Posted on: June 10, 2013

Today’s Google Doodle is a tribute to Maurice Sendak. One of the better ones if you ask me.

Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot spent three months living in South Africa earlier this year. She’s back now and has posted some of the highlights of her travel: South Africa is a gorgeous place, and False Bay is fed by both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. It’s green like the Mediterranean but big and wild […]

It’s been four years since I lost my last full-time, ass-in-the-chair job, which means I can chuckle instead of wince at today’s Candorville.These days, the question isn’t “how long will I last in the job?” so much as “how long will the job last?”Technically, I was canned a few weeks before the paper I edited […]

There have been a number of government-spying cartoons, most of them not all that good. I like Stuart Carlson’s cartoon, but it does more to point out the inconsistency than to analyze it. That is, are critics genuinely surprised at the end result of inviting the camel’s nose under the tent flap? Or is this […]

People love cartoons that strike a personal chord — those are the ones that end up on the fridge — but that usually really means a universal chord, something we can all relate to, or, as people say to cartoonists, “It’s like you’re looking through my window.”A cartoon that actually does strike a personal chord […]

According to King Features Syndicate Rex Morgan M.D. is turning 65. From King Features: Dr. Dallis created REX MORGAN M.D. not only as an exciting and entertaining comic strip, but also as an educational tool: a comic strip that would heighten the awareness of readers about the importance of modern medicine. Over the years, we […]

More video from the Reuben Awards. This video is of Baby Blues co-creator Rick Kirkman. The video and sound are better than some of the other video’s I posted. Unfortunately, no video of co-winner Brian Crane.

To a standing ovation, Universal Uclick’s Lee Salem accepted the National Cartoonist Society’s Silver T-Square award. Introduced by Cathy Guisewhite.

Matt Wuerker often cuts through the fog to the heart of the matter. If I were one of the Great Rightwing Outrage Peddlars I wouldn’t want anyone talking about the IRS convention, because it seriously undermines the conspiracy theory aspect of the Tea Party “investigations.”Wuerker’s depiction of very stupid people doing very stupid things is much […]

Dave Coates has posted a series of great Pat Oliphant cartoons over the years. Oliphant is one of the undisputed masters of the art.Remember, at this year’s AAEC convention in Salt Lake City, Oliphant will be honored for his career. It will be a rare opportunity.

The New York Observer reports that New York Post editorial cartoonist Sean Delonas has taken a buy out.From the Observer: “Almost 23 years ago, I took a temporary 3 month job cartooning for The New York Post. Nearly 6,000 cartoons later, I’ve drawn my last cartoon for the paper. I’ve accepted a buyout,” Mr. Delonas […]

For those who missed it, Maryland vs. King concerns a man arrested in 2009 for menacing a group of people with a shotgun. Upon arrest, his DNA was taken and fed into a computer, whereupon it was matched with the DNA of a rapist in a 2003 case, for which crime he was subsequently convicted.He […]

Collider reports that Disney Animation has announced the release dates for eight new Pixar animated features starting in 2016 through 2018. As you look at the list below, you’ll correctly note that the one-time animation powerhouse has created a marketing nightmare by entitling all of their new features “untitled.” And I thought “Cars” as a […]

Funny story by one of this year’s Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year Rick Kirkman, co-creator of Baby Blues, whose fortune cookie weeks before his Reuben Award win predicted “Many successes will accompany you this year.” I can’t even remember the last time I’d had a fortune that actually told a fortune. Most have been cheesy […]

Jen Sorensen, on our new depths of heartless Darwinism.I realize that, over the course of history, humanity has sunk to some pretty low levels. But when you study those periods in history, the narrative is “for awhile some bad people did horrible things … “And then, given the triumphalist nature of history textbooks, it goes […]