I suppose this counts as more of a “classic” than a “comic strip of the day,” since it’s not new. But I hadn’t seen it before Mark Anderson posted a blog entry yesterday entitled “Business Cartoons You Don’t Want in Your Employees’ Cubicles.” Good title. Confucius asked, “How can one be said truly to love who […]
The Cartoon Art Musuem in San Francisco is wrapping up its “What, Me Worry?” 60 Years of MAD Magazine exhibit in a couple of weeks. Giving it an appropriate send off. We’re celebrating and saying farewell to one of our most popular exhibits, “What, Me Worry?” 60 Years of MAD Magazine which ends September 16th. […]
The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman is fundraising again. This time he’s thrown his weight behind an effort to purchase Nikola Tesla’s old laboratory and turn it into a museum. Here’s how The Christian Science Monitor describes how Matthew got involved: Then this summer Alcorn learned that Matthew Inman, a cartoonist who runs theoatmeal.com, posted a tribute […]
For any strips with families, and certainly for any that feature kids in starring roles, back-to-school cartoons are one of those tiresome annual required arcs, most of which can be safely ignored, except that then you’d miss a headspinner like today’s Agnes.Much of what makes this work is that it uses the concept of back-to-school […]
Brad Diller’s salute to marital empathy and engagement in Funday Morning struck me at the right moment. I’ve been streaming Netflix while doing dishes recently, and, in particular, the “American Experience” series on presidents. Apparently, finding a spouse who even knows what you do for a living, much less gives a rat’s patootie about it — […]
Pat Bagley notes the plight of a soldier in a war with no direction and that calls upon no American to sacrifice except him. The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I’m really sorry, guys. Wish I had more to offer than “You’re not the first.” In 1985 […]
What a great project. Hope the Cartoon Art Museum can raise what it needs to make the exhibit possible.
Arctic Circle creator Alex Hallatt is celebrating five years in syndication with her strip. The strip was actually created in 1992, but didn’t appear in newspapers until 2007 after it ran as a guest strip in the Australian Rural Press. King Features picked it up in 2007. An eBook is also in the works.
Todd Akin’s remarks on “legitimate rape” provided the kind of moment you know will spawn a thousand editorial cartoons. I wanted to give it a few days to swirl, because it didn’t seem like the sort of cartooning prompt that was going to produce good work in a short period.And, true enough, the first few […]
From the Washington Post: In a move that wasted $1.2 million in printing costs, the Postal Service produced 1 billion of “The Simpsons” stamps. It sold 318 million. A Postal Service inspector general’s report singled out the overproduction of stamps marking the 20th anniversary of the cartoon as an example of failing to align stamp […]
Interesting find in France. After the screening (which went over well with the audience, thanks!), Bernard, Reed and I had a moment to chat, and, naturally, we discussed Kirby and the checklist. Bernard told us he remembered an obscure Kirby Western that came out in the late 1960s. As we weren’t familiar with it, two […]
It’s not uncommon for a comic strip to reveal its lead time by riffing on a specific event.But the only conclusion to be drawn from today’s comics page is that somebody left a huge tank of silly uncorked a few weeks ago and cartoonists inhaled the fumes in large numbers. Most of these don’t inspire […]
Des Moines will honor Jay N. ‘Ding’ Darling – the twice Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. Ding died 50 years ago and is being remembered for his cartooning as well as his environmental activism. Ding helped form the National Wildlife Foundation and the Wildlife Management Institute.On October 23, a new […]
The Columbus Dispatch talks to Bone creator Jeff Smith about his RASL series and the projects he’s working on after it. Q: So what are you working on these days? A: I’ve mostly been recovering. The end of a huge project can be pretty nerve-racking… . I wasn’t taking any breaks and working nearly 20 […]
Great interview by Rob Tornoe talking to Life in Hell creator Matt Groening on the recent retirement of his strip. Among the gems is a disclosure on the real reason why Matt retired his strip and his reflections on the value of print comics:Sample: Have you always been a fan of print? I love newspapers. […]