And you thought Richard Thompson only dredged up long-suppressed memories of pre-school!Today’s Cul-de-Sac explores the last day of big-kid school by bringing back tortured memories of the locker bay, with comicdom’s favorite neurotic kid epitomizing the neurotic kid we all become when we think too hard about lockers. It’s a salute to Petey’s limited savoire […]
The Comics Journal reviews Fantagraphics’ soon to be release of “Willie & Joe: Back Home” – the follow up book to the 700 page + “Willie & Joe: The WWII Years” collection. The first year or so of his post WWII strips continue to follow Willie and Joe in civilian life. Willie is back with […]
The New York Times has sent an email to earlier contributors to their Week in Review section that they will no longer be publishing editorial cartoons and instead run its “own cartoon feature” similar to that of a longer form comic strip or graphic novel.The revamped Week in Review section is slated to debut on […]
Earlier I linked to another mashup-up site taking Peanuts characters and matching them with tweets. Tumblr, the hosting company for the mashup received a letter from Iconix Brand Group who holds the copyright for Charles Schulz creation, ordering the company to take down the site because it violated copyright. Tumblr removed the site.T. Jason Agnello, […]
Steve Breen, the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, has released an iPhone app for little kids. The app is called Hungry Monster and is played by feeding a yellow monster various types of food which evoke a different reaction from the monster.From the iTunes description: Feed Sydney a banana and […]
Steve Kelley on the annual “Boy, Our Kids Are Stupid” scandal, in which we wring our hands over how little our kids know about history and then go back to talking about the important topics of the day. This year, it is Anthony Weiner’s weiner, which continues to resonate throughout the media.(In the news cycle, […]
Here are the results of the survey that ran last Thursday. Here in 2011 – nearly a decade and a half after newspaper’s began putting content on line for free – the results aren’t that surprising.In my household, we subscribe to a paper (I started the subscription the day the Rocky Mountain News closed), but […]
Joe Martin’s Mr. Boffo is one of several cartoons he does, each a different expression of a very funny world view combined with a talent for build-ups to punchlines like this. The unifying principle is the bland assurance that the speaker is perfectly sane and normal. Even when it’s predictable, it’s funny.And I’ll admit I […]
As KAL notes, the campaign has started.I moved to New Hampshire so late in October, 2008, that, before I left Maine, I voted there by proxy, since I didn’t know any of the local issues in my new home-to-be. I wasn’t in the Granite State long enough to get new plates for the car […]
Brian Fies was one the organizers for the second annual Comics & Medicine 2011 conference in Chicago. He’s posted a thorough run down of the conference on his blogKaren and I made it home from the second international “Comics & Medicine” conference in Chicago–or, as one of our participants called it, “the Coolest Conference on […]
The Irish Times reports that Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau was given an honorary doctorate for his cartooning career by the University College Dublin.
Dilbert creator Scott Adams must be bored again. His latest blog post is causing a stir after he lists “tweeting, raping, cheating, and being offensive to just about everyone in the entire world” as being part of the male nature. If you have a round peg that doesn’t fit in a square hole, do you […]
\MAD Magazine has launched a blog called “The Idiotical.” It has the same line of humor as the magazine but the content is heavy on Photoshopped images.
Jeff Keane wrapped up 2 terms as President of the National Cartoonists Society. Only three other individuals in the history of the society have served more than one term. Jeff was gracious enough to submit to a few questions reviewing his tenure.Alan: Of the 34 presidents so far, only four have served more than one […]
(Dealing with a computer crash. In lieu of a new cartoon, please enjoy this article and a contemporaneous cartoon on the same topic. Apparently, it’s always been hard to monetize a medium once it has become established as a playground for geeks.)Sarnoff says public will not pay for radio programs(December 28, 1923)With the general trend […]