Well, the game is afoot: Edward Snowden is wending his way across the friendly skies in search of a sheltering country. But, as Jack Ohman’s cartoon suggests, it’s a mystery that all these supposedly whiz-bang snoopedy-snoops can’t catch him. I noted earlier that, by proclaiming his guilt, he protected himself from being quietly disappeared. Fair […]
Pixar’s Monsters University took home an estimated $82 million beating out Brad Pitt’s World War Z ($66 million). The Guardian reports that this is the second largest weekend opening for a Pixar film.I don’t think I’m going to see this one in theaters. Did any of you see it? Is it worth the price for […]
This week is the annual Association of American Editorial Cartoonists big convention. There are a few media interviews, book signings etc. in the days leading up to the convention (Thursday through Saturday). Today you can listen to Pat Bagley, Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, Jack Ohman and Matt Wuerker talk shop on a live video chat on […]
This week, Rhymes with Orange cartoonist Hilary Price is turning over her strip to five guest cartoonists. Suzy Becker, Rina Piccolo, Maria Scrivan, Jen Sorensen, and Mo Willems. If your paper doesn’t carry Rhymes with Orange, you can check out the guest strips on Hilary’s website: Today’s guest cartoonist is Maria.Correction: Maria is the guest […]
Today’s Bizarro is an excellent example of a silly gag done well.There’s nothing wrong with silly gags in general, but it takes a smart touch to pull them off. It’s not enough to think of the phrase “divine intervention” in this other sense of “intervention,” though, yes, you could get a chuckle from a panel […]
Tony Auth is Philadelphia based, which gives this cartoon a little extra punch: The Jersey Shore took a massive hit in “We Can’t Call It A Hurricane But That’s What It Was Sandy” and that’s a local issue for his part of the world.The shore is back up and running, but, while some of the […]
As I’ve mentioned here before, I don’t often feature David Horsey’s work because he accompanies his cartoons with a well-spoken rant that generally covers anything I would have said. This particular cartoon-and-rant is no exception, but it does give me an opening to go off on another rant without violating the Prime Directive, which is to […]
Warner Bros is making a movie with LEGOs. It features big Hollywood names like: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman.This trailer screams “wait for DVD”, but it had my 11 year old laughing, so we may have see it before it goes to DVD.
Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman live blogs how he came up with a recent cartoon: 11:56:30: Decide to go with an idea, as yet completely unformed, about the NSA. 11:58: Determined to do very elaborate parodies of NSA and other intelligence agency logos that will be really cool. 12:08: After looking at all the […]
From Vice.com: Molly Crabapple secured access and traveled down there for an upcoming issue of VICE, and she sent us these sketchbook drawings of yesterday?s pretrial hearings, which were mostly about how the defense can?t properly represent their client because they don?t have access to classified evidence that will be brought against him and that […]
Michael Miner of the Chicago Reader examines why no editorial cartoonist of any political persuasion is defending the NSA: Yet the president made a pretty good point, and I bet a lot of these cartoonists don’t disagree with it. So why didn’t any of them say so? Let me propose an answer. A cartoon attacking […]
I could probably rant forever on this topic, but, first of all, Tom the Dancing Bug has covered enough bases that I don’t have to (Seriously, check it out: Seven of the Top 15 grossing Broadway shows are live versions of movies), and second of all … Okay, there’s no “second of all,” except maybe […]
Looks interesting, but I’ll be honest, my brain kept expecting to see Lightning McQueen when I hear Owen Wilson’s voice.
A great story about a Nashville, TN architect named Mike W. Smith who started a tradition of drawing a full-color comic on his daughter’s brown lunch bag. Six years later, he’s still doing it. In the deal they worked out, Mike would scale back to one drawing per week. But these would be full-color, with […]
I’ve been busy with work and family for the last six months (hence the lack of regular posting here on the blog) and I’ve missed a lot of great episodes of Tom Racine’s Tall Tale Radio Podcast. I was thinking I missed out on two or three, but when I checked his guest list of […]