find when you look under the hood, we have once again heard nothing but good news. Unlike the Great Alphonse Capone, he’s apparently not syphilitic, […]
The New Yorker magazine has just managed to insult Christians and Jews alike with a cartoon depicting the Last Supper in its April 14, 2025, issue. It’s tone-deaf. It’s outrageous. It probably earned Sacks a pretty penny. It’s not funny. Phyllis Zagano at the National Catholic Reporter takes umbage at an Adam Sacks cartoon that appeared […]
In 1980 John Michael Pugh, Susanne M. Pugh, and David K. Batsche, all of Mason, Ohio, joined together to form a syndicate to distribute comic strips to weekly and semi-weekly newspapers. In pursuit of that goal they began soliciting comic strip and panel submissions from cartoonists. By mid-1981 The Cartoon Factory, Ltd. had signed a […]
Jen Sorensen gets more out of four panels than anyone else in the business, and this gut-clencher is as accurate a portrait of the moment as you’re likely to see.Life does go on. Life has to go on. But the veneer of normalcy is wearing thin. At the dog park, we talk about an outbreak […]
‘I believe that editorial cartoonists are vital for civic debate and have an essential role in journalism’ Political cartoonist Ann Telnaes was the featured speaker at the annual Press Freedom Lecture in The Hague on April 14. The Press Freedom Lecture is an initiative of the Press Freedom Day Committee. (In a bit of irony […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Thinking About Thinking: Impossible Thoughts and Complicated Feelings by Grant Snider A playful examination of […]
Wikipedia confirms my hunch that Lucky Charms was the first cereal to start adding candy. My skepticism over the move is likely because I was 14 when they were introduced and so somewhat above the fray. Our mother had a rule that we could only have two cereal boxes open at a time: One sugared, […]
Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes; Bill Papas’ Semana Santa; Chic Young’s Blondie; Charles Sculz’s Peanuts; and Kirkus Reviews’ best “comic’ books of the 21st Century.Calvin and Hobbes Hand-Colored Daily Comic Strip Original Art Heritage Auctions will be putting up for bid a very early Calvin and Hobbes comic strip “inscribed to artist Jim Borgman and […]
Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen has passed away. Yaakov (né Jerry) Kirschen March 8, 1938 – April 14, 2025From the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS): (April 14, 2025 / JNS) Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, whose iconic daily cartoons were published by JNS for the last several years, died at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba on Monday […]