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 […]
At least 20 newspapers declined to carry this Non Sequitur, requesting a rerun instead. In addition, Western Printing, a company that prints Sunday comic sections for smaller papers, refused it.Read it at your peril. It will likely corrupt your soul.
No, no, I understand Mike Thompson’s cartoon.What I don’t get is how you can have a successful “populist” movement that seems to be based on giving rewards to the wealthy and powerful and providing nothing for the common folk. And yet apparently you can.
In a USA Today interview, Jim Davis mentioned that his short run comic U.S Acres is now running on Garfield.com. U.S. Acres ran from March of 1986 through May of 1989 and features a group of barnyard animals. An animated TV show Garfield and Friends was based on characters from U.S. Acres. Looking through the […]
USAToday invited Jim Davis to answer a few questions from fans. Posted are a few decent questions among them include: What’s the strangest Garfield merchandise someone’s ever proposed? And whose work do you admire today?
Frankly, if I hadn’t been tickled by the concept in today’s Non Sequitur, I think the dragon would have sold me anyway. He’s so perfectly reasonable looking! And I’m sure that his cave is already filled with coffeemugs and totebags.I’ll admit it, I love dragons. Probably because, when I was a little boy, my […]
OCWeekly.com has a list of female comic creators. The list is heavy on webcomic and graphic novels but includes Julia Wertz (Fart Party), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Amy Reeder Hadley (Tokyopop’s Fool’s Gold), Jöelle Jones (12 Reasons Why I Love Her), Julia Gfrörer (Flesh and Bone), G. Willow Wilson (Cairo).Regarding the list, Joe Vince […]
Back in January a Delta College comic strip upset the community of Saginaw, MI because it painted the town negatively as a place of drugs and violence. The cartoon, created by Rashad Baiyasi and David Ferrier, was honored with a first place win in the division three colleges of the Michigan Press Association. According to […]
I haven’t run more than one strip as a “Comic Strip of the Day” before and I don’t intend to make a habit of it, the name of the blog seeming to obviously rule against it.But here are two strips that ran today and might as well have been linked from the start. It’s not […]