Posted on: April 30, 2012

Scott Adams on a recently killed Dilbert strip: My editor thinks this comic is inappropriate for newspapers. He might be right. You won’t see this one published anywhere else.

Today kicks off a four-week story-line in Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean around the topic of a gay couple wanting to attend prom together. I reviewed the series last week. I’ve scanned the news this morning looking for newspapers who are telling their readers that they’ve pulled the strip or moved it off the comics pages, […]

Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch out For and creator/author of the graphic memoir Fun Home, has a new book out entitled Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. The New York Times gives it a favorable review:Bechdel weaves emotional honesty with highbrow deliberation in a way that is never burdensome, and mostly light. […]

Matt Wuerker on the inability of the media to focus on any but the low-hanging, sparkly fruit.Granted, the GSA scandal is easy coverage, since there’s no possible justification for the wretched excess involved, and I suspect that, if they had gone to Seattle, stayed in penthouse suites and gorged on Kobe beef and caviar while […]

One of the issues in comics, as in TV sitcoms, is how you work with the basic concept over an extended period without going stale.I mention TV because I heard an interview with Garry Marshall on Weekend Edition yesterday, and Scott Simon asked him to comment on how Henry Winkler’s character took over on “Happy Days.”I might […]

Having just gone off on hackneyed media images of kids, I should dock Jeff Danziger for this depiction of lazy slackers, but I’m gonna give him a pass on a ruling of mutual satiric sarcasm.His defense is the jolly promises of the nice man in the truck. If he can joke about the jobs, he […]

Here’s the last Draw Something. Again, guess the word being depicted (using the letters provided) and the artist. The possible artists are: Jason Chatfield Mike Cope Stacy Curtis Chris Eliopoulos Shannon Wheeler Visit their website if you need to see what their drawing style is like.

Here’s the seventh Draw Something. Again, guess the word being depicted (using the letters provided) and the artist. The possible artists are: Jason Chatfield Mike Cope Stacy Curtis Chris Eliopoulos Shannon Wheeler Visit their website if you need to see what their drawing style is like.

Henry Kuo developed a website that displays the first frame of a comic. I created Just the First Frame to be the best way to discover comics on the web. Two opposing issues surround web comics today: discoverability (sharing) and copyright infringement. I believe that showing only the first frame of each comic elegantly solves […]

According to an article on pinknews.co.uk (Europe?s Largest Gay News Network), Action Comics writer Grant Morrison says the Batman character is gay. “Gayness is built into Batman,” he said, adding, “I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he’s […]

Here’s the sixth Draw Something. Again, guess the word being depicted (using the letters provided) and the artist. The possible artists are: Jason Chatfield Mike Cope Stacy Curtis Chris Eliopoulos Shannon Wheeler Visit their website if you need to see what their drawing style is like.

News from IDW: One of the most famous comic-strip characters of all time appears in new comic-book adventures starting this week. Popeye the Sailor, created by E.C. Segar and first appearing in the comic strip “Thimble Theatre” in January 1929, is starring in new comic-book stories from IDW Publishing.

Here’s the fifth Draw Something. Again, guess the word being depicted (using the letters provided) and the artist. The possible artists are: Jason Chatfield Mike Cope Stacy Curtis Chris Eliopoulos Shannon Wheeler Visit their website if you need to see what their drawing style is like.

Here’s the fourth Draw Something. Again, guess the word being depicted (using the letters provided) and the artist. The possible artists are: Jason Chatfield Mike Cope Stacy Curtis Chris Eliopoulos Shannon Wheeler Visit their website if you need to see what their drawing style is like.

For those in the Connecticut area: Gil Thorp, popularly regarded as an “always trying to do the right thing” kind of guy, has been known throughout the area, and beyond, for more than half a century. And now, fans of the “Milford High coach” and those who would like to get acquainted will have an […]