When I go through the comics each morning, one of the factors I have to consider is, “Will this make sense to someone who hasn’t been following the story?”For instance, Tank McNamara is in the middle of an arc about drunk driving, and, this being Thursday, it seemed pointless to drag people into it now. […]
h/t: Mike Lynch
An editorial cartoon that ran on Sept. 29 in the Sacramento State University student newspaper has caused the paper to issue an apology. The cartoon was entitled “Why Baseball is the Best Sport Ever” and was meant to mock a column that ran in the same edition touting the sport, but the cartoon depicted a […]
Garfield creator Jim Davis is visiting Charlottesville Virginia to help raise $40,000 for a public education fund that pays for innovative educational programs. “Literacy is very important because people need to know how to read to enjoy my comics,” Davis told a crowd of more than 100 people Tuesday. “So I kind of have a […]
You can always get a larger version of the strips here by clicking on the image, but today’s xkcd provides a much larger version off its own site, and I think you’ll want to go there and examine this in some detail. It’s always worthwhile to go there for the mouse-over joke that I can’t […]
In support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, several King Features comics will participate in a “Cartoonists Care” initiative this Sunday. More than 50 of the King Features strips “turn pink” and a special Dan Piraro Bizarro signature art piece will be auctioned off.Each comic strip will feature the internationally recognized pink ribbon for breast […]
Just got around to booking the hotel for the upcoming Festival of Cartoon Art. Sticker shock. If anyone wants to share a room (and the cost), email me. My reservations are check in on: 10/14/2010, checking out on: 10/17/2010. The room is a standard double/double no smoking.Email me if you’re interested.
The Briliant Mind of Edison Lee creator John Hambrock has posted several reports on his trip down to Marceline, MO to be apart of this year’s Toonfest. His latest post includes several photos of the event and its participants. includes several photos of the event and its participants. This is the last batch of pics […]
Okay, now that I have your attention with the headline, it’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so Six Chix cartoonist Stephanie Piro is talking about how cartoonists approach drawing breasts in comics. She’s posted a small gallery of various cartoonists drawings of women (all safe for work) and she’s holding a contest to determine if […]
The Associated Press has a story on what the Schulz family is doing to keep Peanuts alive and relevant for a whole new generation. Along with the 60 year anniversary events, you’ll see a brand new animated film entitled Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown and ABC signed a five year contract to air […]
Former Cincinnati Enquirer editorial cartoonist Jerry Dowling is putting together a book of his favorite illustrations and cartoons about the Cincinnati Reds. The veteran cartoonist did not always portray his subjects in a flattering light. When Marge Schott bought the Reds in the early 1980s, he drew the new owner with a super-wide grin and […]
The Knight Life is on Day Two of what I hope will be a week-long arc about a job fair that doesn’t offer any jobs. Oh, sorry — “job faire.”It’s over a year since I last walked into an office and sat at a desk, and I can’t say I miss it a whole lot, […]
Today is the launch of a couple of new strips – one being Thatababy by Paul Trap. You might remember that Paul’s strip was one of the finalists of the Amazon Comic Strip Superstar contest sponsored by Amazon and Universal Uclick last year. Since his strip was discovered in a contest rather than through the […]
Last week I reported that several papers were opting to run a substitute Non Sequitur because it merely mentioned the word Muhammad. You can see the “offending” comic here. I can report that the Salt Lake Tribune ran the substitute. I believe that the joint operating agreement between the Trib and the Deseret News covers […]
Edison Lee with a better-than-average gag about overscheduled kids. One thing that makes this strip appealing is that you never know on Monday whether it’s headed into a completely fantastic, surrealistic arc that will involve the space shuttle or some such, or a simple kid-based story about a brighter-than-average little boy. What in some strips […]