The New York Times reports that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has also blocked YouTube, as well as “certain pages on the Flickr and Wikipedia sites.” “Earlier we were blocking the links,” he said of YouTube, “but when content increased we had to block the whole Web site.” The ban, which also included certain pages on […]
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has issued a statement regarding the “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” urging for tolerance on both sides. In the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, God states: “Invite (all) to the way of your Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching, and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: […]
Yesterday, Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore released his latest animated cartoon entitled “Inky Al-Jihadi” depicting a Jihad on Cartoon Coorespondance Cartoon where individuals can learn how to be offended by drawings of Mohammed no matter how small or insignificant.
I have championed Norm Feuti’s Retail as precisely the sort of strip papers should have if they want to serve younger readers, all of whom seem to have put in some time working at the mall. Today’s is for those who ascended to management, which usually takes about three months.It also gave me a flashback […]
From CNN.com: Hewlett-Packard says it’s developing a next-generation wristwatch for the U.S. military. The printing and computer company says the watch will have a flexible display that shows maps and other strategic information to soldiers in remote combat fields. The watch’s screen will be made of plastic and it will run on solar energy, making […]
A little afternoon levity. Not a comic in the traditional sense, but this sadanduseless.com Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates comic will soon go viral in some crowds if it hasn’t already. Read all of them for a chuckle.
The Pakistani government (Pakistan Telecommunications Authority) has ordered all Pakistani ISPs to block traffic to Facebook until May 31 to prevent citizens seeing the “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” pages after a group of Muslim lawyers petitioned The Lahore High Court.Protests in Pakistan have reportedly already begun:In the southern city of Karachi, 2,000 female students rallied […]
Mike Rhode posts photos taken by Joe Azar at this year’s Herblock Award dinner to honor Politico’s Matt Wuerker.
The Hartford Courant caught up with Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Rick Stromoski, creator of Soup to Nutz and recorded their feelings about the digital future as presented by Apple’s iPad. Griffith says the Web has been a good platform for his work, and he’s encouraged by what he’s seen of the […]
Tomorrow is the accidentily set date for everyone to draw the Prophet Mohammed. Open discussion – is anyone participating? What are your predictions about what will happen tomorrow? A non-event day, or will it go viral causing riots in the streets. Take a position now. Tomorrow we’ll see.
This Between Friends story arc began with Susan’s husband figuring out how much money they could save if she gave up buying expensive coffee. She has managed to cadge one off Maeve, but she is still looking for a more long-term solution. One of the more endearing things about this strip is watching, over the […]
Good catch from Tom Spurgeon. Ohio State University’s Bill Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has launched a new database to search through a portion of their massive collection. OSU’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has opened a new database to make it easier to access a portion of one of the world’s largest collections, […]
Rina Piccolo, creator of Tina’s Groove and the new Velia, Dear webcomic, writes on her blog her experience in meeting with New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to discuss her cartoons for publication in The New Yorker. Let me say one thing about Bob. I’ve heard a lot of negative things floating around, but in […]
The Mail Tribune (Medford, OR), is asking its readers which comic strip “clunkers” they should dump. The process of picking, or replacing, comic strips is highly sophisticated: If we get enough complaints about a particular strip, we look around to see if we can find something better. If we decide to replace a strip, everyone […]
I get a little weary of strips in which the joke consists of pulling apart a grammatical inconsistency in colloquial speech. Attacking cliches is another matter, especially cliches that are linked not only to lazy use of language but lazy thinking, as well. And Agnes is a champion at lampooning lazy thought.Though I will say […]