Frazz stirs up memories of real-life Calvinball, and all the games I’d play on my own. Some were dumb, some were inventive, all were fun.And playing alone was pretty much a choice. There were plenty of kids in our neighborhood and most of them were home after school and on weekends. Plus, my little brother […]
No surprise that political cartoonists are commenting on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. There are roughly a kazillion panels at Daryl Cagle’s site if you want to sort through them. (And, yes, they are still there even if you don’t want to sort through them.)About half of them appear to have […]
Hogan’s Alley has posted over 250 photos from this year’s Reuben Award Weekend in Las Vegas. Photographer is David Folkman who was rarely seen not looking through the camera that weekend.
Tall Tale Radio podcaster Tom Racine noticed several similarities between scenes in the trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s new movie Ted and Lucas Turnbloom’s webcomic Imagine This. Tom created a side-by-side comparison of some of the images from the trailer with Imagine This. You can see some similarities. Click for larger viewBut the question boils down […]
This Jim Morin cartoon actually popped up a couple of days ago, but political cartoons get a little latitude on the “of the Day” factor here, since they are, for the most part, intended to last at least a couple of days or maybe even a week.I really like it because I remember Whitewater as […]
From a trusted source I’ve learned that that there has been a couple of leadership changes inside Universal Uclick. Lee Salem has announced that he has relinquished his title of Editor. He started with the company since 1974 as an assistant editor before rising through the ranks to President in 2006. Since then he has […]
The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and local fire fighters are calling foul to a recent cartoon by Andy Marlette depicting firefighters hosing down two African-Americans with a caption that reads, “Don’t worry, since they laid off all the journalists in Alabama we can get away with this kind of stuff again!” The cartoon […]
In his last animation at Daily Kos before the elections (which is good for him, I guess, but feels kind of like having the surgeon scrub out just as the tricky part of the operation is beginning), Scott Bateman takes an actual Mitt Romney speech and adds a few MST3000 style wiseass comments in the margins: Which is […]
The Comics Journal ran a sneak peak of an interview between Gary Groth and “Where the Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak, where it’s revealed that Maurice thought about assassinating President George Bush and Vice President Dick Chenney with a suicide bomb and said the act would have been a “very brave and wonderful thing.” […]
University of Michigan Press is publishing “American Newspaper Comics, An Encyclopedic Reference Guide” by comic strip historian Allan Holtz. The book will be 624 pages with over 3,100 color and B&W comic strips.The description:From its earliest appearance in the 1890s, the newspaper comic strip has told the story of America, from the Irish ghetto of […]
The Washington Examiner has announced that they’re reworking their editorial page after the loss of Nate Beeler who took a job with the Columbus Dispatch. Their revamp includes not only NOT filling Nate’s position, but removing all cartoons and comics from the editorial page.Starting today, the Washington Examiner has a new weapon in its ongoing […]
Rob Tornoe reports that The Washington Post has merged two of it’s properties – The Washington Post Writers Group and The Washington Post News Service into one media service called The Washington Post News Media Services. Here’s how Rob explains it:The Washington Post took a major step forward to combat these trends by creating The […]
The final tally of Matthew Inman’s fundraiser for National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society is $220,024 – 11 times more than the $20,000 he hoped to raise in response to a legal defamation threat by FunnyJunk.com. Over 14,000 individuals donated money to the campaign. On the legal front, after being sued by Charles […]
Clay Bennett with yet another example of excellent draftsmanship combined with the right concept. It’s not a terribly common combination. It’s frustrating to see good art wasted in the service of a so-what concept, or, worse, one that can’t quite be made out. But it’s also a shame when a really good idea is only half-realized […]
And if ever an idea pops into your head without having to dig for it – and this sometimes happens – it’s rarely usable straight out of the gate. Ideas need to go through a process of development to become usable, and sellable. Those tools I’ve mentioned are in fact actual methods used to do […]