The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for their various Division Awards including those for the new Online Comic Strips. The Reuben Awards will be held Memorial Day weekend in Las Vegas this year where the winners will be announced.Television AnimationBen Bocquelet and Antoine Perez Production Design on The Wonderful World of Gumball Cartoon […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has announced on his blog that starting today illustrator Stacy Curtis is taking over on inking the daily Cul de Sac.From Richard’s blog:I’ll continue to write Cul de Sac and draw roughs for Stacy to try to decipher and I’ll do as much of the final inking as I […]
It’s All About You may have to go on my list of comics I have to resist putting on here too often.Today’s strip, however, is about something that concerns me and, although I’ve touched on it in other contexts, I don’t know that I’ve addressed this full face: We really are “amusing ourselves to death,” […]
From the New York Times:Al Ross, whose droll cartoons featuring married couples, bar habitués, anthropomorphic animals, philosophizing prisoners, art and publishing world denizens, anachronistic mythological figures and loyal Mets fans appeared in The New Yorker for more than 60 years, died on Thursday in the Bronx. He was 100.
Every once in a while, a comic scores on every level without being at all cosmic on any of them.Today’s Baby Blues does just that, and I think the key is the blankness with which Wren absorbs the things around her. On one hand, this appear to be a variation on the strip in which a […]
Matt Bors on the Trayvon Martin shooting.The shooting has provided an opportunity to watch the responses of a variety of cartoonists, though, to be honest, I haven’t seen any defending what happened. But I’ve seen some that take one element and run with it, including a lot of “guns are bad” cartoons that base their criticism […]
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will soon be hosting a rare exhibit of MAD Magazine art according to news posted on Tom Richmond’s. Andrew Farago, the curator for the museum writes:Love MAD? Our next exhibition is going to be the greatest collection of MAD art ever assembled, going all the way back to […]
Mamet has become a maple producer in this week’s Deflocked.Jeff Corriveau grew up in maple syrup country and, as someone who did the same and has lived in some other maple-producing areas since, I can see hints of his knowing what he’s actually joking about in this story arc.Which may not seem like much, but […]
Fran Matera who drew the Steve Roper adventure comic between 1984 and 2004 has passed away at the age of 87. He also drew another strip Kerry Drake and comic books such as Fightin’ Marines, Speed Demons and The Hulk.From the Tampa Bay Times:He never stopped trying to put his stamp on newspapers and magazines, […]
Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog is the official mascot for the 3rd annual National Robotics Week April 7-15. Jonathan created special Bleeker comics depicting the Bleeker comic characters exploring events and festivities planned that week. National Robotics Week seeks to educate and inspire students about careers in science, math, engineering and technology.From Jonathan’s blog:After […]
Venezuelan cartoonist Rayma Suprani has filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s office after receiving threatening emails and tweats after the state-run TV program “La Hojilla” called her work “racist and classist.”Suprani said that the messages issued by late night show The Razorblade, aired in state-run TV, are part of a “well organized state policy […]
RC Harvey examines Johnny Hart’s Christianity and how it found a way in the Johnny’s B.C.. A ?re-committed? fundamentalist Christian who taught Sunday School every week in the little Presbyterian church in the nearby New York town of Ninevah, Hart frequently delivered sermons in his comic strip. Said Maxwell: ?Hart believes the Lord put him […]
Chuck Ayer talks about the new mural of Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft characters on a new mural in the student lounge area at Kent State University.From the Lakewood PatchAyers, class of 1971, partnered with friend and colleage Tom Batiuk, author of the comic strip Funky Winkerbean and fellow Kent State alumnus, to create a mural […]
On some days, my interest in one strip stems from it being closely related to another. That could be from two strips riffing on the same topic, as with Arlo & Janis:I’m kind of worried about smartphones, because I see them as an extension of the electronic leash, and I used to feel that way […]
There’s a thing going around — oh, sorry — got to start over …There’s a meme – which is much more important than “a thing going around” — that exists under a few different names, but which can be tracked down by Googling “Superman is kind of a dick.” It consists of covers of old DC […]