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CSotD: Thank Goodness for a Warm Memory
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Bliss (Tribune) comes to my rescue. It’s been extremely cold here, but it’s also been extremely necessary to get out with the dog and away from the idiots, which sounds like an arrogant judgment, but it’s actually the most polite and charitable. After all, we’re not just seeing our incoming...
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A collection of comic strip and cartoon adjacent news items. John Wagner, A Life in Comics John Wagner is the creator of the infamous British comic character Judge Dredd and wrote the eponymously named comic strip for The Daily MAil from 1981-1998. According to John Freeman: the strip originally...
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Wayback Whensday: Star Hawks and Tarzan
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Ninety-six years ago yesterday was the debut of the daily Tarzan comic strip by R. W. Palmer and Harold Foster adapting Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes story into an illustrated format for newspapers. But we will feature that story in four years when the centennial comes around. Today...
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Dozens of Cartoonists (So Far) Stand With Ann Telnaes
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Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes, late of The Washington Post, has written a note of gratitude for the support shown to her following her standing up to the WaPo’s staff trying to control her cartoon’s subject matter: I wanted to say how much I appreciate and am sincerely touched by all your...
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CSotD: What is Truth, and Does Anybody Care?
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This is one of those “Where do we begin?” moments. The torrent of horrifying, dishonest, ridiculous nonsense that has poured out over the past 48 hours or so seems overwhelming, and I ended up with so many links to so much argumentation that I had to sort through them to come up with a reasonable […]
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I liked Shoe‘s rephrasing of the various end of year holiday greetings that had just past. And, naturally, it is always a pleasure to see David Reddick use his pen (stylus?) to delineate other comic characters than his regular cast. More fabulous comic strip females in today’s Legend of Bill....
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CSotD: Laughter for the Day Aughter
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Wallace the Brave (AMS)‘s Mom decides that a snow day should be a snow day. I feel that education is very valuable, and I suspect she does, too, but snow days are also important and, besides, between the digital divide and power outages, you wouldn’t achieve perfect attendance and the day would...
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79th NCS Divisional Reuben Awards Call for Entries
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The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) announces its annual call for entries for consideration for the 79th NCS Divisional Reuben Awards, recognizing excellence in professional cartooning for work published in 2024. The NCS has announced the opening for submitting for consideration in a baker’s...
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Kenyan Cartoonist Kibet Bull Found Alive
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Kenyan cartoonist and social media influencer Kibet Bull has been found alive after being abducted Dec. 24. Kibet. His brother and four other young men were abducted in the weeks prior in what appears to be a politically motivated kidnappings by President William Ruto’s government. Kibet’s viral...
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Art Spiegelman: No ‘Gaza’ Graphic Novel in Works
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Art Spiegelman is clarifying a news story that first surfaced on Hyperallergic in December that he was working on a new graphic novel about Gaza with Joe Sacco. The Pulitzer Prize winning Maus author says his comment on what he was currently working was twisted from a three page comic into an...
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“Ten years later, Charlie Hebdo is still there”
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Ten years after the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo, the magazine remains defiant Tomorrow marks the 10-year anniversary of the deadly attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The satirical magazine published a special issue today to commemorate the day two brothers began a shooting spree to...
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Ann Telnaes, The Washington Post, and The Streisand Effect
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When colleague Mike Peterson said “it is all over the Internet” regarding the Ann Telnaes-Washington Post news, we didn’t realize that that was understatement. Every newspaper and news website worth their salt has reported on The Post’s refusal to publish the Telnaes cartoon. Go to the news...
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CSotD: It’s January 6. Do you know where your nation is?
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The tribute cartoons marking Ann Telnaes’ courageous departure from the Washington Post continue to appear, and DD Degg has links to several. This one is by Tjeerd Royaards, editor at Cartoon Movement, and that organization has released a statement on the situation which is worth a read, because...
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Miss Cellany Clocks In As Others Check Out
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Allison Garwood & Petunia & Drew, Sarah Anderson & Sarah’s Scribbles, Terry Beatty & Rex Morgan M.D., San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Funnies, Colleen Doran & Dr. Martin’s Dyes, Michael Maslin & The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, Paula Pugh’s Best of 2024, and the Animated 2025. Allison...
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I’ve had enough reality lately, but it’s best to ease your way out of it gently to avoid getting the bends, and Sharon Murdoch’s reality-based take on an old Irish blessing is just what I needed. I hung around with Irish ex-pats for several years and never ran into this blessing except in gift shops. […]
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Editorial Cartoonist Jon Russo Signs with Creators Syndicate
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Creators Syndicate found a conservative political cartoonist to fill the empty left by Bob Gorrell’s retirement. Jon Russo signed with Creators last month/year with his first cartoon appearing there on December 26, 2024. While definitely on the right side of the fence he will not ignore the...
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Tea Fougner, King Features Part
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Yesterday Tea Fougner, Editorial Director of King Features Syndicate (KFS) comics since 2018, posted on her LinkedIn page that she has stepped down from her position at KFS and from the company itself. Tea wrote: Today was my last day at King Features. I was offered a choice between a reduced...
