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The Daily Cartoonist @dailycartoonist.bsky.social · Nov 19
Looking to see who’s here on BlueSky? We’ve complied a list of cartoonists, publications and organizations to help you find people to follow.
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Directory of Cartoonists on Blue Sky
There has been a slow migration away from Twitter/X by many long-time users since Elon Musk acquired it in 2022. The exodus has escalated noticeably after the recent U.S. election. We’ve noticed that ...
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Exhibit Honoring Journalists Killed in Gaza Criticized
The art was created by channeldraw.bsky.social.
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Exhibit Honoring Journalists Killed in Gaza Criticized
An exhibit entitled “Faces of Peace” in the Church of the Holy Spirit (Bern, Germany) is being criticized as anti-Semitic for displaying portraits of journalists killed in Gaza. The artwork was create...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Today's csotd.bsky.social "Sleeping On Duty" featuring slyngstad.bsky.social, mackinnonart.bsky.social, davewhamond.bsky.social, Graeme Keyes, hbtoons.bsky.social, John Deering, cartoonkahuna.bsky.social, Peter Broelman, and @rob-rogers.bsky.social www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...
CSotD: Sleeping On Duty
An expression emerged during Watergate that it wasn’t the crime but the cover-up that doomed Nixon. It mostly came from his defenders, who envisioned a wall between the burglary at the Watergate and e...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Gilded baubles in a Gilded Age. Come join Benjamin Slyngstad, Bruce Mackinnon, Dave Whamond, Graeme Keyes, Harry Burton, John Deering, Paul Duginski, Peter Broelman & Rob Rogers
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CSotD: Sleeping On Duty
An expression emerged during Watergate that it wasn’t the crime but the cover-up that doomed Nixon. It mostly came from his defenders, who envisioned a wall between the burglary at the Watergate and e...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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D.D. Degg's comic page observations:
* Frazz gets lippy
* GoComics doesn't post Sunday title panel
* Serendipity in Red and Rover and Rip Haywire
* Smiles in Rex Morgan M.D.
* Yeates sources original Basilica of St. Stephen
* 2 strips noted the day of infamy
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Classy Comics and Sassy Strips
Back when I was that age corporal punishment in schools was alive and well, at least in the religious school I attended, and a comeback like that would have sent me to the principal’s office for a mee...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Today's news:
* Walt Handelsman’s LAST Cartoon Caption Contest
* Emi Brudge’s Last Olive
* Wikipedia Disses the Gil Thorp Team
* Mike W. Barr Could Use Some Help
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Funny Stuff and Serious Stuff
Walt Handelsman’s LAST Cartoon Caption Contest Walt Handelsman‘s retirement isn’t only the end of his political cartooning, it is also the end of his Caption Contest. NOLA.com announces the last chanc...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Today's csotd.bsky.social "On Beyond Tide Pods" featuring chrisjbaldwin.bsky.social, dylanmeconis.bsky.social, Grand Avenue, John Branch, wileymiller.bsky.social, Pearls Before Swine,
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CSotD: On Beyond Tide Pods
I don’t know that stupidity always wins, but I do know it has the inside track. The fad of biting into detergent pods passed by quickly, but it did happen and was quite a tribute to peer pressure and ...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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On beyond Tide Pods, a flood of smarter legends await. Come join Christopher Baldwin, Dylan Meconis, Grand Avenue, John Branch, Non Sequitur & Pearls Before Swine
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CSotD: On Beyond Tide Pods
I don’t know that stupidity always wins, but I do know it has the inside track. The fad of biting into detergent pods passed by quickly, but it did happen and was quite a tribute to peer pressure and ...
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December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Here is a list of upcoming editorial cartoon contests with deadline dates 👉
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Editoon Awards Calls For Entry
It’s that time of the year again, Thanksgiving is over and all of your Christmas/Hanukah shopping is done, the only thing left to do, other than drawings your daily editorial cartoons, is to go throug...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The latest in comic news
* Tom Toro interviewed about his new book
* New Cathy 50th Anniversary Collection
* 6 Classic Comic Strips Only Baby Boomers Will Remember
* Conversations with Denis Kitchen reviewed
* Hunt Emerson is working on a new memoir
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Cartoonist Chronicles
Featuring Tom Toro, Cathy Guisewite, Tomi Ungerer, Denis Kitchen, Hunt Emerson, and some comics Boomers may remember. Tom Toro: New Book and New Interview Nicole Kinning from GoComics interviews Tom T...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Empty suits in a values-empty world. Come see where polishing gets you, along with Adam Zyglis, Daniel Boris, Dave Brown, Dave Granlund, Dave Whamond, David Squires, Dennis Goris, John Deering, Kal Kallaugher, Michael de Adder & Theo Moudakis
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CSotD: Polishing Up The Handle
In case you missed it, and particularly if you didn’t, FIFA has capitalized on the clear path to success in the United States. On the eve of the World Cup tournament, they guaranteed something or othe...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Today's csotd.bsky.social "Polishing Up The Handle" with adamzyglis.bsky.social, danboriscreates.bsky.social, davewhamond.bsky.social, davidsquires.bsky.social, dennisgoris.bsky.social, kaltoons.bsky.social, deadder.bsky.social, and theomoudakis.bsky.social.
