Posted on: July 18, 2013

Since I’m tied up running workshops for young writers, here’s a little something from Walt Kelly’s 1956 collection, “Songs of the Pogo.” Also available as an audio book or some such. 

This year’s Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for editorial cartooning went to Jen Sorensen for her cartoon “An Open Letter To The Supreme Court About Health Insurance.” Click the image above to go read the full comic. It is very well done and deserving of this honor.The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards recognizes outstanding reporting […]

Gocomics has just launched “Origins of the Sunday Comics,” and I guess the best way to explain it is to reprint their explanation:This series will present the earliest offerings—from 1895 to 1915—of the famous and lesser-known cartoonists who where there when comics were born—over 150 creations from more then 50 superb artists, most reproduced here […]

Jack Black will be signing posters at the National Cartoonists Society’s San Diego Comic-Con table this Thursday at 4:00 pm. During this time Luke McGarry and Jack will be signing the limited edition posters for Jack’s upcoming Festival Supreme. The posters and festival website was created by Luke.

Great news from Variety: Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights to “Dear Mr. Watterson,” Joel Allen Schroeder’s documentary about Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip. Gravitas Ventures will partner with Submarine Deluxe on a Nov. 15 theatrical release and VOD release.

After yesterday’s conceptual extravaganza, I’m resting my brain, with the help of this silly “The Flying McCoys” panel.One of the questions anyone in the arts faces is “Where do you get your ideas?”There’s no real answer to that, because the really complex ideas start and build and grow … but the dumb ones, at least […]

Interesting catch by Nat Gertler of the Aaugh.com:Time Magazine has a book coming up announcing The 100 Most Influential People Who Never Lived ? and the team of Charlie Brown and Lucy made the list! In a one-page essay written by Time?s pop culture writer James Poniewozik, the book reflects not so much on them […]

Next Monday, Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein’s Daddy’s Home will feature a week long story-line about Hurricane Sandy relief and restoration efforts. The cartoon will also feature a “How You Can Help” box which directs readers to visit the relief organization websites in New Jersey and New York.The American Red Cross, Salvation Army and Feeding […]

Congratulations to Chris Sparks and all those who contributed to the Team Cul De Sac: Cartoonists Draw The Line At Parkinson’s project. The book has been nominated for not one, but four Harvey Awards. The categories are: Special Award For Humor In Comics, Best Anthology, Special Award For Excellence In Presentation and Best Biographical, Historical, […]

The river of Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman cartoons should begin flooding in any time now, but my expectations are very low and I’m not going to wait to tackle the topic.Besides, I like Daryl Cagle’s take: It’s not only simple and clean, but doesn’t over-reach. Nice piece of wordplay, too.I doubt anyone’s going to top it […]

Start with the easy one: Brian Anderson’s Dog Eat Doug, starring Sophie the Chocolate Lab and Doug the Be-diapered Pre-Toddler.I’m a cynical and hard-nosed critic, but, despite that, I really love this strip. Which is okay, because Brian also does this kind of thing and so neither of us is as simple in outlook as […]

I finally got rid of my typewriter about five years ago. I’d hauled it on two moves without ever plugging it in and decided it was silly to take it on a third. Which is to say, I’d held onto it for considerably more than a decade without using it. Closer to two.As Wiley notes […]

This week a U.S. District Court has found that Apple Computer “facilitated a conspiracy” to fix ebook prices when it rolled out its iPad in 2010. From Time.com:?The plaintiffs have shown that the publisher defendants conspired with each other to eliminate retail price competition in order to raise e-book prices, and that Apple played a […]

Columbia University Libraries has announced they have acquired the archives of famed MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee. The donation will include “artwork for Esquire and Playboy magazines, notebooks of ideas for Humbug and Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal, press clippings, tracings for cartoons in The Moshiach Times, fan mail, photocopies of strips never offered for […]

Rob Tornoe, writing for Editor & Publisher, has an interesting read about the current state of newspaper syndication. He confirms what most of us have observed in the last few years – new comic launches are few and far between. It’s a good read with a lot of information on the syndicates’ offerings both in […]