A Letter to the Editor in the Baltimore Sun: Lately, I have become increasingly put off by Stephan Pastis’ comic strip, Pearls Before Swine. I enjoy reading the strip but it seems lately there has been a lot more swearing by his characters. The problem I have is that my three children read every comic […]
Interesting post over at Comics Alliance. Charles Forsman got our attention last fall when he imagined Raiders of the Lost Ark in the style of Popeye, but the Snake Oil creator’s latest movie/comic strip remix casting Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws might be even more endearing. Though he’s a fan of the […]
PVP creator Scott Kurtz and Penny Arcade creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins have launched a new webcomic called The Trenches. It’s described as one that “documents the tribulations of software testing with the precision tools of ‘the office comedy.’” Those in the game testing community are welcome to submit their horror stories and some […]
Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune does a fine job of summing up the disappointment of Obama supporters.Yesterday, I wrote about the futility of thinking voters are going to sit down, rationally consider all the candidates on their merits and then make a choice based on an objective and thoughtful assessment of the nation’s […]
Don Asmussen sets himself a tough task with “Bad Reporter” — making three terse, funny, insightful, thematically-linked gags on the same day. He doesn’t nail all three every time, but, my, it’s lovely when he does.With the next presidential campaign just kicking off, we’re in a particularly target-rich environment right now, particularly with the emerging […]
The Philadelphia Daily News and The Inquirer have allegedly cut at least 10 comics between them and raised the newsstand price of their paper. According to Philebrity.com, the Inquirer has cut Sally Forth, Overboard, Non Sequitur, Hagar the Horrible, Rex Morgan M.D., Ziggy, and Lio. In the Sunday edition, they also removed Dilbert. The Daily […]
The drama in Renton WA over a series of animated videos mocking the local police department has taken a twist. A county judge has blocked the police search for the anonymous “cartoonist” (AKA “Mrfuddlesticks”) after a Seattle attorney filed a motion to quash the previous two search warrants on the grounds that the police department […]
Jake Parker has posted a map of the “known world” for those who call themselves visual storytellers. Click through to his blog for a larger view of the map and his narrative of options for storytellers.The visual storyteller; part artist, part writer. Some favor the visual, others favor the word, but all of them convey […]
Posted on the Washington Post:It’s moving pretty fast. Did anyone catch what he was coloring with?H/T: Mike Rhode
Got a couple million you want to invest in real estate? A custom home built by Walt Disney in 1932 is up for sale as is a home 1949 home owned by Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. The former Schulz home is being described as 7,894-square-foot, 6-bedroom home in Sonoma County. It was purchased by Charles […]
Tom Racine has posted video of his interviews with Brad Guigar (Evil, Inc.) and Dave Kellett (Sheldon, Drive).http://talltalefeatures.com/2011/08/07/brad-guigar-and-dave-kellett-sdcc-2011/ Other that he’s interviewed of late include Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry, Joe Murray, creator of Rocko’s Modern Life and Camp Lazlo on Nickelodeon and David Lloyd creator of V for Vendetta
Syndicated editorial cartoonist Lisa Benson has responded to complaints that a recent cartoon of hers depicting how California is being redistricted is racist. My intent was to show how the redistricting commission set out to draw boundaries which didn’t pander to party affiliation, but ended up giving special consideration to “communities of interest” and protecting […]
When yesterday’s “Little Dog Lost” featured the tortoise reading the first verse of this poem to the tender-hearted dog, I thought to myself, if he’s upset by that, it’s a good thing nobody ever reads the rest of it.And here we are.Old Mother Hubbard is a very funny poem, but I can see why modern […]
Robert Crumb was supposed to be the headlining appearance at the Graphic arts festival in Sydney, but the cartoonist has opted to not go after The Sunday Telegraph described him as a “self-confessed sex pervert” and a “very warped human being.”The newspaper’s story on July 31 featured the headline “Cult genius or filthy weirdo”. In […]
An interesting development in the latest chapter of the Renton Police Department trying to find the identify of the person posting videos mocking them for alleged misconduct. According to KIRO-TV, the police department kind of shopped the case around trying to find a prosecutor’s office that would move an investigation forward.The Prosecutor’s Office said it […]