I like to mix up my postings between cartoons and commentary of Great Social Significance and ones that are more frivolous, in part to force people who take life way too seriously to get dragged into some less portentous areas for a change, and in part to force those of a more chronically whimsical nature […]
I’m not waiting until tomorrow morning to post this. We’ve waited too long as it is. (Thanks. Don’t neglect to scroll down for today’s posting. It’s also kind of important.)
An organized campaign by over 900 mayors across the US to support gun control efforts in Washington has launched a video featuring 23 cartoonists who are supporting the effort. The video is called Cartoonists Demand Action to End Gun Violence. Participating cartoonists include: Lalo Alcaraz, Bill Amend, Ruben Bolling, Jim Borgman, Steve Brodner, Roz Chast, […]
Superman turned 75 last week. Wired.com looks at the evolution of the character since it debuted in 1938. Instead, what makes Superman so recognizable is the underlying attitude of the character: At the heart of the concept, he’s the guy who believes in the good of people, and who’ll never give up fighting anything and […]
Announcements for various national awards are popping up nearly daily now. This year?s Best of the West award goes to Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley. His portfolio featured cartoons on the NRA?s grip on Congress, the gay-friendly Mormon Church and the bulldozing of public lands.From Politico cartoonist Matt Wuerker who judged the contest:?Pat […]
As far as syndicates go, Universal Uclick has always been a leader in the mobile space. They were the first to have a mobile friendly website and one of the first to release iPhone apps for various comic titles. But I failed to realize that they didn?t have a native mobile app available. They?ve now […]
Hearty congratulations to Tyson Cole who won The Cartoonists Studio?s fourth annual cartooning contest. Tyson is a student at Utah State University where his feature runs in The Utah Statesman. You can follow his comic panel on his blog or on Facebook. And another congratulations to Tyson on the new baby girl.Keith Brown, creator of […]
Chan Lowe perfectly drew what went through my mind Friday morning on the way to the dog park, as I was listening to the radio news of the previous night’s shoot-out.In fact, the day before,I’d been thinking of how black people speak of hearing about a crime and then watching the news saying, “please, no, […]
Today’s “Baby Blues” brings back memories of sports, arts and the ex.We got married her senior year which also would have been mine if I hadn’t dropped out. The following summer, we moved to South Bend so I could take another wack at finishing up my degree. It would only be a year, but, between windswept […]
Major hat tip today to Mike Lynch for bringing to my attention something that makes my brain hurt so much that I’m bending the rules and featuring something, not because of its excellence, but based on the fact that, as the mission statement says, it made me think.It made me think that these people had […]
The 2013 National Headliner?s Award has been announced and in the category of Editorial cartoons, the winner is Steve Breen of the U-T San Diego, San Diego, Calif. This is his second Headliner?s award (previous was 2009). The award was founded by the Press Club of Atlantic City to hightlight the best journalism in newspapers.Second […]
Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants is the number one book most likely to be challenged for removal from a school and library in America according to the annual study released by the American Library Association. The Huffington Post reports that it’s due to “offensive language, unsuited for age group”.From the Post: “It’s pretty exciting to be […]
I just made up that word, a portmanteau of “leavening” and “levity,” both of which I’m in the mood for this morning. And then I took the “A” from “leavening” so it could also include Sam Levenson, a Borscht Belt comedian who, checking Google, is a lot more obscure than he deserves to be.Levenson had […]
Scott Stantis brings Boston into focus, but not in a particularly comforting way.One of what I guess you could call the “geopolitical-psychological” disadvantages of being a very large country and sharing the continent with only a couple of New World buddies is that we have never been forced to develop much empathy with the rest […]
With better special effects and better writing, super-hero movies have been doing really well in theaters in the last decade. Sure there have been some stinkers, but when you think of Batman, The Avengers, Ironman, many have done quite well. Directors finally figured out that treating the comic book movies more like action thrillers make […]