Artvy is advertising its Milton Caniff inspired AI created illustration “art.” Personally I’m not seeing much Caniff there. Mostly just generic retro magazine figures (without the hands).Kevvo at AdExchanger riffs on the “digital advertising ecosystem.” While we’re discussing stealing… I don’t know why and neither do you, but those unlicensed Calvin and Hobbes “Calvin Peeing” […]
Jason Kottke writes: In June 2021 (pre The Bear), New Yorker cartoonist Zoe Si coached Ayo Edebiri through the process of drawing a New Yorker cartoon. The catch: neither of them could see the other’s work in progress. Super entertaining. Jason continues: I don’t know about you, but Si’s initial description of the cartoon reminded […]
My first reaction to this Non Sequitur (AMS) was that it’s impossible. We all know that the way you learn to check before sending is by sending before checking, a lesson gained through experience.It was a lot more fun back in the days of listservs, which, O Best Beloved, set up a little closed universe […]
The artist who designed NFT digital cards with “amazing ART of [Donald Trump’s] Life & Career” is Clark Mitchell.Above: Representation of Trump’s heartfelt speech welcoming the tired, the poor, the huddled masses. The call for countries to send the wretched refuse, the homeless, and the tempest-tost to him. Only one of many famous moments in […]
Update:Comics Kingdom has Monday’s comics up. original post: It looks like that Dennis the Menace has gotten into our servers yet again! We’re experiencing technical difficulties at the moment and some comics may have not been updated. We apologize for this inconvenience and will update you as soon as we have everything corrected! Comics Kingdom is […]
For those who have access to a newsstand that sells the April 2022 issue of Washingtonian – grab it. Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes on her journey from The Brave Little Toaster to a Pulitzer Prize. As told to Bill O’Sullivan. [T]he second season of Woke – debuting April 8th on Hulu – delves even […]
I joined Twitter about 9 months after it started. It was 2006, and I was working out of my Perth studio when I got an email invite to join the new app from a friend working at a startup in San Francisco. It all sounded very exciting. Fast forward 14 years: Twitter is now one […]
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones has written an in-depth review and comparison (“it’s long. I wrote it over three days”) of Microsoft’s Surface Pro and Apple’s iPad. To be specific, my review is of a Surface Pro 6 (16 GB) and an iPad Pro 12.9 (1 TB) as for how they apply for drawing political cartoons […]
Clay Jones used his Twitter account to let his Facebook followers know that he had been suspended because the Facebook Artificial Intelligence doesn’t recognize satire and humor. Clay Jones’ Facebook account was back on the streets this morning.
Regarding NFTs Alex Hallatt poses an interesting question when she comments: The thing that upsets me most is the copyright notice. Selling an artwork does not mean you sell the copyright. Unless you say that you are doing so. I must admit that being an old Luddite I am outta my depth with this cryptocurrency-NFT […]
Daryl Cagle, this weekend, is entering the world of cryptocurrency. I’m a newspaper editorial cartoonist. The decline of newspapers has dragged my profession down … Cartoonists are on the front lines of journalism — but we struggle to pay the rent. Daryl anticipates a new revenue source for cartoonists. Crazy sales figures and global media […]
Cartoonist Scott Adams has created and is selling two NFT versions of a Dilbert comic strip – identical except for a curse word added to one of them.On his twitter feed Scott explains: For those who wonder, NFTs are digital art that is collectible because the original is registered on the blockchain. Yes, anyone can […]
PORTLAND, Ore., March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The VC comic strip, a parody of the venture capital industry that was a huge hit with Silicon Valley insiders during the 1990’s dot-com era, has offered its very first comic for auction as an NFT (non-fungible token.) The sale of the property, titled The VC 1.0 combines a true […]
Friday The New York Times dropped a story about satire and Facebook’s bots inability to recognize it: Since 2013, Matt Bors has made a living as a left-leaning cartoonist on the internet. His site, The Nib, runs cartoons from him and other contributors that regularly skewer right-wing movements and conservatives with political commentary steeped in […]
Graphic Storytellers at Work: Cross-industry opportunities for cartoonists, illustrators and comics-makers, [is] a new report which explores how the skills of cartoonists, illustrators and comics-makers are being applied. This happens across a diverse range of industries such as health and education.The Australia Council for the Arts commissioned research to look at workplace opportunities for graphic […]