The Daily Cartoonist

15/01/2026

A pause to discuss how this stuff works -- or doesn't -- with examples from Dave Brown, Fiona Katauskas, John Darkow, Matt Wuerker, Nick Anderson, Paolo Calleri, Randy Bish, Rico Schacherl, Rod Emmerson & Tom the Dancing Bug

If you’ve ever been in a play, you know that after a rehearsal, the director gathers the cast and provides a list of notes on what went well and what could have gone better in hopes of improving the next run-through. Given the death of the paper in a major city, Bish’s use of the […]

15/01/2026

A 1952 - 2023 timeline of the most widely circulated comic strips, but only after Cathy Guisewite, Jonathan Lemon and Paul Trap, Dan Schkade, Manning and Noel's Dick Tracy, Andy Capp, Deon Parson, and a few award shows get their two cents in.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2026/01/14/wednesdays-child-reads-the-funny-papers-news/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newslink

14/01/2026

Iran: Cockpit for Conquest (1951)

14/01/2026

Avoid the Slough of Despond! Take a Hump Day break, along with archie and mehitabel, Bizarro, Brewster Rockit, Free Range, Grand Avenue, Guy Venables, James Gilray, Jim Benton, Non Sequitur, the Norm & the Toonerville Trolley

There’s so much truly awful, frightening stuff going on that taking a day off to be silly seems, well, absolutely necessary. Maybe it’s the residual Yippie in me, but I think that, just as an army marches on its stomach, resistance needs a few laughs to keep everyone from sinking into the Slough...

13/01/2026

Charlie Hebdo Fires Back at Swiss Criminal Complaint With Cartoon Evoking 2015 Attack
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2026/01/13/charlie-hebdo-fires-back-at-swiss-complaint-with-cartoon-evoking-2015-attack/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newslink

13/01/2026

If you know John Cole, reach out and wish him a happy birthday! 🎂 🎉

13/01/2026

Dilbert creator and political influencer Scott Adams has passed away.

Dilbert cartoonist and libertarian influencer Scott Adams has passed away. Scott Raymond Adams June 8, 1957 – January 13, 2026 It is being reported that Scott Adams has lost his fight against cancer. Scott Adams began his adult working career as an office worker for Crocker Bank (1979-1986) and Pa...

13/01/2026

96 years ago Mickey Mouse became a comic strip written by Walt Disney (yes, for all those decades of strips signed Walt Disney there were four months in 1930 he actually worked on them) and drawn by Ub Iwerks and Win Smith (inks). Those 1930 Mickey Mouse comic strips are now in public domain.
https://d23.com/first-mickey-mouse-comic-strip/

13/01/2026

Trump looks to conquer while the world looks on in horror. Come join Dave Whamond, David Low, Dennis Goris, Guy Body, Herbjørn Skogstad, Madam & Eve, Megan Herbert, Ratt, Rob Rogers, Rod Emmerson, Theo Moudakis & Tjeerd Royaards

Madam & Eve has been having fun with Trump’s expansionist ambitions, and why not? As noted before, they have no oil for him to covet and, thanks to his gullible acceptance of toxic, one-sided fables, he’s opened the door to accept a group of faux-refugees that will relieve South Africa of their ...

13/01/2026

"The best cartoonists aren’t side commentary. They’re critics with a sharper tool."
Nik Kowsar dismisses efforts to belittle editorial cartooning as a lesser form of journalism.

Nik Kowsar is an Iranian-Canadian residing in Washington, D.C. and sentenced to prison in absentia for his cartoons about Iranian regimes. His “day job” is as a hydrologist but he recently used his Subtack to praise the art of editorial cartooning and admonishes the practitioners against self-ce...

12/01/2026

Criminal Complaint Filed Against Charlie Hebdo for Cartoon

A criminal complaint has been filed in Switzerland over a Charlie Hebdo “Drawing of the Day” by contributor Éric Salch. The cartoon (below) was published last Friday—the same day of a state memorial service for the victims who perished in the Crans-Montana ski resort New Year’s Eve fire tha...

12/01/2026

Exhibits and Panels in India and Netherlands
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2026/01/11/exhibits-and-panels-in-india-and-netherlands/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newslink