The blurb in the rail includes “made me think” as one of the criteria for being here, and Jeff Stahler’s cartoon did make me think.I’ve got a rather large bone to pick with him, however, in that, while this is a spectacularly bad time to be in the job market, there is nothing particularly special […]
Dubbed the top 10 college newspaper comic by Online College Courses, the list includes Alex Cline’s Scrambled Eggs, John Vestevich, Rashad Baiyasi’s Comics by Rashad, Sean Polyn’s Shallow Grave, Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher and Deeper, Nate Beeler, Josh Ferrin, Bill Watterson, Tony Carillo’s F-Minus. You’ll note several of these individuals have gone on to bigger […]
Bloomingdale’s has licensed Beetle Bailey and Popeye the Sailor to be featured on a limited-edition merchandise line of clothing. From Oct. 1 through Jan. 31, Bloomingdale?s will have special boutiques dedicated to the major retail program in-store and will feature the product on bloomingdales.com. The Beetle Bailey and Popeye collection will feature 52 SKUs of […]
Harish Yadav who goes by the pen name Mussaveer was arrested last week for drawing a cartoon about the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s refusal to wear a skull cap during the fast in Ahmedabad. He was arrested under the Indian Penal Code that punish for “deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings […]
Cathy creator Cathy Guisewite is heading back to her hometown to be honored for “Voices: Extraordinary Women of Midland County.” The local paper interviewed her about this last year not doing the comic strip. Her strip a year ago yesterday.“It’s been a very weird, very great year, completely mothering my daughter through her last year […]
Matt Wuerker on the inability of the media to focus on anything that matters.The potential candidacy of NJ Governor Chris Christie has brought some new life to the increasingly odd Republican presidential campaign, but the only reason I know who he is, is that I happen to follow a cartoonist or two or three who […]
Last week I linked to an number of news stories regarding tablet computers including Amazon’s new Kindle Fire and how newspapers are considering giving away or subsidizing tablets to long-term subscribers. Comic Book Resources reports that DC Comics has inked a deal with Amazon to offer several graphic novels and collection editions formatted specific to […]
A movie based on the popular webcomic PhD has been made and is being screened at university campuses across North America this fall. Jorge Cham, PhD creator worked with the Theater Arts at Caltech to make the movie.The project is unique in that it was produced entirely by members of the Caltech community, with actual […]
Beloved children’s book writer, illustrator Shel Silverstein passed away 1999, but his family is releasing a new book of previously unprinted material entitled Every Thing On It The material is described as material Shel liked “but never had a place for in his other collections.”
This is not a comic strip, but I am claiming personal privilege to feature it because (A) I want to and (B) you’ll be glad I did. It’s a quick read that will stick to your ribs.Dylan Meconis and I go back to 2005, when I was working on a serialized collection of mythology for […]
Boy, if only it were.The New Adventures of Queen Victoria draws upon the Book of Konigsberg to refute the muddled preaching of Pat Robertson.Of course, Pat Robertson has long been gold for political cartoonists. Here’s a piece I did in 2005, when I was producing educational features for the paper and good old Pat was […]
In today’s “Tina’s Groove,” Tina contemplates the lure of signing up to be cyber-stalked in exchange for making a comment that will instantly melt within an ocean of comments or will go unread by anyone on a story that she alone cares about.Once she signs up to be a member, of course, she will belong […]
I’ve just received word that Charles Brooks, Sr. best known as editor of the Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year passed away last night. He will be buried in Birmingham on Monday. He was a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and editorial cartoonist for The Birmingham News for 38 years. The […]
This past March, artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis took over Dick Tracy and brought it back from a level of conceptual chaos that had gradually gone beyond appealing camp into unreadable nonsense.Over the past half year, they’re returned it to a basic cops-and-robbers strip with shorter, more coherent plot lines and villains […]
From the BBC:Prosecutors in Norway have charged three men with conspiracy to commit terrorism in connection with the 2005 Prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy. The three are accused of planning to attack Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published his cartoons.