There are few details regarding this story, so I’m not sure what to make of it other than if true, a Yemen editorial cartoonist has been “forcible disappeared.” The Armies of Liberation website reports that Security authorities arrested cartoonist Kamal Sharef and confiscated his personal belongings including a laptop computer. Others arrested included his brother […]
Candorville creator Darrin Bell has created a weekly long tribute series premiering today to honor Cathy Guisewhite who announced she is ending her comic strip, Cathy after 34 years. Darrin, on why he’s decided to do the tribute series says, “I have no idea whether MY readership is familiar at all with Cathy, but I […]
Obviously, the name of the blog suggests only featuring one strip per day, but I thought it noteworthy that two cartoonists — Lalo Alcaraz and Darrin Bell — chose to salute the retiring Cathy on the same day. And a pretty good unintentional segue between them, don’t you think? Cathy Guisewhite’s decision to retire is […]
Brewster Rockit, Space Guy, has gradually degenerated into random, stupid jokes like this.I’m really becoming quite fond of it.
(This is the last in a series of interviews I did with cartoonists in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. It was roughly timed to co-incide with Blondie and Dagwood’s 75th anniversary strip, which we ran extra-large by dropping a half-page of ad space in the Sunday comics section and rotating it 90 […]
Last June, I directed your attention to a newly launched site by eight cartoonists (Tom Batiuk, Dave Coverly, Greg Evans, Peter Guren, Jeff Keane, Rick Kirkman, Mike Luckovich and Jerry Scott) to showcase their studios and their work. They’ve added six more cartoonists: Chuck Ayers (Crankshaft), Jenny Campbell (Flo and Friends), Brian Crane (Pickles), Jan […]
The 2010 Ignatz Award nominees have been announced. The award is given for outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. Here are this year’s nominees:Outstanding Artist Eddie Campbell, Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus) (Top Shelf Productions) Al Columbia, Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days (Fantagraphics Books) Mike Dawson, Troop 142 (self-published & […]
Agnes is apparently channeling St. Augustine.*I like the idea of “playing the holy card.” In the good old days of meatless Fridays, holy cards were like baseball cards for Catholics, only there would be a prayer on the back instead of statistics about the saint pictured on the front. They were also printed on paper […]
Every Friday morning on my way to work, I listen to StoryCorp at the end of NPR’s Morning Edition. I was happy to see an email from StoryCorps telling me that they’ve produced a series of animated shorts of some of the stories collected through their program. You can check them out at their website. […]
A photograph of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) will be presented to the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in a ceremony for invited guests Oct. 1. The event recognizes the cartoonist’s impact on millions of people worldwide and coincides with commemorations surrounding the 60th anniversary of “Peanuts.” The 1986 photograph, created by acclaimed portraitist Yousuf […]
Prickly City creator and Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis is back into podcasting. This time with Tribune columnist Eric Zorn. The show is called Prickly Pair Podcast and is produced by Kristin Samuelson. Head over to Scott’s blog for details or click this link to download now. iTunes subscriptions are coming soon.Bob Weber Jr., […]
Cartooning “tweets” has been a rage of late. I’ve reported that Paul Sabourin started pairing New Yorker cartoons with Kanye West’s tweets and yesterday I posted news that Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo was drawing original sketches of other people’s tweets. And with that post, I learned that BECK has been doing this for a […]
The Gazette (NJ) has a profile on Archie comic book artist Fernando Ruiz who was tapped to draw a action-adventure version of Archie that is due out in the latter part of September. The title of the four-part series is The Man From R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. a play on the 1960’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series. […]
This site is dedicated to presenting the best comic strip of the day, or at least one that made me laugh, which sets it aside from all the bitchy little websites that post comics they don’t like and make snarky comments about them.Which means that, when I come across a hackneyed cartoon about those kids […]
A recent paper in presented to the American Sociological Association suggests that female characters in the largest (most read) comic strips in America treat women characters more as props than leading characters. Conclusions in the report are based on studying Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Family Circus, Hagar, Garfield and Dilbert for one full year. An analysis […]