A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 28, 2022, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Mickey's Copyright Adventure: Public Will Soon Own 'Willie'.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/business/mickey-mouse-disney-public-domain.html

These Classic Characters Are Losing Copyright Protection. They May Never Be the Same.

By Sopan Deb

Jan. 1, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/arts/public-domain-mickey-mouse.html

Chapter 142: IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode sixty-eight | Christopher Cantwell, part two

Jan 1, 2024

https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/of-course-i-can-sir

'Steamboat Willie' is now in the public domain. What does that mean for Mickey Mouse?

Neda Ulaby

Morning Edition January 1, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/01/1221606624/mickey-mouse-public-domain-disney

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2024/01/20240101_me_steamboat_willie_is_now_in_the_public_domain_what_does_that_mean_for_mickey_mouse.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1221606624

Mickey Mouse is finally in the public domain. Here's what that means.

The earliest 'Steamboat Willie' Mickey is now public — along with Minnie, Tigger and works by Keaton, Lawrence and Woolf

By Michael Cavna

January 1, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/01/01/mickey-mouse-public-domain-steamboat-willie/

Peanuts and the public domain

Nat Gertler

The AAUGH Blog January 1, 2024

https://aaugh.com/wordpress/2024/01/peanuts-and-the-public-domain/

Will 2024 Be the Year of Snoopy Girls?

He's the multigenerational icon that feels like home

By Sydney Gore

December 21, 2023

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/will-2024-be-the-year-of-snoopy-girls

Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog lead a 2D turn in entertainment; Metaverse be damned, games and movies are adopting a retro look [animation]

Oct 12th 2023

https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/10/12/mario-and-sonic-the-hedgehog-lead-a-2d-turn-in-entertainment

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

The formerly local Al Goodwyn's latest newsletter

Goodwyn Cartoons 7/19/23

Monday, May 15, 2023

WaPo doesn't understand comics 3: This is an editorial cartoon? [UPDATED]

With all due respect to Ellis Rosen, whom I don't know at all, why is this on the editorial page of the Washington Post. Is this a political cartoon? If so what does it mean?

I'm absolutely serious about asking what does it mean. One might have expected to find a cartoon like this in the New Yorker 35 or 40 years ago, but one expected nonsensical comics from them.

The Post made an extremely large mistake by not appointing Ann Telnaes to replace Tom Toles (or Herblock even IMHO), and they continue to compound it by running works like this.

For their home cartoonist, we should have someone that lives here. Michael de Adder is a perfectly competent cartoonist, but he's a Canadian who stayed in Canada and works on a contract. He's not a WaPo employee. To add to the disrespect they show him, the editor runs his cartoons smaller than this one is, and his color cartoons with extensive cross-hatching are run in black and white, so they are extremely muddy and sometimes unreadable. We deserve our own local cartoonist, and one who is treated with respect, in the great tradition of Herblock.

5/16/23: formerly local editorial cartoonist Al Goodwyn wrote in to say that a version of the cartoon had a title of "Monumentally Exhausted" - here it is in the online version, which I don't understand any better. Hmmm, the link calls it "Washington Chaos" which isn't any better as a title.

Finally, just to be clear, I know and like Michael de Adder, and I like his work when it's printed in color and larger than 4x4." He's still not a Washingtonian, even a transplanted one like Block, Toles, Telnaes (and me). Also, I'm sure Ellis Rosen is a fine cartoonist - as I said, I don't know him. I just didn't think the Post's editorial page was the place for this cartoon. As a filler on another page, which newspapers used to do, I would have glanced at it, perhaps smiled, and moved on. Adding to this blog on a computer, and not writing it on my phone like I did last night, I can see that he actually IS a New Yorker cartoonist. Good for him. I subscribe to that print magazine too, but I'm way behind on reading it.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Al Goodwyn's cartoons

The formerly local cartoonist has a new set online.

Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Al Goodwyn cartoons newsletter is online

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Al Goodwyn's latest

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January 17, 2023

Friday, December 30, 2022

Al Goodwyn's year in review

2022 Year in Review

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Monday, December 05, 2022

Al Goodwyn's latest cartoon newsletter

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December 5, 2022

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Al Goodwyn's latest editorial cartoons

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Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Former local political cartoonist Al Goodwyn's latest

Goodwyn Cartoons 11/1/22

Monday, May 30, 2022

Formerly local cartoonist Al Goodwyn in today's Post

Thursday, April 07, 2022

Cartoons from former local Al Goodwyn for early April

Goodwyn Cartoons 4/7/22

http://xp4zn.mjt.lu/nl2/xp4zn/5ykk5.html

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Clay Jones buries his conservative COVID-denying colleagues

by Mike Rhode

In his cartoon from yesterday "Urine Trouble," Clay planted a bunch of conservative cartoonists, many of whom are anti-vaxxers or covid denyers, under a bunch of tombstones. I see Scott "Dilbert" Adams, Henry Payne, Al Goodwyn, Mike Lester, Branco, Chip Bok, Glenn McCoy, Gary McCoy, Tom Stiglich, Rivers, Lisa Benson, David Hitch, Dick Wright, Bob Gorrell, Steve Kelley, Gary Varvel, Dana Summers, and of course, Ben Garrison.

