Daryl Cagle profiles Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart and his book about the sport of short track racing.Most readers of Cagle.com will instantly recognize the cartoons of Bob Englehart, the award-winning cartoonist of the Hartford Courant. What you many not know is Bob is also a talented writer, and just released a new book about […]
Matt Bors on the guy who peed in the reservoir and the town that drained it, a story that gets funnier and funnier the more it goes on.The bottom line on all this is that people believe the science that bolsters their opinions and are blind to the science that doesn’t, and even independent, free-thinking […]
From Allgov:The carnage of layoffs resulting from the Internet age has been quite gruesome for journalism employment, with the U.S. having lost 30% of its paid media workers. According to the Pew Research Journalism Project, print publications facing dwindling subscription rates laid off 17,000 reporters and editors from 2006 to 2012. The reduction saw the […]
… so that we may bring you this important message about taste and sensitivity About six years ago, I interviewed a fellow in Rangeley, Maine, who had climbed Kilimanjaro, a feat that involves significant conditioning but no technical climbing and is popular among those who can afford to do it. He had sold his pharmacy to […]
Last weekend, here in my neck of the woods, was the Salt Lake Comic Con FanXperience (FanX) – a sister Con to the Comic Con that started last summer. It boasted over 100,000 attendees. The event was more geared toward connecting fans with entertainment celebrities, but it was still a comic con. Tickets go on […]
A great post by Wes Molebash:Michael Jantze left that comment on my Instagram, and I?ve been chewing on it for awhile. I like looking at other artists? sketchbooks online, and I tend to get intimidated by them. To me, sketchbooks are utilitarian. Sometimes I put some finished art in there, but – for the most […]
David Silverman, who directed The Simpson’s Movie and co-directed Monsters Inc., is working on a live-action/animated hybrid feature film of the Pink Panther character. Since the Pink Panther was introduced in 1963, most of the movies have been live-action films centered on Inspector Clouseau with references to a pink diamond nicknamed “The Pink Panther”. Most […]
Maybe we’re making too much of this thing, but it’s worth noting that the majority of conservative commentators seem to be either ignoring or mocking Clive Bundy. Granted, Steve Benson is hardly a conservative, but if this the only style of cartooning on the topic that seems to be out there, then ol’ Clive hasn’t […]
Let’s start with this Garrincha cartoon. I’ve said before that I’m more attuned to the story-telling American style of political cartooning rather than the more metaphorical international style, but this is a situation in which the two blend rather seamlessly. Moreover, I like the cartoon for what Gustavo Rodriguez is and what his cartoon isn’t. […]
R Stevens was profiled in Split Sider about his comic Diesel Sweeties and his latest book Bacon Is a Vegetable, Coffee Is a Vitamin TP.You?ve been doing this for years and made thousands of comics. What?s the appeal of collecting some of them into themed books? My work is way too scattered and unplanned to […]
Missed this, but nonetheless very cool. Big Nate creator Lincoln Peirce was on the Today show as the Guinness Book of World Records certified that a panel of Big Nate cartoons drawn by schoolchildren from around the country broke the world record as the largest cartoon strip by a team. The previous record was 3,320 […]
The Daily Beast is reporting that Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks will be returning to television after a four year hiatus – but the return is without Aaron who has developed another live-action show called Black Jesus.As the world now knows, The Boondocks will be returning for a fourth season, but I will not be returning […]
For a season, and a day, dedicated to rebirth, there sure were plenty of “boy am I old” cartoons today.We’ll ease into this with Between Friends, which is a fairly gentle parent-child-tech gag.(It also, I think, fits today’s topic as a subtle shift in age for Emma. Sandra Bell Lundy periodically nudges her characters forward […]
Let’s start today’s roundup with Jimmy Margulies on the new, revised, please-keep-requiring-them SATs, the makers of which have now decided to drop the college-bound-level vocabulary portion and reset the top score back to 1600, having previously stopped asking kids to show their reasoning powers through analogies.You remember the analogies, right? SATS:high score::Youth Soccer:A. professional careerB. World […]
One of the good things about living in the Upper Valley is that the Center for Cartoon Studies has grown to the point where they are no longer quite as inward-looking as they have been, but are beginning to reach out more often to the community, so that instead of whisking cartoonists in and out […]