In Prickly City this past week, Carmen has had the opportunity to go on Bill O’Reilly’s show to debate Alan Colmes. Here is that debate in its entirety.I spent about a year and a half hosting a talk show on the radio in the early ’80s, and, while I’m not sure what my listeners […]

The 2011 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced for the best syndicated strip or panel category. A hearty congratulations go out to Richard Thompson (Cul De Sac), Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), Wiley Miller (Non Sequitur) and Ruben Bolling (Tom the Dancing Bug).

This year’s 2011 Harvey Awards Nominees have been posted. Winners will be announced August 20, 2011 in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con.BEST LETTERERScott Brown, BOX 13, http://www.comixology.com and Red 5 Comics Darwyn Cooke, RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE OUTFIT, IDW Dustin Harbin, CASANOVA, Icon Comics Troy Peteri, WITCHBLADE, Top Cow Robbie Robbins, LOCKE & KEY: KEYS […]

The Columbian interviews Monte Wolverton about how his career and how he deals with controversial topics. He has a solo art show opening up in Portland on Sept. 1 that runs through that month.Despite the wide circulation, the occasional near-death-threat email from an offended reader lets him know he’s not playing it too safe when […]

Hall of Fame hockey referee Andy van Hellemond has serviced notice to the creator so of Adam@Home and numerous newspapers that ran the May 28th strip on the grounds of defamation. In the strip Adam and his son are sitting on the couch and the son asks if someday he too could be a hockey […]

I really do try not to go back to the same strips too often, and of all the same strips I try not to go back to too often, Cul de Sac is at the top of the list. However, if Richard Thompson is going to post classics like this on his blog, well, it’s […]

Today is US Independance Day. Blogging resumes tomorrow.

I looked through a lot of July 4-themed cartoons, but the majority were lame jokes about barbecues and firecrackers (yawn), and then there were the editorial cartoons that fell into what Clay Jones calls “Hallmark cartoons,” which is to say, cartoons the only point of which is to mark the date.A couple weren’t too bad, […]

… if I do go to Hell, I hope it’s the one in Sinfest, and that Squig sneaks in from time to time.

Non Sequitur presents us today with a Pearly Gates gag that addresses the theological question, “Can you hear about the doctrine of Limbo without thinking about the dance?” as well as the cosmological question, “Can you hear about the doctrine of Limbo without snickering even if you didn’t think about the dance?”I don’t know Wiley’s […]

Michael Cavna has posted the best summary of the end of United Media and the implications for syndicates in today’s newspaper climate.“No history of daily comics could be written,” [John] Glynn echoes, “without a third or more of it devoted to what United and NEA brought to the readers of the world.” And Glynn’s Universal […]

Not a scientific poll by any stretch of the imagination, but when The Public Editor asked for reader’s impressions of the new Week in Review format, 15 of the 24 comments mentioned in some way that they wish the editorial cartoons hadn’t been removed.Here’s a representative quote from Vince Parry of Brooklyn, NY:I’m with those […]

The newspaper’s economic troubles is not limited to the United States. Michael De Adder, editorial cartoonist for New Brunswick Publishing in Canada, was told ealier this week that his job is being cut in August. Michael’s work appears in Moncton Times & Transcript and the Fredericton Gleaner, but due to budget cuts his position is […]

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith didn’t fair to well in a recent reader poll in the Knoxville The News Sentinel and the editors opted to cut it. The Barney Google and Snuffy Smith fans were loud enough to cause the editors to reinstate it. John Rose, the current cartoonist for the strip, decided to take […]

The advantage of political cartooning over gag cartooning is that you don’t have to make things up. “Tom the Dancing Bug” only needs to put the news in a funny setting to turn it into humor. In this case, Ruben Bolling simply has the justices speak as if they were perfectly frank about what they’re […]