If you aren’t already reading “The Heart of Juliet Jones” over at Comics Kingdom, this would be a good time to jump aboard.The main reason to read the strip, of course, is not to actually “read” it, but to enjoy Stan Drake’s artwork. However, the stories are not bad and much of the appeal of […]
Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley is the artist in residence this month at The Leonardo, a local contemporary museum for science & culture. There will also be an exhibit of his work on display this month.From the Trib:As an artist in residence at The Leonardo, Bagley will turn a portion of the art […]
This week’s sponsor is Greg Kogan of GagCartoons.com. GagCartoons.com is an online platform where you, the friendly (or not) cartoonist can upload your thousands of gag cartoons that are unsold or gathering dust and let Greg promote, market and license them. He’ll even cut you a check for those cartoons that sell. Yes, he’s one […]
A really disconnected grouping today, so let’s start easy with Edge City, in which the grandparents have been exploring the concept of retirement communities. I can be objective about this because, though I am approaching retirement age, I won’t ever be able to afford to retire and writers don’t “retire” anyway. I came to grips some […]
If you read the comments here, you’ve seen the name of Brian Fies more than once. He’s even been a featured artist a time or two.He’s one of my best-friends-I’ve-never-met, and I kind of knew I’d known him for a long time, but the 10th anniversary of his landmark graphic memoir, “Mom’s Cancer,” made me realize […]
If the guy in Oklahoma had actually been named “Fred Botched,” I don’t think we’d be seeing the phrase “Botched execution” any more often than we have.But the debacle may indeed have finally brought the practice of killing people on purpose to the forefront, and it’s been interesting to see the near-unanimity of commentary across […]
Jumble, the word puzzle with a cartoon, by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek is now a mobile app called Just Jumble. In Jumble, players must unscramble a set of letters and solve the puzzle from clues in Jeff’s cartoon. The app is free and available for iOS devices with Android, Nook coming soon. See […]
Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald has won this year’s International Editorial Cartoon Competition of the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom. Second and third place winners were Pierre Brignaud, and Rodrigo de Matos.Clay Bennett, in addition to being a nominee for this year’s NCS divisional award for editorial cartooning, was honored with Cartooning with […]
There’s a traditional practice in comicstripology of analyzing news to project lead time, and a more modern practice of analyzing it to project print circulation of a strip.Which is to say, if a strip can comment on current news, it’s probably web-only or nearly so.Print clients like having strips in hand well in advance, and […]
May Day celebrations seem a bit muted this year, as Italian cartoonist Enrico Bertuccioli (“Ebert”) notes in this Cartoon Movement panel.It’s nice to know the economy is screwed everywhere and not just in the country that just noted a special centennial celebration. Gosh, it seems like yesterday. Granted, the worldwide collapse is not as dramatic in […]