Pooch Cafe is a consistently funny cartoon that — given the public appetite for dog pictures on Facebook and elsewhere — deserves wider publication. Paul Gilligan manages to blend human consciousness and dog behavior in a way that skirts the cliches without being doctrinaire about it, which is to say, I don’t know that he’s […]
I really want to get back into funny comics and frivolous stuff like that, but Rudy Park really was the strip that rose to the top today.Which was a little easier since the King Features site decided not to serve up any cartoons today. You can get some of them by going to rhymeswithorange.com and […]
I like this Tony Auth panel, because it’s more about what happened than it is about spiking the football.The Republicans badly misjudged the country. It wasn’t a landslide, but it was a clear loss and, yeah, they missed the bus, and I don’t think it’s coming back. For the Republican Party, and conservatives in general, […]
From Tom Richmond: For all those who have written me over the years asking if I do personal commissions, looking for a caricature of themselves or their family/friends … now’s your chance! I’ll draw one as part of a Limited Artist’s Edition of my book, The Mad Art of Caricature! A Serious Guide to drawing […]
From Hollywood Reporter: Family film Wreck-It Ralph opened to a record-breaking $49.1 million from 3,752 theaters – the top weekend debut for a Disney Animation Studios title. The record had been held by Tangled, which opened with $48.8 million during Thanksgiving weekend in 2010. (Opening on a Wednesday, the film grossed $68.6 million in its […]
Dennis Lambert, of Arizona local NPR station KJZZ, interviews Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott on their strip Baby Blues, the decline of the newspaper industry and the future of comics.Audio interview is found here.
Paul Jon Boscacci, creator of Fort Knox, will start an ongoing story-line on the topic of prostate beginning next Monday. General Wickum, Commander at Fort Lincoln and main character Joe Knox’s CO, will reveal his illness on November 12. He will receive treatment over the next several months with the Knox family (including the General’s […]
With all the election stuff going on, the current Edge City arc has gone longer without my flagging it than it might otherwise have, but, then again, it was shaping up as merely something about competitive sports. Now, with this strip, I’m not so sure they’re not drilling a little deeper. They’ve been known to […]
New York Magazine: The acclaimed cartoonist, author, playwright, and illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth says he’s staying in Southampton for good. Of the city, he says, “You begin each day coping. There’s a kind of built-in abrasiveness living in the city. You wake up and you start dealing with the events of the day. If […]
Last September I posted news that Toonseum founder Joe Wos was attempting to establish a Guinness World Record for the largest hand-drawn maze. The maze is still being created even though he started it back in July. Dave Crawley, reporting for the local TV station KDKA, interviews Joe and we get to see in the […]
DC Comics has announced that it has put it’s entire line of comics on the three major ebook platforms: Kindle Store, iBookstore and the Nook Store.From the press release: “As e-readers and tablets continue to explode in popularity it’s important for us to offer consumers convenience and choice in how they download digital comics and […]
Yesterday I posted cartoons from the candidate’s “hometown” editorial cartoonists. Today, Jos Valdman writing in the Herald Sun looks at a few non-American editorial cartoons about the election results.Here’s a cartoon by Mark Knight of the Herald Sun.
Here’s a departure from custom: I’m starting with the vid clip. The elections were a slap-down to the politics of hate, fear and division.Kinda.Clay Bennett was nice enough, before he posted it to his Facebook page, to tip me early with the answer to my speculation yesterday about the second cartoon he had in readiness. It cracks […]
As I watched the results roll in last night, I wondered how the hometown editorial cartoonists for the presidential candidates approached the win. President Obama is from Chicago, so let’s head over to Scott Stantis at The Chicago Tribune. Stantis is a conservative cartoonist who went for poignancy. When it comes to the “hometown” of […]
I think this Clay Bennett panel pretty much sums it up. It’s got enough detail in it that I assume he did two cartoons ahead of time and posted the appropriate one when the call was made.And I suppose the alternative take might have used most of the same art, but with the facial expressions […]