Mike Manley talks to Comics Riff about taking over the art of the Judge Parker serial. MC: So you were already very familiar with his style. Can you speak to adapting to his style — and the constraints of a continuity comic strip? MM: Eduardo and I have very similar influences artistically. It’s all a […]
A couple of weeks ago, I quietly released a mobile version of this blog for the iPhone/iPod Touch, Android, Palm Pre and Blackberry. The mobile version has all the capability of the full site including reading and posting comments. So, if you’re stuck at the grocery store, child’s dance/soccer/piano lessons, feel free to visit The […]
Cory Thomas’s “Watch Your Head” is set on a college campus, and since Cory went to Howard, it’s not surprising that WYH is set on the campus of a fictional traditionally black college. And since Cory is black, it’s not surprising that most of the characters in the comic strip are black.But it has kept […]
Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas and his adult son, Raoni, were gun down by two assailants who entered his home demanding money. To keep his family from being harmed, Glauco negotiated with the assailants and agreed to go with them to withdraw money from the bank if they would leave the place and free his […]
Congratulations to Drew Litton who, beginning today is drawing a weekly (6 times a month) cartoon for ESPN.com’s Commentary.
Another American woman has allegedly been tied to the plot to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. The Colorado woman, identified as Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, was one of the seven arrested in Ireland, though she was not charged. CNN reports that she was released on Saturday.
Chris Sharron, a senior cartoonist for the Daily Kent Stater in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) at Kent State University, earned a coveted National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The National Journalism Awards honor the best work in the communications industry and journalism education each year.Chris will receive $10,000 and […]
John Hambrock’s The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has not been around terribly long, which makes it remarkable in that it’s one of the few strips to come out in the past 5 years that hasn’t included minimal graphics and a misanthropic animal as its lead character. But there is another thread in emerging strips […]
Don’t Believe In That What the Irish Roman Catholic Children will be told to do next: “Kick it out Peaceably.” (The controversy in 1872 was teaching of Protestant religion in public schools, to which Catholics objected. Nast’s frequent attacks on the Catholic Church in general and his depictions of the Irish as ape-like brutes made […]
There are certain strips I have to be very critical of or they’d be here every day. Cul de Sac is definitely in that class, but I’m living with a couple of little girls not much older than Alice and the question “Where did THAT come from?” is a regular feature of life here. And […]
Tom Richmond reports that MAD magazine will go from a quarterly mag to bimonthly. No further details, but as John says this will mean not only a lot more MAD to be had but also a return to more topical material. MAD has been hampered by being completely unable to riff on timely subjects due […]
Douglas Wolk, writing for the New York Times, writes about the surge of comic strip republications lately. As the modern-day American newspaper comic strip slowly chokes to death, done in by shrinking spaces and exhausted franchises, its more vibrant ancestors are living in renewed luxury. Comic strips are the most ephemeral kind of art; each […]
Movie to debut on May 21 in #d theaters and IMAX 3D.
Congrats to Rob Tornoe: I’m happy to announce that starting with March’s issue, I’m back drawing cartoons for Editor & Publisher magazine. For those of you that don’t know, E&P is the monthly trade journal that has covered the newspaper industry for 125 years. Back in December, there was a bit of a scare when […]
This strip by Kieran Meehan tends to fly below the radar, but I get a chuckle out of it regularly and a real laugh far more often than average. Originally titled “A Lawyer, A Doctor and a Cop,” it’s now called “Pros and Cons” but is still about a lawyer, a doctor and a cop. […]