Dilbert expands upon one facet of my anti-cloud rant from a couple of weeks ago.I’m not against progress. I’m against trusting. I might use the cloud as a backup in case my laptop becomes toast and my hard drive ditto, which, given the floods and other plagues we’ve been unleashing on ourselves lately, isn’t impossible. (If […]
There are any number of strips and, particularly, political panels today noting the apparent disconnect between surveillance and freedom, but I think Wiley caught it best in Non Sequitur.The big Fourth of July celebration on the National Mall now involves enough scrutiny that it’s ripe for positioning as an ironic symbol of where things stand, […]
Michael Jantze is back at the drawing board and ready to knock out a special edition book of his comic strip The Norm.Here’s part of his pitch on Indiegogo: “Knocked Out Loaded” is a story I pitched and sold to DC Comics in 1990 – along with another graphic novel titled “Rave On” – but […]
Palestinian cartoonist Mohammed Sabaaneh was released from Israeli prison earlier this week. He was arrested in February on his way back from a conference in Jordan. Mohammed is the editorial cartoonist at the al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper and is also works at the Arab American University in the public relations department. He was initially held without […]
One of the odder synchronicities I’ve come across. From the top: The parents in Edge City were scheduled to fly off on vacation, but got a call to pick up their son from camp because he has head lice. Maybe he got them from Hammy in Baby Blues. And Agnes can’t afford to go to summer camp […]
Okay, this is beyond my experience. Heart of the City is in an arc in which Heart’s mom is taking her and her buddy Kat to a One Direction concert, One Direction being, as that link will show you, a for-real androgynous pre-teen pre-fab group.(And let me pause here to give Mark Tatulli props for referencing […]
Howard Tayler, creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary was one of the fine speakers at this year’s AAEC convention. In my introduction to Howard’s presentation I explained that this blog, when launched in 2005, was meant to be a personal exploration of where cartooning (primarily comic strips and editorial cartooning) was going with the growth […]
This year’s annual convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists wrapped up on Saturday night (or early Sunday morning for some of us) in Salt Lake City. Full disclosure: I am not an unbiased source when it comes to this convention. I live near Salt Lake and am friends with the convention host Pat […]
A great talk by New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff about constructing humor in the New Yorker and in cartooning in general.
Jeff Danziger is a hip old guy.Most artists think of themselves as pretty hip, but let’s be honest: There is a difference between the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the paintings in hotel rooms, and the fact that you draw stuff to make money does not make you an “artist” in the spiritual sense […]