Posted on: May 11, 2010

Senator Al Franken, a former comedian and comedy writer (painfully) uses a cartoon by Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Tole to argue support for his bill.

Starting May 10, the Washington Post’s “Comic Riffs” will begin what the blog’s author Michael Cavna calls “a better way” to aid aspiring cartoonists.Sharpen your pencils, sharpen your comic minds — and check back here in this space come Monday, May 10.UPDATE: I asked Mr. Cavna if he could elaborate at all on the nature […]

An article on Foxnews.com reports the chilling effect the South Park threats and the New York Times bombing attempt have had on the topic of Islam in the media. In the current, supercharged climate, it just isn’t worth endangering the safety of an entire production staff or network by pursuing a storyline that Muslim extremists […]

Congrats to Seth, Michael DeForge and Marc Bell. Press release:Canada’s finest comics and graphic novels were celebrated last night as the 6th annual Doug Wright Awards touched down in Toronto?s Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in a ceremony hosted by ReGenesis actor Peter Outerbridge. This year?s top honours included:BEST BOOK: George Sprott: (1894-1975) by Seth […]

Last January Webcomics.com went behind a paywall to much the surprise to many of us. Fleen.com’s Gary Tyrell looks back to see how the site has changed. That fourth graf is where I got it especially wrong ? I was reading WDC as an informational resource and nothing more; what?s become clear is that Brad?s […]

Dynamite Entertainment, under license from King Features syndicate, returns The Phantom to comic books this August with Alex Ross at the creative helm, Scott Beatty scripting and Eduardo Ferigato on art in the ongoing series.The series begins with no Phantom. The historic line stops at Kit Walker the 21st, who has forsaken the mantle of […]

A man dressed as Snoopy was arrested while trying to free an inmate in Britain. Thesun.co.uk reported on Monday that jail workers were stunned when confronted by the Peanuts character waving a gun. When the man dressed as Snoopy and an accomplice failed to break down a door, they pelted prison officers’ cars with concrete […]

There weren’t so many “breakfast in bed/chaos in the kitchen” Mother’s Day jokes as usual yesterday, but there weren’t many like this, either.I haven’t looked to see when it will be coming up, but I’ve got a profile of Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot that will be running one of these weekends. It was one […]

I don’t know if Keith Knight is feeling introspective because his strip, “Knight Life,” just turned two years old, or because (as he plugs here) he’s got his first collection out. But here’s an inside look at the work of one of about half a dozen cartoonists who I could put in this spot almost […]

(The first Hagar — courtesy of Chris Browne) (I wrote this profile of Hagar the Horrible’s Chris Browne in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY)Hagar the Horrible has been the scourge of the northern seas for three decades and shows no signs of changing his ways. Hagar was created by the late Dik […]

Charlos Gary isn’t saying which character, but on a recent blog post he announced that one of his characters from Cafe Con Leche “will be coming out of the closet in June.”He writes on his blog: It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog entry. I’m just writing to let you know that […]

The two women arrested for allegedly plotting to carry out a plot to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks appeared in court and voluntarily waived their rights to a speedy trial. The woman Colleen LaRose and Jamie Paulin-Ramirez (dubbed “Jihaad Jane” and “Jihaad Jamie” by the media) have pleaded not guilty. Their trail could start as […]

The Times-Delta and Advance-Register have added Brian Crane’s Pickles to their line-up dropping The Wizard of Id to make room. Two other features are on trial: Home and Away will run in place of Cathy. Little Dog Lost will run in place of Mutts for this week and next.

I’m not a financial expert, but Mark’s advice sounds smart.So tax the hell out of Wall Street , give it to main street. Make it tougher for the financial engineers and you will make it easier for investors to evaluate companies and hold on to shares and maybe even act like owners of those companies.Taxing […]