Dan Thompson strikes a nerve with today’s Brevity.I noted the other day that Barnes & Noble, for those of us outside the megalopolis where it is apparently staffed by people who know how a book operates, is not a bookstore so much as it is just another faceless Big Box, and it’s the faceless Big […]
Jordan Gray of the Idaho Press-Tribune profiles Lola creator Todd Clark:The man behind the pen and Lola’s witty zingers is Todd Clark, 50, of Boise. In an office with walls crammed full of comic strips from fellow artists, his own work and plenty of Boise State University memorabilia, Clark sketches out Lola, her son Ray, […]
I mentioned back in March that Mark Trail cartoonist Jack Elrod was retiring. He’s 90 years old. James Allen is taking over. From WXIA in Sandy Springs, GA:
Graeme MacKay, editorial cartoonist for the The Hamilton Spectator, writes a wrap up of his visit to Cuba this month as one of a handful of The Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists (ACEC) members attending their annual convention there.Never before have we gone to another country where governments have a record of repressing free expressionists […]
Edison Lee takes on a nearly impossible challenge: Coming up with a toy that is more ridiculous and tasteless than what’s already out there.I’m so old. (How old are you?)I’m so old that I can remember when Children’s Television Workshop was about education. Well, I guess it still is.Behold Elmo’s Cell Phone, doing for real […]
Late last year, Stephan Pastis and Scott Adams did a video bit pimping Wacom?s Cintiq Companion. Now Garfield creator Jim Davis is doing the same for the Wacom Cintiq. That Jim is using a a Cintiq doesn’t surprise me. When he was at the Reuben Awards in Las Vegas two years ago, he mentioned that […]
From what original art hangs on his wall to where he stashes candy, Zits co-creator Jim Borgman has posted a virtual tour through his office. From his blog:My dad was a sign painter, and this is the wooden box he sat on everyday as he worked. I keep it nearby to remember him, but I […]
A viral cartoon drawn by Former Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist (now self-syndicated) Joe Heller featuring Pope Francis driving his 1984 Renault with bumper stickers such as “Have you hugged an Atheist today?,” and “Honk if your a non-conformist” has been presented to his Holiness. Members of the Jubilee USA delegation visiting the Vatican last […]
My good friend Aaron Taylor was profiled on BYUTV Sports about his webcomic about all things BYU sports Blood Runs Blue.
Jonathan Hill spent two weeks with Surface Pro 2 running Windows 8 and the Cintiq Companion. He breaks down his experience on his blog: Ever since I got wind about these tablets that are running full Windows 8 and have pressure sensitive screens, I sold my laptop and decided to jump all over that. It […]
Let’s go back 33 years, with this Jim Mazzotta commentary on the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.John Hinckley was not a massacre shooter, but he operated in something of the same arena: Attempting a grand public gesture, at which, as Mazzotta’s cartoon suggests, he succeeded.He only wanted to attract the attention of one person, but that […]
A modest proposalI think cartoonists should get to take Memorial Day off, mostly because it would be so simple to arrange.Each year, one cartoonist would be chosen to do a cartoon of a small child saluting a gravestone, all the papers could run it, and everyone else could kick back and eat barbecue.I mean, it […]
This year’s Reubens Award Weekend was held in the spectacular San Diego California. It was only my third NCS weekend, so I’m not the best barometer for attendance. Apart from live-tweeting the winners on Saturday night, I’ll admit, I put aside my the “reporter duties” and just enjoyed the event. My photos are slimmer than […]
This last weekend was the National Cartoonists Society’s annual Reuben Awards weekend. It was a fabulous event. I’ll post a write-up here shortly. But as fun as the weekend was, the reason we were all there was to find out who were the big winners. Without further delay, below are the winners of the division […]
I?m pleased that Universal Uclick is sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist for another week. Equally happy that they are promoting one of my favorite comics “Wumo.” I was only just a little giddy to hear that the Danish comic Wulffmorgenthaler was being brought to the states. It started in 2001 and ran in several European papers. […]