Posted on: November 24, 2010

See you all back here on Nov 29th.Happy Thanksgiving!

Every once in a while, a cartoonist throws in a celebrity into their comic strip. The latest that I know of is yesterday’s Speedbump which featured Detroit Lions’ Jeff Backus. The Detroit Free Press asked Speedbump creator Dave Coverly why Backus??I?m a huge Lions fan, and I live in Ann Arbor,? said Coverly, a Plainwell […]

Politico’s Matt Wuerker has won the 2010 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for editorial cartooning. Earlier this year, Matt was the recipient of the Herblock Prize. Regarding Matt’s work, judges noted that, ?Matt?s drawings blend satire, irony and the right amount of anger to skewer the politically powerful of all persuasions.” Matt wins […]

In last week’s post, noting Prickly City’s move from the desert to Washington, DC, I said that Scott Stantis is unique among conservative cartoonists in that he’s willing to go where the jokes are, even if he crosses a few lines to get there.For instance.

The folks at Paws, Inc and PixFusion.com are launching a new service that allows individuals to insert their face into an animated Garfield comic strip – much like JibJab animations. Jim Davis, who created the cat decades ago, said he embraced the opportunity to put readers in his strips, noting that his cat has long […]

The Guardian reports that Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs have been working together to create a new digital “newspaper” for tablet devices such as the iPad. The publication, which will be entitled the Daily, is supposed to be announced later this month. The 79-year-old Murdoch is said to have had the idea for the project […]

Garry Trudeau’s work in Doonesbury with veterans and with active-duty GIs has been exemplary and I think marks a new point in war coverage and media. Today’s humorous depiction of the modern, plugged-in GI is a pretty good example.Let me try to get this right without cranking out a six-volume explanation.The Crimean War (1853-56) was […]

    Trust Mr. Boffo to put a positive spin on things.

And so, we go from yesterday’s loveable loser to this unloveable loser.When life hands you the milk of human kindness, the Piranha Club will make it into healthy, delicious yoghurt. I have to say that I am really burning out on mean-spirited sarcasm as a punchline, particularly the fad in comics of creating a misanthropic […]

A bit late on this one, but a heartfelt congratulations to Guy Endore-Kaiser who popped the question to his girlfriend Renee Robichaux in the November 13th Brevity. From a News-Press article: “We’ve been together almost five years and I’ve been doing the strip for about five years. I didn’t know the particulars of where to […]

Not only is Jan Eliot’s Stone Soup the top selling Cathy replacement – it’s also hitting a major milestone: 15 years in syndication.Stone Soup debuted on November 20, 1995. Congrats, Jan!

Poor Monty has been recovering from a broken heart for the past week or so, and the only positive note is that, in this case, as he’s expressing his sorrow, you are not only allowed, but encouraged, to laugh in his face.Apparently, you’re not supposed to do that in real life. Or so I’ve been […]

Washington Post Writers Group is launching Donna A. Lewis’ Reply All on February 28. Donna’s strip is described as an exploration of the “value of honesty, the power of knowledge and the impact of a bad-hair day on one’s self-perception.”Donna is a D.C. attorney by profession. Her first foray into cartooning was a web comic […]

Bluewater Productions is releasing a second Sarah Palin comic book in December. Female Force: Sarah Palin, Act 2 focuses on Palin’s life after the 2008 presidential elections. The book examines the reasons behind Palin’s increasing celebrity, and the threat that she might pose to both Democrats and mainstream Republicans should she decide to run in […]

Gotta admit the Green Lantern wasn’t the super-hero I identified with. I wasn’t even aware there was an alien component in the story’s history. Movie due out June of next year.