The Comics Journal delves into recent news stories regarding a manga translator being arrested in Sweden for possession of manga depicting undressed children (the images posted on TCJ’s site depict a child taking a bath). In Sweden, all images ? be it photos, movies, animations or drawings ? depicting what one can understand to be […]

The Guardian reports that Barnes & Noble is now up for sale. B&N, which owns 720 high-street shops in all 50 American states, announced it was calling in the investment bank Lazard to advise on strategic alternatives including “a possible sale of the company” after a 45% slump in share price in the last year. […]

The iPad was first deemed a dud because it was a device for consuming media, not creating it. Some didn’t get that message and started creating digital paintings that are selling.These works of art could easily be mistaken for oil paintings or watercolours – but they’ve actually been created on an iPad. The pictures were […]

Before the launch of the Oh Brother comic strip, individuals I spoke with were very excited in what was described as King Feature’s first foray into a webcomics model for one of their features. The way the site was talked up – pre-launch, I really believed that King was going to create something bold and […]

Seems odd to have Dan Piraro do a cartoon in which a butcher is seen as the good guy, but here’s a Bizarro for everyone who has watched the deleted scenes from a movie and said, “Thank god for editors!”Come to think of it, it’s odd to see any cartoon in which an editor is […]

Warner Bros. Pictures has announced that they’ve created three new 3D shorts to premiere before three of their upcoming features. The first short was released last weekend with Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, another will be released with Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole in September and the last one […]

The LA Times is reporting that Illumination Entertainment is developing a new version of “Curious George”. The movie is expected to feature the wry animated images of “Despicable Me” and will spin a new story of George the monkey/chimpanzee (depending on whether you favor H.A. and Margret Rey’s text or the tail-less images) who’s taken […]

I don’t pretend to uphold any higher standard here than whatever amuses me on a given day. This Monty hits me about six hours after an 800-mile drive back from a family reunion in Ohio where I got to try some of the beer my younger son has just started brewing recently (his older brother […]

The Seattle Times has added a second test slot, making room by dropping 9 Chickweed Lane. Now running in the test slot is The Knight Life. I’m told the normal test run is two to four months before another takes its place. Tundra has been running in the first test slot for a month now.

The blog took another hacker hit over the weekend. Things have been cleared up and should be working fine. If you see anything awry, please contact me at editor@dailycartoonist.com

A Herblock traveling exhibit will be opening in Evansville Indiana tomorrow. The 20 panel exhibit entitled, “Higher Education in Mississippi” focuses on the civil rights struggles in the US in the 1960s.The exhibition will remain up through Oct. 2 in the museum at 579 S. Garvin St. The Evansville African American Museum is open from […]

This Jack Ohman classic ran in Editor & Publisher, back in 1992. At that point, we hadn’t quite realized how much damage the new button-down editors and the stocktraders they reported to were going to do to our industry.I miss Lou Grant.

Can’t tell you how many times this Cleats strip from June, 2003, came to mind during World Cup 2010. Nothing more to say. Sometimes, you just nail it. Bill Hinds nailed this one.

This is one of a series of profiles I wrote in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY It’s good that Rick Kirkman can chuckle about the way ‘Baby Blues” came about, because his partner, Jerry Scott, sets a very large laugh out of it. The two longtime friends had decided to do a comic […]