Edison Lee coincidentally, and with his usual deadpan elan, provides an entry point for today’s sermonette with an homage to “Bloom County.” Or was that “Opus”?That is, it was Opus the Penguin who famously could not resist infomercials offering turnip twaddlers. But he did it in “Bloom County.” “Bloom County” was a landmark strip that ran […]
I took in Despicable Me 2 last Wednesday. So did a lot of other folks. The animated sequel was the top feature film for the five-day Fourth of July weekend taking in an estimated $142.1 million. As a comparison, Toy Story 3 took in $141 million its opening weekend. As far as my thoughts on […]
Chuck Asay retired from The Gazette back in 2007, but continued to draw his syndicated editorial cartoons. The Gazette announced yesterday that he is stepping away from the drawing board completely. Above was his last cartoon. From Wayne Laugesen, his editor: Chuck skewered the left and held nothing back. He wasn’t polite. He wasn’t safe. […]
Joel Pett on the mote in Africa’s eye and the beam in our own.It’s a challenging cartoon that brings up all sorts of arguments over history, over foreign policy, over shared humanity, over perspective.The other day, I touched on naming conventions and how various people tend to refer to themselves as “people” and then find […]
Some months ago I came across the Pogo Connect iPad stylus online. The device boasts that it is a unique pressure sensitive pen for the iPad. Since pressure sensitivity is one of the missing features of drawing on a tablet, I was curious if the pen lived up to its claims. At $79.95, it’s not […]
Francesco Marciuliano is so good at being a wiseass that it’s easy to overlook the depth required for true wiseassery, as opposed to knee-jerk, calculatedly-irreverent, frat-boy/morning zoo stuff. This is not the first time he’s taken off the jester’s hat at Sally Forth, but he’s rarely this straightforward, and that is a good reason why the strip […]
Jeff Koterba on the tempest-in-a-teacup over naming Pluto’s newest moons.Egypt isn’t the only place where asking people what they want can result in problems when what they want isn’t what they ought to want or what you wanted them to want or, at the very least, what you (in your wisdom) feel is best for […]
Mark Anderson has posted several images of a 1971 card game featuring the Lone Ranger. The game was produced by Mattel who commissioned Jack Kirby to do the art.
Neil Gaiman has penned the prequel to his acclaimed comic Sandman. The new series comes out in October and is drawn by JH Williams III.From The Guardian: The storyline describes what happened to Dream before the events of the first ever comic, in which he was imprisoned by an Aleister Crowley-ish Satanist, Roderick Burgess, in […]
Ed Koren has been doing cartoons for the New Yorker for over 50 years. Below is a video by Stuck in Vermont.Via: Mike Lynch
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 […]