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CSotD: Telnaes is only unemployed, not gone
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We try to avoid duplication and stepping on each other’s toes around here, and by now you’ve likely seen DD Degg’s coverage of Ann Telnaes’ resignation from the Washington Post. And if you haven’t seen his coverage here, you’ve almost certainly seen some coverage because it is all over the...
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Ann Telnaes Quits The Washington Post
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I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now. Cartoonist Ann Telnaes has ended her relationship with The Washington Post. On Telnaes’ Open Windows Substack she goes into detail about why she HAD to do it, and presents the full cartoon that offended the […]
on Sat, 3AM
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My opinion is to stand foursquare behind Michael Cavna, who closed out 2024 with a five part Warped statement, starts here, on the dangers we face without political cartoonists and the dangers political cartoonists face from authoritarian governments. My other opinion is that Andrews McMeel...
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Got distracted by the changing of the year stuff. Now we’ll catch up on some recent comic strip news. Here’s something that is news to me. Apparently The Arizona Daily Star prints an extra page of comic strips as a bonus to the Lee Enterprises regular half page. I had assumed the extras were...
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As Gary Varvel (Creators) points out, the terrorist attack in New Orleans has every American praying, or, at least, it has every American who prays praying. And Clay Bennett (CTFP) says that the ISIS attack has taken the happiness out of the New Year. While Walt Handelsman, who lives in the...
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Bob Gorrell – An Illustrious 50 Year Career – Illustrated
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Bob Gorrell last November announced he was retiring after a half century of cartooning. For almost 50 years, I’ve had the incredible privilege of foisting my personal opinions on the innocent public through my editorial cartoons. Now is the perfect time to retire from that and move on to other...
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Spiegelman and Sacco Team Up for Gaza Graphic Novel; Sacco Calls for Biden Arrest
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Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and comics journalist pioneer Joe Sacco are teaming up for a new graphic novel about Gaza. Art mentioned the collaboration during the premiere of a documentary film about his career during the DOC NYC festival. The collaboration is a natural...
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Even More of The Best of 2024 pt5
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Missed a day so here’s a bucket load of 2024 in review cartoons. Al.com and JD Crowe has six dozen Alabama-centric, but nationwide extremist, Drawing 2024 to a close. Here it is: The full, final list of the Top Ten Tom the Dancing Bugs of 2024. The top ten were determined by a rigorous, scientific, […]
on Jan 2
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CSotD: The Nation Normally Seen at This Time …
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Dave Whamond offers a thought-provoker that would make a good prompt for a government seminar. The Founders took steps to prevent an immigrant from heading the government, but they assumed a nation guided by the votes of responsible citizens. They made no law about race, gender, age or wealth of...
on Jan 2
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2024 Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed – Part Two: Detours and Deviations
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This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed) 2024 DETOURS & DEVIATIONS Some changes to U. S. newspaper comic strips and panels in 2024. But...
on Jan 1
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2024 Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed – Part Three: The Dearly Departed
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This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed) 2024 – THE DEARLY DEPARTED These U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists, and selected others,...
on Jan 1
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CSotD: Pop’s New Hairbrush & Other Cautions
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Jeremy Banx’s old couple welcomes in the New Year with the same attitude I did, having seen it several times. I just went to bed at my usual time and the calendar managed to do its thing without my assistance, as it often has. So no cartoons today about people falling asleep before the ball […]
on Jan 1
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2024 Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed – Part One: Debuts and Departures
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This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: Dearly Departed) 2024 DEBUTS These comic strips and panels began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2024. BREAK OF DAY by...
on Dec 31
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CSotD: It’s International Barry McGuire Day
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Not sure either event is particularly “inspiring” except to the wrong people, but Brewster Rockit (Tribune) does a good job of choosing the finalists and summing up the year, and I think he made the right choice. The election was like finding out your lover has been cheating on you. On the one...
on Dec 31
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Roundups of the best editorial cartoons of 2024 will be coming quickly as the New Year closes in. The Chattanooga Times Free Press offers a gallery of 2024 Clay Bennett cartoons of the year. The Guardian collects The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2024. Earlier it was local subjects,...
on Dec 31
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Prince Valiant was full of ships yesterday. The Tom Yeates title panel and the big shipping out panel in yesterday’s Prince Valiant was matched by the December 16, 1984 Vintage Prince Valiant page by John Cullen Murphy that Comics Kingdom also issued yesterday. We can only hope, for Arn’s sake,...
on Dec 31
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CSotD: Not a Carpenter, But He Followed One
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Dave Granlund Marc Murphy I’m okaying Granlund and Murphy for the hardhats because, while their cartoons salute his post-presidency Habitat for Humanity work, they do so while praising his other accomplishments, marking his whole life, not just one aspect of it. I won’t, however, feature...
