/wp-content/uploads/tdc-images/zapiro-india.jpgIndia Times reports that several organizations are calling for a boycott of South Africa by the Indian cricket team because of a cartoon by Sunday Times editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”). The cartoon features Cricket South Africa CEO about to be sacrificed on an alter in front of the Indian god Ganesha (labeled Indian Cricket […]
I read Scott Adams’s latest blog post regarding his father’s death. At the time of the writing, his father had not yet passed. It’s an angry post against anyone against doctor assisted suicides. You can feel Scott’s raw emotions as you read it. I don’t want this post to be about the morality or politics […]
Kal Kallaugher confronts a political taboo, and though he does it in the pages of the Economist of London, I haven’t heard very many people in the US criticize Israel as being obstructionist in this process either. There is, of course, the spectre of anyone who criticizes Israel being accused of anti-Semitism, which stems in part […]
Johanna Draper Carlson’s “Comics Worth Reading” currently features a link to a devastatingly insightful review by Chris Sims of the new collection, “Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years,” which sent me back to (A) a conversation I had recently and (B) yesterday’s criticism of modern self-absorption.Start with this bit of child-development psychological whatchamacallit:Certain dirty jokes remain […]
Nothing smells like vict’ry more than napalm in the morningChasing Charlie from his lair so very far away The Chuckle Bros got a chuckle with this, mostly in light of the futile caption. I think they seriously underestimate Broadway’s hunger for overproduced, overpriced, unlikely adaptations.In any case, their timing is excellent, given that Spiderman just closed […]
The New York Times looks at three different drawing apps and how well the work with a stylus. When he introduced the iPhone and iPad, Steven P. Jobs asserted the touch-screen devices didn?t need a stylus because humans come with 10 great touch-screen controllers sticking out of our palms: fingers. He was proved right, and […]
From the Huffington Post: Comic book collector and industry legend Maggie Thompson of Wisconsin has decided to put some 500 pieces of her personal collection up for auction over the next few months. The first wave alone includes the first issue of “The Avengers,” ”Journey Into Mystery” No. 83, which features the first appearance of […]
Pat Oliphant isn’t generally known for sensitivity, but he has come up with one of the few JFK Assassination Anniversary cartoons that seem content to remember the moment.Yes, a fairy tale. But as true as anything else being said, and truer than most of what’s out there.Maybe you had to be there, and fewer than […]
New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin looks at a few New Yorker cartoon collections from half a century ago. Before my recent interview with Dana Fradon, I did some research ? as much as the internet allowed, which wasn?t a heck of a lot ? and ran into this first collection of his from 1961. My […]
The New York Times reports that the Spider-Man musical is set to close in January with a record-breaking loss of $60 million. The show has only been open for three years. Several investors said they were reeling from the closing announcement, made on Monday night. Three said they have not been paid back anything during […]
I went to bed last night $30 shy of $8,000 (I’m also counting a $150 analog donation that came in the mail) in this year’s Fund The Daily Cartoonist drive. Somewhere in the last 30 minutes another donation came in that pushed the total above $8,000. Considering that this one campaign total surpasses all of […]
Mike Peters comments on the story of the Canton, Ohio, Wal-Mart whose employees are holding a food drive for each other.Clay Bennett has also weighed in on the topic.The drive, according to the company, was started by “associates” (nobody has “employees” anymore) not for the ongoing needs of their fellow workers, but, rather, to provide […]
Fox News profiles Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”): Shapiro, 55, has made a career of stripping away taboos and artifice with satire. Sometimes he gets sued, most notably by President Jacob Zuma. The Mandela cartoon in April for The Times, a South African newspaper, was one of his gentler efforts and a commentary on a nation that […]
Just a reminder if you’ve not yet donated or even if you have, any new donors this week or if any of the previous donors increase their donation by $10, I’ll send you the eBook I’m creating containing my best cartoons. Most of you probably haven’t seen my work.Here’s a sample of my cartoons.Editorial cartoons […]