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CSotD: Polishing Up The Handle
In case you missed it, and particularly if you didn’t, FIFA has capitalized on the clear path to success in the United States. On the eve of the World Cup tournament, they guaranteed something or othe...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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2025 European Cartoon Award Finalists Announced. Congratulations to emadhajjaj.bsky.social, tjeerdroyaards.bsky.social, and zehraomerovna.bsky.social.
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2025 European Cartoon Award Finalists Announced
First there was the long list, then the short list, and now finally we get the finalists for the European Cartoon Award. The finalists include: Emad Hajjaj, Zehra Ömeroğlu, and Tjeerd Royaards. The wi...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Christmas sure has changed, except for the parts that sure haven't. Come join Betty, Carpe Diem, Frazz, In the Bleachers, Loose Parts, Speed Bump, the Buckets & They Can Talk
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CSotD: Shifting Perspectives
If I were still editing a kid-written weekly feature, we’d have already had our annual Nutcracker-or-Christmas-Carol discussion. I miss the kids, but I don’t miss trying to cover this pair of mandator...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Today's csotd.bsky.social "Shifting Perspectives" featuring Betty, Carpe Diem, Frazz, In the Bleachers, Loose Parts, Speed Bump, the Buckets, and They Can Talk.
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CSotD: Shifting Perspectives
If I were still editing a kid-written weekly feature, we’d have already had our annual Nutcracker-or-Christmas-Carol discussion. I miss the kids, but I don’t miss trying to cover this pair of mandator...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Editorial cartoonist, sculptor, and painter Ken Crook has passed away
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Ken Crook – RIP
Editorial cartoonist, sculptor, and painter Ken Crook has passed away. Kenneth Erle (Ken) Crook July 13, 1929 – November 30, 2025 Carl McGowan at Newsday is reporting the death of their former editori...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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FranceInfo Releases Finalists for Graphic Journalism Prize
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FranceInfo Releases Finalists for Graphic Journalism Prize
FranceInfo has announced their 10 finalists for their Prix de la bande dessinée d’actualité et de reportage (award for current affairs and reportage comics AKA graphic journalism). The prize has been ...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Walt Handelsman Retiring
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Walt Handelsman Retiring
Editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman has announced through his newspaper that he will retire at the end of this year after a nearly forty-five year career. From Kieth Spera at The Times-Picayune: Puli...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Support Cartoonists Rights and their Giving Tuesday Pledge Drive and get an original cartoon by me...and a tax deduction!

A $75 donation gets you an original (5x7 inches) caricature of Trump doing whatever (within reason) you tell me. Makes a perfect Xmas gift for those suffering from TDS!
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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No cap, seeing henrybarajas.bsky.social flex modern slang in Gil Thorpe is so lit it low-key slaps the timeline. Dude ate and straight-up slayed. We stan fr, bet. 6 7.
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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No cap, seeing henrybarajas.bsky.social flex modern slang in Gil Thorpe is so lit it low-key slaps the timeline. Dude ate and straight-up slayed. We stan fr, bet. 6 7.
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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D.D. Degg's latest comic musings and observations:
🤔 How old are the kids in Crabgrass and Frazz?
😠 GoComics is not adding title panels to Sunday strips
😃 NEA Christmas-themed comic strip ended in 2011, but Breaking Cat News continues the tradition
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Suffer The Little Children and other comic strip things
God Bless The Child That Got Their Own It’s very possible that the ages of the kids in Crabgrass and Frazz has been mentioned before and I never paid attention to it, but I always figured that they we...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Today's Comic csotd.bsky.social "Fighting the Flood" featuring billbramhall.bsky.social, David Horsey, droweafr.bsky.social, Drew Sheneman, John Darkow, Lee Judge, Lisa Benson, mwuerker.bsky.social, Michael Ramirez, andertoon.bsky.social, and Peter Broelman.
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CSotD: Fighting the Flood
It was a pleasant surprise to see Signalgate back in the news yesterday. I thought it was gone and forgotten, but it turns out somebody had been looking into it all this time and now there is a report...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Put on your hip boots and let's fight the flood. Come join Bill Bramhall, David Horsey, David Rowe, Drew Sheneman, John Darkow, Lee Judge, Lisa Benson, Matt Wuerker, Michael Ramirez, Nick Anderson & Peter Broelman

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CSotD: Fighting the Flood
It was a pleasant surprise to see Signalgate back in the news yesterday. I thought it was gone and forgotten, but it turns out somebody had been looking into it all this time and now there is a report...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The Museum of Australian Democracy has named Matt Golding (goldingcartoons.bsky.social) its 2025 Political Cartoonist of the Year
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December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We're well past the point of asking "Why?" and are at the point of "Now what?" Come join Bill Bramhall, Christopher Weyant, David Row, Joe Heller, Kal Kallaugher, Nick Anderson, Pat Bagley, Pedro X. Molina & Randy Bish
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December 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM