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The Daily Cartoonist (TDC) began its journey in 2005, originally concentrating on cartooning in newspapers, including comic strips and editorial cartoons. Over time, its scope has expanded to also embrace webcomics, films, animation, and humor cartoons from magazines.

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Ralph Schlegel - RIP

4 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.
A Panoply of Comic Strip Panels

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.
CSotD: Mama didn’t lie, others did

5 days ago | dailycartoonist.com | Mike Peterson

Skip to content →2025→05→11→Comic Strip of the Day→Comic strips→Editorial cartooning→CSotD: Mama didn’t lie, others did I like Bennett’s Mother’s Day cartoon, but I really hate the ongoing inspiration.
A Wayback When Weekend Post - Everywhere Around the World

5 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.
From The Recent Past Come Some Weekend Whatnots

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.
CSotD: Friday Potpourri

6 days ago | dailycartoonist.com | Mike Peterson

Skip to content →2025→05→10→Comic Strip of the Day→Comic strips→CSotD: Friday Potpourri This took me a minute, after which I felt foolish for having not gotten it right away. There is no relationship so genuinely wonderful that Maeve cannot screw it up. Between Friends doesn’t provide a lot of belly laughs; the humor is more a sigh of recognition at human frailty, and regular readers know the inevitable failure to come whenever Maeve falls in love.
Right Decision by Left Cartoonist

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.
NYC Paper Getting Comics Page

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?
CSotD: Margins of Error

1 week ago | dailycartoonist.com | Mike Peterson

Skip to content →2025→05→09→Comic Strip of the Day→Editorial cartooning→CSotD: Margins of Error Yesterday was VE Day except in the United States, where it was “Victory Day For World War II,” according to our president, who celebrated by posting this image of marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, a hill just west of Berlin that was named for German composer Johann Sebastian Suribachi.
A Non-Award Post* with Award-Worthy Cartoonists

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.