…And maybe some grayscale. Reading a daily comics page in black and white I was struck by gray toning in today’s Rose is Rose. The amount of not-white was a pleasant change.Dare I say that most of the daily comics in newspapers are now colorized? And so cartoonists seem to have forsaken the practice of […]
Swiping a cartoonist’s style is not new to Artificial Intelligence. Here, from 1973, is an RCA Records advertisement for a new David Bowie 45. The ad agency knew what they wanted, but they, or RCA, didn’t want to spend the money to hire the real cartoonist. Recalling my childhood.Animation Resources recently present us with a […]
Today’s Shoe saw Ben Lansing take over the Sunday cartooning chores.Gary Brookins turned the daily Shoe over to Ben Lansing (and Pluggers over to Rick McKee) in September 2020, but held on to the Sunday Shoe – up to last week. Gary announced his retirement last month on his Facebook page: In January, 1979, my […]
This Batch Rejection (AMS) is decidedly relevant, given the amount of theft and piracy in our virtual world. I differentiate between the two because piracy is purposeful while theft is still theft but somehow can maintain a level of petty innocence.Which is to say that, while everyone knows pocketing an apple from the display inside […]
King Features and Legible Partner to Entertain Canadians Online Comics distributor King Features Syndicate has partnered with online bookstore Legible to provide digital content for Canadian readers. Excerpts from the press release via Business Wire: Legible Inc. is delighted to announce that it has partnered with King Features Syndicate, a Division of Hearst Entertainment & […]
Dave Granlund has drawn both amusement and ire on these pages for years. The local cartoonist’s works are published on the opinion pages of this newspaper and others nationwide each week. Dave Granlund is profiled in his local newspaper, The Waconia (Minn) Patriot. The feature article celebrates Dave having three cartoons in Cagle Cartoons’ Top […]
I might have saved this Non Sequitur (AMS) for a day of political cartooning, but, instead, I’m using it to introduce a comedy/editorial mashup.We’ve always had “alternative facts,” but we’ve only weaponized them recently. There were people who believed fluoride was a communist plot and that Elvis was alive, but they were dismissed as cranks. […]
It is no longer a question “Is Artificial Intelligence stealing your art?” It is now a statement “AI is stealing your art.”The National Cartoonists Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists are sharing Twitter threads about the theft of intellectual property, specifically tied to cartoonists and artists. We kick things off with Ted Rall‘s […]
Animator (Sita Sings the Blues), comic strip creator (The Hots), and all-round cartoonist Nina Paley had her most recent effort to self-publish foiled by IndieGoGo. From Post Millennial: On Friday, the crowdfunding site IndieGoGo canceled a campaign by cartoonist, comic creator, and gender-critical radical feminist Nina Paley after the project had exceeded full funding. IndieGoGo […]
10 Years of This is Fine, Marvel Covers Disney, Snoopy’s Moon Mission, Gannett Gonna Gannett, Remembering Jack Bender. You’ve probably seen it: A smiling cartoon dog sits at a table, coffee mug on hand, as a room goes up in flames. “This is fine,” the dog assures himself. It’s been a decade since its creator […]
(Frazz — AMS)(Marc Murphy)Like most American holidays, today will be marked by schools, banks and the post office being closed and everyone else going about their business as usual. We don’t have as many holidays as other countries, and we barely keep the ones we have.Caulfield is young enough to be puzzled by how long […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2023 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. A couple late listings from last month: Back to New Year new books. top image Peanuts by Charles Schulz © Peanuts […]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer replaced the defunct Funky Winkerbean comic strip with Beetle Bailey which led to some complaints. We went with Beetle Bailey, and nary a day has gone by since without someone writing me to question that decision. They say Beetle Bailey is a sexist, violent cartoon that was rightly removed from our […]
Stephen Collins reflects on the death of water cooler TV, a combination of too many things to watch, too many ways to watch and too many choices of when to watch. (Larger version here)It comes hard on the heels of a whole lot of Festivus references, which reminds us of the days when we all […]
There was a duet of sorts in today’s comics between Over the Hedge and Macanudo. Excerpt above is Over the Hedge © by Michael Fry and T. Lewis Excerpt below is Macanudo © by Liniers