The headline tells the story: I came across three comics in the last 24 hours that seem to me particularly excellent, each for different reasons. Jack Ohman — who moved from the Pacific Northwest to Sacramento a little over a year ago — uses a spare, economic style of storytelling that makes this piece extraordinarily touching, […]
It’s not considered hip to like the Lockhorns, but, while it is tragically bereft of misanthropic talking animals, it’s a consistently funny strip and John Reiner’s art is, to play with the phrase, “simply” superb.Not being an artist, I don’t know if it’s harder to create intricate detail or to work smoothly in a plain […]
Matt Bors leads off today with a relevant point in an irrelevant controversy: When did we start demanding that our artists, writers and actors provide not only entertaining work but perfect lives?He’s right. If you start going through the personal lives of creative geniuses, you’re going to uncover a mountain of ick in some cases […]
It’s been teased before when The Complete Cul de Sac book was announced, but now it’s official. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will host two exhibits of original work by Richard Thompson and Bill Watterson. The exhibit opens March 22 (with an opening reception on March 21) and continues through August 3. Bill’s […]
Between Friends! creator Sandra Bell-Lundy is celebrating 20 years in syndication with a previous four self-syndicating her strip. This month is the 20th anniversary of syndication for Between Friends! Actually, I’ve been creating my strip for 24 years. From 1990 to 1994, I self-syndicated my comic to a number of southern Ontario newspapers: The St. […]
The estimated reduction stems almost entirely from a net decline in the amount of labor that workers choose to supply, rather than from a net drop in businesses’ demand for labor, so it will appear almost entirely as a reduction in labor force participation and in hours worked relative to what would have occurred otherwise rather than as an […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Paul Caggegi, the artist and writer of the dystopian future sci-fi comic, “Pandeia” joins me to talk about his comic, his Kickstarter to compile the first five issues into a book, the […]
Michael Cavna talks to Axel Alonso, Marvel?s editor-in-chief about the new “Characters and Creators” initiative to put more emphasis on women (and not necessarily the skimpy suits and big breast kind) in their comics.From Comic Riffs blog: The proof is in the numbers, and in the case of the all-female X-Men series, the numbers are […]
Monday I wrote about Ecuadorian cartoonist Xavier Bonilla who was censored by a media watch dog group for a cartoon they said was “harmful to President Rafael Correa.” The Miami Herald reports that Bonilla has published a “correction” cartoon (see original and “correction” below). The underlining issue was that Ecuadorian security raided the house of […]
Legendary animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director Tex Avery will be honored in his hometown of Taylor Texas on February 22. That day will be Tex Avery Day and a varieties of festivities will be held. Taylor is only a half hour drive from Austin.From Cartoon Brew: In his own time, Avery inspired and motivated […]
By the time “Harold and the Purple Crayon” arrived on the scene, I was a semi-literate young man of five, and one who already knew the main character from poring through my parents’ collection of Barnaby. Different name, but it hardly mattered, because I hadn’t been able to read the words anyway. I knew he was […]
Mark Fiore writes: I’m hearing this morning that Chevron filed court documents saying they were “injured” by this cartoon I did in conjunction with Amazon Watch. (I’ll post more info as soon as I get the court docs or other documentation.) Watch the cartoon for the more entertaining version, but the nutshell version is this: […]
Wacom interviews The Norm creator Michael Jantze about his process of animating The Norm and posting them on YouTube. What are the tools and software you use to create The Norm and edit it for YouTube? I’m still drawing on paper. I use a printer’s card stock similar to Bristol or Bristol (honestly, whatever is […]
Let’s start, for a change, with the Juxtaposition of the Day: (Between Friends) (Watch Your Head)I warned Maeve not to go to Europe with her ex. Well, actually, I warned her not to call him in the middle of the night.Which she did.Before she went to Europe with him, which I would note she did […]
I’m a bit behind on this, but no less excited that Mike Peterson is this week’s sponsor of the blog. If you’re a regular here, you know Mike is an active participant in the comments. What you may not know is that for the last four years he’s been maintaining his own daily blog called […]