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 […]
The brouhaha over San Diego Clippers owner Donald Sterling took a bad turn for cartoonists yesterday when NBA Commissioner Adam Sterling hit him with a $2.5 million fine (the maximum allowed) and a lifetime ban from the league, meaning that, while they couldn’t actually force him to sell the team, they could forbid him to […]
Mike Thompson on the FCC’s announced intention of giving Comcast and its brethren the right to accept bribes to stifle any competition to Netflix, Amazon Premium, Skype and other large, well-established streamers.For those who have not heard, or whose eyes roll up when the geeks start talking about “net neutrality,” the basic story is in […]
From The Verge:Comixology is replacing its iOS app today with a new version that removes the ability to purchase comics. The new app is solely a comic book reader, which means that you’ll have to visit the company’s website to purchase new comics. You can browse comics in the new app and download free comics […]
Great piece on NPR about Ralph Steadman and the upcoming documentary about his work:“I was concerned that Ralph’s art would be the man and that I’d end up trying to make a film with someone who had this kind of aggressive attitude towards the world,” Paul says. “But Ralph is such a lovely, warm and […]
From the Deseret News:Mark Pett?s pencil and watercolor spreads tell the story ? and the story within the story ? in “The Girl and the Bicycle.” In this wordless picture book, a button-nosed girl tugs her brother along, causing him to lose his ice cream cone on the sidewalk, as she longs for the bicycle […]
From Slate: Here?s a quick reminder that, despite the upbeat story lines we?ve heard about the greater media business during the past year or so, most newspapers are still very much in free fall. At the American Enterprise Institute?s Carpe Diem blog, Mark J. Perry finds that print ad revenues are now the lowest they’ve […]
In one of the four or five political cartoons today that is not about how much more room there is in a wheel well than in a regular airline seat, Jack Ohman wraps up the saga of Cliven Bundy.Let us never speak of this again. Please listen carefully, as our annoyance options have changedTina’s Groove on […]