Cartoonists Ted Rall, Matt Bors and Steven Cloud have left on a trip that will take them through Afghanistan, with visits to Pakistan and Iran. Michael Cavna interviewed them for the Washington Post’s “Comics Riff” earlier this week and sums up their mission, which is basically to go over there and find out what’s going […]
Digital Spy reports that Cyanide & Happiness co-creator Dave McElfatrick has been denied a work visa to the US because his work is, “not world-renowned.” The visa in question is a 0-1 Visa for notable artists to travel and work within the US. Dave is from Ireland and wants to work with this other three […]
Daddy’s Home, created by Anthony Rubino, Jr. and Gary Markstein has proven to be a popular comic strip in Canada. Creators Syndicate announced that it successfully sold the strip (both daily and Sunday) to 28 newspaper sites under the Canoe.ca brand. Earlier in the year, the co-creators picked up six other Canadian papers, Calgary Sun, […]
John Read, editor of “Stay Tooned!” and curator of the “One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages” exhibit has graciously sent me photos of the exhibit as seen in Jackson, Mississippi – the busiest mall in Mississippi he adds. He’s using a former jewelry store – hence the cases. Exhibit runs through August and then […]
And maybe you have to be of a certain age to read today’s Speed Bump and think of a moose.
Kurt Westergaard says he’s publishing a memoir of his life and his infamous cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammad with a bomb in his turban will be on the cover. According to Monsters and Critics, the book is due out in November.
Part of the 40th anniversary of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury, Garry will be taking questions from fans and detractors and responding to 15 of them. A special website has been created to take those questions. If interested, go to AskDoonesbury.com. Submission deadline is August 16. Or you can leave your question below.
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has announced that he’s going to be posting daily commentary about each day’s strip on his blog. Or has he puts it… This blog has gotten a little moldy and stale, so to perk it up some I’m going to start a new feature that’ll run daily, or until […]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is calling Senate Republicans as practicing “Charlie Brown theory of government” for delaying many of the Democratic legislative priorities. He reportedly said, “I’ve been terribly disappointed by the Charlie Brown theory of government around here” during a press conference on the state aid bill. According to The Hill, a GOP […]
Lincoln Peirce, the creator behind Big Nate is tapping into the hybrid book craze. Hybrid books, like Diary of a Wimpy Kid have exploded in popularity. Lincoln is publishing a hybrid book called “Big Nate: In a Class By Himself” through Harper. Amazon’s description of the book: Grade 4?6?Nate is a sixth grader who has […]
The Plymouth Herald sent in their cartoonist to illustrate the Southampton vs. Plymouth game to get the visual story after the Southampton Football Club banned press photography – insisting they purchase the photos from a signal agency. The cartoonist, Chris Robinson, is a city historian and Herald contributor.You can see some of Chris’ illustrations on […]
Timing is everything in comedy. Thanks to syndicate deadlines, a lot of cartoons are just starting to cycle into their tar-on-the-beach story arcs as that part of the disaster is no longer a major issue. Tant pis.But today’s “Edge City” hits at a point in time at which Facebook has suddenly been deluged with outrageous […]
The Cartoonist, the documentary on BONE creator Jeff Smith, won a regional Emmy for best documentary.If you haven’t seen the documentary, pick it up at Amazon.com.The documentary was directed by Ken Mills and features Scott McCloud, Colleen Doran, Harvey Pekar and Paul Pope.
My Cage may seem to be reaching with this gag, but it’s not easy to exaggerate the horrors of Hollywood.Consider that Universal Pictures is currently filming “Stretch Armstrong,” a movie starring “Twilight” heartthrob Taylor Lautner as a plastic toy. (Yes, the role will be a stretch.)Lautner told MTV.com “The awesome thing with toys is it […]
(This profile of Johnny Hart, creator of BC and The Wizard of Id, is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. Hart died in 2007.)Today’s tip: You never know when your path will take an interesting turn. For instance, a high school art contest […]