We all see the writing on the wall. Sometimes it takes someone like Seth Godin to translate it clearly: The law of the internet is simple: either you do something I can’t do myself (or get from someone else), or I pay you less than you’d like. Read his full blog post. via: ¡Journalista!
Eddie Pittman is taking pre-orders for his sci-fi web graphic novel Red’s Planet. If you haven’t seen his comic, head over to his site. It’s a great story with great art and coloring. This first edition special edition collects the Prologue and Chapter One. Eddie showed me copy at this year’s Festival of Cartoon Art. […]
Rich Deisslin, a regular commentator here at The Daily Cartoonist, will be hosting and posting the 8th Annual The Cartoon Days of Christmas. Each cartoonist will have a page featuring cartoons on the theme of humor in the Christmas season. It will be G-rated fun for the whole family and help to keep the hustle […]
Here’s Jeff Corriveau’s “Deflocked” with a swipe both at pretend on-line farming and at the factors that make the actual business nearly impossible.This two-year-old strip is worth following if for no other reason than because it features a sheep named “Mamet” who shares the same sunny outlook on life as his namesake. Not only is […]
Larry Wright’s Carlyle celebrates 30 years in syndication on December 1st. The comic features Kit, a single working woman, and Carlyle, a spunky kitten who can turn from cuddly to cunning at the drop of a hat.“My family and I have owned lots of real cats over many past decades,” Wright said. “But having had […]
Universal Uclick editor John Glynn offers a serious but mostly not-so serious interview with Foxtrot creator Bill Amend regarding his newly released collection “The Best of FoxTrot” Did you ever consider letting newspapers run reruns of the dailies? Not really. I owed a lot of FoxTrot’s newspaper success to the retirements over the years of […]
Last week I reported that Rupert Murdoch was working with Apple to create a new iPad newspaper called The Daily. A few more details have been reported about the venture – less about the app itself – but more about who’s involved. The New Yorker is reporting that Murdoch’s News Corp is investing $30 million […]
The Star-Ledger editorial cartoonist Drew Sheneman has opted to take out a buyout and leave his staff position behind. In an interview with Rob Tornoe, Drew says that leaving now, in his mid-30s, made more sense.So you decided to take a buyout from the Star-Ledger. You survived one round of cuts. Why leave now? It […]
Willie & Ethel proves that not all cartoonists are ignoring the economic news.Meanwhile, the quote of the week comes from Warren Buffett, on yesterday’s highly watchable edition of “This Week with Christiane Amanpour: “There’s been this increasing disparity between the rich and the poor. We’ve found out that a rising tide just lifted all yachts, […]
The recent summit to save tigers, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, got scant attention in the US press but was reported elsewhere, apparently including Holland, where it elicited this cartoon from Arend Van Dam.Van Dam’s work is simple but contains some bite and a little more implied narrative than the average international cartoon, which tends, […]
Just as I was lamenting (scroll down) the lack of cartoons that took on the recession at this holiday shopping season, “Heart of the City” sets up a Mrs. Angelini story.
After going through a raft of “Black Friday” cartoons that could have run any year, it was good to get to “Sinfest” and find commentary that actually appears to take place in the here and now.Maybe I’m taking it all too personally. As someone working in journalism, my response to all those cheerful “shopaholic” jokes […]
Sandra Bell Lundy’s “Between Friends” is often autobiographical, at least to the extent of reflecting what’s on her mind. But occasionally it also reflects what’s going on in her life, and the current arc as Kim ponders a return to college is something she is also doing.I’m very supportive of this, in large part because […]
Matt Bors salutes the ignorantification of America.When this story broke, my reaction was that it was a sign of how badly things are going for hard-copy reference works like the Oxford English Dictionary, whose mass-market spinoff edition had apparently slipped a cog in this brazen display of media-courting. I used my OED just last week, […]
See you all back here on Nov 29th.Happy Thanksgiving!