Anne Hambrock who works on her husband’s strip The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has announced that she’s organized a new comic festival called the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. The project started when Carthage College Gallery Director inquired about bringing John Read’s “One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages” to Kenosha and Anne opted to […]
IO9’s Cyriaque Lamar caught up with Bone creator Jeff Smith to talk about his 20th anniversary and RASL. When did you know you could keep going with the series? The first issue of Bone shipped 20 years ago this month, so this is our twentieth anniversary. I think it was really when we made the […]
The Om Nom character from the iPhone game Cut the Rope is getting it’s own digital comic. The hero of the game, the little green candy muncher Om Nom is getting his own digital comic. The comics will be designed by Ape Entertainment and are set to hit the Apple App Store in late August. […]
Jen Sorensen isn’t the first cartoonist to work with the concept that the president has gone too far for too little, or that the Republicans are being not simply stubborn but purposefully obstructive. But I like the blandness of this Slowpoke, the way the matter-of-fact depictions clash with the absurd demands they illustrate.There are aspects […]
Daryl Cagle points out that Times of London editorial cartoonist Peter Brookes is being accused of providing “pro-Murdoch propaganda” for a cartoon he drew featuring starving Somalians with the caption, “I’ve had a bellyful of phone-hacking…” It’s important to note that the Times of London is a Rupert Murdock owned newspaper. Regardless, Twitter went ablaze […]
King Features Syndicate has rolled out a new design for their corporate website. The new design is a great improvement over their older site. Better navigation and layout.Those hoping to read their favorite comics on the site however will be disappointed. You still need to subscribe to their DailyInk or download their DailyInk app for […]
Penny Arcade is one of the major commercial successes in web comics. I realize “commercial success” can sound condescending in some contexts, but I mean it in a complimentary sense here: The strip is well-drawn, breaks some rules and attracts the kind of geek audience that hangs out on the Internets. In addition, its creators […]
Stick with me on this one, because, while for most visitors here, South Africa is a world away geographically and pretty remote in other ways as well, the ongoing squabbles between cartoonist Zapiro and President Jacob Zuma are an important study in press freedom and responsible political commentary.The latest news is that, although Zuma was […]
Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts may hit the big screen. Hollywood Reporter reports Patrick and his brother Robert have been hired to write the script for a feature-length film to be released through 20th Century Fox.
A quick return to “Big Nate,” because, having escaped with his life from Junior Lifesaving training, Nate has now joined the summer book club down at the library. He’s there for the snacks, but, as you see, he’s about to read a book.Or pretend to. We’ll see.At some point, perhaps in just a few weeks, […]
Agnes is a quiet little strip that delivers a chuckle on its worst days and, on its best, the horrified giggle you get by watching someone about to blunder into a travesty of your own most feared social anxieties. Sort of like watching Mannix walk into a dark room and knowing that he’s about to […]
I’m changing hosting environments. If you’re seeing this message, you’re on the old server and in the next couple of hours/days when you come back, you’ll be on the new server.I should note that any comments left after 9:45 pm (MST) on this older server will not be updated on the new.I’m looking forward to […]
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond is self publishing a new book entitled, “The Mad Art of Caricature!.” The book is 170+ pages and contains hundreds of illustrations, step-by-step techniques, tips, and in-depth theories on the art caricature. Book ships in September, but he’s taking pre-orders now with options of signed copies, copies with original art […]
The World has posted a slideshow of a female Egyptian editorial cartoonist Doaa Eladl. The editorial cartooning community is largely male dominated and women in the field are even more rare in the Middle East.Visit the slideshow.Hat Tip: Mike Rhode
A commission with a really, really long name (“Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities”) has taken issue with Jonathan Shapiro’s (AKA Zapiro) continued use of a shower head drawn above South Africa President Jacob Zuma. The group calls it “culturally, religiously and linguistically unprecedented to attack […]