on Dec 30
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More newspapers and websites roll out the best of editorial cartoonists’ commentary from the past year. Who What Why presents Ted Rall. Michael Ramirez at The Las Vegas Review-Journal offers up CARTOONS: A look back. For Voxeurop it was: a real challenge to sum up 2024 with a selection of press...
on Dec 30
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Various items from various places with friends Tom Beland and Nazish Jonathan, Wayno and Dan Piraro, and Mark Evanier and Russell Myers. Checking in with Tom Beland. Tom Beland got some local notoriety as an editorial cartoonist: Beland spent worked as a cartoonist, graphic artist and sometimes...
on Dec 29
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Continuing the Best of 2024 pt2
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Another roundup of the year 2024 in editorial cartoons. The New Orleans Times-Picayune and NOLA.com present Walt Handelsman: 2024 cartoon review of local topics. From The Las Vegas Sun comes Mike Smith: Editorial Cartoons of 2024. Elections in the UK and US brought political upheaval. That was...
on Dec 28
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CSotD: Building an Artificial World
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Let’s start with this depressing cartoon from Jonesy. It might be funny if it were some kind of exaggeration, but it functions as an editorial cartoon that, as editorial cartoons can do, elicits a grim smile of recognition. The speed with which AI is taking over everything has made it impossible...
on Dec 28
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(Re)Draw Pardner – book review
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Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West by William Grady (2024) Nearly 50 years after Maurice Horn’s Comics of the American West we get another book charting “the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond.” By the time comic...
on Dec 27
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CSotD: Where we are, where we’re headed
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Morten Morland offers the most sweeping, and chilling view of things to come, in the way billionaires are lining up to not just pay homage to, but to pay, the incoming president. I’d like to think I’d be just as appalled if a president with whose intentions I agreed were getting all these...
on Dec 27
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So It Begins – Best of 2024 pt1
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From the day after Christmas and into the New Year we will see newspapers’ and websites’ collections of “the year in review” featuring editorial cartoons from the past year chosen by the cartoonists or their editors. Let’s get started: From WhoWhatWhy comes the Best Jon Richards Cartoons of 2024...
on Dec 27
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Kenya Cartoonist Kibet Bull Abducted
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Gideon Kibet (aka Kibet Bull), a university student, social media influencer and cartoonist who’s work has been critical of Kenyan President William Ruto, has been reported missing and is feared to have been abducted. His brother was disappeared four days earlier. Kibet was last seen visiting...
on Dec 27
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CSotD: Dreolín Humor on Boxing Day
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Today is Boxing Day or St. Stephen’s Day or Wren Day (Lá an Dreoilín) or, as I call it, the point when if I haven’t used a cartoon yet it’s probably become irrelevant because they’ve all been about Christmas for the past three weeks. Fiona Katauskas takes an appropriately irreverent and silly...
on Dec 26
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The True Meaning of the Seasonal “A Charlie Brown Christmas”
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Schulz, the man who birthed the lovably hard-luck Charlie Brown, was known to have wrestled with self-doubt. Yet when it came to taking the reins of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in 1965, the “Peanuts” creator was a thinker of unwavering confidence and cool-headed belief, his longtime screen...
on Dec 26
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Cartoonist Stan ‘Mac’ McMurtry Gets Oldie of the Year Award
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The Mail on Sunday’s peerless cartoonist Stan ‘Mac’ McMurtry has been chosen as an Oldie of the Year. Praised for ‘making news pages brighter by putting in a laugh’, 88-year-old Mac was selected for The Oldie magazine’s award, alongside former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, also 88; film director...
on Dec 26
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CSotD: And so this is Christmas
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You’ll note Santa’s helmet at the left. This banner was from 1944, 80 years ago, six months after D-Day and right in the heart of the Battle of the Bulge, which explains the light in the window at the right. The war was also in the heart of most comic strips on Christmas that year. […]
on Dec 26
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Christmas Spirit in Comic Strips
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Christmas with Will Eisner, C. E. Mondfort, Joe Kubert, Walt Kelly, Bill Watterson, and many more. Newspaper cartoonists have been celebrating Christmas since The Nineteenth Century. We, however, will remain a bit closer to our times. In the comic book newspaper insert of the 1940s, commonly...
on Dec 26
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SuprDee Parson, Jack Davis, Bill Watterson, Liz Climo. Plus notable comic strip compilations for 2024 and an animation In Memorial for those we lost in 2024. ANDERSON, Ind. — The bonds and rivalries of three sisters are the focus of a comic strip that is now syndicated in newspapers around the...
on Dec 24
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Saturday’s Alley Oop held out the promise of an actual adventure. Monday’s Alley Oop hasn’t disabused me of that hope. We’ll see. I could very well be wrong, it wouldn’t be a first, but I think last week was the first full week of Slylock Fox dailies that had Scott Underwood co-signing with Bob...
on Dec 24
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Christmas Eve, that is. Not to be confused with the Turgenev novel, though his portrait of over-educated Russian intellectuals dithering around as the rest of Europe explodes in revolution seems sadly relevant at the moment. But we’ll get back to that, and, if we don’t, it will get back to us....
on Dec 24