The Wikileaks cartoons are beginning to hit the comics page. Lots of Wikileaks cartoons. Santa’s list seems to be the most common tie-in.This one by Ward Sutton was pretty good, since the more you know about (A) Wikileaks and (B) Suess’s body of works, the funnier it becomes. Riffing on either is tough to do […]
Today’s “Pardon My Planet” explores the world of silly, ignorant people who don’t understand that some things really are set in stone.There are many things about the controversy over gay couples, gay adoption, gay marriage that I don’t understand, but I’m thinking that the problem is not complexity but simplicity. Once you pass most of […]
Today’s Stone Soup stands up well enough on its own, but to absorb the full effect of the bathos, you have to have been following the saga of “Holly’s boyfriend” since it began nearly a full month ago. We’ve not only gone through the sturm und drang alluded to here of Holly’s mom insisting on […]
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Funny story out of Jessica Guynn on LATimes Blogs about the newly released Smurf game that was recently released for the iPad and how kids are racking up charges with in-app purchases. Smurfberries. One California mom realized her 4-year-old had spent $66.88 on virtual Smurf stuff in the game on the iPad before she figured […]
Know a young budding college aged cartoonist? The Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship is an award of $5,000 and a trip to the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Weekend. Applicants must be college students in the United States, Canada or Mexico that will be in their Junior or Senior year during the 2010-2011 academic year. Applicants do […]
Interesting news from MacWorld regarding the iPad’s impact on journalism Many thought that the iPad would save journalism?but, as it turns out, you can?t save journalism without breaking a few eggs…wrapped in newspapers. A survey by the Donald W. Reylonds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the University of Missouri found that the iPad could have a […]
MAD Magazine cartoonist and freelance artist Tom Richmond has an interesting post on his blog about the dangers of accepting credit cards and PayPal transactions. An important read for anyone taking payment this way. Maybe Big Box retailers are really at fault here. Companies like Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target will take a return on […]
Universal Uclick has posted a notice to Pibgorn fans that it has turned off the comment section under the Pibgorn comic. Without a doubt, Pibgorn is a comic strip that generates a lot of conversation. But given Pibgorn’s particular subject matter, and the themes depicted in many of Brooke’s breathtaking sketches and finished pieces, the […]
CNN has a round up of obscure, yet beloved holiday TV specials. Included in the list: “The Star Wars Holiday Special” “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (not so obscure) “Claymation Christmas Celebration” “Batman Returns” (not sure why this is even on their list) “Christmas Comes to PacLand” “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”/”Santa Claus” (1959) “Futurama” (holiday […]
I’d just arrived home from the airport last night with a brand-new, nine-week-old puppy, and we were bonding by watching Thursday Night Football on the NFL Network together.This little fellow, innocent as he was the day he was born (October 2), arrived at the Burlington airport late Thursday afternoon, fresh out of Orlando, which means […]
Hollywood Reporter is reporting that DreamWorks Animation has been sued by a gentleman who claims he pitched a “spiritual kung-fu fighting panda bear” to the studio in 2001 and that the studio passed on the idea only to later create the movie Kung Fun Panda with Jack Black.From the story, it appears the case is […]
Brenda Starr, the 70 year old comic created by Chicago Tribune columnist Dale Messick, is set to retire on January 2. The strip is currently produced by another Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich and drawn by June Brigman. According to the Chicago Tribune, the two creators opted to end their association with the strip and […]
Darrin Bell treads some interesting lines with his strip, “Candorville.” From what little I know of his personal life from Facebook and suchlike, it does, in some ways, reflect what he’s going through, but not in a journalistic sense. Rather than recounting real-life events in the strip, he seems to use them to inform the […]
Over on ComiXology Michel Fiffe writes how to jumpstart a career in comics. The suggestions are all geared a career in comic books, but easily adapted to all comic forums. Ok, so you’re in it to win it, right, pal? The important thing is that you’re ready to do some comic books. Whether you start […]