Cul de Sac ends its official run next week, though it’s actually been in rerun mode for some time now as friend-of-the-blog Richard Thompson works on the health problems that brought about the strip’s end.Perhaps feeling reflective, or maybe just in one of his frequent Puckish moods, Richard posted some pre-launch Cul de Sac strips […]
I need a bit of technical direction from those of you who are more experienced with streaming video. My dad’s funeral service is Sunday morning and many of his family and friends who live outside of the US have asked if there was a way to stream the service live. The abbot has no objections, […]
It is not a difficult thing to understand, if understanding is your goal.Brian Gable provides a simple graphic depiction. I like the use of real shell casings, but, that touch aside, he comments not just on the assault on the consulate but also the ongoing tragedy of Syria and the atmosphere of extremist dissent that […]
Yesterday I got that call that I knew would happen someday, but could never prepare for. My father had passed. Dad was always supportive of my passion for cartooning. When I was still in high school he became good friends with a zen master – Rev. Don Gilbert. Rev. Gilbert was as a magazine cartoonist […]
Speed Bump offers a heapin’ helpin’ of food for thought.It’s well-timed. Though “back to school” for most colleges was several weeks ago, and cutting the check was quite a bit earlier than that, the economy remains center stage. And this is a nice riff on the quickly-becoming-tiresome gags about recent graduates living at home.The last […]
The Latern profiles Pulitzer Prize editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle.He catches a lot of flack for daring to not be Republican in Texas. “There’s a lot of people here that cannot stand me, wondering why the newspaper has a staff cartoonist that’s out of step with Texas politics. It’s a lot more […]
Isabella Bannerman, Monday’s artist for Six Chix, was awarded this year’s UCS Editorial Cartoon Contest sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists. This year’s theme was the role science should play in American democracy. Isabella’s winning cartoon featured below.
Matt Wuerker’s cartoon reminded me of what Harry Truman said when — trailing badly in the polls — he accepted his party’s nomination at the 1948 Democratic Convention. It’s not too late for the current occupant of the White House to issue the same challenge: Now the Republicans came here a few weeks ago, and […]
Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell is paying tribute to Charles Schulz and Peanuts in a story-line that runs this week. Sparky once called Mutts “one of the best comic strips of all time” and this week Patrick tips his hat back.Here’s a sneak peak for a couple of panels to run later this week:You can read […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has won a Harvey Award in the Best Syndicated Strip category. It was a pretty solid category with Dan Piraro (Bizarro), Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), and Stephen Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) as the other nominees.In the category for best Online Comic work, Kate Beaton took the award […]
The surrender and arrest of Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi on charges of sedition has become a big story in many publications here in the US. Aseem was scheduled to be here in the US at The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention to receive The Cartoonist Rights Network International Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award but […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson notes that the strip is five years old and he’s posted early – pre-syndication, pre-Washington Post versions of the strip while he was still working with the concept. He writes: Here are the first two strips I tried with the Otterloop family, and you can see just how badly […]
Steve Artley on political tone. I don’t know that we have had a lot of truly polite political campaigns, but we have had candidates who attempted to leave the mudslinging and the waving of bloody shirts to their surrogates. Good manners need to be mutual, if you don’t want to come off like Michael Dukakis, who […]
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, editorial cartoonist for The Economist, attended the Democratic National Convention and posted this video on the changes in presidential caricatures before and after the first term in office.
LA Times comic page readers got a bit of leggy Edda and Amos in a clothed missionary position with their breakfast earlier this month. Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane is was running a story-line in which Amos climbs on stage to propose to Edda but somehow he ends up on top of Edda. The LA […]