German cartoonist Burkhard Mohr has apologized for drawing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a hooked-nose octopus in a cartoon related to the recent Facebook acquisition of Whatsapp. The cartoon generated controversy because it was viewed as a anti-Semitic and bore a close likeness to 1930 Nazi anti-Jew propaganda.According to Silicon Republic, the apology said, “Anti-Semitism […]
(Clay Bennett) (David Horsey)I’ve complained about political cartoonists who didn’t bother to examine the situation in Ukraine before sitting down at their drawing boards (or booting up their drawing boards or whatever one does). I don’t like to belabor a particular current event, but these two pieces certainly deserve mention.Both are by remarkable draftsmen, though […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Greg Johnson, who was awesome enough to help out “The Daily Cartoonist” Kickstarter by purchasing some time on Tall Tale Radio, is here to talk about the development of his first attempt […]
Interesting post over at Mental Floss about 21 notable actors who did voice work for various animated series and movies. I didn’t know John Ritter voiced Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Adam Huber with a dissenting vote in a discussion nobody seems to be taking beyond discussion. How can a serious medical condition effect nearly a third of American adults and yet not be taken seriously? I don’t mean by Adam. I like it when he fails to take things seriously, because he’s kind of a reverse-bellwether […]
I’m a bit surly this morning after reading the news that my one-time local paper The Standard Examiner hired a freelance cartoonist to do local cartoons once drawn by the genius cartoonist (and personal friend) Cal Grondahl. The Examiner laid Cal off last month a couple years shy of his retirement. Now I learn the […]
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 […]