Funny you should mention it, Jen. My friend and I were discussing movies we were supposed to like but didn’t, which included a mashup of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and the Lion in Winter called “Guess Who’s Coming to the Crusades,” in which Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine exchange witty suburban repartee some […]
Featuring John Rose, Gilbert Shelton, Terri Libenson, Steve Breen, Chris Schweizer, Rich Powell, Drew Friedman.Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and John Rose John Rose, who since 2001 has been the cartoonist for the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith strip, will be at the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History at 1 p.m. Sunday for […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for September 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. E Is for Edward A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey E Is […]
The difference in our nation doesn’t get much starker than this, to which someone might say “Yeah, but how many people even remember Kennedy’s inauguration?”It’s a fair question. I turned 10 a week after he was inaugurated, so I remember him, but not in a political context. I remember that he was president and that […]
From Newsday: On Sunday afternoon, Newsday issued a written apology, calling the cartoon “insensitive and offensive.” “We deeply regret this mistake and sincerely apologize to the family of Charlie Kirk and to all. We made an error in judgment. The cartoon has been removed from our digital platforms,” the statement said. It went on: “In […]
Olivia Jaimes retires, Caroline Cash takes on the Nancy comic strip. [L]ast week, we noticed black-and-white reruns on GoComics running in place of Jaimes’ bright, spare colored panels. These were “Nancy” strips from the Ernie Bushmiller days, who wrote and drew the comic from 1925 until his death in 1982. Wait. Where’s Olivia? True to […]
Political cartoonists have been having a field day with the message Donald Trump allegedly submitted as part of a birthday book assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday. That “allegedly” part is beginning to fray a bit, given that Trump sued the Wall Street Journal for publishing it and denied that it was his signature on […]
The 2025 Ignatz Awards were presented at the end of The Small Press Expo in Rockville, MD. The winners are below along with the cover of their work.Outstanding AnthologyOutstanding ArtistOutstanding CollectionOutstanding ComicOutstanding Graphic NovelOutstanding MinicomicOutstanding Online ComicOutstanding SeriesOutstanding StoryPromising New TalentThe Ignatz Award recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning and honors “exceptional work that […]
From Thrilling Detective (coarse language warning): JOHN SHAFT is one of the few private eyes probably best known outside the shamus gang for his theme song (Peter Gunn‘s the only other one I can think of). In Shaft’s case, it’s Isaac Hayes’ Academy Award-winning, percolating, throbbing slab of funk that served as the theme for the […]
Early this morning we got this message while trying to find today’s Little Alley Oop page: At the time of this writing the entire Alley Oop page at GoComics is unavailable, not just the Sunday strip: I will assume it is down to fix the problem and today’s Little Oop will be up sooner or […]
I was hoping to do another day of humor while we wait for a few facts to emerge, but we don’t seem to be waiting for facts, so here we are. One Sunday strip will have to suffice.When Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” in 2017, it touched off a lot of mockery. After […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) is holding its annual convention this weekend and, unlike previous recent gatherings our own Mike Peterson is not reporting from the convention floor this year. So we are relying on the cartoonists’ social media platforms to inform us of what is happening. Courtesy of AAEC President Marc Murphy‘s […]
Humberto Aguirre’s “Top Five in Comic Cats” A cat defeated by Mickey Mouse, a robot cat from the future, a thriller cat, a porn cat, and a transgender cat. The comic universe is a space populated by pornographic cats, robot cats, and sadistic and obscene cats that often opened the way for that species to […]
The gag here is that the scale doesn’t go that far, though if Whitehead realized that when he drew this cartoon he’d have added more beer cans. Jefferson wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,” and he was a Deist. I’m agnostic and I feel the same way, so […]
Navied Mahdavian, Tom Gauld, Alison Bechdel, Michael Maslin, and Jason Chatfield with Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher.Navied Mahdavian Navied Mahdavian [link added] is a former 5th-grade teacher who is currently working as a full-time cartoonist. His work has been featured in The New Yorker [link added], The LA Times, NPR, Reader’s Digest, and Wired. He moved to […]