The Herblock Prize Event Ceremony was held earlier tonight. This year’s recipient, Jack Ohman (San Francisco Chronicle) was on hand to receive the prize. Mike Rhode has a brief post with photos over on Comics DC blog. Mike reports that Matt Wuerker, Steve Artkey, Kevin Kallaugher, Joel Pett, Nik Kowsar, Caroline Belefski, among others were […]
The Sunday Shrimp & Grits comic strip by Andy Marlette has been in rerun status for all of May 2026 so far. The dailies have been in reruns since November 2023. Is it too early to call? Shrimp & Grits debuted from Creators syndicate daily and Sunday on May 31, 2021. The strip appeared at […]
He’s only a bird in a gilded cage, Rowe says, but it’s a cage of his own devise, and while, as the dove of peace says, we’ve heard it all before, the telling aspect is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action he uses as a paper at the bottom of that cage.You don’t have to […]
John Freeman at downthetubes reviews a new history book of British comics – it comes with a warning. The rise of AI has led to some bilge-filled books in recent years times, and now it’s becoming the bane of British comic fans interested in exploring the history of our medium. A case in point is […]
For whatever reason this list from the Freedom Forum of seven months ago popped up in my feed recently. The headline says “most famous” while the body of the article merely says “famous political cartoons.”Scott A Leadingham puts his list in chronological order and it is hard to argue with his first and last choices. […]
Anderson offers a contrast that we should not only contemplate now but ready ourselves to deal with if and when the fever breaks. And that had better happen before Big Brother finishes wiping out the parts of history we aren’t supposed to remember.That’s neither a joke nor partisan exaggeration: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of […]
Magazine cartoonist Tom Wuthrich, Who signed as “SWISS,” has passed away. Thomas Frederick (Tom) Wuthrich (“SWISS”) August 28, 1945 – May 14, 2026 From the obituary: Tom was a talented Cartoonist, and was also known by his pen name, “Swiss” of Swisstoons. Tom Wuthrich began writing gags for greeting cards in 1972 and then was […]
With a post title like that we gots to start off with some weirdness. For some reason my first thought on seeing the art style in today’s Baldo was Kim Deitch. Big Daddy Roth came up second. I can only account for that order because of David DeGrand‘s bald Baldo. While yesterday’s Palurdeando brought to […]
By marking the day now instead of tomorrow, I’m likely going to miss quite a few Memorial Day cartoons, but I like the simplicity of Bennett’s political statement. Bennett’s minimalist cartoon reminds us of why we have Memorial Day while, by placing the War Powers Act amid the graves, he mourns the rule of law […]
In “No Laughing Matter?” parts One and Two we see governments repressing cartoons that humiliate their particular political idealism and institutions crumbling under pressure to not publish satire of political, ideological, or religious stripes. (Most extreme is the Charlie Hebdo massacre.)The practice of suppressing cartoons goes back hundreds of years – I was about to […]
Cartoons in school textbooks can stimulate critical thinking about historical and current events. In India the question of cartoons in textbooks being proper has reached that country’s Supreme Court.From Krishnadas Rajagopal at The Hindu: The Supreme Court on Friday (May 22, 2026) asked a former apex court judge-led committee to review cartoons published in National […]
Baron’s cartoon seems a noncontroversial bit of pushback to an ignorant and hateful policy, which is the proper role of political cartooning, but she reports a huge negative response to a simple description of what hate and discrimination do to its targets.Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission does seem misnamed, given that it has declared […]
What happens to satire when press freedom shrinks? Why has satire increasingly become something institutions fear rather than defend? Those are questions Daniel Warner at CounterPunch asks as he notes that the United States has fallen to its lowest score on Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index. Major U.S. media institutions are scaling back […]
The UK Press Awards has named Matt Pritchett their 2026 Cartoonist of the Year at last nights awards ceremony. The Press Awards recognizes the “best of national journalism in the UK.” Matt has been with The Telegraph since 1988.Unfortunately, at the moment, the Press Awards website’s has the wrong description and judges comments for his […]
I’m known to go down a rabbit hole from time to time and many of those threads come from something I saw on social media. Here’s three things I learned this week about Popeye (and billionaires), Marvel Comics Swim Suit Edition, and Will Eisner Mural in Copenhagen.Be a Non-AI Generated PopeyeTom Hientjes‘ reposted a Popeye […]