If you haven’t been to “Retail” lately, you’re probably out of the loop.Here’s the necessary update: Marla is not only back from maternity leave but has been promoted to store manager, which might be good except that her former boss, Stuart, is now district manager but has set up his office in the local store, so […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum has a blanket or quilt with 120 classic cartoon characters stitched into it. They’ve identified most of them, but there are some still needing to be identified and they’re asking for your help. From their blog: When we received the Bill Blackbeard collection, among it was this textile […]
Tom Tomorrow on inevitability and futility.I’m not 100 percent sure this message of passivity is being preached so much by “experts,” however, because I’m no longer sure who the “experts” are anymore, and I don’t think that’s because of my being out of the loop. I am out of the loop, however, to the extent of […]
Recently I had dinner with friends whose son asked if I was a “Browny.” A Browny is an adult man (or maybe even a teen) who watches My Little Pony. Apparently it’s the raging thing to do.From Film School Rejects: These days, adults watch children?s shows; it?s a fairly normal occurrence. Long-running cartoons like Spongebob […]
Daryl Cagle reports that a recent Chick-fil-A cartoon by Jimmy Margulies received quite a bit of reaction. The cartoon depicts a Chick-fil-A restaurant having two water fountains – one straight individuals and another for gay – reminiscent of segregated water fountains for African-Americans.Here’s Jimmy’s response to the reaction: I received both praise and condemnation for […]
Anne Hambrock has an informative comparison of crowd funding solutions Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Each have their pros and cons that you need to be aware of. Her last bit of advice is key. No matter what solution you go for – make sure you have a social network to generate publicity.
Slowpoke’s latest, in which Jen Sorensen is as puzzled as I am over the amazing Mom from my hometown who keeps discovering things the experts haven’t figured out.I’m a little — but only a little — puzzled by this strange intersection of Madison Avenue and “1984,” whereby advertisements are, at least to my mind, targeted […]
Ray Billingsley is profiled in The Stamford Advocate. Walker, 88, passed the moniker on, and still refers to Billingsley, 55, as “Kid.” The tag carries some baggage for Billingsley, who says his emergence as a wunderkind artist did not make him the most popular kid on the block or with art teachers whose own aspirations […]
Sad news from Anne Hambrock about her blog Spot the Cartoonist: Also, since launching this site, I started the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and am also working on developing a speaker’s bureau for cartoonists and, frankly, those endeavors take a tremendous amount of time and energy and will probably yield better results as far as […]
Tucker Stone takes an ignorant review of Doonesbury over at The Comics Journal: At this point you?re probably thinking one of two things: either that Doonesbury is such an easy target at this point that criticizing Trudeau for being a complacent self-important boomer is about as shocking as the assertion that Orson Welles put on […]
Another great interview by Tall Tale Radio podcaster Tom Racine talking to Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis about his new treasury collection, and “a bittersweet/hilarious story bound to cement his place as a rock-star cartoonist that involves a limo, late night partying and a midget. ”
Believe It Or Not!Pab Sungenis, of “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria,” created a gag about zombies that was both fresh and humorous!Believe It Or Not!In BC, Mason and Mick Mastroianni wrote a “Hunger Games” gag that actually demonstrated some basic familiarity with the story!Believe It Or Not!Kevin Kallaugher drew a cartoon about the presidential race […]
Because he makes money and y’all didn’t. Duh.The Argyle Sweater hits the mark a fair number of times, but rarely in a way that inspires commentary. Today’s does, in large part because it comes up by happenstance in the wake of the conservative show of feigned puzzlement over Chick-fil-A, a purposeful stupidity that is also regularly […]
It’s nice to see a political cartoon tackle a mainstream issue that impacts someone under 60. Before I agree or disagree with Matt Bors on this one, let’s pause to consider that most cartoons advocating on behalf of people under 30 are either so alternative-oriented that 90 percent of young adults wouldn’t identify with them, […]
Susie MacNelly, Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins, who are carrying on the legacy of Jeff MacNelly’s Shoe comic strip, are producing six original Shoe strips for an online companion website for the USA Network original miniseries Political Animals. The show’s fictional national newspaper, The Washington Globe features weekly updates of plot points and the show’s […]