Back in September I reported that Universal Uclick was going to launch their first comic in three years. The feature was a Danish comic called Wumo that had a large following in Europe. You can read my interview with UU President John Glynn for details on the business side of the launch.On the creative side, […]
Brian McFadden is often too talky for my taste, but this time, his art-to-chat ratio works out well. I heard a little coverage of these hearings and some posturing Senator was demanding that Sebelius resign over the rollout, and I thought if I were in her place that I’d remind him that I served at the […]
A UK comic book artist solved his dilemma of what tattoo he should have, but having four panels tattooed to his arm and then he fills them in with his own comics. A comic book artist by trade -and therefore well placed to design his own tattoo each day – Patrick Yurick wanted to combine […]
Yesterday I received a very large shipment of books and calendars from Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Publishing. They’ve provide a number of items for the fundTDC campaign I’m running on Indiegogo.Starting today, I’ve listed new perks at the $25 level. The Argyle Sweater 2014 Day to Day Calendar, Scott Hilburn The Mighty Alice, Richard Thompson The […]
Gonna start out with a couple of quick takes before getting onto a more substantive topic: It’s not so much that I like the current Sherman’s Lagoon, though I have been chuckling this week. But today’s was a good demonstration of the way Toomey handles a punchline.I haven’t made much of a secret of my […]
Dana Summers may not want to take this line of thought where I do, but he’s on the right track. The shooting-up of LAX has inspired some cartoons like this one by Darrin Bell, which is a general reflection on shootings in general … And this more (heh) targeted one by Steve Benson. I like all […]
Over the weekend, I was offered the opportunity to add an original Jeff MacNelly Shoe comic strip as an incentive. I thought I had put the donation value high, but apparently not too high – it was claimed within an hour. I’m jealous of the person who claimed it, but immensely happy – it’s going […]
The New York Times looks at the recent trend of politically based television shows – specifically Alpha House created by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau. In the instances of ?House of Cards? and ?Alpha House,? they are even presenting the same general subject matter, albeit taking different approaches ? ?House of Cards? is a whodunit-to-whom drama […]
Sheldon with a literary approach to the slippery-slope argument, or, from a slightly different perspective, the “How did we get here?” question.As to the specifics here, I remain unconcerned about the massive collection of data, simply because, as said I’ve expressed several times, it’s self-defeating on their part and has been self-defeating pretty much forever. […]
Click to see larger viewOf the cartoonists of the 20th century, Jeff MacNelly was a very influential one. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning – his first in 1972 when he was only 24. He was also twice awarded the National Cartoonists Society’s top price The Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the […]
Thankyouthankyouthankyou Keith Knight for today’s Knight Life. I was afraid it was just me.I like the ACLU. But a couple of years ago, they offered a bumpersticker that said something about upholding and defending the Constitution in return for a donation, and, since I feel strongly about the Constitution and the donation was simply a cover […]
Rhymes With Orange gets some of its best laughs by pointing out the obvious.I don’t know if this has any connection to our hunter/gatherer roots, in which men were cast into a hostile, competitive world where the nail that stands up gets the hammer, or whether it’s simply perceptual.When I was a kid, my mother […]
I missed this yesterday when it was streaming live, but glad that it’s available. Cartoonists Michael Jantze and Tom Fishburne joined up for a Google+ event to talk about building brands around their creative work.
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston was inducted into the International Women’s Forum International Hall of Fame this last month. Lynn joins several high profile, successful women – a list of who’s who in media, politics, entertainment. In her acceptance speech, Lynn mentions that as a kid she never felt connected with the […]
(INSERT IMAGE: A whole lot of cartoons I’m not featuring here) The laziness and piling on is getting kind of discouraging. I wrote recently about how cheap, unexamined gags perpetuated the “Al Gore lies” phony meme, and, as I said then, there’s really nothing new about baseless partisan attacks, but at least the “Bob Dole is […]