Christopher Key is not a cartoonist, but a nut who screams at people about being the vaccine police, and is the focus of Jones' blog post.

When asked for a comment, Clay addressed his technique, "The reason I made the lettering on the headstones faint is that I didn't want to make it the focus of the cartoon. It's supposed to be more like Easter eggs, but I struggled with making them faint while also making them clear enough to see." About the content, he said, "I only aimed at anti-vaxxers or those who have politicized the pandemic. I excluded conservatives like Scott Stantis, Michael Ramirez, and Rick McKee because I've seen them promote the vaccines and ridicule the lunatics."

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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/29/21

Goodwyn, Al. 2021.

Best Of 2021.

Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons (December 28): http://xp4zn.mjt.lu/nl2/xp4zn/5y340.html

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 4: MICHAEL RAMIREZ

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 13, 2021

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2021/12/political-cartoons-part-4-michael.html

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 5: MIRKO ILIĆ

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 18, 2021

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2021/12/political-cartoons-part-5-mirko-ilic.html

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 6: ANN TELNAES

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 26, 2021

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2021/12/political-cartoons-part-6-ann-telnaes.html

Joel Pett offers some 2020 hindsight of a year to forget

By Joel Pett | Marcus Dorsey

Lexington Herald Leader December 28, 2020

https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/joel-pett/article248130085.html

Cartoonist Phil Hands unveils his 2021 jeer in review

Phil Hands | Wisconsin State Journal

Dec 27, 2021

https://madison.com/opinion/columnists/cartoonist-phil-hands-unveils-his-2021-jeer-in-review/article_9ee9027e-dba4-5adb-91a7-881031d22ed3.html

USA TODAY cartoonist Mike Thompson's 2021 in review

Dec. 27, 2021

https://www.sj-r.com/picture-gallery/opinion/2021/12/27/2021-funny-cartoon-review-today-cartoonist-mike-thompsons-2021-review/9024561002/

The Year in Cartoons: Michael De Adder

Editorial cartoonist Michael De Adder shares the insightful cartoons he is most proud of from 2021.

Toronto Star Dec. 27, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

The Year in Cartoons: Theo Moudakis

Editorial cartoonist Theo Moudakis looks back at the events that acted as his muse in 2021.

Toronto Star Dec. 28, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

The Year in Cartoons: Michael De Adder

Editorial cartoonist Michael De Adder shares the insightful cartoons he is most proud of from 2021.

Toronto Star Dec. 27, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

The Year in Cartoons: Theo Moudakis

Editorial cartoonist Theo Moudakis looks back at the events that acted as his muse in 2021.

Toronto Star Dec. 28, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

Matthew Vaughn on 'The King's Man,' the Future of 'Kingsman' and Reuniting with Henry Cavill

Brian Davids

December 24, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/kings-man-director-matthew-vaughn-sequel-streaming-1235067371/

T. Mark Taylor, Artist and Toy Designer for He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dies at 80

Both franchises went on to launch animated series as well as movies, while Taylor's toy work was featured in documentaries.

Associated Press December 26, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/t-mark-taylor-dead-artist-toy-designer-for-he-man-and-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1235067478/

Why Dark Horse Embraced a Sale to a Swedish Gaming Giant

The deal, expected to close in 2022, gives the publisher financial stability while offering owner Embracer access to new IP.

Graeme McMillan

December 28, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dark-horse-comics-sale-embracer-1235067627/

How Smithers Came Out

The father-son writing duo Rob and Johnny LaZebnik teamed up (with an assist from Christine Baranski) to at last create an openly gay romantic life for Waylon Smithers on "The Simpsons."

By Andrew Marantz

December 27, 2021

Published in the print edition of the January 3 & 10, 2022, issue, with the headline "Whither Smithers?."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/03/how-smithers-came-out

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Al Goodwyn Cartoons Best of 2021

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

BEST OF 2021

Welcome to the "best of" editorial cartoons for 2021.

http://xp4zn.mjt.lu/nl2/xp4zn/5y340.html

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Formerly local cartoons Al Goodwyn's newsletter

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

http://xp4zn.mjt.lu/nl2/xp4zn/5y28w.html

Welcome to this (usually) twice-monthly newsletter containing a sampling of nonsense, satire and commentary in the form of my latest editorial cartoons.

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Friday, October 22, 2021

The latest Goodwyn cartoons

Our buddy Al Goodwyn just moved even further from DC, from Fredericksburg, VA to one of the Carolinas. We wish him well. Here's his comics from his moving week.

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

http://xp4zn.mjt.lu/nl2/xp4zn/5895n.html