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  Rising to a point of personal privilege, I’m dealing today with Jeff Danziger’s memoir of his time in Vietnam despite the one disappointment, that it is only minimally illustrated by one of my favorite political cartoonists. I have been spoiled by the in-depth WWII artwork featured in “Yank, the Army Weekly,” but those illustrators were sent with pads and pencils to record the war at the time. Danziger had other things on his plate while in-country and wasn’t a cartoonist yet anywa...

The Daily Cartoonist is one of the fastest growing community and news blogs for professional cartoonists. Publication focuses on newspaper cartooning (comic strips and editorial cartooning), webcomics, movies and animation, and magazine gag cartoonists. TDC is published Monday through Friday (and occasionally on the weekends).

In a way I got to feel that the way [Lee Falk] tried to minimize my impact on the strip every turn he could find. I began to get more and more turned off to him. I tried my best to be pleasant with him and tried to look away at some of the things he did behind my back, some pretty sneaky, but I just, I found out about him and I let my lawyer know what it was about and he said, “we’ll just have to stay more wary of it” you know. But never the less it never quite affected me financially, bu...

This Juxtaposition at GoComics struck me today not just because two cartoonists played with the same concept, but because it’s a pair of evergreen gags. Which is not the same as a stolen gag, the difference being that Superman is such a widely parodied topic that we don’t expect earth-shattering originality, and I say that with confidence, given that it’s May 5th and so yesterday we were assailed with Star Wars gags, most of which were comfortably familiar riffs on a Beloved Topic. Superm...

Timing is everything, and I’m in firm agreement with the woman in Christopher Weyant’s cartoon, because the pollen right now is kicking my ass, and maybe putting the mask back on would be a good idea, even though I’ve had both my shots.   Our governor has canceled the mandate, a little prematurely I think, but since most of my interactions are outdoors, it hardly matters. But most stores are still requiring it, so this Steve Kelley (Creators) cartoon strikes home. It’s some tribute t...

Matt Bors to interview him about his now-in-the-past editorial cartooning career and what he plans for the future. I was motivated from the beginning to say something political about what was going on—originally, that was the Iraq war, and that turned into other things over the years. I had grown tired of it at various points in time, because following the news and social media constantly can be pretty draining. But I was pretty successful and fairly good at it, so it became automatic for me ...

April 16, 2021 Let’s start by saying it could be worse: This isn’t a cartoon but a classic illustration by Elizabeth Butler of The march to Jalalabad began with 4,000 soldiers and 12,000 civilian supporters, but was reduced to badly wounded ass’t surgeon William Brydon, alone on a pony that died of its own wounds shortly after arrival. Granted, the British returned to level Kabul, put their chosen leader back in power and maintain him for about another decade, but there’s a reason...

Plantu, has drawn his last cartoon for Le Monde. As he announced in January, the designer Plantu, who has just celebrated his 70th birthday, has asserted his retirement rights within the daily newspaper. He signs his last drawing in one of Le Monde in the edition published on Wednesday and dated Thursday. We see an Emmanuel Macron not knowing what measures to take to curb the Covid-19 epidemic. “Nothing was easy because it was my last drawing,” he told France 24. For his latest drawing on ...

Except it’s a finale for real people. As I write this, we don’t know if the latest is a random shooting or a disgruntled employee shooting, and, after all, one must keep track. And it isn’t etiquette to shoot any one you’ve been introduced to, even if you are disgruntled, and so, as Alice says, it’s better not to be introduced to people or we shall have no mass murders at all. Though I suppose some sort of limitations on weaponry might also … never mind, I was joking: This is Ameri...