Phil Hands gets right to the point with this one. He’s mostly right, and he’s a little wrong, but if we grade on the curve, he’ll be the guy who sets the level for an “A.”Regular readers are probably tired of my analogy that people who think that, because they went to school, they understand […]
I really shouldn’t praise Sandra Bell Lundy for today’s Between Friends. It should be a well-worn path she’s treading.But it’s not, and it’s one I find myself on, which of course makes it even more likely that I’m going to praise it. Still, why isn’t this a more common theme?Like most people, Sandra is younger than […]
I haven’t quite sorted out the whole Comcast monopoly issue, but I like Jack Ohman’s take if only because it’s more specific than the several cartoons that play on cables in order to show Comcast as a snake or dragon or octopus or whatever is long and grabby and toxic.Ohman’s cartoon at least makes the […]
Hollywood Reporter has a good update on the latest court case involving Stan Lee Media’s attempt to assert it’s ownership of Marvel characters. I wrote about the recent case in Pennsylvania last week. Disney is using that case to get a judge to resolve once and for all Stan Lee’s claims and future litigation.According to […]
I’ve known of the hidden symbols in Dan Piraro’s Bizarro strip for years, but didn’t know each one had a specific meaning. The The News-Democrat explains it all: About 10 years after he started the strip, Piraro began adding “secret symbols” to his panels. “I started on a whim in 1995 — just to entertain […]
Timmy Failure author and Pearls Before Swine comic creator Stephan Pastis is heading out on two book tours – one for the second book in his Timmy Failure series and the other for his latest Pearls Before Swine book (Pearls Falls Fast). In all he’s hitting 15 or so different venues. To see if he’s […]
Edge City has been sending me into fits of nostaglic giggles all week, as Len and Abby have been taking a wine-tasting class at the local adult ed place. The “hints of vanilla and pear” cracked me up, mostly because I have never understood all that stuff, in wine or coffee. Except in the case of […]
Michael Cavna notes that recent story-lines in Pearls Before Swine in which the Stephan Pastis character is having marital problems is generating inquiries into real-life marriage status of Stephan Pastis who maintains he and his wife are NOT going through a divorce.From Comic Riffs blog: Pastis admits that he, of course, brings this all upon […]
Over at Robot6, Corey Blake crunches numbers of crowd-funding platforms. Of interest is the rapid rise of Patreon for comic creators. If you’re not familiar with Patreon, read Corey’s piece and then head over to Patreon to learn more. Patreon’s model would fit better with The Daily Cartoonist fundraising efforts in the future and would […]
I know I’ve mentioned this case before. Here’s the back story again: Jabeur Mejri was sentenced to seven and a half years in a Tunisian jail for posting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed on Facebook. Under pressure from human rights groups, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki had publicly stated he wanted to release Mejri, but was […]
The National Cartoonist Society has announced the line-up of speakers for the upcoming Reuben Awards weekend. Also announced is a return of the NCS A.C.E. Award (Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinaire) given to a notable individual who aspired to be a cartoonist but became famous by other means. This year’s A.C.E. recipient is ?Weird Al? Yankovic. NCS […]
Let’s start with an extremely sensible ruleIf Alex Raymond places a woman in your path, do not question her motives. Or his. Just stop the wagon.Sure, she might try to kill you. But why focus on the negative? Too-Smart-For-The-Room Juxtapositions of the Day(Bizarro)(Lio)(Loose Parts)I want to see the Bizarro done as a performance piece in an […]
I don’t feature animations here very often because, well, because I hate them.Timing is one of the critical attributes of comedy, and, in a comic strip, it is a particular technique that sets static comedy apart from performance comedy, to coin a couple of terms.That is, timing is always critical, but when what you have […]
On May 4 an entire Simpson’s episode will be in the form of Legos. The article from The Guardian suggests it’s due to the success of The LEGO movie, but that seems like a quick turn-around. Regardless, it’s also the 550th episode.From The Guardian: Thanks to heavy marketing including an entire ad break recreated with […]
Mike Lester’s comic Mike Du Jour will start running in the Florida Times-Union in March – which is also his home paper. They gave him a front page story on their features page. The humor in ?Mike Du Jour? is observational rather than topical, Lester said, although topical events ? such as the Winter Olympics […]