With FurBabies, Talk Talk Talk, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Cathy, Pearls Before Swine, FoxTrot, and a detour to the sports page. FurBabies Returning Nancy Beiman last month decided to take a sabbatical from her daily FurBabies comic strip. The pause is lasting less than expected. From Nancy’s Substack: I’m bringing the strip back on […]
Garry Trudeau didn’t plan on being a cartoonist. But he quickly became one of the most influential cartoonists in modern cartooning with his comic Doonesbury. Launched in 1970, Doonesbury quickly became a must-read for fans, politicians, and journalists. In the new Trudeau biography, Joshua Kendall writes, “at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television […]
In the Denis Kitchen, the MADness of Tom Richmond, a Jules Feiffer rarity, the last Scott Adams obituary, and Stephan Pastis as prophet. Publisher, Editor, Free Speech Advocate, and Cartoonist Ruben Bolling reviews Denis Kitchen‘s interview with Kim Munson at The Society of Illustrators. Kitchen has had a fascinating and extensively influential career. He started […]
Was distracted by some other projects lately and fell behind on opining and reporting comic strip news.New Year New ArtCaroline Cash took on the Nancy comic strip on Thursday January 1, 2026 and in showing Nancy through the ages, or artists if you prefer, nailed her opening show.An Old Year’s Day AnniversaryDecember 31, 2025 marked […]
With Paul Karasik, Karen Evans, Stephan Pastis, Liza Donnelly on Mary Petty, a raft of cartoonists in the Homer Davenport Cartoon Contest, and the Florida Agricultural Department will define “cartoon.”Inkpot AwardsThe Vineyard Gazette reported that local cartoonist Paul Karasik has received an Inkpot Award: “It’s hard to catch me by surprise, but in this case, […]
Our look at the recent fourth wall comics kinda sorta started 15 years ago as Petey Otterloop spent the summer of 2010 at Cartoon Camp. Those strips have been showing up in Andrews McMeel Syndication’s Cul de Sac reruns during this July (starting here on the GoComics site). But this weekend saw a few comic […]
Ever get so absorbed in your work that you forget to eat? That’s nothing compared to best-selling author and cartoonist Stephan Pastis who told me, “ I kid you not, when I’m coming out of a writing session, when I walk out the front door of the studio, I don’t always do it, but I will […]
Good Timing? Bad Timing? The above Pearls Before Swine appeared two days after the announced death of Pope Francis. Some, who know nothing of lead times, took it as a swipe at that passing. Others took for what it was – just a case of timing. I agree with Stephan Pastis about obituary cartoons but […]
DD Degg has the full roundup of Reubens winners here, but I thought I’d provide a taste of times they’ve appeared in Comic Strip of the Day. Maria Scrivan actually won for greeting cards, but her line and sense of color give her panel, Half Full, a greeting card feel, and I have a feeling that […]
After yesterday’s rant about cartoonists who don’t leap into action, Clay Bennett nails one that reminds me that some things are worth waiting for. This doesn’t erase my impatience with a system in which the response is “But I don’t do a national cartoon until Wednesday.” I continue to believe that political cartoonists need to be […]
Sigh. And here I thought we were going to have a rant-free, look-what-made-me-laff day. And then Hilary Price went and drew this RWO.I’m a fan of dog rescue. But, boy oh boy, it sure is well past the point where cave canem and caveat emptor cross over.I have had Rhodesian ridgebacks for the past 30 […]
The NFL is seriously considering a 15-yard penalty for, as it is explained, use of the N-word. Some commentators are already asking how on earth they plan to police that, which is a worthwhile question, given that some of the most effective trash-talking is done where the refs won’t hear it.Clay Bennett points out something […]
The Team Cul de Sac auction ended last night, raising a total of $47,107, including the auction house’s 19.5% buyers’ premiums, which, by my never-reliable calculations nets out to about $38,000 going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.Not surprisingly, the portrait of Petey by Bill Watterson was the top item, leaping at the end to […]
With the return of The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists, I’m happy to feature Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis. “Pearls” became one of my all time favorites with its dark and irreverent humor. Apparently I’m not alone, the feature runs in roughly 500 papers.Pearls Before Swine was the fifth syndication attempt for Stephan and according to his […]