Despite great fame and fortune of creating and producing the longest running and most successful TV animation program in history, Matt Groening has quietly been drawing his alternative comic strip Life in Hell each week for 32 years. Until last week. He tell’s USA Today that the decision was to free up his time for […]
Casey Johnston (writing on ArsTechnica) has one of the best plain english pieces on why Funky Junk attorney Charles Carreon has named Indiegogo, National Wildlife Federation and to the American Cancer Society in his suit against Matthew Inman.The charges against Inman’s fundraising may be the most serious, but they’re also the oddest. Carreon says that […]
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One of the criticism of the iPad when launched was that it was a device only for consuming content and not creating it. Yesterday Microsoft stepped into the tablet market announcing Microsoft Surface. The new tablet will be running the yet-to-launch Windows 8 OS and will be a full PC experience for its users. Where […]
Sheldon, once more, provides a bit of sea anchor for a world seriously adrift.Note that a sea anchor doesn’t stop the drift entirely. It just slows it down. And, in this case, it may be a case of dangling a piece of dental floss off the side of the ship for all the good it […]
Charles Carreon, the lawyer originally hired by FunnyJunk to threaten Matthew Inman with a federal defamation lawsuit, has field a suit representing himself against Matthew, Indiegogo (the website where Matthew has raised nearly $200,000 for the National Wildlife Federation, and the American Cancer Society – AND named both charities in the suit. The suit alleges […]
Robot6 reports that the proposed Ohio license plate recognizing Superman and his Ohio connection to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster won’t include the phrase “Birthplace of Superman” after DC Comics objected stating that Superman’s birthplace was Krypton. Also reported was the news the license plate did not make it through the state’s Senate transportation committee […]
Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett was invited by the State Department to tour China and give lectures and presentations on editorial cartooning in America. He’s written four briefs of his activities and impressions while traveling there. This one from his last one dated June 14: The Shanghai schedule has been packed with EXTREMELY IMPORTANT […]
Last week we saw Matthew Inman’s response to the legal threat of defamation by FunnyJunk attorney Charles Carreon by mocking his demand for $20,000 and starting a fundraising effort – not to pay the legal fees but to instead raise $20,000 for the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society. To date, Matthew has […]
Finally, a cartoonist sensibly captures the economic problems of the European Union.Petar Pismestrovic avoids prescription in favor of description, which I think is wise in that most cartoonists don’t know very much about macroeconomics and so just end up parroting a party line about austerity or the need for spending or whatever the objects of […]
Rhymes With Orange is in contention for CSOTD so often that I’m kind of disappointed today was such a landslide.This is a funny, insightful and affectionate little salute to fathers and I wish it had been a tougher choice, because it wouldn’t have changed the outcome.Father’s Day cartoons, by and large, are treated like an […]
Some places currently worth hanging out …I’ve praised Scott Stantis several times for proving that a conservative can be funny, a point not convincingly made since Jeff MacNelly died. But if you haven’t been paying attention to Prickly City, this would be a good time to tune in.Kevin, the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, is […]
Here’s a must read for any cartoonist contemplating creating and selling an ebook of their cartoons on Amazon’s Kindle market.Andrew Hyde, an self-published author, recently released his book “This Book About Travel” as an Apple iBook, Kindle ebook, Nook ebook, and as a downloadable PDF. He did all the usual self-promotion, built a website, engaged […]
Australian political cartoonist Larry Pickering says he is banned from Facebook for three days after complaints about a recent cartoon depicting a naked Prime Minister Julia Gillard with a strap-on dildo saying “You’ll wake up on July 1st and nothing will have changed” (speaking of a carbon tax). He was threatened with permanent banning if […]
My sons and I have talked football since they were old enough to talk about anything at all, but my younger and I found a new subject area the other day, and Drew Sheneman’s cartoon pretty much captures it.I love football. People who think it’s just a bunch of really big guys knocking hell out […]