I like to keep a mix here, and having just devoted two posts to some sublime, insightful strips, we’ll just take that single step over to the ridiculous, with a few samples of what made me laff today, starting with the Lockhorns with a quick workshop on how to make a basically silly idea work.To […]
Yesterday, I was able to create a balance between fair use and coherence, but today that won’t work.Using part of Molly Brooks’ examination of sports, theater, fiction, reality and suchlike doesn’t begin to explain it, but using the whole thing stretches the definition of “fair use” beyond my comfort zone.This is Page Two of Seven […]
A chilling internal monologue as Sarah Laing gives us a peek behind the curtain and lets us watch as she is browbeaten by a disembodied Katherine Mansfield, who is not only utterly dismissive of her talent but surprisingly au courant about the artists who could – any of them — do a much better job.(I […]
If you haven’t had enough Bezos-buys-the-Post cartoons, Michael Cavna has a wrap-up over at his Washpo blog. It’s not all of them, but it’s enough of a sample that I hope it scratches the itch, because I’m done at least unless something extraordinary happens.Like, for instance, if it turns out the Post was facing a […]
Photo courtesy of Joe WosJoe Wos’s “World’s Largest Hand Drawn Maze” will be on display from Aug. 7 through Sep. 1st at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA. The maze has been submitted to Guinness Book of World Records as a world record. It measures over 30 feet by 4 feet and […]
The triennial Festival of Cartoon Art at Ohio State University is opening registration on August 15. The festival will be held November 14-17th. It is also the grand opening of their Sullivant Hall. Registration is $75. It is a limited seating event, so register now.About the Festival (from Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum): A […]
Anne Gibbons invites me to step onto the third rail this morning, with her weekly contribution to Six Chix.How very kind of you. Don’t mind if I do.I am aware of, and both fascinated and puzzled by, the difference between how women and men view aesthetics.On the surface, it’s rich fodder for cartoonists: The guy […]
It was less than a year ago that I noted that Stan Lynde, creator of Rick O’Shay and Latigo was leaving Montana to retire in Equador. According to an article in the Montana Standard, Stan did make it to Equador, but was diagnosed with cancer. He passed yesterday.From the Montana Standard: When Lynde grew ill […]
Perhaps you heard: Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. That could be the topic of Dan Wasserman’s cartoon, except that Wasserman works for the Boston Globe, which was also sold this week, to the owner of the Boston Red Sox. Since both papers begin with the word “The,” I’m going to assume the gag is an […]
In a surprise announcement, The Washington Post announces it is being purchased by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.From the Washington Post: But for much of the past decade, The Post has been unable to escape the financial turmoil that has engulfed newspapers and other “legacy” media organizations. The rise of the Internet and the epochal change […]
Tulsa’s Bruce Plante with a comment on the latest drug scandal in sports. A simple and well-executed play on Major League Baseball’s logo, as well as (thankyouthankyouthankyou) one that doesn’t feature a disillusioned child having the perfidy of heroes explained to him.Mind you, those soppy cliches are not only expected and even, to some degree, […]
Investors Business Daily’s editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez spoke to the Ashbrook Center last April.
So, if you go the Kevin Kallaugher page of the (online) Baltimore Sun, here’s what you’ll find: And no amount of clicking or other cyberfoolery will show you anything more complete or coherent, at least as of 6 a.m. this morning.Perhaps they’ll fix it, perhaps they won’t. The Old Man Remembers when, if a TV […]
Agnes provides a salute to ADD and the Internet. I’m in no academic peril, but I might be in danger of a visit from the health department, because every time I resolve to finally get this place cleaned up, I see something on the web and disappear into the Black Hole of Cool Stuff.Back in […]
(Robert Ariail)NEW YORK — A former Goldman Sachs trader who earned the nickname “Fabulous Fab” was found liable Thursday in a fraud case brought by federal regulators in response to the 2007 mortgage crisis that helped push the country into recession. A jury reached the verdict at the civil trial in Manhattan federal court of […]