An education fund has been set up for Rex Babin’s son through Bank of America and McClatchy Employees Credit Union. From the AAEC:There are now two ways to donate to the “Sebastian Babin Education Fund.” One account has been set up at the Bank of America, 555 Capitol Ave., Sacramento, 95814. Individuals wishing to contribute, […]
NCS President and MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond gives a play by play of using the new MAD Magazine iPad app. As usual, when Tom gives a review of a product, it’s quite detailed.
Keith Knight, in (Th)ink, brings up what seems like an obvious contradiction. Or paradox. Or simple case of hypocrisy. Joel Pett elaborates on the theme, taking it out of the courtroom and into the streets, or, at least, onto the steps of the courthouse.Most commentators seemed to have locked on to the broccoli thing, with […]
Michael Heaton of The Plain Dealer interviews Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk about the 40 year anniversary of his feature.Is there one story line that stands out in your mind? That would be “Lisa’s Story.” I sometimes will go back and read that book and wonder who wrote it. How do you respond to those […]
Former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial cartoonist Stuart Carlson has launched a comic on GoComics with Jerry Resler, a retired editor and reporter for the Sentinel. The feature is called Gray Matters.On Stuart’s blog, he described the feature as:“Gray matters” follows the life and foibles of Elmer “Gray” Grayson and his family, friends and co-workers. Gray […]
The Knight Life creator Keith Knight is planning on creating his first graphic novel of his teen years as a Michael Jackson impersonator. Visit his Kickstarter page to learn more. He’s almost funded with only three days left.
I’ve featured Sarah Laing’s blog enough times that I hesitate before citing it again simply because I suppose that, if you like this sort of thing, you’ve got it bookmarked for regular visits on your own. And if you don’t, well, then today turns into “Is he going on about her again?”Indeed he is, because […]
Rex’s cartoons sometimes were so different that I would wonder how the hell he got there. While I was dutifully executing a candidate standing at a lectern (boring, tedious), he might be meticulously rendering a 1700s Parisian street scene as a metaphor for the California budget. Oh, and there was a perfect Gov. Ahnolt in […]
The NY Post reports that the addictive Angry Birds game is coming to television as animated 3 minute shorts. No news on where on television, but the strategy is to produce the shorts for tv, and mobile devices. ” ‘Angry Birds’ is not just about the gameplay, and will be in the future less and […]
I’m looking forward to this one.
According to Guinness World Records, the book title with the longest title goes to an Indian author who wrote a book on the idiosyncracies of the English language. The book title was 5,633 characters. Coming in second place has to be Stephan’s new book Because Sometimes You Just Gotta Draw a Cover with Your Left […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial cartoonist Tony Auth said good bye to his readers yesterday after 40 years with the paper.Creed Black, my editor, was a moderate Republican. He’d not be welcome in today’s Republican Party, but that was a long time ago, in what seems like a far away galaxy. Creed would never tell me […]
Thomas Yeates debuted yesterday as the new artist for Prince Valiant. I tend to be more prone to dissect stories than go into detail on artwork, but the art has always been a critical element in Prince Valiant.Yeates (I find) has drawn swords before, not like Mercutio but in the sense relevant to this blog. […]
King Features comic editor Brendan Burford announced that yesterday was Prince Valiant artist Gary Gianni last strip and that Thomas Yeates will no draw the iconic classic feature.Mark Schultz will continue to pen the series.Correction: The headline when originally posted stated that Mark Schultz was the new artist. Headline has been corrected.
Tom Toles, with a retrospective of sorts that ought to scare some sense into those who would rather not vote at all than vote for a candidate with whom they don’t agree on every item, or who doesn’t do exactly everything they hoped he would.Message to the Purists: Someone is going to get elected, whether […]