Have you heard about the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning? The first one was held last September, and I’m pleased to hear that they’re aiming to keep it going this year. Festival director, Anne Hambrock has just put word out with some of the details about this year’s festival which takes place September 27th through 29th. They’ve got an impressive... Read More »

Sunday is Earth Day, which is one of our favorite holidays here at DailyINK! In April, 2008, a whole slew of King Features cartoonists got together to commemorate Earth Day with themed comics just for the occasion. While it’s not an “official” event, several of our cartoonists continue to pay homage to Mother Earth with some just-for-Earth-Day... Read More »

VINTAGE MADNESS has ended, so we are now back to our regularly scheduled programming. I recently came across a historical timeline featuring HI AND LOIS, the final winners of VINTAGE MADNESS. The timeline was created in 1984 by Dik Browne and shows what Mr. Browne saw as milestones from the Eisenhower to Reagan years. He hadn’t considered computers... Read More »

I hope you’re already a faithful reader of Terry and Patty LaBan’s EDGE CITY comic strip, and you’ve been following the current storyline. If not, I recommend you head over to the past week of archives and catch up real quick – it’s about to get really good. Terry and Patty began a three-week-long storyline about remembering the Holocaust,... Read More »

Fans of EDGE CITY may have noticed that the usually-lighthearted comic strip has taken a turn for the more serious this week, with a storyline featuring young Colin Ardin as he talks with his father, Len, about the Holocaust, and what he learned in his religion class. Next Thursday, April 19, is Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Terry and... Read More »

Dear Faithful Readers, It’s all over. The day of days is here. No more balloting. No more overworked basketball metaphors. The funny Flagstons of HI AND LOIS scraped out a victory over JUDGE PARKER in a really close finish! Dik Browne’s HI AND LOIS of the 1950’s now joins DailyINK’s Vintage lineup, thanks to all of you voters who... Read More »

This week’s BLEEKER is really fun. Jonathan Mahood takes his characters to a National Robotics Week event – the usual mayhem ensues. What’s that you ask? Why take the BLEEKER cast to a National Robotics Week event? Glad you asked. It so happens that Jonathan’s robot dog, Bleeker is the official spokes character of National Robotics Week. And... Read More »

We’d like to extend our warmest holiday wishes to those of you who are celebrating Easter and/or Passover this weekend! Here at DailyINK, we’ve been feeling nostalgic for egg hunts and the time we tried to color our hair with the egg coloring dye (hint: bad idea).  So we thought, hey, wouldn’t it be fun to make our own egg-decorating kit this... Read More »

Well, the poll results are in and we have a real surprise victory. Ron Paul beat Mitt Romney! Well, that’s an April Fool’s joke. But what’s not a joke is that in our VINTAGE MADNESS election, THIMBLE THEATER lost to JUDGE PARKER! The one-eyed sailor just didn’t have the spinach to beat the bold jurist. The votes have been tabulated,... Read More »

A week ago yesterday marked the end of a very special era for the great PRINCE VALIANT comic strip. March 25th was the last VAL featuring the art of Gary Gianni. I am personally sad to see him go – I have a real fondness for Gary’s work. He gave the good prince such amazing treatment during the years he carried the pen and ink. Flip through the... Read More »