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3 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→12→Editorial cartooning→Illustration→Obituary→Ralph Schlegel – RIP Political cartoonist and illustrator Ralph Schlegel has passed away. Ralph Alan Schlegel August 5, 1920 – May 1, 2025Ralph Schlegel was six years old when had his first political cartoon published. He chuckles now remembering, “It was in the Schlegel Weekly Newspaper my family published three times a year.” His father, Henry Schlegel, was a graphic artist for Paterson Parchment Paper.
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4 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→11→Awards→Books→Comic history→Comic strips→A Panoply of Comic Strip Panels The Born Loser, Frank and Ernest, Calvin and Hobbes, Frazz, Bizarro/Bizarfield, Tom the Dancing Bug, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Big Nate, Eye Lie Popeye, Mutts and, of course, more.
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4 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→11→Comic history→Editorial cartooning→Graphic Journalism→A Wayback When Weekend Post – Everywhere Around the World Before the great Carl Giles was employed to entertain and delight readers with his cartoons in the Daily Express, his predecessor at the paper had been just as prodigious in the years preceding him. Sidney Strube first joined the Express in 1912 and would remain one of its superstars for more than 35 years.
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5 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→10→Books→Comic Books→Comic history→Comic strips→Illustration→Magazines→Reuben→From The Recent Past Come Some Weekend Whatnots The New Yorker, The Lockhorns, Flash Gordon, Phil Miller, Jim Steranko. Yaakov Kirschen, and John Donohue are in the spotlight. Since Mike ends with a video I’ll start with a video.
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6 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→09→Cartoonist's Cartoonists→Editorial cartooning→Web Sites→Right Decision by Left Cartoonist Sometimes you just have to up and walk away. When you are a political cartoonist your two sources of wherewithal are brains and hands. When limitations are put on what your mind can think creative people, for their own mental health, must leave. So Ann Telnaes left. Which may be the best decision she has ever made.
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6 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→09→Comic strips→newspapers→NYC Paper Getting Comics Page A New York City paper will be introducing a new comic strip page to its readers next month. No, not the New York Post. And certainly not The New York Times. Instead the monthly The Village Star-Revue will begin running a comic strip page edited by cartoonist Marc Jackson with its June 2025 edition. From John Freeman and downthetubes: Who says newspaper strips are a thing of the past?
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1 week ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→08→Awards→Cartooning→Cartoonist→Editorial cartooning→Events→Exhibits→Interviews→Magazine cartoons→A Non-Award Post* with Award-Worthy Cartoonists May we introduce to you some acts you’ve known for all these years: Steve Brodner, Jack Ohman, Lynda Barry, Paige Braddock, Roz Chast, Harry Bliss; and new cartoonists to the show: Gabrielle Drolet, Edith Zimmerman.
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1 week ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→07→Awards→Cartooning→Comic Art→Comic Books→Comic strips→Editorial cartooning→Gag cartooning→Graphic Novels→Illustration→Magazine cartoons→National Cartoonist Society→Reuben→web comics→NCS Divisional Award Nominees for 79th Annual Reubens The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) has announced the finalists for the twelve 2024 Silver Reubens. All eligible entries in each division were reviewed by multiple NCS chapter juries to determine the top nominees.
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1 week ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→07→Awards→Books→Comic Books→Graphic Novels→Pulitzer Prize→Tessa Hulls, The Other 2025 Pulitzer Winning Cartoonist An affecting work of literary art and discovery whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women – the author, her mother and grandmother, and the experience of trauma handed down with family histories. The Pulitzer Prizes have two divisions – Journalism and Arts & Letters (Books, Drama & Music).
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1 week ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→07→Awards→Editorial cartooning→Pulitzer Prize→Reports on the Ann Telnaes – Washington Post Pulitzer “In a time when the free press is under attack by autocrats in their quest to silence dissent, editorial cartoons and satire are essential for a democracy to survive and thrive.
