There’s been a long and convoluted exchange over at the Daily Cartoonist — producing more heat than light, as these things tend to do — about what a political cartoon ought to be, with the impetus having been a blog posting by Daryl Cagle about how to create the kind of political cartoon that newspaper […]
I swear I’ve written that headline before. This time the cartoon was published at Eastern Michigan University and depicts several individuals in KKK garb standing around a tree with a noose hanging from a branch. The caption reads, “Honey, This is the tree where we met.” Students, particularly African American students, found the cartoon offensive. […]
Zulkiflee Anwarul Haque’s, better known as Zunar, may have the ban on his latest two books lifted. Malaysiakini.com, his publisher, has been granted permission by the High Court to challenge the ban on two of his books. The publisher maintains that the books are collections of work that has already been published. MKINI contended that […]
There was a time when “Sesame Street” was funny and exciting and as much fun for parents as it was for kids. And then, first, they decided that the exciting part made it too hard for the kids to absorb the lessons, so they slowed it down and ditched all the fast-counting sequences with the […]
A failed GOP candidate is suing nine journalists for $1 million each and has named The Journal News editorial cartoonist Matt Davies as one of the nine. The suit alleges that the nine journalists “defamed his character, ruined his reputation and caused him emotional distress.” Russell, who has run for Congress five times, including his […]
Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For and the graphic novel “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” recently spoke to the 11th annual Stonewall Lecture recently spoke to the 11th annual Stonewall Lecture at Dartmouth College. The topic was creativity and community and she addressed how her work was about a community but part […]
Sunday Press Books has announced that will be offering Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland on the iPad. The series will be introduced with a free mini-book preview, Little Nemo in Christmasland.Sunday Press owner Peter Maresca sees the iPad as a viable platform to display the giants of American comics. As former creative director for […]
When I go through the comics each morning, one of the factors I have to consider is, “Will this make sense to someone who hasn’t been following the story?”For instance, Tank McNamara is in the middle of an arc about drunk driving, and, this being Thursday, it seemed pointless to drag people into it now. […]
h/t: Mike Lynch
An editorial cartoon that ran on Sept. 29 in the Sacramento State University student newspaper has caused the paper to issue an apology. The cartoon was entitled “Why Baseball is the Best Sport Ever” and was meant to mock a column that ran in the same edition touting the sport, but the cartoon depicted a […]
Garfield creator Jim Davis is visiting Charlottesville Virginia to help raise $40,000 for a public education fund that pays for innovative educational programs. “Literacy is very important because people need to know how to read to enjoy my comics,” Davis told a crowd of more than 100 people Tuesday. “So I kind of have a […]
You can always get a larger version of the strips here by clicking on the image, but today’s xkcd provides a much larger version off its own site, and I think you’ll want to go there and examine this in some detail. It’s always worthwhile to go there for the mouse-over joke that I can’t […]
In support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, several King Features comics will participate in a “Cartoonists Care” initiative this Sunday. More than 50 of the King Features strips “turn pink” and a special Dan Piraro Bizarro signature art piece will be auctioned off.Each comic strip will feature the internationally recognized pink ribbon for breast […]
Just got around to booking the hotel for the upcoming Festival of Cartoon Art. Sticker shock. If anyone wants to share a room (and the cost), email me. My reservations are check in on: 10/14/2010, checking out on: 10/17/2010. The room is a standard double/double no smoking.Email me if you’re interested.
The Briliant Mind of Edison Lee creator John Hambrock has posted several reports on his trip down to Marceline, MO to be apart of this year’s Toonfest. His latest post includes several photos of the event and its participants. includes several photos of the event and its participants. This is the last batch of pics […]