Fresh from her engagement at the fabulous Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, Hilary Price gives us a vision of Pooh that backs up the basic pun with a bit of appropriate travesty.I love Rhymes with Orange because it’s not just funny but witty, which is not the same thing. The Pooh/Poe thing works, sure, and “Eeyore” […]
At nearly 90 years old, Stan Lee is still going strong, but there was some speculation regarding his health last week after he cancelled two convention appearances. A statement released last weekend states that the iconic super-hero creator has received a pace-maker.The press release: POW! Entertainment (OTCQB: POWN) (Company), the media and entertainment company, today […]
Washington City Paper’s Alexis Hauk talks to Clayton Hanson, a legislative information editor in Washington DC, who has started posting a mashup of the AMC television series Breaking Bad and Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes. WCP: And you are a rabid Breaking Bad fan, I assume? CH: I started watching when it first came out. […]
Today’s comics page brings something of a coincidence, but the topic sure comes from two different angles.In “Heart of the City,” it’s established that Heart and her mother have been two girls, living all together, but they are all alone (ear worms inserted free!). There was an arc years ago in which Heart met her […]
Ideas! Why, that bloody bleating goat Temple has ideas. MacCann has ideas too. Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas. — Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManI don’t know that Terri Libenson will get a lot of laffs from the general public for today’s Pajama Diaries, which may be too much […]
Speed Bump tackles the issue of the end of the story as it is told and end of the story including the tying up of loose ends.Overthinking cartoons is part of the primary mission here, and the fact is that the urn, not the cremation, is the problem here.(Note: Everything that follows is in excruciatingly […]
This is suddenly a really good time to pick up on some continuity strips, since several that are worth following are just starting new stories: Over at DailyInk, Rip Kirby has just had a confrontation on a twisty road with this woman who we now discover is a race car driver. The strip is from […]
University of South Florida College of Public Health Dean Emeritus Charles Mahan started to collect original cartoons when he was 12. Over the years he has amassed a collection of over 8,000 pieces. Part of his collection was recently exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art. He donated his collection to the University of South […]
New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly is currently touring Macedonia with the US State Department talking about political cartoons and the United States. An exhibit featuring her work has opened in Daut Pasha Hammam (Macedonia) and runs through this Friday. You can view photos on the U.S. Embassy Macedonia’s Facebook page.
VOXXI interviews editorial cartoonist, comic strip creator (La Cucaracha) and activist Lalo Alcaraz about using his cartooning and as an activist. Q: You do a lot of satire with political issues. Tell me about some of the themes you use throughout your cartoons and why you use those specific subjects? A: My parents are immigrants […]
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport will be home to a permanent exhibit paying tribute the Superman and his creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel. The two created the famous super hero in 1932 in Cleveland.Its dedication is scheduled for Oct. 11. Next time you’re flying into Cleveland, look for the exhibit near the baggage claim area.
Tina’s Groove hits one of my pet peeves: Businesses that put up websites and then ignore them.This comes, as it happens, on a week when old folks and trivia buffs are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beverly Hillbillies, which I mention because the early episodes had the Clampetts puzzling their way through their new […]
GEWTV interviews Tulsa World editorial cartoonist Bruce Plante on what goes into making an editorial cartoon:
Marvel and DC Comics artist Molly Crabapple was arrested last week while attending the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Her first hand account has been posted on CNN. At one corner, I saw a cop grabbing the arm of a woman in front of me and pulling her into the street. It was […]
Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich presented a TEDx talk back in April.