So the cartoons are coming in, the weepers and the “Congress does nothings” and the “What will it takes?”Yes, what will it take?What will it take before we quit lying to ourselves and pretending we care?Jimmy Margulies got it right. In fact, as newspapers seek ways to cut costs, I think they could benefit […]
Bone and RASL creator Jeff Smith described his webcomic that will debut before Thanksgiving: Two million years ago was the very first fantastic ice age, and Africa was in a drought all the early animal, all the early hominids, all the apes, all the creatures were going extinct because their jungles were disappearing. It was […]
The Pew Research Center has released a study on the mobile device usage in the US. Here’s their summary:Nearly two-thirds (63%) of cell phone owners now use their phone to go online, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project. We call them ?cell internet users? and define […]
ReOrient Magazine talks with Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat. I dealt with the regime as though I was dealing with a venomous cobra. I had to attack them from a place where they couldn’t see me; so, I tackled issues that could have applied to them, but they could not say for certain that [the drawings […]
Torsten Adair of Comics Beat is suggesting taking “normal” single panel cartoons and switching the captions with “unusual” gag panels. The inspiration for this is a 1983 oops in the Dayton Daily News that accidentally (twice) switched captions from Dennis the Menace with the Farside. You can see the results over on Dangerous Minds.For this […]
I see new people everywhere, starting with a Superhero that Kim, or Sandra Lundy, has been developing for several weeks over at Between Friends. It’s been interesting to have the process be part of the strip, and, to be honest, it’s a good choice to show it this way, because I’m not sure what you […]
Can’t wait to see this book. Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic is Mark Tatulli’s first graphic novel.Here’s a teaser for the book:
NPR’s Scott Simon interviews Art Spiegelman who has a retrospective book coming out this week called Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and ScrapsFrom NPR: It’s axiomatic now that comics have gone from being kids’ stuff to, in some cases, adults only. These days, comics are recognized as a real artistic form, one that can […]
There’s nothing better than a well crafted editorial cartoon unless the well crafted cartoon runs on the front page. Or even better than that is when it IS the front page. Last Thursday’s Philadelpia Daily News did just that for a cartoon by their editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson. Here’s the full cartoon without newspaper masthead.Great […]
Kudos to New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly for showcasing the growing number of women in comics.From Michael Cavna’s Comic Riffs blog: “I was given the opportunity ahead of time to select the presenters for each award to be given,” Donnelly tells Comic Riffs, “and I decided to choose all cartoonists who are women. More and […]
GoComics continues to build an impressive list of comics on the internet. Debuting today is Maria Scrivan’s Half Full.
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond takes on the following question in a “I’m not a laywer, but a cartoonist” fashion: I know from reading your blog that a caricaturist can use caricatures of celebrities to display their work, but cannot sell them due to the celebrity “owning” their likeness, and that it is not worth […]
The New York Times profiles cartoonist, author, song-writer Sandra Boynton. LONG HOURS I normally come to the office around 8:30 a.m., and aside from taking a long walk or yoga and eating, I will be at work until midnight or 1 a.m. I work all the time because I really love what I do, as […]
The issue of internships came up here Saturday in the comments section, and it’s a hot topic I had already intended to take up, which I’ll do now, starting with Heart of the City, where Dean is no longer up to the task of fulfilling Heart’s every whim and she seeks a new go-fer.The punchline […]
Real Life Adventures indeed. The only thing more dreaded than an all-hands meeting these days is that age-old perennial one: An invitation to coffee in a public place. Of course, that latter situation is sometimes a relief. I’ve sipped from the fatal cup of joe twice and, in both cases, I kind of knew it was […]