Tomorrow is the accidentily set date for everyone to draw the Prophet Mohammed. Open discussion – is anyone participating? What are your predictions about what will happen tomorrow? A non-event day, or will it go viral causing riots in the streets. Take a position now. Tomorrow we’ll see.
This Between Friends story arc began with Susan’s husband figuring out how much money they could save if she gave up buying expensive coffee. She has managed to cadge one off Maeve, but she is still looking for a more long-term solution. One of the more endearing things about this strip is watching, over the […]
Good catch from Tom Spurgeon. Ohio State University’s Bill Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has launched a new database to search through a portion of their massive collection. OSU’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has opened a new database to make it easier to access a portion of one of the world’s largest collections, […]
Rina Piccolo, creator of Tina’s Groove and the new Velia, Dear webcomic, writes on her blog her experience in meeting with New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to discuss her cartoons for publication in The New Yorker. Let me say one thing about Bob. I’ve heard a lot of negative things floating around, but in […]
The Mail Tribune (Medford, OR), is asking its readers which comic strip “clunkers” they should dump. The process of picking, or replacing, comic strips is highly sophisticated: If we get enough complaints about a particular strip, we look around to see if we can find something better. If we decide to replace a strip, everyone […]
I get a little weary of strips in which the joke consists of pulling apart a grammatical inconsistency in colloquial speech. Attacking cliches is another matter, especially cliches that are linked not only to lazy use of language but lazy thinking, as well. And Agnes is a champion at lampooning lazy thought.Though I will say […]
Gemma Arterton, the “Bond girl” in Quantum of Solace will star in a new film premiering at Cannes film festival entitled Tamara Drewe – based on “the cartoons of Posy Simmonds that originally appeared in Britain’s Guardian newspaper.” Arterton, who appeared in the 2008 James Bond film “Quantum of Solace”, plays the title role of […]
From the News Time comes news that South African cartoonist Weyni Deysel allegedly fataly shot himself Saturday night – a day after his 59th birthday. The editor of The Citizen, Martin Williams, told the SABC that his death was a sad loss for the paper, he had great input and on a personal level, Williams […]
With the announcement of the end of Little Orphan Annie, Time Magazine is looking at the best long-running comics. They also allow you to order them in your order of preference.Here’s their original list: B.C. Dennis the Menace Beetle Bailey Annie The Katzenjammer Kids Gasoline Alley Blondie Dick Tracy Prince Valiant Brenda Starr
The Grand Rapids Press has announced its decision on which comic strip to drop in order to pick up Frazz. Last week I reported they dropped Luann, but received overwhelming complaints from fans causing them to reconsider. They asked their readers if they could drop Peanuts instead. According to the announcement written by Paul Keep, […]
Two Canadian national awards were announced. The National Newspaper Awards recongnized Brian Gable of The Globe and Mail for best cartooning. The 2009 Atlantic Journalism Awards honored Michael de Adder of the Times & Transcript with their Gold Winner winner. Silver finalists included Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald and Wayne Wright of the Journal […]
Vars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who was head-butted at a university lecture last week and the target of an alleged murder plot hatched here in the U.S., has gone into hiding. Two men, ages 21 and 19, were arrested Sunday attempting to set his home on fire Friday night. Lars was not home at the […]
Who would have guessed that the answer to “Okay, where exactly in the Bible does it say … ” would come from Vic Lee’s “Pardon My Planet”??
Most Sundays, you’ll see a strip or two that are clearly weekday strips, only the cartoonist, on deadline and desperate, has padded the thing out to make a three-panel gag fit a multi-panel Sunday format.Not in this case. Bud Grace has taken a joke that wouldn’t have worked in a three- or four-panel format and […]
(This interview with Jim Toomey of Sherman’s Lagoon is part of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY.)Some people will never quite understand how the candles remain lit underwater.”But, still, they accept that you can have two sharks sitting there at a table, eating chicken and […]