Dilbert creator Scott Adams writes about writing humor on the Wall Street Journal.The topic is the thing. Eighty percent of successful humor writing is picking a topic that is funny by its very nature. My story above is true, up until the exaggeration about the French fry in the sinus cavity. You probably assumed it […]
Bill Gallo, who has been The Daily News cartoonist and columnist for over 50 years, was honored with the New York Press Club President’s Award last Saturday. “We’re delighted that the New York Press Club has chosen to shine a light on our colleague and friend Bill Gallo,” said Daily News editor-in-chief Kevin R. Convey. […]
Rhymes with Orange cracks me up on a regular basis, but today’s strip is just wrong.See, the Pillsbury Doughboy is more like a biscuit than a loaf of bread. You don’t slice him. You just take him gently in two hands and then jab your thumbs into his soft little belly, and …
Nicole Hollander, creator of Sylvia, was interviewed in The Tablet about her 30 years in comics and her new collection “The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama.” Speaking of absurdities, in the section on the earliest strips, you mention regretting depicting Reagan as a moron for so long, because it […]
I missed this on TV, but CBS has posted the 13 minute 60 Minutes segment online. The TV News magazine revisits the popularity of Charles Schulz’ Peanuts and rebroadcasts an 1999 interview with Sparky himself.
United Media’s annual holiday comic strip is re-running Jef Mallett’s A Mall and the Right Visitor this year. The special holiday Frazz originally ran in 2003. Mallett’s “A Mall and the Right Visitor” is an operatic, rhyming poem, making it not only a clever daily treat but also a collectible series that comes together as […]
Ben Sargent isn’t the only cartoonist making this point, but I always like his style and I like this particular cartoon. And I do think the issue is critical.I just want the elections to be over so we can go back to beer ads that insult my intelligence instead of political ads which ditto. At […]
Deadline.com is reporting that movie and TV mogal Jerry Bruckheimer is working to create a half hour live action comedy sit com based on Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman’s Zits comic strip. Donald Todd, who was the co-creator, executive producer of the ABC comedy Samantha Who? is the writer-producer for this script.
Sunday night’s The Simpsons had an unusual opening. It had the normal intro with the family crashing into the living room to watch TV, but the opening extended into a dark depiction of sweatshops and environmentally unsafe working conditions for those who produce the animation. Very much a hand bitting the hand that feeds it […]
Dog Eat Doug has been off on some fantasy excursions lately, which are fun enough to make the strip worth keeping up with, but it came back home today to its roots as a strip about a dog and a baby. And a very good home it is indeed, when simple, appealing art mixes with […]
Slash Film is reporting that a live action feature film is in the works for Bil Keane’s Family Circus. The film rights are held by 20th Century Fox and Walden Media. Deadline says Fox and Walden competed for the rights with several other studios, but beat them out with a seven figure deal against their […]
The tri-annual Festival of Cartoon Art hosted by the Ohio State University’s Cartoon Library and Museum is sold out according to this year’s organizer Jenny Robb. The festival begins this Thursday and runs through Sunday. Featured speakers this year include: Steve Breen, Brendan Burford, Roz Chast, Tony Cochran, Jan Eliot, Tom Gammill, Matt Groening, Bill […]
Last Sunday’s Non Sequitur that didn’t feature Mohammad was replaced in several metro newspapers including the Washington Post. The Post’s Ombudsman Andrew Alexander interviewed Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller and tries to explain why his paper opted not to run the cartoon. Still, Style editor Ned Martel said he decided to yank it, after conferring […]
I was kind of surprised that Columbus Day got so little play in the comics today. Normally, it is cause for a spate of drawings of sardonic Indians making witty New Yorkeresque observations about the new people in the neighborhood.Maybe it’s just as well.But, as today’s Frazz points out, it does put us one-up on […]
By happy circumstance, Mutts was perfectly positioned to take advantage of King Features Syndicate’s decision to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month by having all their cartoons this Sunday be pink. I love Patrick McDonnell’s Herriman-like artwork, and the fact that he refuses to employ any new technologies, which he discussed in the profile I did […]