Yesterday I kicked off the annual donation drive with the goal to raising the equivalent of a minimum wage compensation ($7.25/hr). At the end of the yesterday I tallied it up, divided by the estimated number of hours per year and came up with $1.45/hour. Which isn’t bad as that is approximately 20% of the […]
Marla is a gem, but today’s Retail is a reminder of how well working in the mall helps young people understand the world of employment.The relationship between the mall office and individual tenants can occasionally be fraught. The real relationship, of course, is between the mall ownership and the store ownership, neither of whom are […]
If you haven’t made it a weekly read, I encourage you to bookmark and visit the Gil “Road to Syndication” blog maintained by King Features editor Brendan Burford and Gil (and Retail) creator Norm Feuti. This week they’re talking about how to take a rough character (Gil’s father) that worked well on the web and […]
I found a couple changes for this week:The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee is now the guest cartoonist in the Seattle Times. Dustin has replaced Peanuts in a paper that belongs to the KPC News chain in Indiana. It’s hard to tell from the joint news site, so Dustin is in one or more of […]
I mentioned last year that Sony Pictures was developing a 3D CG version of Popeye. Maybe “developing” was a bit of a stretch in the original Coming Soon post. Comic book resources has hired the guys (Jay Scherick and David Ronn) behind the recent Smurf movie to write the script.There’s no release date projected. I’m […]
Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot is on her way to Haiti to join 450 other volunteers for Habitat for Humanity. The group plans to build 100 homes in Leogane. Due to lack of internet, she plans to tweet her experiences. I’m posting her initial ones below (most recent to older tweets):This build is on land […]
I was kind of hoping to lessen the political stuff in the mix, but today’s Candorville is irresistable.Darrin Bell must have some short deadlines, but, in any case, he rolled the dice and won with this one, since Cain has not yet manned up and faced the situation. A fine, fine job of anticipating the […]
I skipped the donation drive last year. I spent quite a lot of time reflecting if the blog was the best use of my time. Quite honestly for several weeks I considered walking away – even going as far as researching how to sell the blog and writing a draft announcing that it was going […]
I suspect that the kids who had Lincoln Peirce as an art teacher or coach in high school had a pretty good time. He seems to have a good sense of their lives.Big Nate is immensely popular with middle-school kids, and I suspect it’s because Peirce remembers what it was like, but, rather than totally […]
John Sherffius, of late the cartoonist for the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado, makes a statement that doesn’t involve a lot of fireworks or snark, but which seems sensible and very worth saying.There have been a couple of those lately, not so much from the ranks of editorial cartoonists as in the form of signs […]
A Kickstarter project has been started to raise $30,000 for a statue of Harvey Pekar to be placed the Cleveland Heights public library, a place Harvey often would go to work. Harvey’s connection to the library and librarians he loved is described in this last video, as well. But, if you really did read all […]
I don’t always agree with Ted Rall’s black-and-white, hero-or-villain view of politics, but I like this cartoon a lot.It puts me in mind of Canadian comedian/performance artist Sandra Shamas, who used to talk about going to the Woolworth’s in Sudbury as a kid to interpret for her Lebanese-born mother and grandmother, who were under the […]
Susie Cagle, the lone comic/graphic journalist reporting in the Occupy Oakland protest, has been released from jail last night after being charged with a misdemeanor “present at raid”. She has been covering the protests for the last three weeks and despite having her credentials out in plain sight and even recognized by one of the […]
Michael Cavna writes about the cartoon that the Occupy Wall Street ran in their own newspaper. As The Post’s Elizabeth Flock has noted, Freedom Plaza’s Occupy D.C. protestors on Tuesday published their own “official” newspaper, titled The Occupied Washington Post . (No affiliation to our humble news outlet up the street, natch.) And on Page-6 […]
From Comics Beat: Diamond has signed with Rovio, maker of the game sensation Angry Birds, to distribute their growing line of books ? presumably by launching them from a slingshot through the windows of comics shops, bookstores and mass market retailers around the world. A worldwide sensation, the Angry Birds game has been downloaded over […]