While I’m off playing the wistful wallflower at a vendor’s table, here are some comic collections you may want to put on your list. Any list you like. I’ll even suggest who might like it:For your older and still obnoxious sibling: Rick Stromoski’s Soup to Nutz is not the only syndicated strip that serves up nostalgia […]
I’m going for the award for Most Obscure Headline. If you got it right away, you got an earworm with it. If not, we’ll get you one at the end.The reference is that, on days when I have nothing, I get nothing. On a morning like this, when I’m trying to get ready to split […]
My freshman year, I had a history course taught by the department head, which consisted of two very entertaining and informative lectures by him and a test section by his teaching assistants that had nothing to do with the lectures but was based instead on reading assignments.The history course I subsequently took in summer school […]
This is why you shouldn’t waste a good reference by overuse.As Jeff Danziger suggests, Edward Snowden has exposed the stunning secret that the United States spies on world leaders.What a great time to reference Louis Renaud’s quote from Casablanca: “I am shocked, shocked to find that espionage is going on in here!”But we’ve wasted its […]
Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Paul Feig has named as the producer for the Peanuts animated feature film slated to release in November 2015. This is his first animated feature. Previously he’s directing comedy movies such as Bridesmaids and The Heat.
Rob Harrel talks to Newsarama about his new graphic novel The Monster On The Hill while at the New York Comic Con.
The Australian Cartoonists Association’s Stanley Awards are being held this weekend. They have six divisions or categories with top honor being the Cartoonist of the Year. This year the nominees are:Peter Broelman, political cartoonist Pat Campbell, The Canberra Times Anton Emdin, MAD magazine contributor Glen Le Lievre, The Age and SMH contributor David Pope, The […]
I suppose I could have simply noted this as a “Juxtaposition of the Day,” but it happens to trigger a rant that’s been building up for about two weeks, but that I have been suppressing because being direct would have involved calling out particular cartoonists, a violation of the Prime Directive, and, besides, it also […]
Forbes’s annual top-earning dead celebrities has been released. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz is still in the top five. This year is his second year at number three with $37 million in earnings. One celebrity I didn’t realize was in the top ten is Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel). His books have always been beloved and mass […]
Medium has posted an article on the issue of touchy political and religious issue of blasphemy in Egyptian cartooning. Blasphemy is a punishable offense in Egypt. According to the penal code, “Any use of religion to promote or advocate extremist ideologies… with a view toward stirring up sedition, disparaging or showing contempt” toward one of […]
Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler’s first collection of rejected New Yorker cartoons (I Thought You Would Be Funnier) won an Eisner award. He’s releasing a second collection called, “I Don?t Get It” through Boom!You?ve got to be pretty funny when your rejected cartoons win an Eisner, but that?s what happened to Shannon Wheeler […]
As you know, The Daily Cartoonist operates much like NPR – it’s always there, always free and runs an infrequent annual guilt-trip induced fund-raiser to help cover costs of running the blog. I’m gearing up for a big “Fund The Daily Cartoonist for 2014” campaign set to launch next week. Because I don’t produce a […]
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones, who was laid off from the Freelance-Star in 2012 due to budget cuts, is set to return to his former paper this Sunday as a freelance cartoonist. Clay will be contributing a weekly local cartoon to the Sunday edition and a cartoon on the topic of his choosing for the online […]