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3 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→06→04→Comic Books→Comic history→Comic strips→When The Sunday Funnies Were Wednesday Comics Before the Golden Age comic book size of 7½” by 10½” became the accepted standard there were various sizes.
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4 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→06→03→Magazine cartoons→Off topic→OT: New Guardians of The Pulps From Jason Sanford’s Substack: For months there have been rumors in the science fiction and fantasy genre that the traditional “big 3” print magazines – Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Fantasy and Science Fiction – were being purchased by new owners. Confirmation of this has now appeared on the websites of Asimov’s and Analog, as first reported by Amazing Stories.
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4 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→06→03→Comic strips→King Features→newspapers→Missed It: Paxton Went With KFS While we noticed that the Gannett, Lee, McClatchy, Advance, Horizon, PostMedia, and Wicks newspaper groups all unified their comics pages across the lines, with some signing exclusively with one syndicate or another, we missed following up on the Paxton Media Group signing with King Features at the time change from 2024 to 2025.
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5 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→06→02→Cartoonist's Cartoonists→Documentary→Editorial cartooning→A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant (A Documentary) Saturday, June 14 (2025) will see the world premiere of the documentary film by Bill Banowsky at the DC/DOX Film Festival of A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant. Patrick Oliphant was a giant slayer, bravely taking on presidents, popes and the American corporate class with his mighty pen.
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5 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→06→02→Cartooning→Controversies→Editorial cartooning→How-to→Illustration→Newspaper industry→AI as Cartoonist’s Assistant As print continues its decline, a new challenge has emerged for this workforce: the rise of AI image generators. The first major text-to-image models were released back in 2022 and quickly ignited debates about copyright infringement and labor displacement among illustration communities.
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6 days ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→06→01→Comic strips→Comics Kingdom/King Features→GoComics→Web Sites→GoComics Short Sheeting Readers While GoComics has developed a habit of not including the black plate on a Sunday strip or two this year since their Great Reset, that oversight is usually corrected within hours or at least before the day is over. What continues to irritate me is their refusal to post the complete Sunday of a lot of their comics.
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1 week ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→31→Editorial cartooning→Events→It is Pat Bagley Day in Salt Lake and Pat Celebrates by Retiring Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has proclaimed May 31, 2025 Pat Bagley Day! A bittersweet occasion as news breaks that Pat Bagley will be retiring from his staff position at The Tribune. Join The Tribune staff to celebrate the work and career of Pat Bagley.
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1 week ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→31→Anniversaries→Books→Cartoonist's Cartoonists→Comic history→Comic strips→Spring Peanuts Shells A roundup of Peanuts items from its 75th anniversary year. For 75 years, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, Lucy, Pigpen and the rest of the gang have been a part of nearly everyone’s life in all corners of the world. Consumer products have played a pivotal role in the evolution and awareness of the Peanuts brand practically since day one.
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1 week ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→30→Comic history→Comic strips→A Little Seltzer Down Your Pants (Comic Strips) I began my comic strip reading with Comics Kingdom today and Shoe was one of the first ones to make an impression. The psychiatrist was good, but the sofa and the Perfessor lounging across it struck me as a great bit of cartooning by Ben Lansing. I had then decided that that issue was, to borrow a phrase, The Comic Strip of the Day.
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1 week ago | 
dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→05→30→Cartooning→Comic Books→Comic strips→Discussion→Editorial cartooning→Interviews→Magazine cartoons→Magazines→A Little Song, A Little Dance (Cartoonists) Guilford College’s Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR) program is receiving more national recognition. Only this time the attention is coming from an unexpected source: a comic strip.
