Alumni from Saturday Night Live of years past have launched a video comic strip series called “Beyond the Comics” which is aimed at online newspapers across the US. The feature launched today in seven papers. To achieve financial viability, the feature needs to sign up 200-500 papers. The participants include David Spade, Molly Shannon, Sarah […]
I got back home yesterday from this year’s AAEC convention in Portland, but haven’t had time to sit down and write out a wrap-up. I’ll be updating the blog a bit later today with a review of events, discussions from the AAEC convention. I’ll also be posting (probably tomorrow) a great interview with Dick Locher.More […]
Today’s xkcd is not at all funny, which is why it made me laugh.I’ve been through enough media revolutions to see how they fit together. And, if I hadn’t, I could still watch the movie Idiocracy for a look at the results.I worked at a local TV station 30 years ago, when only about half […]
“The Knight Life” is as much a journal as it is a comic strip, and this Sunday’s entry provides yet another insight into the frustration of, not just Keith Knight, but a number of African-American cartoonists.Some time ago, there was a quiet protest in which several black artists used the same gag on the same […]
Friday’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention started off with an panel of cartoonists from the Middle East who shared with the group some of the challenges and success in being a cartoonist in the Middle East. Jeff Danziger and Jack OhmanJeff Danziger was the next presenter who was interviewed by Jack Ohman on his […]
(This is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls NY)When Dana Summers needs to find an idea for a “Bound & Gagged” cartoon, he knows where to look.In the Yellow Pages.”That shows how desperate you can get,” he laughs. But silly as it sounds, […]
King Feature Syndicate’s DailyINK debuted nine vintage comics to their online comic portal. The new features include: Big Ben Bolt (1950-51), Heart of Juliet Jones (1953-54), Radio Patrol (1940-41), Barney Google & Snuffy Smith (1936), Jacky?s Diary (1959-60), Mandrake (1938-39), Quicy (1971-72), Katzenjammer Kids (1937-39) and Little Iodine (1949-50).
Yesterday was the first full day of activities for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ annual convention held this year in Portland OR. Mark Fiore kicked off the session, entitled “Appholes” on his experience working with Apple to get his iPhone app into the App Store. Next up was the “New Frontiers” panel Mike Keefe […]
Dog Eat Doug is a strip about a young lab and a human baby. That might seem like a limiting premise but, in fact, it’s very open ended, because Sophie and Doug occasionally have extended imaginary adventures, and sometimes they simply behave like a young pup and a baby.Having shared a home with young pups […]
USA Today has an exclusive look at the live-action and 3D Smurfs movie. The movie plot is described as: During the opening scene, set in that original time, Gargamel discovers the Smurfs’ magical village and scatters them into the woods. “Unfortunately, Clumsy goes the wrong way into a forbidden grotto where a few other Smurfs […]
The teenager who hit a police officer during an attack on Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks has been fined 60 euros ($103US), 20 days community service and ordered to undergo a psychological assessment. Vilks was attacked last May during a lecture on the limits of free speech.
I’m going to take a break today and, instead of posting one cartoon I think is particularly funny, offer 10 cartoons of which I think maybe two have some promise.The Washington Post is in the midst of a contest to choose “America’s Next Great Cartoonist” and, the judges having narrowed 500 entries down to 10, […]
Dutch authorities are worried about a recent threat against the Danish soccer team or Dutch fans during this year’s World Cup in South Africa. The threat was uncovered in April after a terrorist suspect, Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani, was arrested in Iraq. Al-Qahtani allegedly claimed he and others had “discussed the possibility of taking revenge […]
Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis has ended a 14 year run as a regular contributor to USA Today. Scott writes on his blog: It feels odd to think that something I had been doing for close to a decade-and-a-half has come to an end. I am grateful to USA Today for the wonderful opportunity […]
Shaenon Garrity finds a Finnish collection of censored Mort Walker thumbnails, entitled, “Awesome Finnish Collection of Censored Mort Walker Thumbnails” containing material “rejected by the syndicate for lack of family-friendliness.” A couple of weekends back, I attended the annual meeting of the National Cartoonists Society in Jersey City. Meanwhile, the Cartoon Art Museum here in […]