Fell cuts through the analysis and legal deconstruction and reminds us that racism is real, which, at heart, is all you really have to know. Some racism is intentional and conspiratorial, like redistricting to keep Black candidates out of office or requiring bogus literacy tests to keep Black citizens from qualifying to vote. But it […]

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 […]

Avery Silfer has been a cartoonist and illustrator for the New Mexico Daily Lobo, the independent newspaper at the University of New Mexico, for a number of semesters. Now she is moving on as graduation nears. Leila Chapa and Paloma Chapa at The Daily Lobo say hail and farewell. For the past year, Daily Lobo […]

A couple months ago the Dubuque, Iowa Telegraph Herald cut its comics pages from one and a half down to one, dropping eight comic strips and panels in the process. Executive Editor Amy Gilligan explained (or here): As I observe other papers, I don’t see a lot of them running more than a page of […]

Cartoonist Anthony Haden-Guest sues socialite to get art back; NYC’s Museum of Modern Art to display their animation cels collection; the MAD King and the MAD Mascot; ASIFA-East Awards for 2026 includes the inaugural Cartoon Brew Award. Anthony Haden-Guest Sues to Get His Cartoons Back Peter Senzamici reports for The New York Post that cartoonist […]

Jack Ohman at The Herblock Prize PresentationFrom Bruce Guthrie comes 150+ still photos of Jack Ohman receiving The Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress event from May 26, 2026. Mr. Guthrie has a photographic archive of Herblock Prize presentations going back 12 years featuring Jen Sorensen, Kevin Kallagher, Mark Fiore, Ruben Bolling, Ward Sutton, […]

I met my newest granddog yesterday, a little King Charles who is very friendly and has the exuberance of a six-month-old. My own dog, who is not much bigger but is about five years older, at one point told him to cool his jets, which is how puppies learn, but he is a delight and […]

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 […]

I’ve cited this anecdote about Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator, in the past, but it’s been awhile since we’ve found ourselves confronted with quite so many “false facts.” Today we call them “alternative facts” and they have become fundamental to our current reality.The latest bit of alternative reality is, in fact, true: The Reflecting Pool on […]

Comics scholar and researcher John Lent has passed away.John Anthony Lent September 8, 1936 – May 16, 2026 From The International Comics Art Forum: Dr. John A. Lent is one of the leading proponents of the international study of comics, and of comics research within academia. Having lectured and taught on comics and mass communications […]

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 […]

Golding channels Groening with this commentary on the upcoming 250th celebrations. I have been hesitant to comment because, while I’m astonished that anybody watches some of the braindead programming on TV, apparently they do.It seems elitist to mock people for not having your own refined sense of style, but that’s another chance to say, “Seems,” […]