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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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Obit Updates: Holland, Kirschen, McGinnis

6 days ago | dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg

Skip to content →2025→04→18→Caricature→Comic strips→Editorial cartooning→Illustration→Interviews→Obituary→Profiles→Obit Updates: Holland, Kirschen, McGinnis Brad Holland, an artist whose conceptual work and iconoclastic ways delighted — and often maddened — generations of art directors, died on March 27. He was an early bloomer.
CSotD: Thoughtcrime and Learning to Think

6 days ago | dailycartoonist.com | Mike Peterson

Skip to content →2025→04→18→Comic Strip of the Day→Editorial cartooning→CSotD: Thoughtcrime and Learning to Think We are an information society, and Moudakis is right that disinformation is strewn throughout the world, though you don’t have to hunt for it. It will find you. I’ve often wondered not so much who starts gossip, because growing up in a small town you knew who the gossips were, both the hateful Almira Gulch types and the blowhard Baron Munchausens.
15 Year Old Baldo is 25

1 week ago | dailycartoonist.com | Hector Cantu |Carlos Castellanos |D. D. Degg

Baldo By Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos debuted 25 years ago on April 17, 2000. On Tuesday morning, the Dallas County Commissioners Court honored North Texan Hector Cantú for co-creating the nationally syndicated comic strip Baldo. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the comic, which follows the life of the titular character “Baldo,” a Latino teenager and his family. This month Elizabeth Myong for KERA News visited Hector Cantú.
New Yorker Holy Week Cartoon - “It is Downright Offensive”

1 week ago | dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg

Skip to content →2025→04→17→Gag cartooning→Magazine cartoons→New Yorker Holy Week Cartoon – “It is Downright Offensive” The New Yorker magazine has just managed to insult Christians and Jews alike with a cartoon depicting the Last Supper in its April 14, 2025, issue. It’s tone-deaf. It’s outrageous. It probably earned Sacks a pretty penny. It’s not funny.
CSotD: Mistakes, Misunderstandings & Lies

1 week ago | dailycartoonist.com | Mike Peterson

Skip to content →2025→04→17→Comic Strip of the Day→Editorial cartooning→CSotD: Mistakes, Misunderstandings & Lies Let’s start with the low-hanging fruit before we tackle more complex issues. Dear Leader has had another physical, and, while Telnaes suggests that you never know what you’re going to find when you look under the hood, we have once again heard nothing but good news.
Rarities: The Cartoon Factory Ltd, A Comic Strip Syndicate - Part 1

1 week ago | dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg

Skip to content →2025→04→16→Comic history→Comic strips→Syndicates→Rarities: The Cartoon Factory Ltd, A Comic Strip Syndicate – Part 1 In 1980 John Michael Pugh, Susanne M. Pugh, and David K. Batsche, all of Mason, Ohio, joined together to form a syndicate to distribute comic strips to weekly and semi-weekly newspapers. In pursuit of that goal they began soliciting comic strip and panel submissions from cartoonists. By mid-1981 The Cartoon Factory, Ltd.
CSotD: Walking the Daily Minefield

1 week ago | dailycartoonist.com | Mike Peterson

Skip to content →2025→04→16→Comic Strip of the Day→Editorial cartooning→CSotD: Walking the Daily Minefield Jen Sorensen gets more out of four panels than anyone else in the business, and this gut-clencher is as accurate a portrait of the moment as you’re likely to see. Life does go on. Life has to go on. But the veneer of normalcy is wearing thin. At the dog park, we talk about an outbreak of ticks and the likelihood of this being a bad year for them, but that conversation is brief.
Ann Telnaes: Press Freedom Talk

1 week ago | dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg

Skip to content →2025→04→15→Editorial cartooning→Events→newspapers→Speaking Engagements→Ann Telnaes: Press Freedom Talk ‘I believe that editorial cartoonists are vital for civic debate and have an essential role in journalism’Political cartoonist Ann Telnaes was the featured speaker at the annual Press Freedom Lecture in The Hague on April 14. The Press Freedom Lecture is an initiative of the Press Freedom Day Committee.
CSotD: Conceptual Variety Pak

1 week ago | dailycartoonist.com | Mike Peterson

Skip to content →2025→04→15→Comic Strip of the Day→Comic strips→CSotD: Conceptual Variety Pak Wikipedia confirms my hunch that Lucky Charms was the first cereal to start adding candy. My skepticism over the move is likely because I was 14 when they were introduced and so somewhat above the fray. Our mother had a rule that we could only have two cereal boxes open at a time: One sugared, one plain. Granted, a box of Wheaties lasted longer than a box of Cocoa Puffs.
Monday with Miss Cellany

1 week ago | dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg

Skip to content →2025→04→14→Books→Cartoonist's Cartoonists→Comic Art→Comic Books→Comic history→Comic strips→Graphic Novels→Illustration→Monday with Miss Cellany Heritage Auctions will be putting up for bid a very early Calvin and Hobbes comic strip “inscribed to artist Jim Borgman and his family” by cartoonist Bill Watterson, who also hand-colored it, in a June 26, 2025 event.