With Frank Stack, David Oskow, Peter Kuper, Jeff Koterba, Adam Zyglis, Rick McKee, and Daryl Cagle. Frank Stack, NY Times Obituary Apparently The New York Times didn’t have an obituary for Frank Stack “in the can.” A month after Stack’s passing we finally get a notice of death from the paper of record by Michael […]

A roundup of good tidings about comic strip and magazine cartoonists feauring Wayno®, Lincoln Peirce, Sy Barry, Liza Donnelly, Gideon Smiley, Harry Bliss, and cartoonists from The Saturday Evening Post of the 1950s and 1960s. Wayno’s Reuben Portfolio As noted here Wayno® is a finalist for this year’s Silver (divisional) Reuben as Best Newspaper Panel […]

Sour Grapes is new at GoComics, sour grapes is an old story with newspapers, The Singh Brotherhood vexes the olde and the new Phantom, Henry Barajas presents good trouble, bad trouble for Scott Adams and revolutionary trouble with Sam Adams, MAD memories with John Ficarra and Gerry Gersten, and Keith Knight about That One Black […]

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 […]

The Daily Cartoonist wishes the wonderful cartoonist and caricaturist Gerald Scarfe a happy 90th birthday! Artist Gerald Scarfe, born on June 1, 1936, joins our Senior Strippers Club.From the Gerald Scarfe homepage: Born in London in 1936, Gerald’s career has spanned more than 60 years. He established himself as a satirical cartoonist working for Punch […]

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 […]

Alan Dunn architectural cartoonist; Brian Fies graphic medicine artist, U of Missouri cartoon archives.Alan Dunn Architectural CartoonistLast year we noted a Gabriele Neri article for Architectural Record about cartoons relevant to that magazine and the profession it spotlights. There was a note mentioning New Yorker cartoonist Alan Dunn. Little did we suspect that Neri was […]

Featuring George Gant, Gerald Vreden and Hakim Rafai, Mason Mastroianni, Howie Noel, Kieran Castaño, Paul Noth, and Bill Schorr.The Glyph AwardsThe East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) has announced the winners of their Glyph Awards, honoring “outstanding achievements in comics made by, for, and about people of color.” George Gant, the Beware of […]

The Bryn Mawr-New Yorker Connection Cartoonist Maggie Larson contributed a cartoon to her alma mater’s Bryn Mawr Bulletin and they included a brief profile and an addendum noting Bryn Mawr past cartoons in The New Yorker. Letting Go Jonny Manning for the BBC tells of Peter Hansen thinning his comics collection. Many children collected comic […]

Roz Chast, Rhode Island School of Design ’77 PT, is honored with an honorary doctorate from her alma mater. From Roz: Very excited to have received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from RISD, my alma mater, today. I had a complicated feeling about art school but absolutely no regrets about going there. I met […]