Posted on: April 20, 2010

Michael Fry found these gems from Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith. Bill pens the “Top 40 List on Comics and their Creators.”1-14 (seen above), 15-24, 25-35, 36-40

Seems to be a lot of anniversaries in the sprint. Glenn McCoy’s The Duplex hit 17 years in syndication and Tony Carillo’s F Minus hit year four.

Just a reminder.From their press release: Nomination ballots for the 2010 Harvey Awards, honoring works published in 2009, are due Friday, April 23rd. Ballots will be accepted by email until midnight, April 23rd. For those who wish to mail the ballot, it must be postmarked by April 23rd! Ballots can be downloaded from HarveyAwards.org. Completed […]

Comics don’t have to make you laugh. I’ve been impressed with the turnaround in “Doonesbury,” from a funny but kind of snide wise-cracking strip to one that has really turned out some fine storytelling. I think Garry Trudeau has grown up with the rest of his age cohort and has gained some perspective on the […]

The Islamic website Revolutionmuslim.com has allegedly threatened South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone with a fate similar to Theo Van Gogh for “insulting” the prophet Mohammad during it’s 200th episode. In that episode, Muhammad is depicted in a bear suit. Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker who murdered in 2004 for making a […]

To commemorate the second volume of the Bloom County Complete Library being released, USA Today is running select strips with commentary from Berkeley Breathed this week. The commentary today is about the eighties and Star Trek references. Q. In Ted Koppel’s intro to Bloom County: The Complete Library, Volume 2, he writes, “I never believed […]

Speaking of original Peanuts artwork, a Phoenix woman took her stash of original Peanuts art that she’s been buying up since 1950 to the “Antique Roadshow” hoping that they’d appraise enough help she and her husband retire. She estimated her collection was worth about $50,000, but the appraiser on the television show said that her […]

A great catch from Mike Lynch (who credit’s his dad, Dr. Lynch) for this letter to the editor in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette from Jean Schulz, wife of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz warning that not all the original drawings being auctioned off are authentic. Sally Kalson’s April 11 article (“From Peanuts to Picasso: Art Collection Is […]

I reported Steve Breen took home the Fischetti award. The noise level of the announcement was muted considerably by the Pulitzer announcement the day before. I’m glad to see Michael Cavna was able to interview Steve. Michael talks to Matt Wuerker who was this year’s recipient of the Herblock award .

I could probably feature “Cul de Sac” three times a week, but today’s is particularly special: Alice brings up a topic, Petey responds to it and Alice actually responds to what he said instead of simply continuing her eternal, external monologue. It is a rarity to be remarked upon.(With some Googling, I could probably find […]

Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore has told ComputerWorld that he has resubmitted his rejected iPhone app to Apple for reconsideration. Mark’s app was rejected last December. Since winning the Pulitzer last week and the rejection hit the blogosphere, Apple invited him to resubmit. According to ComputerWorld, a customer wrote to Steve Jobs himself pleading the […]

Twice this week, spammer were able to exploit the site to inject code into the blog. I’m still trying to ascertain the full scope of what they were able to do. At the moment, it appears limited to inserting code into a file that is read by search engines and sends search engine traffic to […]

(This is a profile of “Mutts” cartoonist Patrick McDonnell that I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY) To begin with, the rotary dial telephone doesn’t really work.But it’s not entirely out of place, there in the background of the picture,along with the analog clock. The candle, admittedly, is a bit of […]

I’m not going to champion cartoons that you have to be 60 years old to get, except when they crack me up, as was the case with “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” this morning. Anyway, I’m pretty sure John Hambrock isn’t old enough to have many memories of “Beat the Clock.”Although, if he is […]

Mark Fiore is worthy of a Pulitzer, but last December Apple wouldn’t allow Mark’s iPhone app into the App Store because it “contains content that ridicules public figures.” According to By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries’ blog on Wall Street Journal, Apple has asked Mark to resubmit his app. But a representative from Apple called the cartoonist Thursday […]