Drew Friedman posted this wonderful Hershfeld classic on his Facebook page:And my immediate reaction was that it looked like a contest waiting to be launched. So here’s an annotated version:Make your best guesses. Here’s my list, and it is not complete or at all canonical. Please add, or disagree.
Farhad Manjoo, writing on Slate.com, isn’t impressed with the Pulitzer Prize going to editorial cartooning and argues that the award should go to really good political infographics. The backwardness of political cartoons is especially evident when you compare them to the bounty of new forms of graphical political commentary on the Web. My Facebook and […]
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and the Mellon Residential Fellowship Program for Arts Practice and Scholarship will be presenting an academic conference with some of the biggest names in comics: Lynda Barry,Alison Bechdel, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Justin Green, Ben Katchor, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, […]
As I mentioned on Tuesday, Ann Hambrock is going the route of Kickstarter to raise money to fund her second annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. Today that Kickstarter project opens for funding. Please head over and pledge.
FoxTrot Pad PacksFoxTrot creator Bill Amend recently released three short ebooks with about 100 curated FoxTrot strips through the iTunes Book Store. He’s getting a lot of attention from Mac blogs such as The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MacGasm, and even a mention by the venerable John Gruber of DaringFireball.One of the latest is from TechCrunch: […]
Yesterday, I added little to Darrin Bell’s cartoon because it would have dulled the point of his commentary.Today, I can add little to Mike Baldwin’s Cornered because there’s nothing much to add except that it really, really cracked me up in the best possible way … after a pause.And then every time I looked at […]