Dutch cartoonist Arend Van Dam presents the gun controversy with a touch of “O wad some power the giftie gie us.”I realize there is a popular definition of patriotism that involves not caring what anybody thinks of us, but self-confidence and arrogance are really two different things, and, while the former is a very healthy […]
Mother Goose and Grimm creator and editorial cartoonist Mike Peters is heading back home to St. Louis in February to lead the Soulard Mardi Gras parade as their grand marshall.Mike, quoted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,” “I’m glad it doesn’t take too much” skill to be marshal, Peters said. “I think all you have to […]
Between Friends bemoans what is, IMHO, not the degradation of our culture so much as the revelation of it.I suspect we’ve always had roughly the same total number of brain cells globally, but simply weren’t hearing from everyone.Think of it as a liquid, once kept in a tall vase with a narrow neck, the exposed […]
After I posted news that Bill Day had allegedly used an image from Deviant Art in one of his cartoons without attribution, a reader posted a link in the comments to a Tumblr blog called That Cartoon Critic and it isn’t very kind to Bill. It’s like The Bad Cartoonist is back.Whomever this Cartoon Critic […]
Eleven days before the close of an Indiegogo campaign to raise $35,000 to support the continuation of editorial cartoonist Bill Day’s career, comes an allegation that Bill used an image from the website DeviantArt in one of his cartoons without citation. The cartoon, on the topic of gun control, features an assault rifle with a […]
Kevin (KAL) Kallauger, editorial cartoonist for the Economist and contributing cartoonist to the Baltimore Sun, will celebrate 35 years with the British magazine in April. Kevin has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for “a large retrospective collection of my cartoons and covers from the magazine titled Daggers Drawn.” As with most Kickstarter campaigns, […]
The third Success in the World of Comics Seminar being held in Annapolis, MD is drawing closer. The seminar is slated for February 16 & 17. Tundra creator Chad Carpenter and business partner Bill Kellogg do a great job hosting this informative event. If you’re interested in the business side of cartooning, this is the […]
I don’t know too much about Joe Heller personally, but I think he’s got some country in him.When I got to college in the fall of 1967, I found myself in the middle. My college friends were against the war, and I agreed with them that it was a foreign relations disaster. We needed to […]
The family of Jerry Robinson, creator of Batman characters The Joker and Robin has donated 60 pieces of original cartoon art to the Cartoon Art Museum. Most pieces are art from other famous cartoonists such as George Herriman, Bud Fisher, Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly and Winsor McCay. From SFWeekly: The donation largely consists of comic […]
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals ruled that Warner Bros owns the Superman character and that a 2001 agreement between Warner Bros and the heirs of Jerry Siegel is legit giving the heirs 50% share of Superman.From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The ruling Thursday trumps a 2008 trial court decision ordering […]
Kevin Kallaugher touches on one of our more disturbing, but disturbingly unfocused, issues.And he does it very effectively, because a major part of the drone controversy is less the drones themselves and more the way their use is, so to speak, flying below the radar.That is, you can’t expect every drone strike to be announced, […]
Brewster Rockit has a pretty good success rate in translating geeky stuff into mainstream humor.It’s an interesting niche, an approach not to be confused with that of strips like xkcd, SMBC or Penny Arcade, which produce geek humor for use within the geek community, on a level that would go over the heads of most […]
Shirley & Son has been bumming me out lately.The current arc is about Shirley deciding to try a dating service and, if you look at the panels closely, you’ll see it ran in the last part of March and first part of April, 2003.Jerry Bittle, the cartoonist behind the long-running Geech and this newer strip […]
Harry Bliss about something or other.Gotta go walk the dog. I’ll deal with this as soon as I’ve taken care of that.Although I really should get the dishes done …
Axe Cop, the webcomic written by brothers Malachai Nicolle (age 5 when the webcomic was launched) and Ethan Nicolle (age 28 when launched) will debut on Fox’s Adult Swim-style Saturday-night on July 27. This is a Halloween themed teaser released last fall.