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Sequential Molina and Delilah on Humor and Democracy

by D. D. Degg 0 comments 1 hour ago

Cartoonist Pedro X. Molina, famed for his single panel political cartoons, has partnered with DELILAH (Democratic Literacy and Humour) “to create a four-page comic that explains what we currently know about how humour works in a democracy.” DELILAH provides the comic in a variety of versions to read on your preferred device (desktop, laptop, tablet […]

The 10 Cartoonists Who Influenced Will Henry

by Alan Gardner 5 comments 2 hours ago

Like many cartoonists, Will Henry cut his cartooning teeth with a college comic strip. Will’s strip, Roommates, ran in the University of Connecticut student newspaper. Back then, he published his work under his real name Will Wilson.He later went on to create a semi-biographical three times a week comic called Ordinary Bill about a beach […]

CSotD: An Early Humpday This Week

by Mike Peterson 5 comments 6 hours ago

Tauhid Bondia has a brilliant ability to shift between actual kids stuff and kids’ surrealistic imaginary lives, and here’s lovely blend of both. During the week, he’s been probing the real-life horror of Kevin’s mother dating their principal, but now he takes a break in a setting that happens in the kids’ minds, not the […]

European Cartoon Day + Awards Set for November

by Alan Gardner 0 comments 13 hours ago

The European Cartoon Award has announced a Cartoon Day for Nov. 27 at The Hague. The day will include presentations, workshops, a documentary and discussion, and the evening will cap off with the annual presentation of the award for best political cartoon of 2026.Tickets to the event are free, but are required for both the […]

AAEC Letter to Baltimore Sun Re: Use Of Artificial Intelligence

by D. D. Degg 7 comments 17 hours ago

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has penned an open letter to The Baltimore Sun regarding their use of artificial intelligence in the creation of editorial cartoons and other editorial content. Signed by AAEC President Marc Murphy the letter in part states: Whatever the intent, the only message The Sun actually delivered was that it has […]

The Funnies – A Labor of Love

by D. D. Degg 5 comments 21 hours ago

Mike led off today’s CSotD with Red and Rover and so do I, but for a different reason. I was beginning to worry about Basset and the strip after it had been in daily rerun status for the past four weeks – two weeks being the normal vacation time. But today saw Basset return to […]

CSotD: Labored Commentary

by Mike Peterson 14 comments 1 day ago

Red & Rover is set in an indefinite past that lines up fairly well with my own, and when I was a kid, Labor Day was indeed the end of summer vacation. It still is in some places, but other kids have long been back in class by now. I remember a mini-rebellion when my […]

Andy Donato Retires

by D. D. Degg 4 comments 1 day ago

Toronto newspaper artist, art director, and editorial cartoonist Andy Donato is calling it a day after 65 years. Denette Wilford for The Toronto Sun profiles the long career of Donato. Donato began his newspaper career in 1961 with The Toronto Telegram as a staff artist eventually becoming the paper’s art director and occasionally contributing editorial […]

CSotD: Quick Takes

by Mike Peterson 13 comments 2 days ago

We’ll start today’s collection of Quick Takes with a quick take of its own. The idea of Duke joining the Trump administration is exciting, but I’m not sure it can work in Doonesbury’s once-a-week format, which is a shame, but Trudeau’s best work was not done in quick takes. He did extended narratives, building characters […]

Comic Strip Revues with Bonus News

by D. D. Degg 5 comments 2 days ago

For the second week in a row McDonnell has treated us to a new MUTTS, and for the second Friday in a row it is an illustrated proverb by Daniel Ladinsky. I don’t know if these are new or from the book collaboration Ladinsky and McDonnell did several years ago. I also don’t know if […]

Deathwatch II: Print Apocalypse

by D. D. Degg 6 comments 3 days ago

Magazine Deathwatch Piggybacking on the news that The Saturday Evening Post is ending its print edition World of Monsters brings news that Castle of Frankenstein and Scary Monsters will be going to the special order/subscription-only market and no longer be distributed to newsstands. I would see Scary Monsters when browsing the very small magazine section […]

CSotD: Stop Making No Sense

by Mike Peterson 13 comments 3 days ago

What if they gave a big convention, the first party convention held before a midterm, and nobody came?That seems to be the prospect facing Dear Leader. He planned an extravaganza starring himself (naturally) and JD, that would be televised to rally the GOP, and it was going to be fabulous, except it looks like yet […]

Baltimore Sun Going With A.I. Cartoons

by D. D. Degg 5 comments 3 days ago

A year after firing editorial cartoonist Kevin (KAL) Kallagher The Baltimore Sun has found a replacement: Artificial Intelligence. The editorial cartoon for the Sept. 4, 2026 edition of The Baltimore Sun included a note stating it was “Produced using artificial intelligence tools by The Baltimore Sun editorial staff.” Scrolling down The Baltimore Sun’s homepage for […]

Is El-Sayed a Jihadist? A Commie? Right-Wing Cartoonists Can’t Decide

by D. D. Degg 6 comments 3 days ago

For right-wing cartoonists there are inevitable conclusions: If a politician is of the Muslim faith that person is a jihadist. If an officeholder or prospective legislator is a self-proclaimed socialist that equals being a Communist. Really scary for them is if that person was born in The United States and so could rise to the […]

CSotD: Gloria Feminae

by Mike Peterson 10 comments 4 days ago

Emmerson’s double-tribute last week set me to thinking about life and death and whatnot. I already had it in mind, because one of my dearest friends died recently, and her death reminded me of how, in Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana described the death overboard of a crew member on his ship:(A)t […]

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