CNN’s Jake Tapper has a sits down at the drawing table with ‘Doonesbury’ creator Garry Trudeau to talk about Doonesbury…and about supporting wounded warriors…and about his show Alpha House?
I always like Tom the Dancing Bug’s Super-Fun-Pak Comix, but I particularly like the sidebar of garbage served up with this installment.Fact is, I was hoping that somebody would post a cartoon today that was light and breezy and funny and would get me off the political kick for a bit. In part because, when I […]
So you couldn’t afford an original Bill Watterson oil painting of Cul de Sac character Petey, or any of the two original strips that went to auction earlier this year. But maybe you can afford to buy one of five autographed Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Watterson or maybe even one of the five Watterson […]
Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson has a nice summary of his presentation he gave back in February at the Success in Comics seminar. I must have done everything right, right? Not so much. When I take a good hard look at it, probably 95% of the things I’ve tried ended up failing. But the other 5% […]
Tim Cavanaugh, of The Daily Caller gives a good summary of the controversy surrounding a recent Steve Benson that casts the GOP in the same light as the Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. The cartoon (above) depicts the GOP has holding three women hostage. Each of the women are labeled “No Abortion Rights,” “No Reproductive Coverage” […]
“Noone is trying to kill you,” Clevinger said.”Then why are they shooting at me?” Yossarian asked.”They’re shooting at everyone,” Clevinger answered. “They’re trying to kill everyone.””And what difference does that make?”It’s good to have both sides upset over revelations of selective IRS scrutiny and of the collection of telephone data from the phones of Associated […]
Pixar’s Merida character from the feature film Brave is officially a Disney Princess, but that created a controversy when Disney debuted a 2D image of the new princess. The Disney princess makeover removed the bow and arrow, tamed her hair and slimmed her figure. She also sports a “come hither” look according to Brenda Chapman, […]
One of my favorite kinds of joke is the kind that plants a naughty, inescapable giggle, almost like an ear worm, so that it pops up every time you see the trigger.I don’t find the stick-figure families on the back windows of cars all that obnoxious. It’s not bragging, like the honor-role kid stickers, or […]
The pro-gun news web site Ammoland did a bit of Photoshopping recently to recreate a Mike Peters anti-NRA editorial cartoon into one with the exact opposite message and posted it on Facebook.Here’s Mike’s original cartoon:And the blatant rework:Mike tells me this isn’t the first time someone has altered his work and to recreate it to […]
The fine folks over at The Cartoonist Studio have announced they have started a blog to go along with the other cool features. Each day one of the many syndicated pros will respond to a topic. While you’re over there, check out the studios and cartoon of the day.
David Carr writes in The New York Times that a year after the Times-Picayune in New Orleans dropped to a thrice weekly paper, the paper will start printing a paper daily. But what it’s printing and who gets it is?. complicated. Here’s how David describes it: On Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, a broadsheet called The […]
The Tribune in San Luis Obispo found out that Jim Borgman, Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott were all going to be in one place and sent a reporter over for an interview. The result is a lot of tidbits on how these hugely successful strips came about and the working relationships between the creators. Jerry […]
German cartoonist Heiko Sakurai offers a commentary on the difficulty of spotting terrorists, or, perhaps, of defining terrorism.I don’t have a specific solution to the security issues, but I know this: The policy of “jail them all and let God sort them out” is immoral, antidemocratic and ineffective.Obama has stated, rightly, that Guantanamo is a […]
I thought I’d use this Mother’s Day as a chance to look at a pair of nostalgic comic strip families, to supplement the coverage of contemporary mothers in today’s funny pages.JR Williams “Out Our Way” launched with the nostalgia pre-loaded in the 20s, since he was purposely pitching to the grownups and basing much — […]
I like this Mark Fiore piece a lot, but I don’t think it’s a comic. (You’ll have to go watch it there, since he has disabled embedding. We’ll talk about that another day. Go.)So I don’t know that it fits the mission of the blog, but I do know that it’s a very clever takeoff, […]