Synchronicity happens all the time, but this … holy cannolli …This week’s arc at the Piranha Club:… and meanwhile, over at Deflocked …Here’s the breakdown – Deflocked (which often has fairly long arcs) started the ice cream truck sequence on July 16:… but the notion of an ice-cream-truck-ambulance-crossover only came up today.Meanwhile, Piranha Club, which tends […]
Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury, which has a cast of characters number over 50, was named after and built around the character Mike Doonesbury, but this week’s story-line has some wondering if Garry is passing the title character role to Alex – Mike’s daughter. In reality, Garry tells me that the story-line isn’t meant to be an […]
I reported a month ago that Universal Uclick President Lee Salem was relinquishing his title as editor and focusing more of his time to the business side of the syndicate. Michael Cavna talks to several high profile cartoonists who have worked with Lee for their comments on his impact on their work. Cartoonists include: Bill […]
From All Things D: The publisher plans to tell its workers today that it will fire 50 of its 170 employees, according to people familiar with The Daily?s plans. The move comes 18 months after the tablet newspaper?s high-profile launch, and a little more than a month after News Corp. announced plans to split itself […]
This Jim Morin panel isn’t exactly the best comic of the day. For one thing, it was the company’s COO, not CEO, who kicked off this whole kerfuffle.But it’s still about the only Chick-fil-A comic that makes a coherent point without relying either on purposefully misreading the facts or on reinforcing the initial bigotry. This […]
Interesting interview with Vic Lee, creator of Pardon My Planet.DailyINK: Tell us a little bit about Mia: Who is she and what is her role in PARDON MY PLANET? Vic: Truth is, I don?t write for my characters. I created the characters as archetypes to represent the dominant concepts I write for. In general, Jesse […]
A Malaysian court has finally ruled in the lawsuit sought by cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque (AKA Zunar) after being arrested under the country’s Sedition Act and Printing Presses and Public Act and his cartoon book collections seized. Human Rights Watch reports that the court has ruled that the arrest was lawful. However the court ruled […]
Ollie and Quentin, created by Piers Baker, is now rerunning on GoComics.com. Ollie and Quentin ended its syndication last year after a four year run in newspapers. The feature also continues to run in reruns on King Feature’s Daily Ink subscription service.
I don’t know much about Adam Huber, who does “Bug,” except that he seems to overthink everything and thus provide a lot of laughs for his fan base.But I gather he is in his early-to-mid-thirties, which means that, even if he is Catholic, he’s not old enough to have been put through the kinds of […]
Todd Clark, creator of Lola and T Lewis co-creator of Over the Hedge, have launched a new webcomic on GoComics.com. The new feature, Mr. Gigi and the Squid isn’t exactly new. The two cartoonists developed the characters for a TV pitch a couple of years back and decided to continue development of the feature as […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has stepped into the debate on voter ID laws – specifically the debate in Maine to repeal election day voter registration. The strip that ran last Friday depicts Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster as Jimmy Crow who states that the reason to repeal election day registration is to prevent Democrats […]
RJ Matson is a good editorial cartoonist, whose take on the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act ruling headlined my post on the topic in June.And, as of Thursday, he’s unemployed. Tom Spurgeon reports that the St. Louis Post Dispatch held a throat-slashing party at the end of the week that included their editorial cartoonist, as well […]
Maybe it’s just coincidence.But the Reubens were seven weeks ago, and this Sunday, we see multiple cartoons in which metacommentary rules.Given the normal lead time for Sundays, given the time since a bunch of cartoonists were sitting around Las Vegas talking about cartooning, I’m gonna say there’s a connection between their escape from the solitude […]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has announced it has laid off 23 staffers from their newsroom citing weak economic conditions. Riverfront Times reports Post-Dispatch editorial cartoonist R.J. Matson was among those let go. The Post-Dispatch announcement: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has laid off 23 staffers from the newsroom, advertising and production, the company announced today. The […]
“Reply All” varies between “Sex in the City” self-indulgence and sudden genuine insights, the saving grace for the former being that the vapidity is mocked, if not with self-loathing, at least with some pleasant sarcasm and a sense that shallowness is not a virtue.As for the latter, Lizzie’s conversations with her mother are an interesting […]