This is a profile I did of Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls NY.(Editor’s note: I’ve decided to move the profiles from Sunday to Saturday because I realized that the format issues of Sunday funnies were less daunting than the task of finding a good, compelling Saturday […]
Tom Richmond was tasked with the responsibility of drawing the NCS Reuben weekend art that is used on the official T-shirt, grab bag, etc. This year’s drawing is posted. See if you can identify all 16 of the speakers and honorees.
Just noticed the early organization of a new movement inside the Tea Party movement called Replace This Face March. Looks like some capitalist activity taking advantage of the Tea rage, but anyway… the goal is to get two or three million Americans (party affiliation agnostic) all wearing the same t-shirt on October 16 for “the […]
For those planning to participate in “Everyone Draw Mohammed Day”, Ruben Bolling has some sage advice for you.
Andrew McGinn and David Neitzke have published their first graphic novel, “The Legacy – a Graphic Novel.” For those who are sensitive to critique of the American newspaper comic strip, this book probably best be avoided. John Hogan over at Graphic Novel Reporter describes it as, “about a young man named Chas who inherits a […]
Time Magazine has listed Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik as one of their top 100 most influential people. The comic is published three times a week and boasts 3.5 million readers. Lev Grossman writes for Time: For a lot of people, that would have been enough. But in 2003, Krahulik and Holkins, […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist and blogger Jay Bookman provides us with a funny story about how on the day that Georgia House Speaker David Ralston was to be the guest speaker at a dinner to honor Mike Luckovich, Mike’s cartoon that morning depicted the speaker as a stripper. Ralston admitted later to being a bit […]
“Frog in a Suit” stands to be the first offering in what Joe Murray (creator of “Rocko’s Modern Life” and “Camp Lazlo“) hopes will be a new all-cartoon web channel, Kaboing TV. In an effort to stay as “independent as possible” Murray is utilizing Kickstarter.com to fund the production of the inaugural episodes, a sample of […]
With his twice-a-week multi-panel “Good Reporter,” Don Asmussen performs a difficult task: Three gags on the same current events theme. Considering the number of political cartoonists who have trouble coming up with one belly-buster at a time, going for three is quite a dare, and there are, understandably, a number of times when the third […]