Despite the lag between deadline and publishing date, both Mark Tatulli of “Heart of the City” and Wiley Miller of “Non Sequitur” managed to make stunningly spot-on predictions about the Reubens, which were held last night in Boston.   This is kind of inside-baseball humor, but, in both cases, they kept it generic enough for a […]

A vignette of coastal life from Non Sequitur.Wiley Miller has been living on the stern and rockbound coast of Maine for about a dozen years now, but, given that he moved there from the stern and rockbound coast of Santa Barbara, he’s probably seen french fries filched several times.People say that pigeons are “rats with […]

Nobody in the business does observational humor quite like Jimmy Johnson. The artwork in Arlo & Janis is perfectly – perfectly – wedded to the deadpan observations that are key to its conceptual tone.Arlo’s utter lack of expression in panel 4, particularly in contrast with Janis’s expression of disgust in 3, is like George Burns starting […]

Earlier this week, it was questioned whether a cartoon drawn by Columbus Dispatch editorial cartoonist Jeff Stahler was lifted from a fake headline by Andy Borowitz. According to Jim Romenesko, Jeff’s editors have investigated the cartoon in question and have concluded the timing of the two was a big coincidence.Email from Dispatch editor Ben Marrison […]

Matt Bors raises an old issue with all sorts of new implications.Victims of sexual assault have always faced the daunting prospect of proving a crime took place. Barring bruising, scratches and other signs of a physical fight, much of the evidence is based on an interaction often conducted without third party witnesses.In this case, while […]

The Cartoonists Rights Network International has awarded its Courage in Editorial Cartooning award to Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwarul Haque, better known as Zunar, according to Tom Spurgeon. A ceremony will be held on July 7 in Florida.Tom writes:Zunar plans to be in St. Petersburg, Florida for the event, and I believe is taking the group […]

Tom Racine has posted his latest podcast with interviews with Soup to Nutz creator Rick Stromoski and Tundra marketing guru Bill Kellogg.

Cartoonist Jeff Danziger (68) with a salute to Bob Dylan which I assume editors got in time to run yesterday though it only went on-line this morning.A college friend noted the landmark on Facebook and I remarked that, the funny thing is, it doesn’t seem that old to me anymore. And another from that cohort […]

Fort Knox cartoonist Paul Jon is commemorating Memorial Day this year by creating a story-line to honor the civilians that supported their country on the home front. The story-line began yesterday and will introduce the Wesley Knox character to the “Rosie the Riveters” – women who built ships during WWII while most men were serving […]

Markos “kos” Moulitsas, the founder of the leading liberal blog Daily Kos, announced that he has added Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore to the weekly line up. Mark joins Dan Perkins (aka Tom Tomorrow), Jen Sorensen, Matt Bors and Eric Lewis in the weekly rotataion. Mark’s work appears on Thursdays.Kos writes:I’ve long dreamed of bringing […]

The accusation of plagiarism has raised it’s ugly head and is looking at Columbus Dispatch editorial cartoonist Jeff Stahler. According to Jim Romenesko, a headline by Andy Borowitz ran last Thursday stating, “New Study Finds iPad is Cure for Adultery; Owners ‘Stop Noticing Other People Altogether” is eerily similar to a cartoon Jeff ran three […]

With the big announcement back in February that United Media was turning over syndication operations to Universal Press Syndicate, it was also followed that all the comics found on comics.com would join up with gocomic.com in June. We’re one week away and Universal has announced how it will all work going forward. Starting on June […]

Yesterday Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson and Comic Riffs blogger Michael Cavna were on NPR discussing Richard’s strip and his career.Transcript

I’m a little disappointed that Tom Tomorrow appears to base a six-panel cartoon entirely on one article, but it’s not a short article and the topic is compelling.So is the metaphor, myth or not. I first began reading newspaper archives in my mid-30s. I was dating a woman whose father remarked that, when he became an […]